Interview with Chef Jamika Pessoa of `The Next Food Network Star` Fame

This month we interview Jamika Pessoa, the `The Next Food Network Star`  contestant of Jamaican Heritage. Her contagious smile and Caribbean inspired recipes were on display for 6 weeks on season 5 of “The Next Food Network Star”.  She made the final 4 cut before being eliminated. As we rooted for her each week she inspired many […]

Book Review: A Cow Called Boy

About the Book:A touching story of Josh’s fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher’s greedy hands. Book Review Reviewer:   Oren O. CousinsSynopsis:A Cow Called Boy is a humorous   and dramatic   true-to-life novella or novelette which can be enjoyed as a serialized bed-time story   read to pre-literate tots. It can be read   with enjoyment     by literate six-year olds and by still sprightly or physically challenged ,   bespectacled   nonagenarians.      . A young and small bullkin,   by the name of Boy, insists on invading a class in a small rural school, he wake of his   owner, schoolboy Josh Mahon. Boy’s insistence triggers off a stream of reactions,   crises and consequencies, some serious, but others mostly humorous. Josh is late for school when the bullkin defies all efforts to prevent him from going to school with his owner. Mrs. Anthony, Josh’s class teacher, “amazed and afraid,” immediately objects to the calf entering her class room . “Get him out of here! Are you crazy?” she shouted […]