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Richard Boulanger of Williston beat out some 9,000 other entrants to become a finalist in the Sutter Home "Build a Better Burger" contest. His recipe for bouillabaisse burgers with tomato fennel relish and saffron mayonnaise secured Boulanger a spot in the alternative burger category of the finals.
At the competition, set for Sept. 30 at Sutter Home Winery in St. Helena, Calif., Boulanger will prepare 18 of his seafood-based burgers for celebrity judges, including cookbook author James McNair and Iron Chef Cat Cora. Interestingly, Boulanger's son, Jason, won first place in the competition in 1998 for his Caesar salad and flank steak burgers with garlic crostini.
Boulanger, whose wife, Kathy, is also a competitive cook, comes into the competition with recent wins under his belt. His sugar cookie-chocolate crunch fudge was lauded as the most innovative dish in the 42nd Pillsbury Bake-Off earlier this year.
Rob Mongeon of Colchester was a 2005 finalist in the contest for his Bourbon Street Burgers. (Story and recipe online at www.burlingtonfreepress.com ).
If you can't score love, maybe you can score $5,000 by being a matchmaker, making a match between ABC and the next Bachelor or Bachelorette. If you've got a line on a successful type who hasn't met Mr. or Ms. Perfect, get in touch with the hit TV series, "The Bachelor" or "The Bachelorette" -- depending on the gender of your would-be TV star. If the person you suggest wins a starring role on the ABC series -- not one of the 25 suitors, but the one who does the double and triple-dating, then you win $5,000.
The ideal contestant is aged 27 to 35. The show likes accomplished, good-looking types who want to settle down, or at least go on globetrotting dates and pick at fancy food with people who don't mind humiliating themselves.
Will Dana, an editor at Rolling Stone magazine, will give a free and public lecture at Middlebury College, "The Myth of Fair and Balanced: A Defense of Biased Reporting." The lecture, part of the "Meet the Press" series, is at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at McCardell Bicentennial Hall in Room 220.
The light is on again at the Colchester Reef Lighthouse, an exhibit at Shelburne Museum that from 1871 to 1933 was a functioning lighthouse on Lake Champlain.
The white clapboard structure, originally lit by whale oil, today is lighted by solar power. The project was completed with help from the U.S. Coast Guard and lighthouse historian George Clifford of Plattsburgh, N.Y., according to the museum.
Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of illegal mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.
"When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana," the news release said. A search of the bus produced 1 and a half pounds of marijuana and slightly more than three ounces of illegal mushrooms.
There were enough drugs to merit a felony charge of distribution if they had been found in one person's possession, state police spokesman Willie Williams said. But all five claimed the drugs as their own and the drugs were not packaged for resale, so each was charged with misdemeanors, he said. All were released after the citations were issued.
Also cited were Tony Sizemore, 59, of St. Cloud, Fla.; Bobbie Nelson, 75, of Briarcliff, Texas; Gates Moore, 54, of Austin, Texas; and David Anderson, 50, of Dallas.
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