Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 1, 2011

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GOOD FOOD & DRINK

 Mountain Views News Saturday, October 1, 2011 

GET YOUR WALKING SHOES ON !! 


Or your Wine-Walkers … especially if you 
enjoy a good glass of wine? Or how about two or 
three? I sure do. The 6th Annual Wine & Jazz 
Walk is in Sierra Madre on October 8th between 
4 and 7 pm. So - Save the Date and plan to spend 
it strolling through historic Sierra Madre Village, 
visit local businesses, taste award-winning 
wines and sample delicious hors d’oeuvres 
while listening to live jazz groups performing 
throughout the town as added ambiance. Tickets 
for the event are available at all participating 
businesses in Sierra Madre or online at www.
SierraMadreWineandJazzWalk.com. You can 
save a few bucks by buying $40 advance tickets; 
it’s $50 on day of the event. Ticket holders will 
receive a commemorative wine glass and a map 
of the city highlighting participating businesses, 
tasting tickets and other goodies.

To end the evening, this year’s event will once 
again feature The San Antonio Winery VIP Wine 
Garden, a private after-party, from 7 to 10pm. 
This all-inclusive package, only $125 per ticket, 
allows guests to experience both the Wine & Jazz 
Walk event and the private after-party! VIP Wine 
Garden guests will have access to their exclusive 
area, featuring award-winning wines, delicious 
food, fun surprises, and even more live jazz and 
rock music! 

More than 1,500 people attend this event 
annually. Here is the best news of all …To date, it 
has raised over $300,000 for City of Hope Cancer 
Research. It is through this generosity that City 
of Hope is able to continue its special programs 
in biomedical research, patient care, and medical 
education. Such efforts have helped millions 
of people suffering from cancer and other life-
threatening diseases worldwide.

Presenting sponsor of the event, San Antonio 
Winery, will be donating the wine of the evening. 
Their wines have won more than 1,000 awards 
in national and international competitions, 
including several platinum and gold medals as 
well as best of class awards. 

A Chili Cook-Off in South Pasadena

Attention Chili Lovers. 

The Rotary of South Pasadena announces its 
Annual Chili Cook-off on November 19th. At 
the War Memorial. Call (626) 807-0500 for more 
info. Gas Masks available. 

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TAINTED LETTUCE FROM CALIFORNIA BASED BUSINESS 

SALINAS, Calif. — California-based True 
Leaf Farms has expanded its recall of chopped 
romaine lettuce potentially contaminated 
with listeria to include nearly 2,500 cartons 
distributed to 21 US states and Canada, company 
officials said.

No illnesses have been reported. 

Listeria is a frequent cause of U.S. food recalls 
but concerns over the bacterial contamination 
are heightened due to an outbreak linked to 
cantaloupes grown in Colorado, which has 
already killed 13 people and infected 72 people 
across 18 states.

There is no connection between the lettuce 
recall and the outbreak tied to cantaloupes, the 
Food and Drug Administration spokesman 
Douglas Karas said Friday.

True Leaf Farms, a processing arm of 
Salinas, California-based Church Brothers 
LLC, is voluntarily recalling romaine that 
was shipped between Sept. 12 and 13 to a food 
service distributor in Oregon, who shipped it to 
Washington and Idaho.

The lettuce was shipped to wholesale food 
distributors in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, 
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, 
Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, 
Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont.

The romaine lettuce affected by the recall has 
a Sept. 29 use-by date, company officials said in 
a release.

“Any time we find listeria in food we would 
consider that food adulterated and ask for a 
recall,” Karas said in an email. “The finding of 
listeria in romaine lettuce was a result of an FDA 
research program to understand the prevalence 
of listeria in fresh produce, particularly lettuce 
and leafy greens.”

Story: Tainted cantaloupe likely gone, but 
more illness expected

Listeria rarely causes serious illness. For it to 
do so, the organism needs to get onto the food 
and grow to levels where it can cause disease. 
Because it can grow at low temperatures, that can 
happen anywhere along the food chain.

Listeria outbreaks are usually associated with 
deli meats, unpasteurized cheeses and smoked 
refrigerated seafood products, rather than fresh 
produce.

Story: Cargill ground turkey sickens more in 
salmonella outbreak

Federal health officials say they’ve gotten 
better at detecting the germs that cause food 
poisoning, so they are seeing them in produce 
more often.

Previous food recalls this month included 
Queso Fresco’s Del Bueno Casero Fresh Cheese in 
Washington state, Publix Super Markets’ spinach 
dip in Florida and Fine Mexican Food Products 
Inc’s avocado pulp and halves in California.

The Salinas Valley is known as the “Salad Bowl 
of the World” for its production of lettuce and 
numerous other crops.

Lettuce currently picked at the farm is safe to 
eat, said Steve Church, CEO of Church Brothers, 
which sells and markets the farm’s produce. The 
company is working with the FDA, Church said, 
to determine if there are any problems at the farm 
and is taking more time to sanitize its produce.

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