The buthers and my sister last year tentatively decided to go to dinner at
the Cheesecake Factory in Veelo Grow Mall on Saturday 11/24. (That's
Thanksgiving weekend, and PS they were doing nothing for the actual day of
Thanksgiving, because basically, we don't care.)
Reasons:
For the hell of it
Terry's birthday
Celebrate tato's apparently successful esophageal procedure
Aunt Freddie's anniversary , and I think there's a CVS in the mall, so it
will be convenient for her, even if she doesn't like the food or the mojitos
there.)
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> this was probably my favorite chef of all time, my parents just loved
> him too
> we celebrated a lot of milestones at his place
>
> http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/105-10302007-1432165.html
>
> Chef Tell, TV pioneer, dies at 63
>
> By SARAH LARSON
> Bucks County Courier Times
>
> Before chefs were as celebrated as rock stars, there was Chef Tell.
>
> The well-known local chef, who gained national fame in the late 1970s
> on the syndicated television program "Evening Magazine," has died at the
> age of 63.
>
> Chef Tell Erhardt's wife, Bunny, said Monday that he died Friday of
> an apparent heart attack.
>
> Services will be Monday, Nov. 5, which would have been Chef Tell's
> 64th birthday, at 11 a.m. at St. Luke's Church in Ferndale, according to
> his wife.
>
> Though the chef did suffer from diabetes and high blood pressure, his
> wife said his death was unexpected.
>
> "It was nothing that I ever would have expected my husband to have
> died from so suddenly," she said.
>
> After the memorial service, Bunny said she plans to hold a "big tent
> memorial/birthday party at our house, with an Oktoberfest buffet. My
> husband loved parties."
>
> Bunny said she had spoken with her husband Friday morning from Long
> Beach Island, where she was working on a house they had bought there. When
> she couldn't reach him later that afternoon at their Nockamixon home near
> Upper Black Eddy, she became concerned. He never showed up at the
> Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, where he was supposed to be
> teaching.
>
> "When I didn't hear from him, I thought maybe he was ill or had left
> his cell phone at home," Bunny said. "I had a friend check on the house.
> He was found in the house, just sitting on the chair and looked peaceful."
>
> His wife for nearly 19 years, Bunny said Chef Tell really was as
> entertaining and friendly as he seemed on television. He always had a joke
> to tell or a smile to share, she said. He also loved dogs, especially
> those that he could rescue from shelters. The couple had a Rottweiler that
> Chef Tell named Fifi the Rottweiler, Bunny said.
>
> He had just finished a book about cooking for diabetics, Bunny said.
> She still hopes to publish the book, which focuses on eating whole grains
> and non-processed foods.
>
> A native of Stuttgart, Germany, Tell Erhardt came to the United
> States when he was 28. The European-trained chef would eventually open two
> restaurants in Bucks County, the short-lived Harrow Inne in Ottsville, and
> Chef Tell's Manor House in Upper Black Eddy. More recently, he was
> affiliated with the Buck Hotel in Feasterville.
>
> But it was his appearance decades ago on the syndicated television
> program "Evening Magazine" that made him a household name in the region.
> Chef Tell was using television to inspire cooks at home way before Emeril
> or Rachael Ray.
>
> "Back in his day, he was a celebrity chef," said Christine Hess, a
> friend of the family who also managed his restaurants. "As a culinary
> mentor, he had the patience of a father. He was so patient with everyone
> he taught."
>
> At the height of his popularity, he appeared on such shows as
> "Saturday Night Live," "The John Davidson Show" and "Live! With Regis and
> Kathie Lee." He is also said to have been the inspiration for the
> character "The Swedish Chef" on "The Muppet Show."
>
> He taught at the Restaurant School in Philadelphia and wrote several
> cookbooks.
>
> In a 2004 profile in this newspaper, food writer Betty Cichy wrote
> that Erhardt was "content with his quieter life, though he takes
> satisfaction in knowing that he played a role in the culinary revolution
> that turned chefs into TV stars."
>
> "I was part of it. I had my run," he said then. "It was a good life."
>
>
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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But then my mother got sick. Ma is loopy. She knows that fevers cause
chills. She's just playing dumb that she doesn't know this
"marika" <marik...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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And speaking of lousy, when he was in recovery, the nurse was waking him up
and asked him how he felt. he said, as usual, "Lousy". She went into a
near-panic when he said that because she didn't know that's his standard
response. There isn't much humor in the cancer recovery ward, I guess.
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