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Hiding gnomes around a friend/ family member's house, car, or work place. I found a hilarious garden gnome in my locker today... have you been gnoming lately?
1. | gnoming | ||
Verb - The act of recklessly (under the influence of something illicit or mind altering) going around and stealing lawn gnomes for the sake of a collection purpose. IT is definately fun to take one of your favourite gnomes with you on vacation and take pictures of that gnome from different locations in the world and send it by postcard to the original owner. <Dude> Yo man lets get retarded and go out on the town
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The act of driving or walking around town and posing on either people you know, or random people's lawn. When they open the door and see everyone just standing there, their reactions are priceless. The girls at the sleep over were bored, so they decided to go gnoming at random people's houses and laugh at their reactions.
3. | Gnoming | ||
The opposite of trolling. Opening yourself right up for being insulted. Flamebaiting if you will. "Asking for it". Person #1: (insert idiocy here)
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5. | gnoming | ||
Cruising around town while stealing yard ornaments and putting them in different places. Start at one house and take an ornament, then leave it at the second house a few blocks away. Continue until you get bored or someone gets hurt. Always remember to take something from the last house to return to the first house, it's only common courtesy to make sure everyone ends up with something. Also, massively important to not get caught or arrested. You: "Duuude we had so much fun last night gnoming until we almost got caught!"
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6. | gnoming | ||
verb - the act of taking pictures of a gnome/gnomes in front of or with famous places, famous people, funny signs, etc. Gnoming is often done by people with a sense of adventure and a zeal for telling exciting stories about their favorite mystical woodland creatures. Today Sally and I took our favorite garden gnome Baxter and went gnoming around the city.
7. | Gnoming | ||
Gnoming is essentially like planking and owling, completely pointless and stupid where someone sits in a person's garden in random positions much like a garden gnome. Hey, let's go gnoming in that guy's garden!

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The Artisit is Present by Marina Abramovic . What can this act of personal art and human connection teach us about our presence with eachother online?
There are only a few more topics I have laid out for this Digital Tribes series of posts. The next few are centered on group organization, because not knowing where you stand or how to influence your status is one of the worst forms of stress.
You hear a lot of social media proponents (of which I am one) espouse transparency and merit based value assessment. This is one of the great promises of the digital participation age
It can feel like a Kafka-esque nightmare when you don't know how things work and where you stand with in a group. People will stay in terrible situations rather than dive into the unknown, because "at least" they know what they are dealing with.
Groups prefer transparent governance, whether that is a monarchy, dictatorship, federalism, democracy or anything else. When the forces that drive decisions are opaque, corruption or conspiracy charges surface along with discontent.
For the purposes of building community in this wild west we call social media, there are very real, practical lessons to be gained from Native American tribal governance practices.
(Image of Chief Quanah Parker of the Kwahadi Comanche thanks to Commons.Wikimedia.org)
In the next few posts, I will dig into the applicable tribal models of:
1. Merit based valuation
2. Consensus driven leadership
3. Tribe versus clans/ bands
Discussion of these 3 topics are intended to give online community leaders and participants a tribal foundation for their organization and governance options.
I am always looking for good, current examples to explore in my digital tribe posts. If you have any examples of community organization or governance models that went wonderfully right or terribly wrong, please do share in the comments below, or email me: firstname.lastname@example.com
Once upon a time, some years ago, a small team of intrepid workers was tasked with building their first business Facebook Page.
They were good corporate citizens who had studied hard in the hallowed halls of PR, Marketing, PMI, ROI and business process engineering.
- … about a…
This blog is dedicated to my series on building online community. I didn't want to clutter it with other topics. I have started an an additional blog where I will post all my "other stuff." Here is the URL, incase you want to pop over: http://allisonpops.tumblr.com/
A lot of folks, from best selling authors to us social media plebeians, use the word "tribe" when talking about our online communities. I have been thinking about what significance and implications come with this word for some time now. How is it different from "group" or "community?"
I started my search by reaching back to my own Native American heritage, to unpack my own personal definition of "tribe." The indigenous peoples of North America know a lot about community, identity and loyalty. Native American identities have survived hundreds of years of assault on their tribal existence, yet continue to persist and even thrive.
What can emerging digital tribes learn about building strong and fulfilling communities from Native Americans? I have been working on this topic for several months, pulling from anthropology, social media and gaming communities case studies as well as from my own experiences, particularly as a Native American. Each of the 12 items below are rather large topics. I am working my way through this blog series with more detailed exploration on these items. If you are interested in more detail, you can jump back to the beginning of the series: DgtlTribe
Here I provide a summary of my Digital Tribe findings. These are the 12 most important things to be mindful of in order to create a community with the tribal strengths of:
- culture
- identity
- resource pooling
- pride
- loyalty
- long standing commitment
(I have grouped the 12 in to subgroups, mostly because I have chronic-bulletization syndrom-disorder, which forces me to put everything possible in bullet format, ideally in groups of three. I am not seeking treatment.)
Think of something nameless… Couldn't do it, could you? Naming something calls it into existence in our consciousness. It creates definition. Naming is a powerful phenomenon in any culture. We name groups, events and people. Many Native American tribes have a tradition of naming people as a rite of passage, to mark transition, identify familial relations and status within the community.
1. Name your group and I don't mean the "Quilter's Circle of Springfield, South." It will work if you are in a pinch, but it is better to give yourselves a name that can bear the weight of identity, something unique that defines the "us" as opposed to the "them." Think of your favorite brands. Think about the feel of these brand names: Nike, Sanuk, Apple vs. Home Shopping Network, IBM, General Motors.
2. Name your events and I don't mean the Quarterly Meeting, Northern Chicago Webdesigner's tweet up. Bleh! What does Red Earth Festival convey to you? Better yet, what does it convey to the folks who attend every year? What about calling your event: Ghom? That is Klingon for "to meet." I looked it up. This is fun, people!
3. Name your people: In modern, western society we give people titles, this is an echo of name giving, but doesn't carry near the power of identification. Nobody actually addresses me as Director of eMarketing. Besides, those titles can and do change frequently. It is a little different in the military, but there, hierarchy is at the core of fulfilling the military's mission.
Our avatars are great examples of the link between naming and identity, particularly in online gaming groups. (Check out this interesting post from Adriel Nation on this subject.) But imagine the impact of being given a name within a community, based on the role and accomplishments in that community. This creates another level, a deeper level, of self-identification with a group.
I learned to speak German fluently in my teens. For me, having an alternate language for expression opened up the impact of language as an influential frame around my perception. Language itself is a part of our culture interaction with one another and a core to our culture. While it is unlikely a group will develop a language from whole cloth (Klingon is a great exception!), there are options available to groups.
4. Specialty language or insider languages develop naturally over time. This is obvious in various disciplines (math, science, medicine, engineering, post-modern literary theory, etc. ). You can barely understand folks speaking within a highly specialized discipline. But it actually occurs within any group, given enough time. Pay attention to your group's use of code language and find ways to support it, like creating a dictionary of terms, or using it in your naming practice (above.)
5. Symbolic language is also very powerful in the digital space. Interesting examples are the heraldic practices of Europe (see image above) and today's emoticons. Logos essentially create a mini-symbolic language and name around a brand. Does your group have any symbols in practice?
Culture is a complex topic, but for the purposes of online communities, I wanted to focus on two aspects that can and should be addressed in digital groups.
6. Rituals are my favorite tool! This is any practice we do regularly and consistently the same. An anthropologist blew my mind when he told me the ritual comes first and the meaning comes afterward. So a group ritual can be anything! Have fun with this. Support what sticks and be consistent!
7. Value systems is a big, tough topic. Most important is to know that your group values are evident in the behaviors your group practices. It is great to document these, review them regularly and celebrate them.
Above all, people need to know where they stand. Not knowing the rules of engagement, how decisions get made and your own role in that is one of the worst stresses a person can experience.
8. Consensus governance: Decision making in most tribal cultures is based on consensus, not voting. This is not democratic or corporate style governance. If a decision needs to be made or a project undertaken, you have to get the influencers in the group behind it. They in turn influence their subgroup. This is highly participatory governing and…
9. Merit based: …it is based on the philosophy that people and ideas rise to the top based predominantly on merit. Social media appears to inherently support merit based activities. Merit based is not "one person, one vote," it looks at the value of an idea and a person's contribution and assigns influence accordingly.
10. Hierarchy: Just as we love ritual, we are hierarchical animals, by nature. There is some kind of hierarchy in your organization. Acknowledge it. Celebrate it, even! As long as you practice consensus governance based on merit, the hierarchy will feel natural, empowering and provide stability and efficiency. Native American tribes and nations are groupings of smaller clans or bands who had their own leadership and culture. As your community grows beyond 150 to 200 people, look for those subgroups. Get clarity on the hierarchical relationships in those bands and how they fit in the larger group.
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11. Diversity: As is the case in neighborhoods and countries, tribes are diverse. There will be folks who don't agree, who refuse to fall in line with behavior standards. Do you want a closed community of like-minded people or an open community that incorporates or tolerates variation, even disruption? Change is inevitable if you are aiming for a long surviving community. The naysayers often carry the seeds of a successful future, but they can also create tension and division. Reach back to your values to understand where your community draws the line.
12. Don't Force it: You can force culture, identity, values to some extent, but we tend to refer to those instances as totalitarian regimes and they rarely result in successful, multigenerational communities. This is about being mindful of these opportunities and forces at work in your group. It is about being intentional in strengthening and deepening the community connection.
Whew! You made it to the end! If you got this far, I would appreciate it if you would take a moment to leave a comment. Do you see any of these tribal attributes at work in your online community? What can you do to better support it? Have you seen groups fall apart because of a struggle with one of these dynamics? I would love to hear from you!
(This post is part of a series. To read more jump back to the beginning.)
If they are good, values discussions are tough. Values are complex, personal and highly subjective. Mountains have been written about them in the fields of psychology, religion, anthropology and corporate culture.
You are probably reading this because you are interested in understanding the fundamentals of building strong, dedicated communities. Understanding the explicit and hidden values of your group is critical to that effort.
Quick term discription:
1. Explicit Values:
These are the stated values of the group. This is what we all say publicly and proudly about a group.
Example from IBM's website
"IBMers determined that our actions will be driven by these values:
- Dedication to every client's success
- Innovation that matters, for our company and for the world
- Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships"
2. Hidden Values:
These are in conflict with the explicit values. We tend to be less comfortable advertising them and they are not always clearly or universally understood. Understanding them is critically important, however, because they are a source of great dysfunction when pervasive.
Example from Eastern Germany
Before the iron curtain fell, East Germany (German Democratic Republic) celebrated the values of Communism as their own, but the hidden values of control and totalitarianism created one of the largest internal spy networks on the planet. At its height in the 90s, the East German Stasi (secret police) employed almost 100,000 people and had as many as 2 million citizen informants/spies gathering information on more than 5 million people. Communism and totalitarianism are not happy bed fellows and led to a schizophrenic society.
Honestly, I have been stressing on how to tackle this topic for weeks. I have never thrown out as many drafts as I did on this one.
- Drafts where I try to "sum up" the vast body of work done on value systems in my own brilliant mini-dissertation (boring!). I recommend a search for "values" on YouTube to see lots of experts talk about values.
- Drafts where I lay out examples of value misalignment in various countries (I did try to offend Americans, Brits, Canadians and Germans equally). Oh, I am sure my comments fields would have exploded!
- Drafts where I exposed value misalignments in my own family! That was not going to be popular at Thanksgiving.
So, if I threw all that awesomeness out, what the heck am I gonna tell you about digital tribe value systems?
It isn't new.
It isn't easy.
It IS critical.
This is it: Behavior = Values
If there is behavior that does not align with the explicit values of your group, you have some conflicting value systems. These conflicting systems must be addressed, or it can derail anything the group sets out to accomplish.
Here are the 5 things to consider for a healthy set of cultural values for your online community:
1. Be "self aware." Figure out the explicit and potentially hidden values of your community.
2. Articulate your values. Post them. Talk about them. Celebrate examples of them in action.
3. Take note when there is stress in any form in your group. Don't just take them at face value. This is an opportunity to discover any conflicting values, even when it appears to be about personality conflicts.
4. Even though the examples given here are negative, hidden values are not always the problem. Be open to the possibility that those values you first laid down may need adjustments. Just because there are hidden values, it doesn't mean those values are wrong. There may be needs in your community that cause those hidden values. Those needs must be taken into account.
5. If you are running a community for a company or organization, that community may have a very different value system. Let's take Birkenstock shoe company, for example:
The Birkenstock Example:
Birkenstock shoe company became popular among the liberally minded community. Many of us that know the shoes have an image of modern day hippies. Birkenstock was established in 1774 and has a long conservative tradition with leadership that has supported consistently conservative politics. If they created a Facebook fan page that aligned with their conservative disposition, they would alienate a huge portion of their customer base.
I did want to share two more real world cases for your consideration:
1. The Military: A case of value alignment at work
The military places the highest value on hierarchical obedience and discipline. Since the purpose of the military is to serve in the crisis of war, this value is critical to success. They practice this value in the most menial of tasks. Military personnel will hold to this value while facing chaotic life and death threats that would normally trigger the trumping value of self-preservation.
2. The Catholic Church: A crisis of conflicting values
As the Catholic priest pedophile scandals unfolded, the practice of moving offending priests from one community to another to avoid exposure became increasingly apparent. This behavior stood in stark contrast to the explicit values of the monastic catholic organization: to serve their community. Service to the community was trumped by a different set of values, the values of protectionism for the organization. This continues to drive major discord within the church community.
Understanding all values in an online group is critical to the community's efforts,
- if you are leading a community and want to increase the identification and commitment levels in the group
- if you are trying to figure out what your governance and hierarchy should look like
- even if you are trying to roll out some new initiative
In my next post, we will discuss how value systems can develop. Different types of groups will require different approaches.
(Whew! I think we got through that okay?)
Does your community have a set of documented values? Have you seen strife in a community based on conflicting value systems? I would love to hear your comments below!
I am absolutely addicted to @StephenCaggiano's daily #UsGuys #NightShift Clock in on video on Twitter. Check it out below. It will only take few seconds.
StephenCaggiano Stephen J. Caggiano http://twitvid.com/CZK28 - #UsGuys #Nightshift Clock In
You might not be so impressed. #UsGuys doesn't care! It is a daily group ritual and you are not in this group. People in the #UsGuys community wait for it nightly and Stephen delivers consistently. Sometimes others join in either by tweeting a 'clock in' or making their own video, but if Stephen skipped a night, many of us would feel like the whole night was off, just not the same.
What is going on here? Why should you care?
Group rituals are the cement of human community. Are you interested in creating or participating in a cohesive, sticky community that has longevity, loyalty, dedicated resource pooling and a strong sense of identity? Here you go! Ritual practice generates that hard to pinpoint, fundamental attachment to a group of people that will transcend all kinds of adversity!
And look at how easy it is. What Stephen does is not complex, but it is consistent. Variation in the videos is commented upon. Was Stephen at home? Out on the town? Was he in a t-shirt, dress clothes, shirtless? Was his hair a mess, is he sick? Recognizing variation creates insider status. Commenting on those differences illustrates #UsGuys culturally versant status.
This reminds me of the odd South by South West Interactive Conference ritual I stumbled upon. At 3 am every year at SXSW in a hotel lobby, this happens:
No one could tell me what it was about, but the large crowd was dedicated to the experience. "Stick around, you won't be sorry," I was told.
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This is a blog series that addresses how to strengthen our digitally based communities by leveraging the wisdom found in Native American tribal experiences and beyond. This post marks the halfway point in the journey through the Three Pillars; three tool types you can use to increase identification, loyalty and resource pooling for the longevity and cohesion of the group.
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Pillar 2 is Culture / Ritual. Here I am focused on my absolute favorite tribal aspect, Ritual. The term 'ritual' often carries a religious connotation, but it is really any sequence of acts done in a set manner, repetitively. Pledging allegiance to the flag before the ball game is a ritual ceremony. We have personal rituals, family rituals, community, religious and cultural rituals. My own Native American tribe gathers multiple times a year for late night stomp dancing around a fire that has burned without interruption for untold years. It is documented that the fire survived the Trail of Tears in the 1800's until today, under 24 hour supervision. Powerful stuff, no?
Last year, I was surprised to hear from an anthropologist that rituals often develop meaning after they are established. The repetitive action happens first, then comes meaning. We have so many rituals we practice without being intentional about the meaning, yet we wouldn't skip them without great gnashing of teeth! I would be delighted to hear about rituals you feel strongly about!
So let's get to some more examples:
1. Gaming
My cousin has been in a guild of between 50 and 80 people on EverQuest for more than a decade. Their guild is extremely dedicated.
Some of their ritual practices:
- They have met on the same nights every week for more than a decade. Some nights are raid nights, others are planning nights.
- At the end of a raid they "buffer" each other which means they give each other various forms of strength for the next log in.
- When someone in the guild has a birthday, they "kill something big," to quote my cousin.
The people in this guild have been at the hospital for major medical issues before family members showed up. Legal and engineering talents in the guild have offered support to other members when they were in need, free of charge. This guild inspires enormous resource pooling and commitment that translates into "the real world."
2. The TwitterChat phenomenon
TwitterChats are everywhere on Twitter. I have noticed a common practice on many of the chats. There is a good 7 minutes of greetings and welcomes before the chat gets started. This is the opposite of every meeting 'How To Guide' you will find: 'Get to the point, rock through the agenda, make the meeting relevant and a good use of people's time.' But on TwitterChats we like to work the room before we settle in for the agenda. If you cut that short, your chat will feel bumpy and wrong somehow. Dedicating those first several minutes to welcome chatter is culturally versant.
In fact, TwitterChats have a ritual aspect by virtue of the weekly rhythm. People organize their day around a chat time.
I also love how folks do imitations of real world physical gestures in TwitterChat greetings, like "*waving* across the room" to bring another level of real world meet-n-greet to the experience.
3. There are all kinds of rituals on social media communities:
- #FF (whether you like it or not)
- Regular giveaway days, like Luxor Casino's Facebook Fridays
Ritual will cement a community feeling like nothing else. Ritual practice is powerful and fun. Things to remember:
- You can't force culture and you can't force ritual. Try something. If it doesn't take, it wasn't meant to be.
- Keep it simple and extremely consistent
- Allow others to participate, but remember, anything that is reliant on the participation of the group, while the most powerful, is the hardest to get off the ground.
Please share the rituals you have encountered on and offline! Digital tribes are still in their infancy. We are learning together.
What do Italians, Harley riders and Trekkies have in common?
They each have their own multigenerational sense of group culture.
Culture is the most powerful tool for developing longevity and loyalty within a tribe. Looking out across the digital community landscape, it also appears to be the most underestimated. Marketing professionals have long tried to harness some of the power of culture through branding as expressions of values, experience and identity. But we don't confuse brand with culture. Well, most of us don't.
Culture is tough for us to nail down, yet we know it when we experience it. We get upset when it changes or is threatened. How do you define culture?
Here are two dictionary definitions of culture from http://Dictionary.reference.com to kick us off:
1. The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture; the drug culture.
2. Anthropology. The sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another.
The origin of the word is interesting too:
Mid-15c., "the tilling of land," from L. cultura, from pp. stem of colere "tend, guard, cultivate, till" (see cult). The figurative sense of "cultivation through education" is first attested c. 1500. Meaning "the intellectual side of civilization" is from 1805; that of "collective customs and achievements of a people" is from 1867.
Looking at these references, I see three things:
1. Repetitive behavior shared across a group of people and across generations
2. Common beliefs
3. An origin referring to caring for, guarding, cultivating
Repetitive behaviors, ways of doing things, jumps out at me. Last year, an anthropologist told me that despite our perception, repetition develops first and meaning is assigned afterward. Anyone who is superstitious can attest to this! It brought to mind a cultural struggle in my own household:
My husband is German. They open Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve. We opened gifts Christmas morning. It took seven years and 3 kids to create a compromise on this issue. Of course, when gifts are opened has no bearing on the meaning of the Christmas ritual, but changing "the way" we do it was unexpectedly difficult for both of us. It felt like changing how you did it could change the ritual beyond identification.
What rituals have meaning for you? Do you have any that have developed in your family, friends or region that might surprise us?
So let me know if this makes sense:
If repetitive behaviors become rituals, are cultivated and shared with others and develop deeper, common meaning; culture no longer seems so amorphous and challenging as a goal for our online communities.
You may ask, are we really talking about developing culture around a common interest or a product?
Multigenerational interests gone cultural:
- SciFi
- Social gaming
Multigenerational products gone cultural:
- Harley Davidson comes to mind as a multigenerational product/culture.
- I also want to lump DeadHeads in this bucket with the pursuit of Grateful Dead music and concerts as representation and expression of a lifestyle.
Emerging product cultures:
- Apple
- Sanuk, with their leverage of surf culture
In the coming posts I will talk about specific cultural examples and opportunities available in digital groups and the approach needed to "cultivate" their emergence.
I would love to hear about examples you have experienced in your online travels!
It has been a month since my last blog post. It seems like it has been longer.
I have been rather quiet in my social media circles as we absorbed the initial shock of our 3 year old daughter's diagnosis of a rare autoimmune disease (JDM strikes 2 in 1 million children). We are starting to adjust to our "new normal" and I wanted to return and reflect the personal way that SoMe helped me through this first phase. I will include an update on my daughter's prognosis at the end.
I have been blogging about the possibility of a deeper connectivity via social media and even gave a panel on it at South by Southwest. I expressed a belief that people can and will build tribal communities that can be as strong as systems found in Native American tribal culture and identity. I pulled from my own experiences with my Native American tribe to explore this possibility. However, because this event, illness of a child, hit me at my core, and because my online community is so "new" (relative in online terms), I was and still am surprised at the role my burgeoning "digital tribe" played for me.
When it is bad, I am lazer focused and action oriented. I am the gal you want on your crew when the Zombie Armageddon hits. No wailing or B movie screams. I pick up the shotgun, come up with a plan and take action. There will be plenty time to crumble and cry later.
Faced with the suffocating fear for a child's health, I researched, told friends and family the facts and organized logistics for doctor visits and the like. I announced to my social media community that I would be away and told coworkers, I might forget things and be abrupt, but not to take it personally. All business, data, action.
What I didn't know was that social media would become that safe haven for the emotion, that I would find support in my expression of fear in a way I could not do with those IRL (in real life). Early on, I had to stop reading responses to my previous blog post. I was not ready. But when I came back to it, when I was ready to return to twitter, I could free fall in unexpected grace.
Here are my big 3's:
1. "You are not alone"
One twitter person in particular, with whom I had had sparse but always good exchanges, offered support. He lost a child to illness caused by a medical mistake. On a recent evening we met on twitter and he offered his story, wisdom, experience and simple fellowship. It was the first time I cried. It was a little bit of healing.
2. "Hey there!"
Every time I ventured into the twitter stream, mostly in a super brief drive by, I got the shout outs. People asked. Then they let me go on by. They wanted me to know they were there, aware, open if I wanted to wade in.
3. Jamie
Today, I logged on to my blog for the first time in nearly a month (I used to be a 4 time's a day blog checker. I know! Ridiculous considering how new I am to it) and there was Jamie in the comments. She is 18. She has JDM and she wrote to me! To me to offer her support. What an amazing young woman! This was the second time I cried.
(Note, When I say cried, I mean some tears. No bawling for this Zombie Armageddon soldier!!)
Today, I also read Pam Moore's (PamMktgNut) blog post on authenticity. It really hit home. She talks about not giving up that you will meet authentic, amazing people on Social Media platforms. I have met very real people while being very real myself, and received very real support. I am with you, Pam. They are out there. We are out there. I am so grateful and empowered by knowing this. It has given me relief and strength.
So, with the plan to withdraw from social media during a critical time for my family, I found that my digital tribe was actually there for me in a way I did not even know I needed. I am filled with gratitude.
Prognosis update:
Our daughter is reacting very well to treatment. Her muscle enzymes are currently back with in normal range and treatments have been spread out. No additional drugs from the arsenal at this time. We cautiously hope for remission with in a year. She may never have it again, or may have flair ups when she has an infection. We will have to wait and see. She acts much more like a normal 3 year old and episodes of arthritic aches are only once or twice a week.
I read the comments on my previous blog post today and am grateful that all of you took the time to write them. They will be there for me again and again, when I need to go back and hear your encouraging words. They are a gift.
We are thankful for all the prayers and thoughts.
I love social media. I love the DgtlTribe topic that this blog series is about, but I have been away from both for a while. I am a rather private person who believes strongly in the tenants of professionalism. But after thinking about the SoMe themes of authenticity, transparency and consistency often discussed on #GetRealChat, I thought I should write this post.
We recently found out that our 3 year old daughter has a rare autoimmune disease called dermatomyositis. We don't know enough about it, yet. We see the pediatric rheumatologist on Monday.
The good news:
- It isn't a lifelong condition. It seems to run a 3 year course and then you are done with it.
- We caught it early which is the best indicator for controlling the severity
- She doesn't really have any pain (yet)
- I have a very supportive work environment
The bad news:
- It is attacking her muscles
- There is a lot we don't know, yet. How bad is it? What kind of effects will the drugs have on her development? What will the next several years look like?
- She is 3 years old
So many parents know the fear that I, that we, are currently fighting.
I had a day where I was a complete "dear in the headlights" wreck. Then I moved into the beginnings of knowledge and a plan. I thought, "We can do this." Then my body started to hurt all over. I was sporting a low grade fever. I forgot stuff I was supposed to take care of. I got really angry at someone for nothing. My house is a mess and I can't seem to tackle it.
This low hum of fear vibrates through our house, under our conversations and silences, in my "Mommy snaps" to my two older children if they don't immediately do as told. It is like I am in the room and standing behind a 2 way mirror at the same time.
At the moment, I don't care what caused it, where it came from. Scientists don't know. I just want to understand what we can do. I know the anger is coming though. The Why my sweet, sunny daughter? What kind of life is this? What kind of universe? It takes me a long time to get angry and once there my rage is ruthless. It takes me a long time to cool down. I am afraid of that anger, afraid of what might break in me.
This all has me thinking very deeply about Easter. Since having children, I felt I understood the significance and power of sacrificing the only child. But this situation, the visceral experience of a very real looming threat of pain, suffering and bodily harm to one of my kids is changing everything, is changing me.
I don't want to lose the SoMe friends and network I have begun to build. As I have indicated on this blog, I believe that the DgtlTribe can be a framework for community as powerful as those in "real life." I have made very real friends in the ether and I don't want to lose those connections because I may not show up at the old stomping ground as often. I may be slow to respond in a realtime environment and have little to say when I am there or worse be testy or overreact to irritants. I won't always want to talk about how my family is doing. But please believe, I am interested in what you are doing, what you are building, what you are thinking and I want to be supportive. That is who I am.
I don't know what is going to happen. Things may look eminently manageable next week, even. But I wanted to say, I appreciate your support, your prayers and (with emphasis) your patience.


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Further proof Quincy is home to the world's most stylish bicyclists
By adamg - 2/22/13 - 11:01 amJuanJoseOle spotted this gentleman riding down Hancock Street in Quincy Center this morning, reports:
I guess he can't afford a winter hat or is hiding from someone. There was a cut out for his face with a Saran Wrap covering it.
So you think you can shriek?
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Line of shrieking teens all down Washington St in DTX for So You Think You Can Dance auditions.
Apartments by the El
By adamg - 2/20/13 - 12:20 pmWhen and where was this photo taken? See it larger. From the folks at the Boston City Archives, of course.
Can city agencies get tickets for not shoveling?
By adamg - 2/20/13 - 10:10 am
A roving UHub photographer forwards this picture, taken around 4:40 p.m. yesterday, of the handicap parking spaces outside 12 Channel St., an Innovation District building owned by the BRA and EDIC.
They haven't plowed their handicap spaces since the blizzard.
Presidents' days in Boston
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 12:35 pmThe Boston Public Library has posted a series of Leslie Jones photographs of presidents in the Boston area, including Harry Truman campaigning in Boston in October, 1948, with J. W. McCormack, Gov. Paul Dever and Mayor James Michael Curley. Other photos include Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover, Wilson, Harding and Taft. Below, former President Teddy Roosevelt leaves a Beacon Street residence in April, 1916:
Somebody on the Silver Line gets Twitter
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 10:07 amBrendan Kearney notes the impressive social media integration on the Silver Line this morning.
Donut and Donuts and giraffe
By adamg - 2/18/13 - 9:26 am
Yesterday was Drive Aimlessly through Quincy Day here at Chez Universal Hub. We couldn't help but stop to admire the donut shop with the best name ever in the history of donuts, on Hancock Street, and the 15-foot-tall giraffe made entirely of car bumpers outside this mall at Burgin Parkway and Granite Street.
Happy New Year!
By adamg - 2/17/13 - 6:31 pmArturo Gossage took in the Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown today.
Copyright Arturo Gossage. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
No street pianos yet, but looks like somebody in Brighton is getting ready for a street electronic keyboard
By adamg - 2/16/13 - 12:40 pm
Marcelo, a roving UHub photographer, spotted this keyboard-stand space saver on Sanderson Place in Brighton this morning.
Random pianos will appear in random places this year.
By adamg - 2/14/13 - 9:56 amSgalla watched a kid waiting for a school bus on Kneeland Street this morning makes some snowy Valentine's Day hearts.
Shaw's artistry
By massmarrier - 2/13/13 - 3:21 pm
Local lad at Shaw's on Hyde Park Avenue has fun with fish heads.
Citizen parking conundrum of the day: Which takes precedence - a sign or a chair?
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 10:45 pmA confused citizen in Jamaica Plain seeks guidance from his municipal elders about that 48-hour period after the end of a snow emergency:
Does a parking spot placeholder negate a No Parking sign?
Where does it end? In Charlestown, they're saving spaces on the sidewalk now
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 9:05 pmIt's not every day you get to ride a snowboard down Beacon Hill
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 2:09 pmAndrew Ching shares his ride down Pinckney Street.
Ski Mission Hill.
Downhill racing in Charlestown.
Ed. question: Anybody ski down Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale?
The boat abides
By adamg - 2/12/13 - 1:36 pm
A visit this morning confirmed that the weekend blizzard did little to dislodge the sailboat blown onto Carson Beach during Hurricane Sandy.
Ski Mission Hill
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 11:15 pmJosh Ormsby videoed his son Aidan, a 7-year-old first grader, on the slopes of New England's newest ski resort.
Like a bird in a ...
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 12:57 pmThe folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you know where and when this was taken. See it larger.
2013-02-08 Snowstorm & Blizzard photos from 6pm to midnight
By TinCanFury - 2/11/13 - 12:55 pmFor the February 8th Blizzard of 2013, Boston, MA I ventured out of my apartment around 6pm to wander the streets of Boston and take some photos of the storm, here's what I found going on in the city that night.
That's one way to fund transportation infrastructure
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 10:15 amJoshua Dawson spotted this ad-hoc toll gate in the Back Bay this morning.
Long line at Logan
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 12:45 amCitrone photographed the cab line at Terminal C at 10:30 p.m.
A chill couple
By adamg - 2/11/13 - 12:26 amLeslee spotted this couple on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall today.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Beware the giant snowsnake of the South End
By adamg - 2/10/13 - 6:55 pmPilotblock managed to sidestep the snowsnake outside 631 Tremont St. this evening.
Dancing around the snow
By adamg - 2/10/13 - 6:24 pmLola Bean and friends weren't going to let the snow barre them from ballet practice in Watertown today.
Chris Adams, meanwhile, reports his son decided that once some of the driveway was clear, it was hockey time:


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My Jeep is poorly-sick so I need to raise a little cash (she says ) by passing on some little-used kit.
Sharps next but first.
Deuter 32 ACT Trail rucksack.
Used for one trip only so in perfect condition.
Lots of nice features like a helmet net for the climbers.
Big exterior pocket and wand pocket.Easy access top or front to the main compartment.
Deuter back system airspace to stop you getting sweaty.
And very light too.Well padded shoulder straps and waistbelt with a little pocket too.
All in all a nice piece of kit but due to my other rucksacks being a better fit it must go.
Next is a "vintage" Winchester Lock knife from the 1980s I think.Mine from new.
Hand made in 440 stainless it has a perfect solid lock and takes a fantastic edge.
I think this was a limited edition produced to celebrate some milestone in the company's history.
The lock is marked 7466.It did not come with a belt pouch but I have included this one.
£40 all inc.
Stu Barker PSK next.Number 19 with a linen Micarta handle over black liners.
2 Brass pins and one stunning mosaic pin.It does not have a sheath as I have never carried it.
The handle is just too small for me to be comfortable with.There is a small flat on the butt end
of one scale caused when I dropped it.It would polish out just fine.
Frost Lapplander90 handled in Masur Birch over red liners.In stainless flavour.
This is a lovely little knife for a smaller hand but a bit little for my huge paws.
Junior loves it but has grown out of it too with hands like shovels.Easy to use and holds a good edge for ages.
The best bit is that it comes complete with a lovely leather sheath with firesteel holder and USED horned firesteel.
Sheath is by the infamous Black Sheep and features the BCUK leaf logo too.
Schrade OLD TIMER in ok condition for age.Would make a nice project as it's good steel and holds an edge well
Too small for me and I don't have the time or the skills to spend on it.
£15 all inc.
Spyderco Endura in ATS55 out of seki city Japan.Black FRN handle and big Spydiedge blade.Comes with box
and pocket clip.Blade and scales in excellent condition but a little wear to the pocket clip.
Very sharp and very tactical with a good strong lockup and very easy one hand opening.
Marttini of Finland big Scandi chopper next.Another project I don't think I'm going to get round to.Big heavy blade
and stunning handle.Not sure if it is Birch or Maple but is very nicely figured.Bolster and end cap are in Nickel.
I think I have a sort of a sheath for this somewhere which I will throw in if I can find it.Needs some attention
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NOW Traded.
Mossberg Bird and Trout set next.Both knives sit in the one nylon sheath in separate slots.They would make an
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hones easily and holds a good edge.Ideal for small game prep as you can sterilise them easily but I always thought
they might be ideal also for making an emergency spear or harpoon as they would bind easily to a stave.
Nice Stu Mitchell blade fitted with a zebra-wood handle with steel and brass handle bolts.
Blade by a famous knifemaker for small pennies.Ideal for game prep as well as bushcraft all it needs is
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Veg from NeverSeconds
£130,504.62 raised of £7,000.00 target
7726 donations
My Target:
£130,504.62 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/NeverSeconds
By mobile internet Scan this code on your smartphone to go straight to Martha Payne's page.
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My story
I mentioned in my blog http://www.NeverSeconds.blogspot.co.uk that last year my friends and I set up Charity Children at school and we made felt soaps and candle holders. We had a sale and raised £70 for Mary's Meals enough to feed 7 children for a whole year!
My blog is being read all over the world and some people have said I am very lucky to have lunch at all. They are right. Lots of readers have asked how they can support Charity Children but because I can't make enough felt soaps it is best if you support Mary's Meals directly.
My grandpa says,
'Mary's Meals is a very efficient and effective charity which works with local volunteers to help them provide meals in school for their children. The charity was founded in 2002 by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, who lives near us in Argyll, Scotland. Now Mary's Meals feeds over 600,000 children in 16 countries, including Malawi, Liberia, Kenya and Haiti. Many of these children go to school for the first time because of this food. How can you go to school when you have to worry about where the next meal is coming from?
It costs just £10.70 (US$16.80) to feed a child in school for a whole year. This is the average cost worldwide. In Malawi, the children are given a mug of Likuni Phala, maize porridge with soya, vitamins and malt extract. If it is all a child gets to eat, which it will be for some children, it is just enough to keep them healthy. It costs only £7 (US$11) to feed a child for a year there. At least 93p in every pound donated is spend directly on this charitable work.'
When Mary's Meals starts doing lunches in a new school they have to build a kitchen first. They cost £7000. I'd really like there to be a NeverSeconds kitchen but maybe it shouldn't be called NeverSeconds because there will be seconds, for everyone!
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The BBC documentary 'Martha, Meals and Malawi' airing this weekend on BBC News channel. Saturday 3rd - 05.30; 14.30; and 21.30 Sunday 4th - 03.30; 10.30; 14.30; 23.30 Monday 5th - 01.30 Hope you manage to catch it! Martha and Dave
Thanks for all your support. BBC Scotland made a TV documentary called 'Martha, Meals and Malawi' airing on BBC News channel all this weekend (3rd & 4th Nov). Catch it if you can and see how your donations have been put to fabulous use by Mary's Meals.
Thank you for making the Friends of NeverSeconds kitchen at Lirangwe school happen! Visiting the school in Malawi in October. Will share the trip on the blog. Very excited to be finalist in the Great Scot Awards. In Malawi at time of ceremony but hope to win for all at Lirangwe!
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Mary's Meals is an international movement that sets up school feeding projects in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. The charity now feeds more than 750,000 children every school day and it costs just £10.70 / €12.40 / $16.80 to feed a child for a year.
Donations 7726
Donation by Anonymous on 20/06/13
Well done VEG & Dad!
Donation by Antony Harrison on 19/06/13
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Just finished reading your book. You are an inspiration to us all. Very best wishes for the future
Donation by Sue Piper on 17/06/13
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Grandpa Barry lent me your book - you are doing a fantastic job. Best wishes for the future.
Donation by M JOHNSON on 02/06/13
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You are amazing and inspirational!
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Donation by David Graham on 16/05/13
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What an amazing achievement.
Donation by Rachael on 12/05/13
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Donation by Katarzyna Janitz-De La Rue on 09/05/13
Well done Martha! Changing the world one lunch at a time : )
Donation by Anonymous on 01/04/13
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splendid activity
Donation by Tenshin on 30/03/13
Inspirational story which my son used in a school project and we promised to donate! The right sort of 'aid' - goes straight to those who need it
Donation by Tim Raggett on 25/03/13
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What a great idea!
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Hey, thought I'd send another little donation your way having just had a nice big dinner here.
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Donation by Kristina Karisch on 24/03/13
I agree - I bet you'll achieve 2000% fairly soon, Veg! Is this a record on Just Giving?
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Why not aim for another target 2000% £140,000 ! This is such an important cause. Very well done Veg..
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Martha, congratualtions again on all you have done !! Let us beat the £130k that is so so close.
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The Laurinburg Institute Alumni will kick off the Memorial Day weekend with its annual reunion.
The three-day event, which begins Friday, will include dinners, a Gospel concert, receptions and a general meeting.
Cleveland Leggett is also expected to speak to Laurinburg Institute and Friends Alumni Reunion on Saturday. Leggett, a member of the Class of 1950, is retired from the United State Government Printing Office, Composing Section, and the Maryland Public Schools system.
June Harrell, an organizer for the reunion, said the group hopes to attract more than just alumni of the historic African American preparatory school.
"We want as many people as possible to take part this weekend," said Harrell, a former Institute teacher. "That why it is called alumni and friends."
Harrell said she was unsure the exact number of years the event has been held, but she the reunion "has been going a very long time."
"We have a great time," she said. "I really love the meet-and-greet when you get a chance to see everyone and get reacquainted."
Harrell moved to Scotland County to teach business at the Laurinburg Institute. After five years there, she taught at R.B. Dean and Maxton High School in Maxton until 1983, teaching at Purnell Swett in Pembroke until her retirement in 1996.
Her late husband, Anzell Harrell, also has ties to the school. He was president of the Laurinburg Alumni group for several years. He also served as a teacher at Shaw and I. Ellis Johnson before becoming an assistant principal and driver education instructor at Scotland High School.
"We didn't attend Laurinburg Institute, but it has meant a lot to us," Harrell said.
Proceeds from the reunion will go to a scholarship at the school, which was founded in 1904 by Emmanuel Monty and Tinny McDuffie at the request of Booker T. Washington.
Most of the weekend's events will be based out of the Comfort Inn, off U.S.401 South in Laurinburg.
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Where: Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver
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DENVER -- Georgia O'Keeffe famously discovered natural glories in the land of New Mexico when she started painting there in 1929. But she found human ones, too.
That's a central message of "Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land," a new exhibition that runs through April 28 at the Denver Art Museum.
The feature of the exhibit that organizers emphasize is a set of 15 paintings of Hopi katsinam, spiritual figures from Hopi culture that O'Keeffe developed a deep interest in. Unlike her well-known landscape and flower paintings, O'Keeffe rarely exhibited the katsinam work, and to this day they're among her least-known efforts.
"These haven't been shown a lot," said Christoph Heinrich, director of the Denver Art Museum, during a press preview of the exhibit last week. "I think these are something to explore, something to discover."
O'Keeffe was one of America's most accomplished modernists, and her New Mexico paintings are distinguished as much by what she brought to her subjects as the subjects themselves. When she painted the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Taos, the building itself was incidental to the mass and molding she extracted from it for her canvas. The katsinam paintings are different. O'Keeffe subordinates herself to the art in front of her so that we get a straight view of it. Maybe it was her way of communing with the work of Hopi artists.
John Lukavic, the museum's associate curator of native arts, said the katsinam paintings were "very personal."
This helps explain why they haven't been seen much since O'Keeffe's death, at 98, in 1986. The paintings contain little of what established O'Keeffe as a paragon of modernism's potential. Her bold approach to composition, the way she framed precisely the most interesting portion of a valley or an iris, and her sure-footed application of the colors she found in her adopted home, are set aside for the sake of true representation of another artist's work. It's a form of homage. And the work she mirrors is worth attention in itself (the museum fills out the experience with actual katsinam specimens).
But it's not what makes O'Keeffe O'Keeffe.
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As in the best of O'Keeffe, we're seeing not what she saw but what she wanted us to see of it. The dark palette is unusual for her. We understand why it was called the Black Place.
Born in 1887, O'Keeffe was a talented artist from childhood. When she was in her mid-20s, she was introduced to the forward-thinking ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow, who advocated art as a means of expression of the artist's ideas and feelings. In 1916, famous photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz saw a series of O'Keeffe's abstract charcoal drawings, which he exhibited in New York. Stieglitz and O'Keeffe later married, and she often served as a subject for his photographs. He worked throughout his life to promote her work.
Fans of O'Keeffe will be thrilled to see works in Denver such as "Ranchos Church No. 1," "Rust Red Hills" and others that abound in iconic O'Keeffe qualities. "Ranchos Church No. 1" gives us a view of the rear of the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church, a view many other artists have since represented.
"Rust Red Hills" is a wonder of color and shape. It's the kind of painting that is recognizably by O'Keeffe's hand, and though it might not be rare in the way her katsinam paintings are, it's no less a joy to see it.
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April 11, 2012
The Charleston is a sexy new nightlife venue from Chef Jet Tila which just opened in Santa Monica. With nightly live entertainment from 80's cover bands to dueling pianos, a bevy of housemade specialty cocktails, a dynamic culinary program featuring Chef Tila's American comfort fare as well as monthly pop-ups showcasing local and national chef talent, The Charleston is sure to provide show stopping satisfaction on all fronts.
The Charleston's diverse bar program features wine, beer, and specialty cocktails including the Ginger Kiss with Beefeater Gin, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Fresh Ginger & Habanero Chili; the Jet 75 with Gin, Simple Syrup, Lemon Juice and Brut Champagne; the Kaffir Lime Pie with Stoli Vodka, Stoli Vanilla Vodka, Lime Juice, Simple Syrup, Egg White & Kaffir Lime Garnish; and the Poison Rose with Beefeater Gin, Monin Rose Syrup, Lilet Rouge & Lemon Juice.
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Master Class: Great chefs share tricks of the trade
March 30, 2013
'Love me some anchovies?' Yes!
Anchovies are an important fish in our worlds' oceans. They play a critical role in the food chain and sustain many species of fish. So why does everybody hate them? In my career as a chef, I've never come across an ingredient so polarizing, even among foodies.
February 9, 2013
Master Class: For Valentine's Day dessert, try Pomme d'Amour
So often when people plan Valentine's Day dinners, they want to finish with a big, elaborate dessert. I prefer to go in a different direction. To me, nothing expresses love better than a simple dish that is taken to a new level because you've taken extra care in its making.
January 19, 2013
Master Class: Chef Michael Cimarusti pries open the basics of clam chowder
While testing recipes a few weeks ago, something strange happened. A deep whiff of the Manhattan-style clam chowder I had just made transported me for a brief moment to my grandmother Josephine Cimarusti's kitchen in Lindenhurst, Long Island. A white-and-green striped sugar bowl with a stainless, hinged, flip-top lid sat on the kitchen table; the scent of clam cakes and chowder filled the air. Perhaps you can relate. We all have foods that we 're nostalgic about. For me, chowder is one of them.
December 22, 2012
Getting rough with puff pastry
One of the things that keeps me excited about what I do is that I am always learning.
November 17, 2012
Master Class: Thomas Keller explores Thanksgiving leftovers
The annual Thanksgiving feast is a time when home cooks enjoy pulling out all the stops and preparing copious amounts of tradition-loaded dishes to share with friends and loved ones. This excitement often leads to preparing enough food to satisfy roughly twice the number of guests you plan on hosting. But that's not necessarily bad, because it has spawned another equally beloved culinary tradition: Thanksgiving leftovers.
October 13, 2012
Pig ears? They're seriously tasty
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September 8, 2012
A fresh take on the frittata: Master Class
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August 11, 2012
Master Class: Michael Cimarusti on brined halibut
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.¿
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The idea of soup seemed dreadfully dull and never found a place on the menu. But Alain Chapel's creation proved to be eye-opening.
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Sous-vide cooking is one of the most important new tools to enter the restaurant kitchen in the last 100 years, but because of the expensive equipment required, until now it's been out of reach of most home cooks. But if you have heavy-duty plastic wrap, a big cooler chest and an accurate probe thermometer, you can try it.


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optional crushed hazelnuts
Parchment paperDirections:
Place the banana on the parchment paper lined cookie sheet, with the spread melted nutella on the bottom of a whole (skin off) banana place on parchment lined sheet pan. Then smooth the top of the banana with back part of the teaspoon to carefully cover any parts of the banana still showing sealing all the way around with melted nutella.( If using nuts lined the bottom of the parchment with nuts first, nutella, place banana on top of this mixture and proceed the same for the top using nutella first then sprinkling with nuts.) A little messy but your going to like the results and taste later! Place a toothpick every two to three inches apart in the banana and freeze for at least an hour.
I didn't smooth them out here with the back of the spoon, I just glopped it on and frozen them! I couldn't wait to eat these, they are one of my favorite desserts, even as a child! |
Slice every two inches after they are frozen and eat! Refreeze cut leftovers in a zip lock bag.
These were very difficult to photograph since it was a very hot sun, don't let the picture discourage you they still tasted great!