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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Janet Podolak
Parker Place, an independent living community for retired seniors in Mentor, has received Most Outstanding Culinary honors from its parent company, Hawthorn Senior Living. Meals are included with the rent at all 79 Hawthorn retirement communities in the country. When Parker Place Executive Chef Joshua Wellman received the annual award from Regional Chef Art Cline, he said the honor was a team effort.
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1 week ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Parker Place, an independent living community for retired seniors in Mentor, has received Most Outstanding Culinary honors from its parent company, Hawthorn Senior Living. Meals are included with the rent at all 79 Hawthorn retirement communities in the country. When Parker Place Executive Chef Joshua Wellman received the annual award from Regional Chef Art Cline, […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM EDT
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1 week ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
It’s time to plan that Easter brunch, whether you prepare it at home or go out to eat. Because Easter comes late this year, on April 20, some time outdoors is likely in the plans. Easter is a movable feast. It’s three weeks later this year than in 2004, and next year it takes place early in April. Its date falls on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox, which was March 20.
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2 weeks ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Sparkling wines will elevate April weekends at a quartet of wineries in the close-by Grand River Valley, near Lake County’s border with Ashtabula County, during the Spring Sparkling Bubbly Trail. Pairing small plate tastes with their sparkling wines, they’ll celebrate spring in style from noon to 5 p.m. on April Saturdays and Sundays for $10 at each winery: Ferrante Winery & Ristorante, 5585 N.
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2 weeks ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Just as springtime gets serious with its blooms, the Chardon area beckons for a drive in the country with its fifth annual Chardon Restaurant Week. Special deals and creative dishes abound between April 7 and 13 as 15 Chardon-area restaurants join in to strut their stuff. They gathered on April 2 to introduce themselves and their food at Eleventhree Brewing Co., 211 Cherry St., against a backdrop of live music.
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3 weeks ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Family and friends are coming from near and far to celebrate the long life of the Klco family matriarch, more than 100 of them the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Rosemarie Klco, better known to all as “Rosie.”Rosie Klco-Divish was 98 when she died in September at Maplewood Senior Living in Chardon.Among those who will […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: March 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT
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1 month ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Spend an evening with chef Dante Boccuzzi as he works with chef Loretta Paganini to prepare a meal from the pages of his first cookbook, being unveiled at a dinner they’ll prepare at 6 p.m. March 26 at the International Culinary Arts & Sciences Institute in Chester Township. The class will benefit the ICASI Scholarship Fund. ICASI is a college-level culinary school for would-be chefs. “Loretta and I are old friends,” said Boccuzzi.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Janet Podolak
Welcome spring with a five-course dinner and wine pairing on March 22 at The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake. Winemaker Nick Ferrante will lead the Vintner’s Dinner, beginning at 6 p.m. that Saturday, with insights about his family’s Ferrante Winery & Ristorante in Harpersfield Township. Ferrante’s began in 1937 when his grandparents, who then lived in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood, produced wine from grapes grown in Ashtabula County.
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1 month ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Brandon Chrostowski‘s belief that everyone deserves a second chance grew from his own scrapes with the wrong side of the law as a teenager in Detroit. After a judge suspended the 10-year sentence he could have faced, he got a chance to alter his future with hard work. “I was 18 when a chef mentored me and changed my life,” he says. Today’s EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute is the direct result of Chrostowski‘s second chance 27 years ago.
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1 month ago | 
news-herald.com | Janet Podolak
Welcome spring with a five-course dinner and wine pairing on March 22 at The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake. Winemaker Nick Ferrante will lead the Vintner’s Dinner, beginning at 6 p.m. that Saturday, with insights about his family’s Ferrante Winery & Ristorante in Harpersfield Township.Ferrante’s began in 1937 when his grandparents, who then lived in Cleveland’s Collinwood […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. Originally Published: March 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT
