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Warm weather means outdoor grilling, bring- ing families and friends together for fun, sun and good food. Unfortunately, it is the perfect environment for foodborne illnesses, too, which peak in the summer. While most consum- ers are very aware of food safety issues, including sal- monella, and the risk of ill- ness, many do not follow recommended food safety practices in preparing their own meals at home, UC Da- vis researchers have found. A UC Davis study last year, which examined preparation of raw poul- try, found that the most common risks in kitchens stemmed from cross-con- tamination and insufficient cooking. Wash your hands and utensils, not the meat Most risks can be avoided by practicing thorough hand-washing, never rins- ing raw meat in the sink and using calibrated ther- mometers to determine that meat is fully cooked, says Christine Bruhn, author of the study and UC Cooper- ative Extension specialist emerita. "The first thing you have to start with is wash- ing your hands. Wash your hands before you touch anything else," Bruhn says while demonstrating ap- propriate food preparation techniques recently in her Davis kitchen. Wash afterward, too. "Anytime you touch a raw product, you need to wash your hands — for 20 sec- onds," she adds. Another tip: "The best cooks use thermome- ters. That way you don't overcook, you don't un- dercook. Your meat will be juicy and good — and safe," she says. From the grocer (put an extra bag around your meat so juices don't get onto your lettuce and other groceries and contaminate them) to your table (clean platters and tongs), Bruhn shares her tips. 1. Don't wash your meat: Washing your meat under running water only spreads the bacteria to your sink, into the air and to you. Cooking will remove any bacteria. 2. Contamination: Avoid cross-contamination by us- ing a separate cutting board for meat and another one — or two — for preparing your salad or other foods. For best results, use a cut- ting board that can be san- itized in your dishwasher. Clean all surfaces where meat is handled with soap and warm water followed by a disinfectant cleaner. 3. Use paper towels, not cloth towels, to clean up: People think towels are green, but you'll be the one who is green if you get sick from contamination. Use a clean, single-use pa- per towel to wipe surfaces, your hands and your uten- sils when preparing raw meat — and throw it away. (And cloth towels are not so green when you consider the energy and water used to wash them properly.) 4. Wash your hands again — and again — before, dur- ing and after preparing meats: And don't touch your refrigerator handle, spice bottles, dishes or cupboards with your dirty hands — the germs on surfaces can live for days 5. Keep your meat cold before it hits the grill: Don't marinate chicken or beef at "room temperature" as some recipes say. This gives bacteria an excellent place to grow. Your refrig- erator should be 40 degrees or colder. 6. Your thermometers — one for the refrigerator and one for meat — are your best friends: And they will make you the best cook. Learn to calibrate and use your meat thermometer to test the do- neness of meats. This is the only way to ensure meat is fully cooked while not be- ing overcooked. Stick the thermometer into thickest part of the meat. Also, have a thermometer for your re- frigerator. 7. Don't use the same utensils and dishes for raw meat and cooked meat: Wash those dishes and utensils, or switch to newly cleaned ones, while the meat is cooking. 8. Cooking temperatures: Your chicken is cooked when it reaches 165 de- grees; ground beef, 160 de- grees. Other meats: See the USDA internal temperature chart. 9. Serve your food promptly and enjoy. 10. Store leftovers in the refrigerator as soon as pos- sible: Make sure it's no more than two hours and only one hour in warm weather (above 90 degrees). Reheat your meat to a safe temper- ature of 160 degrees or eat cold. 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This edition continues that tradition with 14 sto- ries that range from an account of Lassen Peak's eruption 100 years ago that involved a Manton resident who barely survived one of its violent eruptions to the memories of a gentleman who crossed the plains to California with his family in a covered wagon when he was six years old. Other highlights include articles about the architec- ture of two stately homes, the Red Bluff post office, the snowstorm of 1873, B.F. Loomis and his famous photographs of the Lassen Peak eruption, the old Pape Place in the rugged Mill Creek Canyon and even the presence of the KKK in Te- hama County. This edition contains articles from the following authors: Alan Willendrup, Carol Heilbron Sobke, Carolyn Barber, Elton N. Thompson, E.B. North, Floyd Mellon, G. Alice Jack- son, Gary Like, Gene Serr, Jean Barton, Maurice Ness and Susan Messler. 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