mizchef

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  • 25Sep

    Book Giveaway

    Hi, all. To celebrate the impending re-issue of What, No Meat? Traditional Italian Cooking the Vegetarian Way, I’m giving away a free copy. This is the original edition published at Booklocker, usually going for $22-24. Here’s the description:
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    Filed under: Cookbooks, Food Writing, Publishing, Uncategorized
    Tags: Book giveaway, cookbook, free book, Mindancer Press, vegetarian cookbook
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  • 18Sep

    Career Quandary

    Hey, gang. This past year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the direction my life is taking. Jobs are being lost every day and even though “experts” are saying the recession is over, it’s going to take a while to recover. And, in my opinion, the jobs lost are not going to be available again. The way I see it, companies that downsized and heaped the work onto the poor remaining souls have likely gotten used to paying fewer salaries while still getting the work done. They really don’t care that each employee is now doing the work of two or three or four individuals for no extra compensation. All they know is that they’re liking not having to pay all those salaries and benefits. Now that the recession is “over,” why should they rehire the people they let go?

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    Filed under: Miscellaneous foodie stuff, Uncategorized, classes, education
    Tags: cooking school, culinary school, Food Writing, personal chef
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  • 11Sep

    Recipe Testing Continues

    Hi, gang.  Still working on getting that KHEN interview  audio track up here. DJ Andi downloaded it to a CD for me, but when you take something off a CD, it’s a “cda” file, which nothing but a CD or DVD player can read. (I’m so not up on this audio technology stuff.) I can upload the file to the Wordpress server, but it won’t recognize the file and I can’t seem to convert the file to something else. If anyone out there knows how I can get around this, I’d appreciate a suggestion from you.

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    Filed under: Cookbooks, Culinary Experiments, Ethnic food, Food Writing, Interviews and appearances, Recipe Tests, Uncategorized, cooking
    Tags: Cookbooks, global cuisine, recipe testing
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  • 04Sep

    Trader Joe’s

    Hey, gang.  Looks like my cookbook, What, No Meat? Traditional Italian Cooking the Vegetarian Way, is being pushed to November. So, I have a couple of more months of sweating before it’s released. But I will definitely make an announcement. And for for those of you who have been trying to access my archived blogs, it seems there were some code shenanigans going on in the links. I apologize and it’s been fixed, so go ahead and gorge on my archived stuff—I know you’re just dying to!

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    Filed under: Cookbooks, Interviews and appearances, Miscellaneous foodie stuff, Uncategorized
    Tags: KHEN, Palladium, Trader Joe's
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