surf & turf

SURF & TURF DINNERSATURDAY 28TH APRIL 2012

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MENUBuffalo Wing Soup

Sirloin Steak with ShrimpSurfers JambalayaPork Steak with Sauté Mushrooms

Fat Boy ChipsRoasted VegetablesCorn on the CobBarbecue Beans

Caesar SaladCheesy ColeslawFlorida SaladPotato & Egg Salad

Dessert BuffetFresh FruitIce Cream


Surf and Turf:

A type of cuisine that combines both grass fed meat and seafood.

There are numerous combinations of this. The classic variation is Steak with Prawns but other popular dishes use Lobster, Crab or Langoustines.

The term ‘Surf n Turf’ became widespread during the 1960’s. It is also sometimes referred to as ‘Beef and Reef’.


Kelly Slater

Considered the greatest surfer of all time, Slater has continued to blow minds and shatter records with his surfing style, technical ability and focus. He won his first world title in 1992, then enjoyed five consecutive wins from 1994 to 1998 before coming back from retirement in 2002 to claim the 2005 and 2006 world crowns. Kelly Slater altogether has surfed 608 heats in his WCT career. He has won 453 of them, which is 75% of all heats.

Kelly Slater won in 36 of his 46 finals which gives him 36 World Cup Tour of Surfing Victories. With these victories, by the end of 2007, Kelly has won EIGHT World titles.Last year Kelly Slater smashed the last remaining record he did not hold - the most number of competition victories that was held by Tom Curren (USA). After the Trestles event Kelly was first with 34 victories. After two wins in 2008, he now has 36 victories.

Surfing career statsCareer Earnings: US $1,462,005Years on the Foster's ASP World Tour: 2008 is Kelly’s 14th year with the Foster’s ASP World Tour Highest Foster’s ASP World Tour Rating: ASP World Champion in 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2006Years on ASP WQS: 14 yearsHighest ASP WQS Ratings: 1st in 1994


A history of Surfing:

On Captain James Cook's third expedition to the Pacific, his ships, HMS Discovery and Resolution, made the first recorded European visit to Hawai'i in 1778, when they stopped at the western end of the island chain on their way from Tahiti to the northwest coast of North America. After a frustrating year fruitlessly looking for a passage from the North Pacific into the Atlantic, Cook brought his ships back to the Hawaiian chain, this time stopping at the Big Island of Hawai'i. There, at Kealakekua Bay, Cook was killed by Hawaiians when he made a misguided attempt to kidnap their high chief to force the return of a stolen boat.


Lieutenant James King was made First Lieutenant of the Discovery and was given the task of completing the narrative portion of Cook's journals. After Cook's death in 1779 but before the Discovery and Resolution returned to England, Lt. King devoted two full pages to a description of surfboard riding, as practiced by the locals at Kealakekua Bay on the Kona coast of the Big Island. His following entry is the earliest written account of surfing.

But a diversion the most common is upon the Water, where there is a very great Sea, and surf breaking on the Shore. The Men sometimes 20 or 30 go without the Swell of the Surf, & lay themselves flat upon an oval piece of plan about their Size and breadth, they keep their legs close on top of it, & their Arms are us'd to guide the plank, thye wait the time of the greatest Swell that sets on Shore, & altogether push forward with their Arms to keep on its top, it sends them in with a most astonishing Velocity, & the great art is to guide the plan so as always to keep it in a proper direction on the top of the Swell, & as it alters its direct. If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much prais'd. On first seeing this very dangerous diversion I did not conceive it possible but that some of them must be dashed to mummy against the sharp rocks, but jus before they reach the shore, if they are very near, they quit their plank, & dive under till the Surf is broke, when the piece of plank is sent many yards by the force of the Surf from the beach. The greatest number are generally overtaken by the break of the swell, the force of which they avoid, diving and swimming under the water out of its impulse. By such like excercises, these men may be said to be almost amphibious. The Women could swim off to the Ship, & continue half a day in the Water, & afterwards return. The above diversion is only intended as an amusement, not a tryal of skill, & in a gentle swell that sets on must I conceive be very pleasant, at least they seem to feel a great pleasure in the motion which this Exercise gives.

Thus, Lieutenant James King, commander of the Discovery, 1779, recorded in the ship's log the first written description of Hawaiian surfing by a European.


In 1779, riding waves lying down or standing on long, hardwood surfboards was an integral part of Hawaiian culture. Surfboard riding was as layered into the society, religion and myth of the islands as baseball is to the modern United States. Chiefs demonstrated their mastery by their skill in the surf, and commoners made themselves famous (and infamous) by the way they handled themselves in the ocean. Anthropologists can only guess at the origin and evolution of wave-riding and surfboard construction in Polynesian culture, since there's no certainty about the timeline and movements of the Polynesians.


When Captain Cook arrived in Hawai'i, surfing was deeply rooted in many centuries of Hawaiian legend and culture. Place names had been bestowed because of legendary surfing incidents. The kahuna (experts) intoned special chants to christen new surfboards, to bring the surf up and to give courage to the men and women who challenged the big waves. Hawaiians had no written language until the haole (white-skinned people) arrived, so their genealogy and history were remembered in songs and chants. There were legendary stories of love matches made and broken in the surf, lives risked and heroic ocean deeds by chiefs and commoners.


The sport of kings: not horse-racing, but surfing. Rare photos have emerged showing King Edward VIII, then the Prince of Wales, riding a wave in Hawaii in 1920 in what is believed to be the earliest ever picture of a British surfer – royal or otherwise.

Agatha Christie (right) and her first husband Archie may have been among the first Britons to learn how to surf standing up. Christie noted her observations of the sport – and reactions to the odd wipe-out – at the time, writing: "The surf boards in South Africa were made of light, thin wood, easy to carry, and one soon got the knack of coming in on the waves. "It was occasionally painful as you took a nosedive down into the sand, but on the whole it was an easy sport and great fun."


Ok, that was a history of ‘Surf’, now for a history of ‘Turf’……………………


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