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Merry Graham
Merry Graham (born August 24, 1954) is an American author and award-winning home chef. She was named the "Healthiest Cook In America" by Bobby Flay and a panel of culinary expert judges, when she won the ''Healthy Food Fight'' National Cooking Contest (2015), which was sponsored by Aetna and held at ABC Studios in Times Square, New York. Graham has appeared on several televised competitive cooking shows. In 2015, she competed on season 1 of Food Network's ''Clash of the Grandmas'' making it to the final round of the Thanksgiving themed cooking competition. In 2014, she was one of five finalists to compete on the '' Rachael Ray Show's'' Great American Cookbook Competition. She has also appeared on and competed in the World Food Championships for the past five years, televised on FYI. And in 2014, she was selected as a finalist in the 47th Annual Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest, winning the Gluten Free Award for her ''Herbs and Seeds Parmesan Crackers'' original gluten-free recipe - pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redding, California
Redding is the economic and cultural capital of the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California and the county seat of Shasta County. Redding lies along the Sacramento River, north of Sacramento, and south of California's northern border with Oregon. Its population is 95,542 as of the 2022 census, up from 89,861 from the 2010 census. Etymology During the Gold Rush, the area that now comprises Redding was called Poverty Flats. In 1868 the first land agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, a former Sacramento politician named Benjamin Bernard Redding, bought property in Poverty Flats on behalf of the railroad so that it could build a northern terminus there. In the process of building the terminus, the railroad also built a town in the same area, which they named Redding in honor of Benjamin Redding. In 1874 there was a dispute over the name by local legislators and it was changed for a time to Reading, in order to honor Pierson B. Reading, who arrived in the area in 1843 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chew
''The Chew'' is an American cooking-themed talk show that aired for seven seasons from September 26, 2011 to June 28, 2018, having replaced the soap opera ''All My Children'', on ABC as part of the network's weekday daytime lineup. The name was inspired by fellow ABC talk show '' The View'', but ''The Chew'' centered on food and lifestyle topics rather than the news of the day. For most of the show's run, it was hosted by chefs Mario Batali, Carla Hall and Michael Symon, wellness expert Daphne Oz, and Clinton Kelly (who served as the show's moderator). Oz left in August 2017, while Batali left in December 2017, and was later officially terminated, amid sexual misconduct allegations from some of his restaurant workers. The five co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host in 2015. On May 23, 2018, ABC announced that it would be canceling ''The Chew'' after seven seasons due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes on June 15, 2018, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a variety of forms originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text can vary. The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible. It is called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning ''five books'') in Greek; the second oldest part was a coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori Greiner
Lori Greiner is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She is an investor on the reality ABC TV series ''Shark Tank''. Greiner has hundreds of inventions and holds 120 patents. She became known as the "Queen of QVC" as a result of her show, ''Clever & Unique Creations'', that premiered on the network in 2000. Greiner is the president and founder of For Your Ease Only, Inc. Life Greiner grew up in the Near North Side, Chicago. She majored in communications at Loyola University Chicago and worked for ''The Chicago Tribune'' while in college. She was an aspiring playwright and sold jewelry on the side. She is married to Dan Greiner. Career Greiner is the president and founder of For Your Ease Only, which launched in 1996. The same year, she created and patented a plastic earring organizer; J.C. Penney picked up the product before the holiday season, allowing her to pay off her $300,000 loan in 18 months. In addition to jewelry storage, she has patented consumer product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark Tank
''Shark Tank'' is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.Hibberd, James (May 10, 201'Dancing,' 'Bachelor,' and a bigger 'Shark Tank' returning to ABCInsider TV. Retrieved June 24, 2012 The show is the American franchise of the international format ''Dragons' Den'', which originated in Japan as ''Money Tigers'' in 2001. It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of five investors or "sharks", who decide whether to invest in their companies. The series has been a ratings success in its time slot, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program four times (2014–2017) in the first four years of that category's existence. In 2012–13, it won Outstanding Reality Program. Premise The show features a panel of investors called "sharks," who decide whether to invest as entrepreneurs make business presentations on their company or product.Adalian, Josef (February 13, 2008)"Sony, Burnett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Ray
Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968) is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosts the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program ''Rachael Ray'', and the Food Network series '' 30 Minute Meals''. Other programs to her credit include ''Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels'', '' $40 a Day'', ''Rachael Ray's Week in a Day'', and the reality format shows '' Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off'' and '' Rachael Ray's Kids Cook-Off''. Ray has written several cookbooks based on the ''30 Minute Meals'' concept, and launched a magazine ''Every Day with Rachael Ray'', in 2006. Ray's television shows have won three Daytime Emmy Awards. Life and career Early life Rachael Domenica Ray was born in Glens Falls, New York, the daughter of Elsa Providenza Scuderi and James Claude Ray. Her mother's ancestry is Sicilian and her father is French, Scottish, and Welsh. When Ray was 8, her family moved to Lake George, New York. Her mother managed restaurants in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Jackson (American Football, Born 1980)
Eddie Paul Jackson Jr. (born December 19, 1980) is an American chef and former football cornerback. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football for Arkansas. He is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. Jackson was also a member of the Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots and Washington Redskins. College career In college, Jackson started 21 of 47 games at both the cornerback and strong safety slots for the Arkansas Razorbacks and totaled 174 tackles, 35 passes defensed, one forced fumble, and two fumble recoveries. He also ran the high hurdles for the national champion Razorback track team. Jackson was also a College All-American in Track and Field where he won four national titles. He still holds the freshman record for the 110 high hurdles. Professional career Carolina Panthers Jackson was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers in 2004. Miami Dolphins He spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarti Sequeira
Aarti Lucica Sequeira (born 19 August 1978) is an Indian American cook and television personality, best known as the winner of the sixth season of Food Network's reality television show, ''The Next Food Network Star''. In 2010, after her victory, her show ''Aarti Party'' premiered on the network. Following ''Aarti Party'', she went on to host ''Taste in Translation'' on Cooking Channel, in which she seeks out the most popular dishes from around the world. She had previously worked as a CNN news producer and in 2008 started the online cooking variety show ''Aarti Paarti''. Early life and education Aarti Lucica Sequeira, was born in Mumbai on August 19, 1978. Her family was originally from Mangalore in the state of Karnataka. She had two sisters, and grew up in a traditional Indian Catholic home. When she was still an infant, her family moved to Dubai due to job opportunities for her father. Sequaria was raised in there, Sequeira was educated in a primarily Indian-attended school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Fuller
Nancy Fuller (also known as Nancy Fuller Ginsberg or Nancy Ginsberg; born March 27, 1949) is an American chef and businesswoman from Claverack, New York. She is the co-owner of Ginsberg's Foods, and the host of the Food Network television series ''Farmhouse Rules.'' She also serves as a judge on the Food Network cooking competition series ''Clash of the Grandmas'', ''Holiday Baking Championship'' and ''Spring Baking Championship''. Personal life Fuller lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband David Ginsberg. She leases out her dairy farm in Copake, New York Copake is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 3,346 at the 2020 US census, down from 3,615 at the 2010 census. The town derives its name from a lake, which was known to the natives as ''Cook-pake'', or ''Ack-koo .... She has six children and thirteen grandchildren. References External links * (official website) 1949 births American food industry businesspeople Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Michelle
Tiffany Michelle (born June 4, 1984) is an American professional poker player, World Series of Poker gold ring winner and TV presenter, who broke records in the WSOP Main Event as the Last Woman Standing and was named one of the Most Fascinating People in Poker and in ''Maxim''s Top 20 Hottest Celebrity Poker Players. After two years working as a TV presenter/commentator and tournament reporter on the professional poker tour, Michelle played in the $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Main Event in 2008, where she was the "Last Woman Standin, placing 17th out of 6,844 players. It was the largest field ever beat by a female in live poker tournament history and earned her a payday of $334,534. A year later she competed as the only all-female team on the Emmy Award–winning 15th season of ''The Amazing Race'', along with best friend and fellow poker pro Maria Ho. The two made up the "poker girls" team and were eliminated three legs shy of the finish line. In 2010, she had four f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publisher in the United States, publishing 2,000 titles annually under 35 different imprints. History Early years In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether there was a book of ''New York World'' crossword puzzles, which were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had been published, Simon and Max Schuster decided to launch a company to exploit the opportunity.Frederick Lewis Allen, ''Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s'', p. 165. . At the time, Simon was a piano salesman and Schuster was editor of an automotive trade magazine. They pooled , equivalent to $ today, to start a company that published crossword puzzles. The new publishing house used "fad" publishing to publish bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global population. Its adherents, known as Christians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in 157 countries and territories, and believe that Jesus is the Son of God, whose coming as the messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament. Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century Hellenistic Judaism in the Roman province of Judea. Jesus' apostles and their followers spread around the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the South Caucasus, Ancient Carthage, Egypt, and Ethiopia, despite significant initial persecution. It soon attracted gentile God-fearers, which led to a departure from Jewish customs, and, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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