Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins; 410; Food Blogger Jaden Hair, Sarasota Architectural Salvage, Jazz Club of Sarasota, Badminton

This special presentation was produced in high definition by W. edu Tampa St. Petersburg Sarasota. The music of America music of the Gulf Coast. Badminton. Not your backyard technical writing these guys are serious in an area growing so much. Preserve me. Let the wisps of the school's out and crush your upper left and I was ashamed to. Be me. It shows in this volume of a Gulf Coast Journal. This production is exclusively brought you really generous I'm going to go down to the many. Building strong community leaders are going to take down the land. Dear Journal Oh my things have changed. You should be keeping a journal

man to a book like this and writing in it with a pen and now journaling is electronic. It's called blogging and it's huge. One of the most growingly popular blogs sites online these days is run by a beautiful young woman from here on the Gulf Coast. Hey. She's fun. That day it was a hot humid Florida Friday afternoon. That means the temperature was 80 degrees out but the humidity made it feel like a hundred forty four. In the quiet of her living room. My young woman named Jayden here. Is writing. If you'd like to be seduced. By. A cheap romance novel. X-rated entertainment sex writing for her website. I suggest that you close the site come back another time with a glass supply. Because you really can't afford. Playful words revealing the occasional blocks. Are the main

ingredients of Jaidyn was a. Blog. Steamy kitchen dot com. I started the blog because I wanted to keep track of. Recipes. Right and I'm so spoiled now by the computer that I type a lot faster than I write and I get lazy writing. Think of it as the Pacific Rim version of Sex In The City Beach Rachel Ray. Half a block has little snippets of stories of funny things and I could say more little stories about you know what happened in the day. First the other half is modern Asian dishes the centerfold of Jayden steamy kitchen in cyberspace and real life. Modern nation means three things to me it means it's fast it's fresh and it's simple enough to make for tonight Separ. A self-taught cook with no formal training. Jaden recipes are purely hand-drawn trial and error. I absolutely thrive on chaos. I love having 10 different things to

to do. Her culinary prowess as earned her spot from trendy websites like Slash food shall hound and serious reach. The food blog really has opened up another world for me. Once I started the food blog it gets traffic from all over the world. Didn't she in production the cooking began on the other side of the world. She was born in Hong Kong. Her family moved to Nebraska when she was four when we first moved to Nebraska. Neither my mom nor I spoke a word of English friends for. Food. I learned a ton of cooking from my mom. I'm combining some Western ingredients with Asian pantry items and are using Western Koreans with Asian cooking techniques and that's how it really has influenced the way I cook. Eventually the family moved to California where Jayden met her husband Scott. Like it came out in 2002 the couple moved from the West Coast. To

the Gulf Coast of Florida to start a family. And coming here it was it was very very challenging for me. I started missing my grocery stores I started missing my little corner restaurants and. I started cooking a lot more at home. This is called a Nazi you never friend never had. Today you will have this home cooking evolved into giving cooking classes. When Jayden realized how misunderstood Asian cuisine was in her new neighborhood the more I should have taken the role it will be her unintimidating style caught on quickly to make good people noticed. Classes grew. She puts people in charge. She's more hands on and she lets us know how we're doing and checks on us individually so you can fill some special profession if your blog junkie came to Jaden and Sarasota clash at the craft table after getting hooked on her blog.

Because when you read her blog you feel like you're talking to somebody in your kitchen you know it's a very unpretentious. So I became a devoted and because if you're talking the recipes are so. Straightforward and easy to read with your eyes great with your eyes the Prieto Jayden uses regularly to seduce visitors to her website. I call it food. What are the three. It's just a very it's a close up shot of the food and you can see all the different ingredients you can see the sauce dripping You can see it's just look you look at the photo and you know you want to eat it. Each night before dinner is served better home. It makes a pit stop in the family room for a quick photo shoot. Actually the food photography is on a three dollar film board from Staples white from board perched on top of my rooms to

go out of. The way I'm getting your shirt. A bit crude to be sure but pretty sure are the results. Half the time I've got one kid on my arm I you know pulling on my pant leg wanting to eat the other one trying to you know scoop something out of play. And I'm you know trying to take a somewhat professional photograph of the food so you really I only get like a couple minutes to take a good shot. That's just the way it is and they're hungry. With cooking classes. Calm. To kids and the food blog. Jaden here has a full plate. But she is determined. To make room for more. Hopefully in the near future I'll be able to have a cooking show on television. Pasta. Michael just because I could write a cookbook right now in my sleep. The steamy kitchen. And Jaden herself. Are just getting started. Don't you feel delicious like you live. In an area so rapidly growing new condos new apartment buildings new

office buildings so much new the challenge is to save some of the old. To preserve pieces of the past is a worthy cause. Jesse White is determined to save as much Florida history as he can get his hands on. Jesse and his crew are salvaging people of this 1930s bungalow just in the nick of time. The bulldozers are right around the corner and now ready to come down at this house. Slumbering in the shadows of downtown 44 old homes in this East Braden to neighborhood are being leveled for new development. You just know never know what you going to find in the walls. Salvage is like a treasure hunt. There is. No bottle it says Peoples Drug Store manatee Florida corner store. Only the best. As owner of Terra show to

architectural salvage. Jesse White churches high and low near and far for vintage elements to get the mantles. And we can try to get from the morning doors indoors one of the things we're doing with doors because a lot of people are using these old doors and Sarasota. We're making them into other. It's like benches and cattle. It's all ours things. Jesse is a former solid waste consultant. He has seen its share of discarded items. There is a certain irony to that because my business is all about taking those buildings apart. The reality is that we have landfills filled up with historic building materials. And wouldn't it be so much better to preserve those materials for reuse in other types of settings. Which is exactly what he and his crew are doing here. The fighting from This Old House integrating them is like a match made in heaven for an

historic church renovation in Sarasota. We came into this project looking for an antique sighting for a project where we're going to be giving it to a church in Sarasota. One of the oldest in Sarasota County. They're in the process of restoring it. And so what we're doing is we're bringing in as much siding as we can salvage to help them with the restoration projects. Doug you got ready for board. All right. The Crocker church is a masterpiece in the remaking of Sarasota a pioneer history built in 1901 the church came dangerously close to being demolished several times. It's now been moved to Pioneer Park on coconut street. The Historical Society is trying to raise money to restore the church and its charming 18:00 share a house next door. Well you know I was going to just donate. That.

Word that you have you're now. Jesse's shining donation peals heaven Shantou Historical Society board member Beth Boyce. That's just the kind of guy you know he sees what's needed and gets in there and. Says I'm going to help you out. So that's his role he's kind of our guardian angel right now. Thanks. OK Doug I think we'll put this one right up here. I'll be able to go and drive by these buildings every day and say I contributed to that that project and you know that's going to be here for generations to come. Another asset is the Sarasota architectural salvage store. Even on days when it's normally closed so shoppers appear eager to explore. We have materials come in from the John Ringling towers and from all kinds of buildings here locally. This here is flooring from the gymnasium of the Sarasota high school and I have people coming in all the time telling me about how they use. They went to their prom on this floor they danced on this floor they played basketball on this floor so it has a lot of

history. History. There is 10000 square feet of it. Packed To The Rafters relic from Florida on the far reaches of the world. But even if you don't see something you fancy store manager and woodwork are extraordinary. Sean O'Malley will recreate something for you. I think anybody who is a woodworker ours or any piece they tend to make stuff. Says I think more than anything so I definitely all the pieces that I make are kind like your kids so you appreciate all of mine that's that's what you like so I really I think I'm making stuff I really make stuff for myself and then it is usually in the going to somebody else. That's how it works. Shawn is using salvaged flooring from Sarasota his old crane because. Transforming it into a one of a kind table. Another of the many rescued treasures from the past historic gems that Jesse White hopes will inspire you to give them a second chance.

This gulf coast is known for a lot of things. Standing here by the gangways old Performing Arts Center and one is reminded that it's known for great classical music and theater and opera and ballet. But the Gulf Coast is also known as a place to which from around the country a lot of renowned jazz musicians chose to retire. Thus it means the Gulf Coast is a place with a lot of devout jazz aficionados. Jazz is the only true American art form. And we have a big responsibility of keeping jams growing in. Jazz with American influence that mirrors our country's most basic right. To be free.

Here on the Gulf Coast the spirit of jazz is alive and well thanks in large part to a group of enthusiastic known as the jazz club of Sarasota. Sarasota is in a way says we have an abundance of talent here and like I never found anything like it before. The jazz club of Sarasota is a powerhouse among jazz organizations with more than 700 members. And club ranks right up there with membership in New York and L.A. and no other club books over 80 acts annually. The club was started in 1980 by Howe Davis the former publicist for Benny Goodman. Had retired from New York City to Sarasota and Mr. inspiration has really. Got a hold of some friends. He started playing some records of jazz and the apartment and finally is it with you know what let's do let's just form a little club and let's have let's call it some musicians in. That was 27 years ago.

The club is best known for its annual Sarasota Jazz Festival. 11 events over eight days. The festival attracts over 10000 attendees each year. Some past headliners Ella Fitzgerald Maynard Ferguson. Dick Hyman pianist composer and Gulf Coast residents. It's a pleasure to be here. Pianist Lenore Raphael came all the way from Manhattan. Influenced by jazz greats Bud Powell. Oscar Peterson. Laura style is a departure from her musical roots. Well I've started playing classical music when I was 30. Classical piano steady for quite a few years and then gradually realized that I was going to be just

pianist because my teacher always said Well you know you're improvising on the notes all the time. So she said that Sandra thought about playing. Jazz. The Lord delights in blending the traditional with the unpredictable. Stuff doesn't know this but we know stuff this office part by. You and me. Yes. Together. Improvisation of course is the heart beat to the great James. Sam. Just threw that out. It was a lot of fun. A little bit of a challenge in there so he's great. With Lenore it's a little bit of challenge and a little bit of trust. The first time around I pray together there was a connection a personal connection a heart connection and we just enjoyed praying with each other.

Documentarian Ken Burns called Jazz the soundtrack of America. And the Gulf Coast probably be this stereo which it is played. Here in the journal we often talk about a sense of community. Those activities and organizations that tend to bring people together. Well this next story is about an activity that is community one step further for this activity brings together people from Iran Guiana Brazil Jamaica and to hit birds. He wondered if you could do something to make things easier. And then. So one way other people make fun of. The French right. Engage in

sport with a. Buddy. In America thinks of badminton as a backyard game. But the way we play it is much more like you would play squash or racketball. It's very cutthroat It's very fast. When you. Get. Hurt. They can straddle 150 hundred so. Far. Our. Thing is the fan if the ball bounces gives you time to chase after with this it doesn't bounce of any or all the time. Sort of a lot more exhilarating and a lot more screaming. What I like about badminton is that you don't have to be. Six foot five could be better. You don't have to weigh 250 pounds and in body movements of the smallest person can play this sport based on their skill and not just their muscle.

Jean thought you might try it. Maybe once she learned the skills of the game she would gain poise and self-contradiction only about 12 to 20 people show up on. Our Wednesday night. Game. And we have people from all over the world because. Bad and. Popular from. Around the world. So. The council. We have people from in the ME. China. Iran. Iraq. The so. I actually grew up in Brazil originally from Jamaica and then after that we moved to Guyana. From Kenya. We just kept of the Ukraine. And then from diagramming the Dominican Americans make up maybe only a third of my club. So far I'd say the toughest opponent seems to be. The Russians. I used to play for Ukrainian team. Russians

and they're pretty good. Quite seriously. The burden from the luck of a clip that you need for you you know it's not as wimpy as you think a lot of people get to know what I want this are. Basically technique is. That's the core part about that. Is you have. Good technique. Then. Even. A small child. Like her. Well. Yes Jeanne made social contacts and friends. So when Helen brought her to join the acrobatics club don't think he played. Badminton named after a village in western England and

with that needless nugget we close this volume of a Gulf Coast Journal thank you. Hope you'll be with us next time and in the mean time once more into the steamy kitchen. For making our making negative calorie check and negative calorie negative calorie comes up with fewer than zero calories. Absolutely because we're going to use a banana instead of oil and we're going to use the microwave instead of the other. I don't even like or even sort of and I'm sure count all that energy that you were. Turning oven on for 40 minutes. Michael for five minutes. That saves energy would not kill us. OK what here. They make them easy to open the door. Don't you see this is burning calories. Oh I see this is one where you're. Going to look at your wisdom out for. Like this. You're. Going to make. For. Me. OK.

Mike way for me. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa look at that it looks like a Safeway. Doesn't look like something you'd order at a fancy restaurant. Dark chocolate melted with butter. But you know television I know there's no absolute know it don't talk but it's healthy for you. And some fresh version of what powdered sugar just going. To hear about how we talk. And if you say you want to try going to Jamie's steamy kitchen this is negative. Well we we are not an abortion that. Friends. Are we.

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