Archive for April, 2008
Punk rocker-turned-food writer-turned PR & communications manager. If I can’t bake it, write it or promote it, no one can. Find me on: Bake and Destroy Facebook LinkedIn Artisan Professional Profile August 2008- October 2011: PR & Communications Manager, reuseit.com Responsibilities include: Writing & publishing press releases Creating & maintaining 400+ press contacts Product-specific and [ READ MORE ]
By Natalie Slater They came from Japan- impeccably detailed, adorably tiny and insidiously cute. What do they want? To be envied, lusted after and horded by women and girls everywhere, and with over 50 million sales since 2002, they’re well on their way. What are they? They’re Puchi Petite, a branch of Japanese miniature replica [ READ MORE ]
By Natalie Slater Filling in one day at the reception desk of his wife, Dr. Margaret Mitchell’s dental office, Jeffrey Doan noticed that even though her patients seemed to love her, none of them appeared all that eager to see her. Determined to change this, Doan and Mitchell created Mitchell Dental Spa, a revolutionary approach [ READ MORE ]
By Natalie Slater World Wrestling Entertainment superstar and Chicago native CM Punk has seen it all, from crazed fans in Guadalajara to grateful troops in Baghdad. But nothing is more exciting to the former heavyweight champ than a rare overnight stay in his Wicker Park condo. What makes Chicago his kind of town? We spent [ READ MORE ]
This is available as a .pdf for simple readability and as a .pdf to be double-sided printed and bookletized. Simple download: thejoyofcookinghumans.pdf Booklet download: thejoyofcookinghumans.doc Return to my resume[ READ MORE ]
By Natalie Slater It wasn’t too long ago when a baker could take pride in owning an all-butter bakery. Pastry cases filled with cream pies, cupcakes and cookies invoked images of the fresh eggs, cream and butter used in every item and the customers clamored for it. But with all the buzz about trans-fats, food [ READ MORE ]
A profile of Chef Dimitri Fayard By Natalie Slater A true champion never really retires. Sure, he might take up golfing, write a few books and appear to be out of the game for a while. But for anyone who has ever fought and won there comes a Rocky Balboa moment when he or she [ READ MORE ]
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Easy tips and recipes to please all of the people, all of the time. By Natalie Slater Let’s hear it for cook out weather! Paper plates, folding chairs and a slab of meat on the grill—what could be simpler? Dream on, buddy, because throwing a BBQ is serious business. Between your vegan friends and your [ READ MORE ]
Think you’re pretty gnarly but worried you might be a poser? Our Chicago skateboard history quiz will give it to you straight. By Natalie Slater California may go down in the history books as the birthplace of the skateboard, but Chicago shaped the sport skateboarding since the 60′s. Think you know your Chicago skateboard history? [ READ MORE ]
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