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...Jeremy Townsend, the original Ghetto Gourmet, came up with the idea when his brother, a line cook, wanted to try some dishes. They started in their house. Two years and one visit from a health inspector later, Townsend took his idea mobile, trying out chefs in other cities. "My ultimate dream is to tour the country like a rock band, except with dinner parties," he says...
...concept behind these events is that restaurants are impersonal, stuffy and not nearly adventurous enough. "What if you could actually cuss and high-five people and lick the plate?" Townsend asks. The answer, of course, is that you would never go to that restaurant again. Still, there is something exciting about sitting on a pillow grabbed from a couch and stuffing steamed white roughy and green-mango salsa into a savory shiitake-mushroom doughnut that I know damn well the Man doesn't want...
When she was 14, as Nicole Townsend agonized about the sort of girl she was, and how she looked compared to her friends, what began to take hold was a feeling that she didn't like herself very much. She figured losing a few kilograms would take her closer to perfection, but when that didn't work she set about losing more. By last Christmas, now 18, her weight had plunged from 55 kg to 32 kg. Racked by headaches and too weak to leave the house, she was often irrational yet also cunning in the ways she foiled...
...Jones and Schofield-Bodt are both former CKS tour guides and “much of their tour is a direct result of that training and experience and is almost identical to those provided by official Crimson Key tour guides,” Styles and CKS president Nicole T. Townsend ’07 wrote in a letter to the editor of The Crimson. Schofield-Bodt also ran unsuccessfully for president and vice-president of CKS. The CKS board also submitted a position paper to the SBAC explaining the history between the two Unofficial Tour guides...
Bush, who relies on gut instinct as much as rsum for personnel decisions, likes having the blunt, 5-ft. former Mob prosecutor at his side. A powerful sign of the respect Bush's loyalty to Townsend commands--or perhaps an indication of lingering Administration defensiveness over her appointment--is that heavyweights like Rice and White House chief of staff Josh Bolten praised Townsend in phone calls to TIME arranged by her office. The President, says Bolten, "likes her competence, her crispness and her ability to give him the straight scoop." Bush has entrusted her with, among other things...