| Despite recession signs, jobs available for college graduates
It's never encouraging to graduate from college when the economy shows signs of a recession. But experts say that despite the current slowdown, this spring's graduates can find jobs.
In its annual survey, the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University found that while employers are cautious, they plan to make 7 percent more positions available than last year for graduates with a bachelor's degree.
One reason has nothing to do with the economy, but with Baby Boomers.
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In the land of the Iron Chef
It is the world's most temperamental substance. Without the glutinous binding properties of wheat, the dough becomes so prone to shredding that learning how to make it takes a staggering three years of training after which one attains the status of "soba master." That's what chef Matsamura did. But then his soba-dough-rolling expertise is only one example of the fetishistic, borderline maniacal culinary philosophy at Kikouchitei. After all, this is a chef who insists on grinding his own buckwheat flour with his own granite millstone. A millstone that sits behind glass like some monument in the middle of the restaurant. His noodles supple, faintly grainy and cottony soft are served Zaru-style. This means they are dipped into a broth that is its own mixture of absurdly rarefied ingredients, including a Japanese sugar that costs $250 a kilogram, rice vinegar aged for more than 2 1/2 years, and donko, the most expensive dried shiitake mushroom on the planet.
Kosher restaurant to reopen after blaze
A popular kosher restaurant in Golders Green will reopen this week, almost four months after it was gutted by fire. Solly's, in Golders Green Road, was severely damaged in the blaze on September 24, last year. It led some fans of the restaurant, which has been a favourite of residents for almost 20 years, to brand it "truly a tragic day for food lovers". A Facebook group, set up to "mourn the loss of Solly's", has almost 1,000 members, who have posted their memories and comments about the restaurant, along with any updates or theories as to what caused the fire. Manager of Solly's, Menashe Gavish said he expected the takeaway area to open tonight (January 15), and the rest of the ground floor to be opening tomorrow. "It has taken a lot of cleaning but it is now first class and will look tip-top with great food," he said.
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