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A Watershed moment for domestic diva
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Watershed chef and freshly minted James Beard Award winner Scott Peacock added yet another significant feat to his resume Friday. His two-part “The Martha Stewart Show” cooking segment in front of a live audience aired. When the lifestyle guru popped into Atlanta this past January to hawk her new line of rugs, she loved her dining experience at the Decatur eatery.
“It was delicious!” Stewart raved to Peacock and her studio audience during the segment. “We came there not really hungry, but we ate and ate and ate.”
Peacock and Stewart then collaborated to whip up Peacock’s recipe of crispy soft-shelled crabs over a bean salad with heirloom tomatoes and homemade garlic mayonnaise. Between the assembling of ingredients, Stewart praised Watershed and Peacock’s cookbook with late mentor Edna Lewis, “The Gift of Southern Cooking.” Stewart threw Peacock a curve ball, however, when she inquired about the origins of the recipe’s crowder peas.
“A lot of people even in the South don’t know what they are,” Peacock told us Friday, laughing. “As you saw, I honestly didn’t know what to tell her. In the South, one man’s butter bean is another man’s lima. It’s really almost a colloquialism.”
Summing up his impression of the domestic diva, Peacock said: “My experience couldn’t have been better.”
Coke floats
Just in case nobody noticed that the World of Coca-Cola opened a new museum, Coke folk made the world’s largest ice cream soda Friday. Out in front of the ticket windows, they led an audience in cheers as they backed up a tanker truck and pumped 3,000 gallons of Vanilla Coke into a 15-foot-tall Coke “glass” made out of fiberglass and acrylic by an aquarium manufacturer. Then a bucket brigade of helpers passed 45 gallons of Edy’s Grand Vanilla ice cream up a ladder and tossed it into the brimming pool of brown.
Derek Musso, a representative from Guinness World Records, validated the record-breaking confection. (The largest ice cream soda until Friday was 2,085 gallons, also created by Coca-Cola.) After the resulting 4.5 million-calorie treat (enough calories to provide your basic needs for six years) was admired, it was to be disposed of in an ecologically sound way, said Coke spokesman Scott Williamson.
Rosie puts ‘View’ in rear mirror
There’s a reason that feuding “The View” co-workers Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck appeared completely cordial on Friday’s edition on the ABC Daytime talk show. It was on tape. Friday’s episode was actually recorded Wednesday prior to the 10-minute bloodfest over Iraq that got plenty personal. Behind the scenes Friday, O’Donnell and the network were parting company three weeks before the end of O’Donnell’s one-year contract with the show. In a statement, Brian Frons, president of ABC Daytime, said: “We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us that she would like an early leave. Therefore, we part ways, thank her for her tremendous contribution to ‘The View’ and wish her well.”
“View” den mother Barbara Walters added: “I brought Rosie to the show. Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at ‘The View.’ I am most appreciative. Our close and affectionate relationship will not change.”
CELEBRITY DOCKET
Ty Pennington, host of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” pleaded no contest Friday in a misdemeanor drunken driving case.
The former Grant Park resident, 42, had been charged with two misdemeanor counts — driving with a blood-alcohol level above the 0.08 percent limit and driving under the influence of alcohol.
He pleaded no contest to the first count, and the other count was dismissed, said Frank Mateljan, a spokesman for the Los Angeles city attorney’s office. Mateljan said it was a normal disposition for a first offense.
A judge placed Pennington on three years’ probation, restricted his driving privileges for 90 days and ordered him to participate in a 90-day alcohol program and attend a Mothers Against Drunk Drivers meeting, Mateljan said.
He faced six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if convicted of the charges by a Superior Court jury.
Pennington was arrested May 5 and released after posting $5,000 bail.
“I’m happy to bring closure to my recent court proceedings,” Pennington said in a statement. “Drinking and driving is never acceptable. I have pleaded no contest and will abide by the court’s ruling.”
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Today: Singer Stevie Nicks is 59. Actress Pam Grier is 58. Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is 58. Singer Lenny Kravitz (left) is 43. Actress Helena Bonham Carter is 41. Actor Joseph Fiennes is 37. “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone is 36.
Sunday: Actor Louis Gossett Jr. is 71. Actor Todd Bridges (“Diff’rent Strokes”) is 42. Atlanta actor/rapper Andre 3000 of OutKast is 32.
— Contributing: news services
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