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A Toast to the Best French Toast-Maker in the World

 

     Chef Yihdego Giday was indeed the chief of his own private culinary country, an aesthetically sophisticated domain of tastes, aromas and earthen colors.

     As my gaze turned naturally from one elegantly penned image of stately Ethiopian women to another—all artfully placed throughout the restaurant, I could not help being drawn to their extraordinarily intricate weaves. The braid itself has always held special...


From Rhode Island: Wingerz

From Rhode Island

Wingerz Keeps Your Fingers Free From Being Finger-licking Good!

Rhode Island residents Michael and Michelle Lefrancois, founders of Wingerz, are changing the tailgating game for a good cause. Think of all of those ribs and buffalo chicken wings that you eat on the back of your car!

Along come Wingerz to...


BOOKS: Exploring plant-based cuisine

PR for People® Reviews:

Exploring plant-based cuisine

A Plant–Based Life – Micaela Cook Karlsen

AMACOM – 352 pp - $16.95

Eaternity – Jason Wrobel

Hay House – 384 pp - $24.99

   This month, a subject near and dear to many of us: food! Assuming you’re already aware of the links between the standard American diet and many of the leading health problems in our...


From Medford New Jersey

 

 Soul Food

Before rich brocade draped somber white,

Adorned crystal goblets and bowls of forest green,

My heart ladled your graced reflection,

And, I was home...again.

Neither Black-out cake nor Pecan pie

Sugar-coated, drenched sweetness,

Could tempt my hungry, widened eyes,

Stirred by familial laughter.

Broken...


DNA

 

“Come back here!” I growled. “I have a burning question to ask you.” This, to my mother, dead since 2008.

My partner Walter, a physician, gave me a DNA kit to complete and send in; I expected no surprises. My father’s parents fled from a Polish shtetl before the Holocaust. My mother was a German Jew, eighth generation in the U.S., with family portraits of Altmanns, Oettingers and Ullmanns to attest to her lineage....


Whet Your Digital Appetite

 

Digital Strategy is everywhere.  Including places you’d never imagine.  For years we’ve heard about the “smart refrigerator” that will let you know when it’s time to get more eggs or ice cream, or that the milk is going bad.  This year, after decades of computer and kitchen appliance industry hype, Samsung has actually introduced such a product.  The Samsung Smart Family Hub Refrigerator (see Consumer Reports review...


Delicious Food, Warm Welcome — and Locksmith Services

Carmel by the Sea: Mediterranean Restaurant

When I stumbled into the genial world of Mediterranean Restaurant on a charming street in Carmel by the Sea, California, I was flustered.

I realized about five steps away from my Jeep that had I locked the keys inside. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do about that, so I decided to just sit down, have a good meal, complete a scheduled phone interview — and...


From Boston: Buzzing for Real Food

 

Experienced edibles entrepreneur gets energy from giving it

For active, busy people caught up in the daily grind, coffee has historically been the “go to” energy booster. But now there’s a new way to get the buzz – it’s Java Me Up, a delicious, portable, coffee-fueled snack line created by Lisa Newmann, a pioneer in the healthy snack industry.

Java Me Up is a brand of coffee bars...


Trolls, Flamers, and Bullies

This is the third in a three-part series educating people about the media.


From Denver | Wasted

I make my money on the streets of Denver, a performer trying to earn enough "by donation" to pay what small bills I have, and doing this day in, day out, block by fulsome block you can't help but get a sense of the seasons. October's long passed, nights are longer lasting, and Autumn is a jolt of desperation.

There's a sullen resistance here to the gravity it hints at, sweaters and scarves anticipating biting cold, thoughts...