Linda
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My new book is about making food. It’s called The12 Week Diabetes Cookbook and the subtitle is - Your super simple plan for organizing budgeting and cooking amazing dinners. It’s 12 weeks of recipes. My theory is that, if you have the food in the house - you are more likely to cook a heathier meal. At the beginning of each week, I give you a shopping list for the entire week and recipes based on that list. Also, it’s a book for a budget. The average meal is about $5 per person per meal. All of the recipes have been vetted by the American Diabetes Association.
Spence
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A company will come to us and tell us the feelings and emotions they're trying to evoke in their environment. A hospital emergency room is an easy example where they want people to be calm - so we would pump calming scents like vanilla and lavender. We ask a company about the type of music that they will play in the environment, the colors and the design of the space - is it traditional or modern, are there a lot of earth tones and things of that nature. And then, we will custom make a fragrance based on the information that they give us.
Donna
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Inside one of the gyms I go to, Body and Soul, is a little shop called Tina B. I like to buy things there. I also love Marshall's and TJ Maxx. I saw the Florida dress on a lady in Palm beach walking down the street. As she passed me, I thought in my mind that is the most adorable dress I have ever seen with alligators, Seminoles, avocados, grapefruits, oranges, and flamingos. I just loved it. I went to another shop and lo and behold, the lady is in there and I could not help myself. She said it was from a museum on Los Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. The designer had copied a tablecloth and made this dress to promote the museum and Fort Lauderdale. I told my husband that is the most fabulous dress I think I will ever have in my life.
Diane
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My husband and I had a fight at a party because I was trying to boss him around a dance floor. We left the dance floor because we couldn't agree on what to do, because neither of us knew anything. So, I got him a gift of a single dance lesson with me. That was 15 years ago. And that led to lesson after lesson, after lesson. The thing I didn't understand at the time was that in ballroom dancing, the man is in charge. It's sort of the last bastion of gender inequality. I didn't know anything about this.
Aymee
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Basically, anyone who could build a homemade device that could float in the water could escape. My uncles, cousins and other relatives built a raft and 27 of us took the risk. It was 24 hours at the sea and it was nine children, nine women, and nine men. One was a pregnant woman. She was my inspiration because I was so scared. We were rescued by the US Coast Guard and transferred to Guantanamo. I was there for nine months.
Toma
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I was particularly moved after reading about Brad in your newsletter. He was so inspiring. For me, as someone, like him, who suffers from these types of disorders – life long, non-curable, it was really inspiring. It has motivated me to be even more consistent with taking my turmeric tonic.
Michael
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I don’t follow recipes, I make things by flavor. My mom is a really great cook – and she doesn’t use recipes – she just knows how much to add. She makes great peach and blueberry cobblers –- but she doesn’t have a recipe so she can't really teach you how to do it.
Daniella
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I was born in New York city and grew up in many places including overseas and South America. I was brought to town by Rob. Rob is a physician and had just finished his training. His dad was a physician in Miami for many years, and the idea was for Rob to let his dad have a one-year sabbatical. I had one year left of law school and was admitted for my last year to University of Miami with my degree from Columbia. It turned into forever because Rob’s father was diagnosed with cancer. We never ended up leaving. Rob took over his father’s practice, we got married, raised two children and love it here!
Alissa And Jeremy
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Chef driven ice cream means we're making everything in house ourselves. We make all of the mix-ins like salted caramel, cookies and cream, and brownies. We also make our ice cream base from scratch -which is rare. We often start with the traditional French style custard and then all the flavors evolve from there. One of our favorites is our passion fruit ice cream with an almond brittle. We get fresh passion fruit and strain out the pulp that goes into our ice cream. And then we use the seeds to make the almond brittle. With the almonds, you also get the crunchy texture from the passion fruit seeds and that bright acidity that comes with it.
Ariel
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Yes. It's always very different. We're doing commercial real estate and the market's been really, really good. We're more concerned about what's going to happen in five years than what happened in the last five years. Last five years were actually pretty easy to make money. The next five years is what we are concerned about. What's going to happen with interest rates and the economy? Rental prices have increased 15% year over year for the last five years. That's unsustainable especially with everything that's happening currently right now.