Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, and the State of Change
January 29, 2010
On Wednesday, I watched two big speeches.
On Huffingtonpost.com—along with about 800,000 other people (you could see the number of people watching it change in real time)—I saw a blurry Steve Jobs unveil Apple’s latest creation, the iPad, thanks to some guy holding up an iPhone to record the event. The video quality was spotty. In fact, you could tell that he was holding the phone because the image rose and fell with his breathing. While watching, I followed the bajillion Twitter updates… more
Comments (15)5 Rules for Navigating the Hazards of Life
January 27, 2010
Last week I read on Rodale.com that nonstick pans raise your risk thyroid disease, along with other problems like infertility. I sent a copy of the story to my husband because, many years ago, he brought home a nonstick pan to replace our cast-iron pans and I made him get rid of it. He thought it was better since it wasn’t so heavy. I thought it was not… more
Comments (14)Pickled Red Beet Eggs: Beautiful and Delicious
January 25, 2010
Last week I was making Easter dinner (wait, I’ll explain!) for a photo shoot for the April Issue of Prevention magazine. They are doing a story on my upcoming book, Organic Manifesto, and wanted a real Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen holiday meal to feature in their pages. So, this being for a spring issue, I pulled out my seasonal recipes from this blog…which are also, by the way, all available on the more
Comments (10)Last Chance Ranch—Home to the Lucky
January 22, 2010
The other week I was reading the local paper, The Morning Call and I saw a story that stopped me in my tracks. Last Chance Ranch in Quakertown, PA had made it to the final two in a national search done by Rachel Ray for a major donation to animal shelters for her holiday show. I confess I don’t watch Rachel Ray’s show. But I do know Last Chance Ranch, and was thrilled for them to hear the news.
When I first heard of Last Chance Ranch, I… more
Comments (5)Perfect Happiness and Other Questions
January 20, 2010
My local paper, the Morning Call, asked me to answer these questions, from a book called Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, which Rodale published last year. It’s a great book, featuring cultural figures from Jane Goodall to Johnny Cash answering a series of personal questions made popular by the French writer Marcel Proust (their answers appeared in a series in Vanity Fair magazine). It’s lots of fun to answer the… more
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