Around Town: Food drive (Merced Sun-Star)

Travis Credit Union members and employees will join with Merced County Realtors Association annual food drive. Credit Union members, employees and the public are encouraged to bring nonperishable food to the office at 510 W. Olive Ave. and 981 Bellevue Road until Monday.

DINING GUIDE (St. Petersburg Times)

Cafe Idiot — Great Russian and vegetarian food served all day. Jazz, cappuccino, fresh juice, specialty teas. Happy hour from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Weekend brunch. Used English-language books and magazines, plus an art gallery. Open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Australia Day Honours List (Daily Telegraph)

HERE is the complete list of Australia Day 2008 honours

Community Spotlight: Pizza shop owner at his best when the heat’s on (Central Kitsap Reporter)

Ted Fry, owner and operations manager of Garlic Jim’s, tosses dough into the air at the Silverdale store. Fry balances the pizza business with his busy volunteer firefighting schedule with Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue.

Comfort food: Warm meals, warm memories (Seattle Times)

The memory of his parents' Indian cuisine on cold winter nights as a child in Philadelphia warms Jayesh Rao, of Bellevue, still. Now it's his turn to layer the ingredients of Spicy Chickpea Winter Stew to comfort his family.

Daisie Adelle Davis (1904-1974), popularly known as Adelle Davis, was an American pioneer in the fledgling field of nutrition during the mid-20th century. She was an outspoken advocate of the superior value of whole unprocessed foods, the dangers of food additives, and the dominant role that all nutrients play in maintaining health, preventing disease, and restoring health after the onset of disease:"Research shows that diseases of almost every variety can be produced by an under-supply of various combinations of nutrients... can be corrected when all nutrients are supplied, provided irreparable damage has not been done; and, still better, that these diseases can be prevented." Davis is best known as the author of a series of educational books published in the United States between 1947 and 1965. One of her books, Let's Have Healthy Children (Signet 1981, revised edition) states that Davis prepared individual diets for more than 20,000 people who came to her or were referred to her by physicians during her years as a consultant. She was also well known for her scathing criticism of the food industry in the United States. In the early 1970s, she addressed the ninth annual convention of the "International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends" at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. After citing US Department of Agriculture statistics about tens of millions of people in the United States suffering from afflictions such as arthritis, allergies, heart disease, and cancer, she stated, "This is what's happening to us, to America, because there is a $125 billion food industry who cares nothing about health".Some members of the scientific and medical communities have criticized and discredited her published works both during and after her lifetime, but ongoing medical and nutritional research has corroborated much of her nutritional guidelines of yesteryear, and brought her a measure of posthumous acclaim.