Father Jim Flynn of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Park City will give a free presentation on Nicaraguan coffee farms and the importance of "fair trade" coffee Monday at 7 p.m. at the Sprague Library, 2131 S. 1100 East, Salt Lake City.
Flynn has led numerous groups to Nicaragua to learn more about the working and living conditions of the coffee farmers. His presentation, entitled "Crisis in a Cup," includes a slide show that chronicles how coffee is planted, cultivated, picked, bagged, dried, packaged and roasted.
After the presentation, attendees can taste several fair trade coffee varieties available locally. For more information contact Ten Thousand Villages, the presentation sponsor, at 801-485-8827.
If tea is your bag, this event is for you
"An Occasion for Tea," sponsored by Tea Time magazine, will be held March 16 to 18 at the Grand America Hotel, 500 S. Main St., in Salt Lake City.
Tea lovers from across the country will visit the state to taste and learn how to buy, brew and serve the perfect afternoon tea.
Utahns interested in attending the event can register at www.teatimemagazine.com or call Frances Warren at 888-411-8995, ext. 3. Cost is $399 per person.
Registration includes High Tea, Afternoon Tea, a gala dinner as well as seminars by some of the top tea experts - including John Harney, owner and founder of Harney & Sons Fine Teas, and Dorothea Johnson, an authority on protocol and etiquette.
Sugar House couple win new appliances
Last week, Heidi and Gary Moore of Salt Lake City won a kitchen full of appliances - worth about $10,000 - in the Martha Stewart Living Show's "GE Dream Kitchen Contest." The Salt Lake City couple are one of four runners-up in the contest that asked viewers to submit a creative video, explaining why their kitchens were in need of a makeover.
The Moore's video, which aired on Feb. 20, showed their outdated appliances "talking" to one another about being old and worn out. Viewers can see the video at www.martha stewart.com.
Heidi Moore said while the couple has been remodeling their 1940's "fixer-upper" in Sugar House for the past two years, they have not attempted the kitchen because of the cost and time.
They didn't win the grand prize - a kitchen makeover - but the new appliances are welcome. "Our appliances are insanely old," said Moore.
She said only two of the four burners work on the stove and nothing bakes evenly in the oven. The wood-paneled refrigerator is 25 years old, a hand-me-down from her parents. The inside drawers for fresh produce are gone and the water and ice dispensers don't work, either.
But the couple, parents of a two-year-old, with another baby on the way, are most excited about the dishwasher. Their outdated kitchen doesn't have one and they currently do all the dishes by hand.
