Things About Celeb Chef Mom Cat Cora

Iron Chef star Cat Cora may be a master in the kitchen, but she seems to be handling being a busy mom of four kids just as well!  Cat and her wife, Jennifer Cora, are the parents of four boys, all from the same donor.

When she’s not busy in the kitchen or chasing after her kids, Cat is also taking on a new venture, and is bringing a barbeque food chain to the San Francisco Airport Terminal, called Cat Cora’s Q, or CCQ for short. The restaurant will offer travelers salads and wraps in addition to meat barbeque items.

Cat is well known for her skills in the kitchen, and here are 5 other interesting things about this supermom:

* Cat was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up around food.  Her father and grandfather were both in the restaurant business, so it must be in her blood!

* Her traditional style of cuisine is a blend of Greek and Southern accents, which stems from her roots in the southern part of the US and her ethnic background.

* She co-founded Chefs for Humanity, which aims to provide emergency aid and nutritional education to people in need throughout the world.

* Of Cat’s four children, her wife, Jennifer bore three of her sons, while she carried one of them.

* Cora holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Exercise Physiology and Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi

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You Will Be Missed Forever!

Butch Lupinetti of Butch's Smack Your Lips BBQ has passed away. He was a big, happy, enthusiastic man. His hugs would always make you smile. He will be missed.

Here is an old blog post about Butch:

'What Kris Did Not Mention'

In her previous post, Kris talked about last weekend’s competition in New Paltz. The ride up, the hotel/strip club, the pubs, the friends, the awards…but she never got to the highlight of the weekend for her: meeting Butch Lupinetti. She fell in love with Butch’s larger than life, positive attitude when she first saw him on the now infamous Throwdown with Bobby Flay. So when I told her that he would be at the Hudson Valley Ribfest, she got very excited.

The stalking began Friday night shortly after arrival. I said “do you want to go say hi to Butch?”

“Not yet…let’s go walk by his stand…” She said.

So, we walked (stalked) by his stand and spotted Butch talking to some people.

“He’s right there, want to say hi?” I said.

“No. Maybe tomorrow.”

Saturday night we did another walk by, but Butch was nowhere in site. Sunday we were very busy with the BBQ comp and had no time to spy on anyone. But today would be her last chance…

Being the great guy that he is, Butch attended the KCBS awards ceremony. Cheering everyone that got called like they were his best friend. Walking back from the awards I said “this is your last chance ya know?”

“Let’s go.” She said, and started walking to Butch’s stand.

Two lines formed at Butch’s Smack Your Lips BBQ stand, one for ribs, and one to get your picture taken with Butch.

Kris waited with a smile.

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Former RNC chief Ken Mehlman is "I’m gay"!!!

He says he realized it “fairly recently,” in Marc Ambinder’s words, which has Tammy Bruce chuckling on Twitter. Honestly, I thought the guy came out years ago. Remember when Bill Maher talked about the rumors surrounding him on Larry King’s show — back in 2006? I guess you were the last to know, Ken.

He’s doing this now, it seems, because he wants to drum up publicity for the cause of gay marriage and figures that “Republican whom everyone thought was gay actually is gay” headlines will do the trick. Could be, although Ambinder’s careful to remind readers of the sort of social con initiatives that the GOP pushed during Mehlman’s RNC tenure. That won’t endear him to gay activists, and his newly public identity won’t endear him to social cons. Maybe he should have just worked for gay marriage like Ted Olson and kept his orientation private?

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Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman voiced support for civil unions and told of how, in private discussions with senior Republican officials, he beat back efforts to attack same-sex marriage. He insisted, too, that President Bush “was no homophobe.” He often wondered why gay voters never formed common cause with Republican opponents of Islamic jihad, which he called “the greatest anti-gay force in the world right now.”

Mehlman’s leadership positions in the GOP came at a time when the party was stepping up its anti-gay activities — such as the distribution in West Virginia in 2006 of literature linking homosexuality to atheism, or the less-than-subtle, coded language in the party’s platform (“Attempts to redefine marriage in a single state or city could have serious consequences throughout the country…”). Mehlman said at the time that he could not, as an individual Republican, go against the party consensus. He was aware that Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief strategic adviser, had been working with Republicans to make sure that anti-gay initiatives and referenda would appear on November ballots in 2004 and 2006 to help Republicans.

Mehlman acknowledges that if he had publicly declared his sexuality sooner, he might have played a role in keeping the party from pushing an anti-gay agenda.

“It’s a legitimate question and one I understand,” Mehlman said. “I can’t change the fact that I wasn’t in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that. It was very hard, personally.” He asks of those who doubt his sincerity: “If they can’t offer support, at least offer understanding.”

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I couldn’t care less either way, but with all the buzz lately about new conservative support for gays — here’s the latest surreal episode in the Coulter/Farah HomoCon saga, incidentally — this is a bracing reminder that an openly gay RNC chief probably would still be a problem. Or would it?

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Ashley Bell The Next Linda Blair

Young actress Ashley Bell is taking starring in a scary movie to a whole new level, by playing a possessed girl, Nell, in the new film, The Last Exorcism.

Back in 1973, Linda Blair made an everlasting name for herself by playing another young devilish girl, Regan, in the original Exorcist film.  To this day, anytime I see a photo of Linda Blair I think of that movie and how badly it scared me. I probably shouldn’t have watched it as an 11-year old kid.

I don’t know that Blair will ever be able to shake the label of “the little girl from the Exorcist.”

Is Ashley Bell the Linda Blair of today’s generation?  Will people remember her face 30 years from now?

Ashley’s character in the movie is a 15 year old girl who is from the backwoods of Louisiana, and despite being possessed she is deeply religious.  In order to get into character, Ashley prepared for the role by visiting Baptist churches and talking to people about the religion, and she also studied exorcism books and even listened to tapes of live exorcisms!  One thing’s for sure, Ashley may be young, but she definitely doesn’t scare easily!

The Last Exorcism opens on August 27th.  Time will tell if yet another child actress will make an iconic name and face for herself with this horror flick!

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Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander & Shaquille O’ Neal are Engaged

According to reports, Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander, who’s former “Flavor of Love” contestant, has gotten engaged with Shaquille O’ Neal.

Informant described that Shaq got off in one knee to declare his intention to Hoopz at on the dance floor in suburban St. Louis at the Sahara Mediterranean Cuisine and Hookah Lounge. Hoopz and Shaq have been spoted together frequently.


The once reality show star has doubled up her fame into a potential marriage with among sports greatest figures. According to the report, Shaq kneel in the midst of the dance floor and proposed to Hoopz. The ring was put on Hoopz’ finger, and the couple seemed to become engaged.


Shaq and Hoopz haven’t supported the reports, but there have been compositions that the two had been outlay many time conjointly in the past months.

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#10 Guiness World Records 2010 – Gamer’s Edition

Here's a new competition for February for Creative Boomers! Guinness World Records has three copies to give away for the latest and greatest in video gaming in its publication of Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition.

The Gamer’s Edition series, praised by critics as a ‘must have for fans of gaming’ (Kotaku.com) and ‘Gamer’s Edition has become an institution’ (The Independent) returns with its third instalment.

The new edition is the best yet; with more gaming records, reviews, trivia and features than ever before. The book’s new layout and design presents the book’s contents more clearly so the vast amount of information is even easier to enjoy.

Records from Gamer’s Edition 2010 include the Biggest Selling Video Game Of All Time (Wii Sports, with lifetime sales of over 46 million copies – eclipsing the previous 20 year record holder, Super Mario Bros’ 40 million copies sold). The Highest Grossing Video Arcade Of All Time (NBA Jam was released in North American arcades in 1993 and earned over $1 billion -£676,269,678- in its first year). The Longest Time Spent Playing An MMORPG (Sara Lhadi spent 16,799 hours playing Runescape between November 2004 and October 2009 – this averages out at 9 hours 20 minutes of play every single day!).

Departing from the game-by-game structure of the last two books, the new approach covers the world of gaming by genre and sub-genre, enabling the editors to pick only the strongest and most relevant records in each topic area. As well as records, Gamer’s Edition 2010 is full of interesting features such the as the Top 50 Games Of All Time as voted by our readers on the gamer’s website; Future Gaming; a profile on the doyen of Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto; How to be a Record-Breaker; the Year in Review; and of course the Twin Galaxies high scores charts that allows you to see how you compare with the best in the gaming world.

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Alicia Debolt

Alicia Debolt is a teenager who was kidnapped recently and the police are still looking for the girl. The fourteen years girl was seen last time this Saturday night and nobody knows that where the girl went. She is still missing and her family members are looking for her.

On the Saturday night she was picked by one of her friends and they both were going to attend a party. They both went to the party, when the party finished all of the boys and girls at the party went back to their homes, but Alicia Debolt went missing that night. While going to the party she said to her mother that she would tell her if she was going to come home late. But she never came back that night; her sister-in-law said that the update she used to give her mother about her coming home never came. Sources say that she was seen traveling with a 19 year old boy in a black SUV, but the police have not confirmed any such reports.

She was wearing blue jeans short, a pair of classic tennis shoes and a gray colored sweatshirt with some silver studs on the hood. She was having a pony tail with a pink ribbon. Her family members are very worried about her and they informed the police early Sunday morning about the missing if their girl. It cannot be said that the girl was kidnapped or something else happened. If you have any information about Alicia Debolt then you can call at 620-792-1300.

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