Last week, I played restaurant at Bar Marco to raise funds for the Obama High School Cooking Club — a Food Revolution Pittsburgh project. Working in the restaurant kitchen was one of the best times I’ve ever had. Read all about it on Pittsburgh Magazine!
Hello everyone! A belated Happy New Year! (or a very early one if you celebrate other “New Year” dates — because you know, it happens all year!)
Wanted to share with you the Brazen Kitchen end of the year newsletter, in case you didn’t receive it. It was certainly a GREAT and exciting year with opportunities to post on Oprah.com, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, a feature on NPR and MSN’s Re:Discover series and much more. I also enjoyed telling the story of Wigle Whiskey and the first installment of Fearless Female Farmers with Maggie Robertson. The IPE also picked Brazen Kitchen as one of the Top 50 Veg Blogs of 2012 (along with Marcus Samuelsson and Heidi Swanson and Kris Carr!) And of course, in the fall, I completed a 9-month project in the making! (And took a little break posting in the process!) I cannot ask for a better year!
So here’s why my last post was September 27th! A “project” I’ve been cooking up for 9 months decided the time has come on September 30th :) Soooooo, I’ve been busy making milk :)
Thank you to those who checked in! I’m slowly getting back into the groove. In the meantime, keep up to date with The Brazen Kitchen on Pittsburgh Magazine — all new every week!
Pardon my quiet last week as I recupped from a couple of weeks of…too much fun. :) Not complaining! I packed a trip to NYC, taped a podcast with Chef Tom Totin at the Waffle Shop, a few days of filming a Pittsburgh episode of a travel series (I’m sworn to secrecy!) and an evening of foodie fun with my Food Co-Op.
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Come on. You have one. Me? I don’t have one. Not at all….I’m a playa. I have a lot of them. And let me say that Leah H. is one of them. Check out this bad ass photo and let me hear you say “no doubt.”
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When I was living in NY, my train was the F train, which rivals only the L train on mentions in Missed Connections. The “Flirty Train” it was known then {gag}. And urban legend had it that if you want some 15 minutes of blind ad fame on Craig’s List, stay on the first car. And make sure you don’t have stray spinach on your teeth. Someone might be checking you out, already thinking about what his witty little CL entry will be.
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If you are old enough to have lived through Tech Bubble 1.0 (a.k.a. “the dot-com bubble” – who even uses the word dot-com anymore?!), you know what I’m talking about (and you also know what hampsterdance is).
If you are not old enough (or managed to live under a rock during that era), Google it and the wiki will come up. And who would have thought 10 years ago that that sentence would even make sense?
Well, this dish reminded me of that Facebook predecessor. And I thought its quite appropriate because – as gawkers are declaring — we are in the middle of Tech Bubble 2.0. Time to reminisce.
Is it hot nor not?
[Warning: This dives deep into my tech strategy consulting psyche so if you just want the whiskey recipe – it is Friday after all - command-down arrow]
By this time next week, I would have been traveling every week for the last 10 weeks with nary a break. Now, for some, this will elicit some “pffts”. But let me tell you, this is just about as exciting for me as weekly trips to the dentist. To underscore the level of anathema, I will confess that in graduate school, I committed the career no-no of abandoning one of the most coveted internships — with one of the Big 4 — midstream, because I could not bear the weekly check-in and check-out of hotel rooms. (That and the cavalier use of the phrase “continuous process improvement”) Needless to say, I was not Career Services’ favorite child.
Couple that with the vagaries of client service. Oy.
But today, I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. I had lunch with my favorite philanthropoid and we brainstormed ideas to support a gem of a nonprofit arts venue and incubator in the East End. It was the most fun I have had all week. Which reminded me of the aspect of consulting I loved best: helping organizations innovate.
Working with technology start-ups satiates this compulsion. However, not all technology companies are created equal and for those who don’t have the bias for- or the internal discipline, the slippery slope of “innovation decay” typically follows a curve with time on the x-axis. While I would choose to fill my dance card with clients close to the origin at all times OR with clients who rigorously strive for innovation (no matter where they are in the life cycle), fate is not always on my side. The bell curve will persist.
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