You want to be part of the group, a member of the club. Everyone wants to belong somewhere. A way to enter in any social circle is to learn the group language. We can adopt…
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The Art of Serving Food: Dinner Table Etiquette
Serving food is a delicate act of communication. How much pie do you serve your friend at a dinner party? How much pasta do you spoon on your children’s plates? Who gets the last piece…
Homemade Peanut Butter
Peanut butter is at the very center of American hearts, sandwiches, and junk food aisles . Chocolate peanut butter cups, anyone? But, it’s January and we’re getting into bathing suit season in two months. Let’s…
Stove Top Strawberry Jam
Strawberry season is coming! We’re starting to see strawberries already in Florida! That means pints and pints of beautiful heart-shaped, ruby-fleshed strawberries will be plentiful and priced so low that you can’t help but buy…
Storytelling with Food Photography
Scrolling through your Instagram and Pinterest for recipes leads to hundreds of food images. How do you stop to pick one? We choose a food image that makes our mouths water and sends our minds…
Four Incredible Detoxifying Herbs
The beginning of every New Year reminds us that it’s always the perfect time to cleanse your body of toxins and remove the excess waste that may be making you sluggish. Fresh herbs are healthful…
The Core to Storytelling is Simplicity: Insight from the Back of the Napkin
Simple storytelling is a core component to success. Complexity is a distractor. The Back of the Napkin (B.O.T. N.) column of Bon Appetit values a short story: your story should fit on the back of the…
Chocolate Roll Cake with Espresso Whipped Cream
Drum roll, please. Welcome the heavenly chocolate cake roll. Unlike most recipes for a Yule Log, Yodel, Ho-Ho, or other roulade cakes, this one does not crack or sever easily. Rather, this lighter-than-air chocolate angel…
Plan Your Life: Lessons from Cooking Shows
“You know those seasoning packets that come with the ham?” says Sunny Anderson on her cooking show Cooking for Real as she makes a holiday spiral ham. “Just can’t do it,” she says, shaking her…
Storyteller’s Tools: Passion, Smiles, Friendliness
We can learn from celebrated television personalities how to improve our performance in front of an audience, whether it is for your next meeting, classroom, blog, podcast, YouTube channel, or even television show. Storytelling requires…