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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Top chef’s haute cuisine goes sky high for Delta
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Delta Air Lines took off in a search to add some flavor to its mid-air culinary offerings (or as Buzz has cheerfully referred to it: “Peanuts, Sun Chips or pretzels, sir?”), they looked to a hometown guy.
Celebrity chef Todd English, who grew up in Sandy Springs, has finalized his new in-flight menu for Delta customers that the AJC first told you about last month. Next week, Delta will officially unveil samples of the recipes during a media preview at its high-tech (if temporary) SKY360 lounge in New York City.
And no, you won’t have to be sitting in those pricey seats up front to experience English’s menu either. Delta spokesman Andy McDill told us Friday that starting next month, the for-sale items will be available on flights from JFK in New York to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other left coast destinations. In the coming months, the program will expand to other flights of 2,000 miles or more.
Among the offerings English has whipped up for Delta: a roast beef Cobb sandwich, a Mediterranean salad with grilled shrimp and a chilled black olive spaghetti salad. The menu items will range around $10.
“This is an opportunity for us to showcase the new Delta and to provide our customers with a Todd English experience in the air,” explains McDill. “It was a challenge for Todd to create a menu that would stand up to 30,000 feet. But airline food doesn’t have to taste like airline food.”
Delta customers and the general public can preview the reborn Atlanta-based airline’s new menu selections starting Wednesday and running through Nov. 10 via the SKY360 multidimensional lounge in New York at 101 W. 57th St. Visitors will get to try out the new “fully-flat” international business elite seats (set to debut in the air in February) complete with Delta On Demand in-flight entertainment, signature drinks created by nightclub guru Rande Gerber and free charging stations for mobile devices such as BlackBerrys, iPods and cellphones.
Captain Planet welcomes Pike site
Today’s grand opening of the new Pike Family Nurseries location at Lindbergh City Center at 2410 Camellia Lane on the cusp of Buckhead promises to be the chain’s “greenest location yet.” And if it’s not, they’ve invited the right Atlantan to ensure they get up to speed —EcoManor homeowner and Captain Planet Foundation chairperson Laura Turner Seydel will be on hand for the nursery’s ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4 p.m. The ecologically minded superhero himself will also make an appearance and kids will have a chance to get their hands dirty in an “eco-friendly” potting station. Pike is donating 10 percent of today’s sales at the location to the Captain Planet Foundation. We may pop in, meanwhile, just to quiz Turner Seydel on why our favorite potted palm is currently turning odd shades of, well, gray …
Karatassos deemed ‘national neighbor’
Buckhead Life Restaurant Group founder Pano Karatassos was in Washington this week to collect the Restaurant Neighbor humanitarian award from the National Restaurant Association. The prestigious award “celebrates the philanthropic spirit of the restaurant industry and serves to inspire others to actively get involved in their communities.”
Said NRA interim president Peter Kilgore of the Atlanta Fish Market/Chops/Buckhead Diner restaurateur: “Pano Karatassos has a true passion for our great industry and an equal passion for serving his community. His commitment to hunger relief and other causes is unparalleled.”
As Atlantans know, Karatassos has an ongoing commitment to the Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation charity and is a sizable fund-raiser for the March of Dimes. And that $5,000 prize check didn’t visit long in Karatassos’ pocket either. He promptly donated the money to SOS Atlanta.
HIGH FIVE
Television
Top OnDemand programs for the week of Sept. 19-26 as determined by Comcast customers in metro Atlanta:
1. “Kiss, Kiss” Chris Brown music video, Music Choice
2. “Crank Dat Souja Boy” Souja Boy music video, Music Choice
3. “Backyardigans,” “Whodunit?” episode, Nickelodeon
4. “Love Like Honey,” Pretty Ricky music video, Music Choice
5. “Dora the Explorer,” “The Big Storm” episode, Nickelodeon
Courtesy: Rentrak’s OnDemand Essentials
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Oh, I heard about Mariah!”
— Punctual “Why Did I Get Married?” director-writer-star Tyler Perry on Q100 Friday morning. The Atlantan and Q100 listener was recalling how “The Bert Show” notably hung up on the “Glitter” actress when she was more than an hour late for an interview with the show.
Celebrity birthdays
Today: Singer Jerry Lee Lewis is 72. Actor Ian McShane is 65. TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 59. Actor Drake Hogestyn (“Days of Our Lives”) is 54. Singer Suzzy Roche of the Roches is 51. Actress Jill Whelan (“Love Boat”) is 41.
Sunday: Actress Deborah Kerr is 86. Singer Cissy Houston is 74. Singer Johnny Mathis is 72. Actor Barry Williams (“The Brady Bunch”) is 53. Singer Trey Anastasio (Phish) is 43. Actress Lacey Chabert (“Mean Girls,” “Party of Five”) is 25. Actor Kieran Culkin is 25. Rapper T-Pain is 23.
Contributing: News services.
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