My neighbor is a food professional. She’s been a pastry chef and now tests and writes recipes for various food publications. The good news is that she often appears at our door with a version of something, usually delicious, on which she’s working. The bad news is that’s it’s frightening to reciprocate – kind of like teeing it up with Tiger or Phil: no matter how good you think you are, you just know they’re way better. Continue reading
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Top Chef
Last night was the finale of Top Chef. If you’re watching the show but didn’t catch last night’s program, quit reading because the rest of this post is about the business lessons we can learn from the winners and losers and you might not know who they are yet. But for those of you who do know (or don’t care), there are a few important takeaways from how the judging went down. The three finalists – Carla, Hosea, and Stefan – were dramatically different personalities and it was those personalities as much as their cooking skills that determined the outcome. Continue reading
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