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Leap: A Chance to Win Access to the Offers of Underground Eats

Posted in adventure, eating, food, New York City on April 13, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’ve enjoyed the last two contests that I’ve run on this blog in recent weeks – the first was for a free 12-week subscription to the digital version of the New York Times (congrats, Trish!) and the second was for a copy of the book Lessons from the Monk I Married by Katherine Jenkins, one [...]

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Leap: Easter Memories Around My Grandmother’s Dinner Table

Posted in creativity, Easter, family, food on April 8, 2012 | 5 Comments »

When I was little, Easter was my favorite holiday. When I think of the happiest days of my childhood, they all revolve around that Easter dinner table at my grandmother’s house. I wish I had told my grandmother how much those days meant to me then and now I wish I had the chance to [...]

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Leap: We Could Learn a Lot About Business by Studying Coffee

Posted in business, cooking, creativity, food on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Last Sunday morning I went to Sur la Table with my friend, Allan, to take a coffee class. One of Allan’s new year’s resolutions is to learn more about food and its preparation so he asked me where he might take some classes. I had read about Sur la Table’s new course schedule in the [...]

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Beginning: I Don’t Bake

Posted in cooking, food on December 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I have tried my hand at baking. Dessert is my favorite course of any meal. I once read that the body needs something sweet at the end of every meal to know it’s time to stop eating and start digesting. That’s all the motivation I need to give a hearty “Yes!” every time a waiter [...]

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Beginning: Professor Cupcake: Teach What You Know and Make Some Money in the Process

Posted in business, cooking, finance, food, teaching on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

We could learn a lot from a cupcake. Last week, I wrote a post about the point of all teaching – to help others rise. That statement can be taken literally and figuratively, as I recently found out through a cupcake baking class at Butter Lane Bakery. Joe, our teacher and cupcake baker (and frosting!) [...]

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Beginning: Be Here Like a Duck in the Ocean

Posted in animals, eating, food, nature, work, tagged on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“The little duck is at ease in the heaving Atlantic because it is in the Atlantic. Rest in the immediate as though it were infinity.” – Edward Espe Brown, Buddhist monk , chef, and star of the documentary How to Cook Your Life, reading from a poem written by his mother as she was preparing [...]

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Beginning: The People’s Republic of Food

Posted in change, environment, food, New York Times, tagged on October 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »

“There’s plenty of good work to do. With food it can really have an impact, not only on your life but on everyone’s.” ~ Mark Bittman, New York Times Magazine This weekend the New York Times Magazine revolves around one of my very favorite subjects – food. A few weeks ago I posted about my [...]

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Beginning: The Power of Food

Posted in books, dreams, food, tagged on September 14, 2011 | 6 Comments »

In recent weeks I have become mildly obsessed with cooking in my tiny stand-up kitchen more often. It started with the first board meeting of Compass Yoga. Two of the incredible board members, Amy and Rob, came to my house for dinner while the other two superstars, Lon and Michael, joined by phone. For Amy [...]

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Beginning: May 20th, pizzelle cookies, and my Grandmother, Sadie

Posted in cooking, family, food, grandmother, memory on May 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

May 20th is a date that has a lot of significance for me. It’s the date that I graduated from college and from business school, two enormous milestones in my life. More importantly, May 20th was my Grammy’s birthday. She passed away 11 years ago, 2 weeks before my birthday, and every day since she [...]

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Beginning: The Healing Story of Eating

Posted in cooking, eating, family, food, friendship on May 17, 2011 | 10 Comments »

“People are at their best when they eat together.” ~ Matthew Sanford I heard Matthew Sanford speak at the Yoga Journal Conference in New York this past weekend. I recently finished up his book Waking, about the car accident that left him paralyzed at age 13 and his yogic path that truly created his healing [...]

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