April 2007 Issue

April 2007 Issue
Jana's Soul Food Cafe
There's always buzz about a new place in town, especially if the food is good. But restaurant buzz that travels more than 100 miles is rare unless a celebrity chef is doing the cooking - or at least lending his or her name to the establishment. So when I started hearing about Jana's Soul Food Cafe, located in The Plains, a small town just outside Athens, I had to investigate. "Soul food as in good for the soul - not collards," Jana Durham, the restaurant's owner, told us on our first visit. Athens Count...
Neil Zurcher
Age: 71 Photo by Jerry Mann Personal: The father of three lives in Bay Village with his wife Bonnie and son Craig. Background: Zurcher has authored five books, including his latest, Ohio Road Trips with Neil Zurcher; and writes about his travels for AAA's Ohio Motorist magazine. For 25 years, Zurcher hosted "One Tank Trips" on Cleveland's Fox 8 TV, criss-crossing the state and beyond in his 1959 red and white Nash Metropolitan. How it began: Zurcher joined Channel 8 as a reporter in 1967 and, in re...
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