Around Town: Health Department offers tips for healthy food - Journal Record

Joan Gilmore

With Christmas approaching, memorize these four words we’ve received from the Oklahoma City-County Health Department: clean, separate, cook and chill. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

Start with clean: Wash your hands and surfaces often. Clean utensils and surfaces with hot water after preparing foods. Do not wash your turkey. Cooking is the only way to destroy potentially dangerous bacteria.

Separate: Separate raw meats from other foods – use separate cutting boards, plates and utensils for raw meat and fresh produce. This will prevent cross-contamination.

Cook: Cooking to the safe temperature kills harmful bacteria. Turkey is safe when the temperature reaches 165 F. If the turkey is stuffed, then the temperature of the stuffing should be 165 degrees too. To ensure the temperature, check the following three places: thickest part of breast, innermost part of wing and innermost part of thigh.

Chill: Refrigerate leftovers within two hours and remember to freeze or use leftovers within three to four days. Frozen leftovers should be used within two to four months for best quality. Remember, bacteria that causes foodborne illnesses cannot be smelled or tasted.

Please visit www.fda.gov for more information.

(I don’t know how to cook!)

Ready for this?

The Oklahoma History Center has opened a new exhibition about the struggle of equal rights that sounds pretty interesting. The exhibit offers 23 photographs, both local and national, from activists for and against the Equal Rights Amendment. Title of the exhibit is “Until We Organize: The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment.”

The exhibit focuses on the most tumultuous years of Oklahoma’s battle over the amendment from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. It’s currently open and will run through November 2020.

Patrons should call in advance to make sure the exhibit is open to the public during the time of their visit.

For more information, please call 405-522-0765 or visit www.okhistory.org.

40,000 spring flowers?

When winter winds wind down and transition into spring, visitors to Scissortail Park will be treated to blankets of bright daffodils in several areas on the grounds. Volunteer groups have been assisting the horticulture staff of the park to ensure that the first-ever spring bulbs to be planted in the park are nestled into the ground in time for winter.

Spring will be beautiful.

Reminds me of years ago, at Myriad Gardens when it was first gardening, that socialite Dannie Bea Hightower was heading up the planting of daisies, the first flowers.

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