Grayson College’s just-for-fun cooking classes are underway for the spring semester. Desserts, hearty fare, healthy options, and regional favorites are menu themes as GC’s Hospitality Management & Culinary Arts Center partners with the Center for Workplace Learning to offer six recreational cooking classes and a three-day cooking boot camp this semester. Open to the public, classes take place at the Culinary Arts Center on GC’s Main Campus in Denison, east of the Viking Residence Hall. Participants must be at least 16 years old to enroll in the classes, except where noted.

The 8th Annual Fannin County Family Crisis Center ‘You Hold the Key’ Dinner & Auction is coming up! Save the date. February 28, 6:00 p.m. at the Frist Baptist Church Community Center in Bonham.

There are very few true living legends in the world of classical music, and fewer still have sustained greatness and grown throughout their lives. Pepe Romero is such an artist.

Lanny Joe (right) and his college fraternity brother Chester are the ultimate odd couple. Chester is fastidiously clean, precise, and eats only nuts and berries, while Lanny is lah-di-dah, pell-mell, and eats nuts and berries only if they’re coated in chocolate. What they do have in common is that they both choke on their own spit.

Court bouillon is the traditional method of poaching foods that uses an acid (wine and lemon juice) and aromatics (bouquet garni and mirepoix). Wine is usually used for poaching fish and fruit, while poultry is cooked with broth, and eggs with water and vinegar.

The Fletcher Warren Civic Center will be the site for the Gun Show on February 7th and 8th, 2015. Vendors will be exhibiting everything from guns, knives and swords, including those that might have been used during the Civil War, WWI, WWII, etc. Some of the booths will also include books, clothing, gun parts, reloading supplies and equipment, ammo, prints and photos relating to military history.