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FOOD FILE

 
Published June 11, 1998|Updated Sept. 13, 2005

Food bytes

BLUEBERRIES: The Michigan Blueberry Growers Association's Website contains summertime recipes just in time for blueberry season. Try Blueberry Buttermilk Muffins, Chicken Grill with Tangy Blueberry Sauce, Michigan Dried Blueberry Chicken Salad, Blueberry-Lemon Cheesecake Bars or Blueberry Fruit Smoothie. Visit the Online Blueberry Shop and order blueberry gift items such as syrup and muffin mixes and gift baskets. Find them at: http// www.blueberries.com.

Worth sending for

GAS GRILL BROCHURE: Cleaning and Cooking Tips for Your Gas Grill brochure can help make cleaning that gas grill easier now that summer grilling season is here, and it offers tips for cooking once your grill is ready. For a free copy, send a self-addressed, stamped business-size (10) envelope to Char-Broil, Gas Grill Cleaning and Cooking Tips, P.O. Box 1240, Dept. DHM, Columbus, GA 31902-1240.

Volunteers

TAMPA BAY HARVEST: Volunteers needed to help transport donated food to area shelters, soup kitchens and food pantries. Tampa Bay Harvest's food recovery program of delivery of food donated by businesses such as restaurants and supermarkets to needy recipients provided over 1-million pounds of food to Pinellas and Hillsborough counties in the beginning of 1998, but the departure of seasonal volunteers has hampered recent efforts. To volunteer, or for more information, call Tampa Bay Harvest at: 538-7777, ext. 1.

Table talk

Does your group or business have special food or wine events of interest to people who like to eat, shop or cook in the Tampa Bay area? Please send news of coming events at least two weeks in advance of the publication date to Food File, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.

Readers, if you have questions and comments about shopping, cooking and eating, write to the Taste Section at P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731, or call the Foodline at 892-2312. We will try to share them and our answers here in Food File.