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Freedom Train

Patricia Vaccarino

November 21, 2016

I’m looking for a ride to take me where I need to go. I’m looking for the freedom train. I know it’s there. I’ve seen it before. I’m going to find it again. I’m going to take that ride. I’m going to get where I need to go.

Deep down inside I know the truth about America and so do you. Democracy is fundamentally stewardship in action. Being a good steward means that we take care of things. Money, cars, houses, jobs, careers, land...

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Life & Style

From Orlando Helpings from the Heart

PR for People Team

November 20, 2016

For the past 23 years, Florida businessman Eric Holm gives free Thanksgiving meals to more than 20,000 people at the Salvation Army gymnasium in Orlando.

Eric Holm began hosting this event because he remembers what it’s like to go hungry on the holidays as a child. Holm grew up poor, and in high school bussed tables at a restaurant where his single mom worked as a waitress to support their family of six. On...

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Food

A Toast to the Best French Toast-Maker in the World

DavidLLaing

November 15, 2016

Chef Yihdego Giday was indeed the chief of his own private culinary country, an aesthetically sophisticated domain of tastes, aromas and earthen colors.

As my gaze turned naturally from one elegantly penned image of stately Ethiopian women to another—all artfully placed throughout the restaurant, I could not help being drawn to their extraordinarily intricate weaves. The braid itself has always held special...

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People

From Rhode Island: Wingerz

PR for People Team

November 15, 2016

From Rhode Island

Wingerz Keeps Your Fingers Free From Being Finger-licking Good!

Rhode Island residents Michael and Michelle Lefrancois, founders of Wingerz, are changing the tailgating game for a good cause. Think of all of those ribs and buffalo chicken wings that you eat on the back of your car!

Along come Wingerz to...

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Life & Style

BOOKS: Exploring plant-based cuisine

Barbara McMichael

November 11, 2016

PR for People® Reviews:

Exploring plant-based cuisine

A Plant–Based Life – Micaela Cook Karlsen

AMACOM – 352 pp - $16.95

Eaternity – Jason Wrobel

Hay House – 384 pp - $24.99

This month, a subject near and dear to many of us: food! Assuming you’re already aware of the links between the standard American diet and many of the leading health problems in our...

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Women

From Medford New Jersey

Cindy Weinstein

November 10, 2016

Soul Food

Before rich brocade draped somber white,

Adorned crystal goblets and bowls of forest green,

My heart ladled your graced reflection,

And, I was home...again.

Neither Black-out cake nor Pecan pie

Sugar-coated, drenched sweetness,

Could tempt my hungry, widened eyes,

Stirred by familial laughter.

Broken...

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People

DNA

Sally Haver

November 10, 2016

“Come back here!” I growled. “I have a burning question to ask you.” This, to my mother, dead since 2008.

My partner Walter, a physician, gave me a DNA kit to complete and send in; I expected no surprises. My father’s parents fled from a Polish shtetl before the Holocaust. My mother was a German Jew, eighth generation in the U.S., with family portraits of Altmanns, Oettingers and Ullmanns to attest to her lineage....

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Tech

Whet Your Digital Appetite

Dean Landsman

November 10, 2016

Digital Strategy is everywhere. Including places you’d never imagine. For years we’ve heard about the “smart refrigerator” that will let you know when it’s time to get more eggs or ice cream, or that the milk is going bad. This year, after decades of computer and kitchen appliance industry hype, Samsung has actually introduced such a product. The Samsung Smart Family Hub Refrigerator (see Consumer Reports review...

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Food

Delicious Food, Warm Welcome — and Locksmith Services

Kindra Foster

November 10, 2016

Carmel by the Sea: Mediterranean Restaurant

When I stumbled into the genial world of Mediterranean Restaurant on a charming street in Carmel by the Sea, California, I was flustered.

I realized about five steps away from my Jeep that had I locked the keys inside. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do about that, so I decided to just sit down, have a good meal, complete a scheduled phone interview — and...

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Food

From Boston: Buzzing for Real Food

Matt Robinson

November 10, 2016

Experienced edibles entrepreneur gets energy from giving it

For active, busy people caught up in the daily grind, coffee has historically been the “go to” energy booster. But now there’s a new way to get the buzz – it’s Java Me Up, a delicious, portable, coffee-fueled snack line created by Lisa Newmann, a pioneer in the healthy snack industry.

Java Me Up is a brand of coffee bars...