Today’s Foodie Friday question is pretty simple: what do chocolate chip cookies and molten chocolate cake have in common (other than the chocolate)? Given today’s headline, this really shouldn’t be too difficult. Right! They were both mistakes. In the case of the cookies, the baker at the Toll House Inn was trying to make chocolate cookies and ran out of block baker’s chocolate to melt. She tried adding little pieces of sweetened chocolate she had hoping they would melt. In the latter case, Jean-Georges Vongerichten (who may or may not have actually invented it but did popularize it) was trying to bake a traditional Chocolate Torte and undercooked it. The results were, and are, fabulous. My point? Continue reading
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Beyond The Canonical Perspective
Let’s have some fun. Grab a pen and some paper and draw a cup or a car or a house. Done? Great. There’s this term – canonical perspective. It comes out of some research first presented in 1981 by a guy named Palmer. The short version of what he did was to ask folks to draw him something and he found that most people drew the object from the same perspective – slightly above, looking down, and a bit off to either the left or right. Is that sort of what your drawing looks like? Well, this point of view has been dubbed the “canonical perspective” and it’s today’s business thought. Continue reading
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The Thanksgiving Menu’s Business Tip
Happy Cooking Day! What? You’re waiting until tomorrow to get going? Well, maybe you’re better organized than I am. Today, in between phone calls, emails, and project work, is spent baking the pies, turning the stock we made yesterday into gravy, prepping vegetables, making the appetizers, and many other little things so that we can get tomorrow’s feast in front of everyone all at once and on time. Those of you with frozen turkeys should have them thawing (maybe in your bathtub if space is an issue?).
The menu we offer this year is the same as last year’s and most prior years. Frankly, I find it kind of boring to make. But therein lies the business lesson. Continue reading
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