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Tribal or Village Mentality Will Kill a Nation

racism is a form of a village or tribal mentality. And if not addressed "in earnest", it will have the same devastating impact and short-sited damage this type of thinking has had in the past.

Tribal and village mentality will kill a nation. The first leg of the "Slave Trade" was Black on Black, African on African crime. It was one village selling off the members of another village to the slave traders. This seemed to solve two problems: 1) getting rid of the rival villagers and 2) making a profit at the same time. This was done without understanding or realizing they were breaking down a nation.

If we do not come together and realize that we are "One Nation", those other "One Nations" that realize they are "One Nation", will capitalize on these tribal distractions. Through our unhealthy preoccupation with racism, other countries can gain an ever so slight advantage through that age-old strategy of divide and conquer. And since we've taken care of the "divide side" of that equation, they only have to "conquer".

Here, in North America, Native Americans were identified by tribes.

This mentality made it possible for the member of one tribe to sell out and expose the members of another tribe.

Again, not realizing they were weakening their own nation.

Village mentality was to Africa what the tribal mentality was to Native Americans. Different cultures but the same concept with devastating results.

While the scouts and traders were busy making a profit, they were simultaneously destroying their own nation. They also facilitated the efforts of another group's "National Agenda".

People functioning with a nationalistic concept will win out over tribal mentality every time.

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Our True Advantage is being a Multicultural Nation.

When a single culture or race, dominates an entire country, it creates blind spots. For example, Russia, India, or China have a single culture.

Even with subcultures considered, these countries are dominated by a primary single culture. Because everyone thinks and operated under similar values, cultural perspectives, languages, and traditions, their exposure and fundamental values are very similar or exactly the same. This means an entire group does know what they don't know.

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becomes the basis for development of their governmental systems.

The benefit of America is that we have diversity. Blended culture is everywhere. And liken to an immune system, the more exposure to different types of "everything", the more individuals can "consider" and understand other points of view.

Secondly, with the blending of various cultures, we have access to a broader cultural spectrum of ears and eyeballs creating a super immune system of awareness. When diversity comes is into play, blind spots are more likely to disappear. This means better projects, advertisements, laws, theories, software designs, television programming, curriculums, and "basically" everything.

Once we realize everyone has value and by lifting everyone to their maximum capacity, we have begun to think bigger. Thinking bigger is the lead-in to creating a more perfect "anything". and as Abraham Lincoln said "A form a more perfect Union" I'm Althea Ledford and I hope you enjoy this issue.

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Tips on Choosing the Best Credit Card

Unlocking the Best Credit Card When it comes to searching for a suitable credit card, most of us apply for one either from the financial institution we bank with, from an advertisement we saw on television, or through a promotion with 0% financing for purchases and/or balance transfers for a certain period.

Given the vast number of credit cards that are available on the market today, it is nearly impossible to research each one of them to find out which ones are most suitable based on what you purchase the most and your spending patterns. Don’t worry, there is a 2019 analysis which I’ll share with you below for hundreds of credit cards in the U.S. News card database. But first, I’ll answer some questions I often get regarding credit card best practices.

Does having multiple credit cards affect your credit Depending upon how much you spend, having multiple cards can improve your credit since it increases the amount of credit limit that is available to you. To maximize your credit score, you should always keep your debts under 30% of your total credit limit across all your credit cards.

Personally, I think having four major credit cards is enough for monthly usage as well as for emergencies. I suggest using two credit cards regularly to maximize rewards as both may give higher rewards for different categories.

How to Use a Credit Card This may sound cliché, but it always amazes me as to how many people, including myself of course, tend to purchase things that are not necessary and cannot afford, on a credit card. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to use a credit card like cash or a debit card. If you cannot pay of the entire balance by the due date, then it’s Page 30 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

probably time to start using cash as a strategy for self-control.

In order to reap the benefits of rewards, you do not have to wait until the end of the billing cycle to pay the entire credit card balance.

Some of you out there don’t like to wait until the entire balance accumulates on next months bill before paying it. What you can do for example, is after you make the purchase on the card, wait a few days for it to get out of the pending stage, and then pay the credit card balance by either transferring the money from your checking account, if you bank with the same bank, or just pay the balance through online banking. You will still earn your rewards.

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by the Credit Card Issuer Interest rates for credit cards are usually variable. The interest rate is tied to a benchmark which is known as the index rate, or prime rate. This is then added to the spread assigned by the bank to get the variable rate. The rate will vary depending on whether the Federal Reserve raises or lowers the prime rate.

Other factors that may increase your credit cards rates are: • Your credit score has experienced a significant drop which means your credit card issuer can increase your rate on the condition they notify you 45 days in advance.

The balance is $3,000 @ 17.99% and you make monthly payments of $200. It would take about 17.12 months (1.43 years) to pay off the balance at which time you would have paid about $423.71 towards interest. However, given the same scenario, you would not pay any interest at all, if the promotion is for zero percent for 15 months because at a monthly payment of $200, it will take 15 months to pay off the entire balance, saving you about $423.71 in interest. The 3.0% balance transfer fee on $3,000 would only come out to $90.00. Savings of $333.71 ($423,71 - $90.00)

• You are 60 Days Late on Payments – This will not only have a significant negative impact on your credit score, but also your rate may increase dramatically.

• If you received your credit card with a promotional rate, then your rate will increase after the promotion.

Cash Advance Fee One major area that I see consumers overlook when accepting an offer for 0% balance transfers is that either they don’t know or forget there is always a balance transfer fee of about 3% - 5% that is added on to the actual balance being transferred.

Depending on when you plan to pay off the balance, make sure transferring the balance will save you money and not add to it. Here is an example of where it would be worth it to transfer the balance: Page 31 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

Choosing the Best Credit Card for You. If you’re looking for one comprehensive database to compare credit card rates and fees for hundreds of credit cards in the U.S. News card database, check out the 2019 U.S. News Consumer Credit Card Fee Study. Happy Card Shopping!

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What is Needed for Systematic Change?

From the viewpoint of your work at TomKat Foundation, as we remain in the midst of the COVID 19 outbreak and recent uprisings, what are you seeing as our greatest opportunity and need for systemic change?

This is an opportunity for systemic change across the board in my humble opinion, because as Leonard Cohen said “look for the cracks, that's where the light gets in”.

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Black Liberation which pulls in all sorts of other constituencies who have similar aims, to be fully equal have all the opportunities and Thrive. Now, I almost need a word for whatever this quadfecta is because we're about to enter the firestorm season as it relate to climate change. It sounds very daunting, but I think this presents an opportunity to shoot the moon- to win every hand, every suit all at the same time.

Because, honestly, these systems are massive highly overlapping, interdependent and inter-synergistic.

So, since we last talked, of course we are continuing to respond to the needs of covid19 from hunger, to livelihood pivots, to health response.

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Of course we're continuing to respond to the economic shutdown in terms of policy work around protection from financial predation which always is on the rise during economic recessions- to hoping that they extend the unemployment benefits- to being a bank that issued PPP loans on the order of 190 million dollars of them to save 18,000 to 19,000 jobs.

is off the charts. 168 million pounds is not going to do it. And the possibility of wasting enormous amounts of food because of the termination of normal demand by hospitality, hotels and restaurants is also off the charts.

So there is still all that work going, but now we layer over movement for black lives, racial uprisings that are going to help us get finally to a beloved community that recognizes full equality and opportunity thriving etc, not just to Black Americans, but for all the other constituencies that will come along with them, but starting first and foremost with the African American Liberation movement. It just creates more opportunity to change these massive status quo systems for the better.

3. how who can access it

So, to use one example we are working on something called “Growing the Table” an initiative within the “Farm to Family Partnership”. The Farm to Family Partnership is 15 years old it has always paid the pick and pack out expense to rescue harvest from land fill and redirect it towards food banks.

It is actually good for the growers and it's good for the Food Bank but it is in my view and underutilized opportunity that is now brought into focus by the quadfecto that we are now facing. So we’ve been asked to help support that with more resources but we're going to change the program in three important aspects.

Right now, 220 Growers & Packers meet all of the needs of the food bank about 160 million pounds of food each year. And the food banks are the only distribution point.

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So we need to figure out a way to grow the table in three ways.

1. who gets to produce the food 2. how much of it is diverted to use and Those 220 growers are largely more conventional growers, more white LED organizations etc. We want to divert a bunch of the demand also this excess demand to buy POD farmers, to women Farmers, to LGBTQ plus plus farmers and bridge them into a new food economy gets much more representative of society and carries with it a lot more racial and gender equity.

So we’re going to reach out to these farmers and not only have them participate in the pick and pack out expense but we are going to pay them form their harvest, at least the wholesale value. So that they can be disproportionately represented in the food economy post COVID. And the food banks, they are constrained in their storage capacity and their labor base right now. They don’t have any more storage and their labor base is very dependent on the senior volunteers who can no longer congregate.

So we are proliferating the delivery sites not just to food banks, but to schools districts, community based organizations and reactivated restaurants that world central kitchen and Chef Jose Andres have consolidated-coalesced.

And the Defacto, as a result of expanding the supply and accessibility on the demand side, we hope to push much more fresh fruit and vegetables through there that are organically and regeneratively grown.

Because that will be another priority of the program.

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So it looks like just a big mess that we have to muddle through but actually it’s an opportunity to durably and permanently shift the food supply chain in favor of racial and gender equity and environmental resiliency and climate mitigation.

Question #2

What can everybody else do to get involved?

Anybody who wants to help the Growing the Table Initiative within the Farm to Family Partnership can certainly contribute resources, but also let us know about the long standing female and LGBTQ organization who have already been reconnecting farmers of that type with consumer markets and others that are that are still ongoing during COVID. Because we are not trying to duplicate or displace, much less disrespect ongoing efforts. And those are largely by organizations lead by the very beneficiaries we are intending to support through the resourcing. So letting us know of Page 46 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

community based organizations we may not know is super helpful.

I would also say in the fervor to help I think we're getting something a little bit wrong.

This is an example PayPal saying that they wanted to invest $530 into black and brown entrepreneurial led businesses. Great Instinct but I would say the point now is to make sure we shift control, power, assets, wealth, income and opportunity to black and brown lead organizations. Not to come in as an investor and then therefore become a predominately outside investment capitalized company. It would be much better to actually make equity grants and then allow the black, brown and female entrepreneurs who are running those businesses to recapitalize those businesses and to own those businesses. So that we shift power, control, assets, wealth and income to the communities it’s been stolen from for over 400 years.

So I’m all for shifting assets right now. That’s not something that everyone can do. But the way you can do it is, if you don’t have assets to shift then shift the way your doing your business. Try to direct that business towards black, brown and female lead companies and organizations so that they have a bigger market share of the economy that you absolutely must be turned towards racial and gender Equity & environmental resiliency.

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Question #3

What are the main challenges your receiving right now?

Well every challenge I see, I actually see it as an opportunity, and in point of fact imagination always precedes accomplishment. So yes there are a few challenges in policing, in economic deprivation in political divisiveness. You know there's a lot that's not going on well. But as Muhammad Unis, the Founder of the Green Bank in Bangladesh, told me recently, “We need to invent a new civilization and when we do that we're going to achieve a lot more” racial and gender equity and environmental resilient because we know that we're not doing it now.

we don't have a resilient economy and it's certainly not fair as well.

So those challenges, that's the cracks and we have to look where the light gets in and take advantage never waste a crisis, a crisis is actually a call to change and an opportunity to change.

What can People do to Help?

We have a hunch on how to change things for the better and motivation because we can't carry on like this. We can’t have more global pandemics which tend to come sometimes or maybe predominantly from the agricultural systems. And we can’t afford to have more police brutality just snuffing out lives and opportunity in the communities who deserve them most. And we can’t carry on in an economy that crashes. I heard one person say “Why is it when we only buy what we need the economy crashes?” So it’s not just that we have a forced economic shut down because of the pandemic, Page 47 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

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Do you plan to communicate these social designs to those that are in power and express the importance of sharing and working on a Cooperative basis for change?

I do get to walk in several worlds at once in fact I often say that I stand where several worlds collide. So I care deeply about people who may not have assets but can do something to change the world. I think we need to be strong allies for all of the popular movements that are trying to change the world right now, but I also have access to people who have wealth and assets and opportunities that others will not see unless we change something.

I do council people, and this is about shifting assets and let's consider some migration

strategies to do, in a way, that palatable but get stronger over time.

For instance, a lot of wealthy people have something called Donor Advisor Funds are the easiest charitable vehicle to set up. You simply transfer any kind of asset. I believe it's unlimited as to the kind of asset, you evaluate the asset and you take a tax deduction and you put that asset into a Donor Advised Fund through a qualified host.

You don’t have an obligation to give that money away. There are dormant account policies at most of the host organizations.

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But you can even transfer from DAF to DAF and probably meet those policies.

That's not good public policy. we should not be diverting governmental tax proceeds now for a very uncertain benefits sometime in the future-which can actually even go into the next generation if you wanted to.

So we've been very involved in DAF reform.

We’re saying “No” those rules aren’t sensible for society and they are not fair. We need those government tax proceeds and likely you’re going to contribute to a cause down the road that was caused because we didn't have the governmental tax proceeds in the first place. For example, inadequate funding of public education.

So, we have a couple of stick kinds of interventions like let's get the rules right so that you have to give it out in a certain amount of time.

Another kind of stick is that it's just culturally inappropriate to hold on to these philanthropic assets forever and not have them working to support its public good.

But the third is a carrot, let's think of what are Innovative ways to use these assets and there are some. For example, rather than give the whole asset away, you could pledge it as collateral for a Community Bond Issuance, Maybe an agricultural cooperative, or a renewable infrastructure or affordable housing. Take you asset and give it to another organization to use for 10 years to support that a community has decided is necessary for their own thriving and maybe even gives them some thing in the form of ownership but certainly community engagement and direction. And then you get it back in 10 years and in the meantime you can donate to income off of that. But that's an example of a light way to shift assets because it's about the assets more than it's about the income. So I hope if any people are listening to this interview who have Donor Advisor Fund, they would think about that. It’s a really powerful thing to do in this time of great inequity.

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The Daubière Source: vintagefrenchcopper.com The daubière is the modern (that is, late 19th century) incarnation of the 17th century (and earlier) braisière: a makeshift oven for the open hearth. The defining feature of a braisière is a tight-fitting lid with a raised rim that creates a platform on the top of the pan; the cook would nestle the braisière deep into the kitchen fire’s warm embers (in French, les braises) and pile more into the lid. This gentle enveloping heat would — you guessed it — braise the food over the course of hours, softening the meat and melding the flavors. now so far belong to our national cookery, as to be met with commonly at all refined modern tables.”

Braising meets her threshold of excellence, and so Acton introduces the concept to her English readers in her nononsense way: “Braising is but a more expensive mode of stewing meat.”

Elizabeth David (herself another similarly no-nonsense voice) names Acton as her favorite cookbook author of all time, and I can see why — this recipe, one of hundreds, speaks as clearly to me today as anything I can find in a modern cookbook:

An education in the application of these principles begins in 1845 with Eliza Acton (1799-1859). Though she is English, her Modern Cookery for Private Families includes not only “what are usually termed plain English dishes” but also “intermingle[s] many foreign ones which we know to be excellent of their kind, and which Page 56 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

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The Cocotte Source: vintagefrenchcopper.com · Type: Tin-lined oval cocotte in hammered finish with brass handles fastened with three copper rivets; fitted lid with brass handle fastened with two copper rivets on each bracket · French description: Cocotte ovale martelée et étamée avec poignées en laiton munies de trois rivets en cuivre; couvercle emboîté avec poignée en laiton munie de deux rivets sur chaque côté · Dimensions: 33.3cm on the long axis by 22.5cm on the short axis (13.1 inches by 9.3 inches) and 16cm tall (6.3 inches) · Thickness: 1.6mm · Weight: 4038g (8.9 lbs) without lid, 5100g (11.2 lbs) with lid; inner rack is 430g (almost 1 lb) · Stampings: Établissements Allez Frères Paris; 34 · Maker and age estimate: Allez Frères; 1880-1900, possibly earlier Source: FrenchAntiquity (Etsy) When I set out to write about this piece I wasn’t quite sure how to classify it. It has qualities of different pots: the proportions of a stewpot; a fitted lifter, like a fish poacher; and the length and voluminous capacity of a daubière, sized for braising a piece of beef or lamb or even an entire chicken.

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common element in a French kitchen.

An oval cocotte is ideally suited to braising the small to medium-sized proteins — chicken, game birds, cuts of beef and lamb — that are central to French cooking.

There are so many oval cocottes on the vintage market that it’s possible to become a little “cocotteblind,” so to speak; but this one, owned by reader Stephen Whalen, has a level of finish that, while subtle, adds flair to the piece and also gives clues as to when it was made.

First, take a look at the side handles. That downward-pointing peak on the baseplate is the classic antique French style, while most of the modern (that is, post-WWII) cocottes I’ve seen have a plainer lozenge-shaped baseplate. Also note the peak in the handgrips — it’s not so visible in this photo, but you can see it more clearly in the photos that follow — that adds some elegance. This more ornate styling suggests to me that this is a pan from the pre-war period, before these little flourished were smoothed out by mid-century sensibilities.

Another clue is the design of the lid handle: two rivets on each bracket when only one is strictly necessary. This pan is neither large nor particularly heavy — the lid weighs 810g (about 1.7 lbs) — but these rivets give it the styling of a larger and heavier piece. (Think of this pan like the two-door model of a European sports car brand — it deliberately maintains the sumptuous trimmings of its larger and more powerful siblings to remind you that its small size does not mean it has skimped on luxury.)

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The Poissonière (fish Poacher) Source: vintagefrenchcopper.com · Type: Tin-lined fish kettle in hammered finish with brass handles fastened by three copper rivets; fitted lid with brass handle fastened with two copper rivets on each side · French description: Poissonière étamé et martélé avec poignées en laiton munies de trois rivets en cuivre; couvercle emboîté avec poignée en laiton munie de deux rivets sur chaque côté · Dimensions: 60cm long by 18cm wide by 13.5cm tall (23.6 in by 7.1 in by 5.2 in) · Weight: 7522g (16.6 lbs) with lid and lifter; 4652g (10.3 lbs) pan body alone · Thickness: 1.1mm · Stampings: “Pichon Fabricant Brest” · Maker and age estimate: Pichon; 1950s to 1960s

Source: FrenchAntiquity (Etsy) In French cuisine, there is reverence for delicate fish like sole, salmon, scallops, and trout, and poaching is the gentle cooking method developed to preserve their tenderness and flavor. Boiling water is considered too rambunctious; a true poach is a low simmer that immerses the fish in liquid hovering at about 180°F (82°C). One must also preserve the physical integrity of the fish and so special care is taken when moving the fish into and out of the poaching liquid to avoid tearing the flesh.

In French cuisine, there is reverence for delicate fish like sole, salmon, scallops, and trout, and poaching is the gentle cooking method developed to preserve their tenderness and flavor. Boiling water is considered too rambunctious; a true poach is a low simmer that immerses the fish in liquid hovering at about 180°F (82°C). One must also preserve the physical integrity of the fish and so special care is taken when moving the fish into and out of the poaching liquid to avoid tearing the flesh.

Imagine for a moment the miracle of a perfectly intact filet of sole, completely cooked yet flaky and tender, not simply enrobed in its flavorful sauce but infused with it. You may ask yourself, how does a chef achieve this miracle? My friend, behold

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the poissonière: the fish kettle. (This is yet another of the manifold instances where the French term is far more mellifluous than the glottal Germanic English.) The secret to the fish kettle is its lifter: a platform shaped to fit the interior and fitted with two vertical handles, designed to lower the poisson (fish) and its accompaniments into the cooking

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liquid and then hoist it out. The chef is relieved of concern for the welfare of the fish during the insertion and removal, and can maneuver the precious cooked fish from the platform’s open flat surface without the need to lever it from within the confines of the kettle itself.

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The Copper Sauté & Fitted Lid Source: vintagefrenchcopper.com Type: Tin-lined sauté pan in hammered finish with cast iron handle attached with three copper rivets French description: Sauteuse étamée et martelée avec queue de fer munie de trois rivets en cuivre et couvercle à degré Dimensions: 34cm diameter by 9.2cm tall (13.4 by 3.6 inches) Thickness: 3.8mm at rim Weight: 8198g (18 lbs) pan only; 10576g (23.3 lbs) with lid Markings: Blaser & Cie 59-61 Rue Montmartre Paris; E; 34 Maker and age estimate: Unknown, possibly Gaillard; 1928-1935 French restaurant copper in the antique era was robustly made to withstand culinary abuse and many of the most spectacular pieces of that era survive today in rough condition. I have seen (and own) pieces that bear those scars: flat spots on the edge of the base opposite the handle where it scraped against the stovetop; base repairs from tears in the floor of the pan; torqued geometry or cracked handles from being dropped or stressed; sidewalls pitted from scouring, whatever hammering there was long-since obliterated from repeated polishings; rust on the handle from neglect and storage in a damp environment. A good restoration can fix or minimize many of these problems but every injury leaves its trace.

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Mauviel 1830

manufacturing that has been handed down from generation to generation.

Continued Excellence

Founded in 1830 In 1830, in a Normandy village called Villedieu-les-Poêles, which is located near the Mont-Saint-Michel, Mr. Ernest Mauviel established the Mauviel manufacturing company.

Villedieu-les-Poêles, “the city of copper”, has an 800 year heritage of copper manufacturing. The strength and foundation for Mauviel's manufacturing expertise is based upon this rich tradition of copper

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Since the very early years, by offering the highest quality products, Mauviel has been a fixture in the professional and commercial markets.

Today, Mauviel continues to offer the professional chef products that are unsurpassed in quality and design. These same products are now also available to household markets.

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The Story of De Buyer Around 200 years ago, our company was producing cutlery in a small smithy in Val d’Ajol from metals mined locally. Now in 2021 and every day since 1830, de Buyer utensils are conceived, engineered, and manufactured in our factory in France, following the most stringent quality requirements. Authenticity, passion and commitment have been the values at the core of de Buyer's business, knowledge and expertise. We work with culinary professionals to develop and produce ‘true’ utensils and we aim to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to technical developments innovation.

The "Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) commitment label that we received in 2018 is the recognition of our efforts in fields like environmental protection and workplace safety and inclusivity, whether internally or among our partners. De Buyer is the first and only French company in the culinary industry to receive this label. Our carbon steel and copper lines also feature a Made in France guarantee to ensure the quality of your

product. de Buyer is also happy to be considered an EPV company, or a living heritage company which distinguishes French companies with artisanal and industrial knowhow deemed to be of excellence.

To reach the level of excellence required by culinary professionals, de Buyer strives to create quality products that are durable and technical in design to ensure precision of use. French cooking places great importance on the high quality of the tools used. That's why for almost 200 year we

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have been hand making most of our products at our factory in France!

Through the passage of time, de Buyer has been a constant innovator, from creating the first high pressure cooker to our celebrated perforated tart rings. We are known for our innovative, one of a kind products.

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The Wine in Lazio Recapturing Past Greatness

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hen talking about Italian wine there is a well of history to source from, when talking about wine in Lazio the task at hand almost feels daunting. Wine in Lazio stems to the Etruscans and then there is the Roman Empire that played a big part in spreading the art of winemaking also all through Europe. Now, I am not going to go too deep into the history of ancient Etruria or the Roman Era as there is not enough space or time for that here. The theme this month in the Italian Food, Wine, and Travel group is Lazio, more precisely Wine in Lazio: following in the footsteps of great history.

So, I will talk about some memories from pre-pandemic wine trips to Lazio where I had the opportunity to visit various wineries.

When going to Lazio, in most cases it means that you go to visit Rome without paying much attention to the other areas and provinces outside of Rome. It is true that tourists and wine lovers go almost everywhere nowadays in the search of more particular areas, however, still, it could be argued that Lazio lies a bit in the shadow of Rome.

When it comes to wine, Lazio has been a region that has perhaps not been considered as one of the main wine areas of interest in Italy. Compared to regions such as Tuscany, Piemonte, Veneto, Friuli, to just name a few, Lazio can perhaps be said to also have been a bit in the shadow of Italy itself. Recently, this has started to change as the interest in native grapes and a focus on local winemaking traditions has reawakened overall in Italy. Let’s hope that post-pandemic travel and tourism will be more sustainable and bring about a slower pace together with an interest in visiting lesser-known areas.

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Native Grapes in Lazio via Rapillo Winery

Grapes of Italy, pp. 385-386). The Passerina grapes in Lazio are smaller and in some areas are said to give more aromatic wines.

Lazio can make a show of fascinating grapes such as Bellone, Passerina (del Frusinate), Malvasia del Lazio, Cesanese del Piglio and d’Affile, and Nero Buono. In an earlier article, I talked about mainly Bellone and Nero Buono so here I will focus more on Passerina and Cesanese del Piglio and d’Affile.

On a sunny afternoon, we were driving towards the small Rapillo winery just outside Serrano, in the province of Frosinone, in Lazio. While driving, the sky started getting cloudy and turned quite sturm und drang.

After that, it was like the sky opened up and the rain started pouring down. We were not discouraged though, when we arrived we got out of the car and ran towards the winery doors where we entered a small winery cellar that is more or less the cellar below their house. It was a universe of its own where we discovered down-to-earth winemaking focused on low intervention (natural wines, though I prefer to not use that term).

Passerina Honestly, I had never tasted a Passerina del Frusinate and knew close to nothing about it until I went on a short press trip to Lazio a couple of years ago. The hashtag of that trip was #campagnaromane and the aim was to draw attention to the countryside outside of Rome. In general, we know the Passerina grape to be native to Le Marche and Abruzzo, but it is also grown in Lazio.

The Passerina grown in Lazio is considered to be considerably different from the Passerina in Abruzzo and Le Marche. Still, a lot of tests and research need to be here, according to Ian D’Agatha (Native Wine

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Antonella and her husband inherited the vineyards in 2000 and have since then step by step restored the old vineyards and renovated the winery. We got a tour of the winery below their house and then tasted their wines in their very homey kitchen. Their Passerina del Frusinate IGT is made with grapes from a 35-year-old vineyard. I remember it was a fresh wine with a mix of

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1825, according to Ian D’Agatha (Native Wine Grapes of Italy, pp. 246-247). A funny anecdote is that apparently the porn star Savanna Samson’s first wine in 2004 also put Cesanese on the international map. She has a winery in Lazio where Roberto Cipressi, a well-known winemaker, is working with her. I have not tasted her Cesanese, but I am sure it is a nice wine.

However, let’s face it…boobs sell wine…whether it’s a famous porn star or a meager female wine influencer.

There are two different varieties of Cesanese, that is the Cesanese comune that you can find a bit all over Lazio and the Cesanese d’Affile which is specific to the area around the town Affile not far from Rome. The Cesanese del Piglio that is produced in the southern part of the Frosinone province is a DOCG while the Cesanese d’Affile and Cesanese Olevano Romano are DOC wines.

fruity, floral, and herby aromas with a nice smooth, mineral, slightly sapid, fruity, and herbal taste. A wine perfect as an aperitivo as well as with lighter dishes.

Cesanese Cesanese is a wine that has been enjoyed since ancient times. Pliny the Elder talked about a red wine produced on the hills in the “Cesae” area in his Naturalis Historia.

“Cesae” apparently means clearings, i.e. the clearings where trees had been cut down to be able to plant vineyards. The Roman Emperor Nerva is also said to have liked wines that were made around Piglio, so much so that he decided to build a house there. The first written mention of the Cesanese wine can apparently be dated to Page 70 70 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

Rapillo winery makes three different Cesanese del Piglio DOCG wines.

Here, I will talk about their Trasimondo Cesanese del Piglio DOCG as it is a quite particular wine. When they described it to me it sounded more like an Amarone made with Cesanese, and I was intrigued. A part of the grapes are dried – appassite – and then wine undergoes two fermentations making it into a very unique wine.

Even though a part of the grapes are appassite, the wine is still dry with lots of notes of the classical notes of cherry and spices, creamy texture, and it has a body and structure that makes it special. They told me that they wanted to better enhance the characteristics of the local territory with this wine. A wine definitely to taste if you can find it. Their production is very small but I think they have an importer and some minor presence in the US.

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The Biden-Harris Administration

The Cabinet The Cabinet’s role is to advise the President on any subject he or she may require relating to the duties of each member’s respective office.

President Joe Biden’s Cabinet includes Vice President Kamala Harris and the heads of the 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General.

Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US Trade Representative, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, Council of Economic Advisers, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Small Business Administration.

President Biden’s Cabinet reflects his pledge to appoint leaders of government agencies that reflect the country they aim to serve.

Kamala Harris Vice President

Antony Blinken Secretary of State

Janet Yellen Secretary of Treasury

Lloyd Austin Secretary of Defense

Merrick Garland Attorney General

Deb Haaland Secretary of Interior

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Tom Vilsack Secretary of Agriculture

Gina Raimondo Secretary of Commerce

Marty Walsh Secretary of Labor

Xavier Becerra Secretary of Heath & Human Services

Marcia Fudge Secretary of Housing & Urban Development

Pete Buttigieg Secretary of Transportation

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Jennifer Granholm Secretary of Energy

Miguel Cardona Secretary of Education

Denis McDonough Secretary of Veteran Affairs

Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security

Michael Regan Administrator of Env. Protection Agency

Avril Haines Administrator of National Intelligence

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Katherine Tai US Trade Representative

Linda Thomas Greenfield US Ambassador to the UN

Cecilia Rouse Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

Isabel Guzman Administrator of Small Business Administration

Ron Klain Chief of Staff

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The Biden-Harris Administration

Executive Office of the President Every day, the President of the United States is faced with scores of decisions, each with important consequences for working families. To provide the President with the support that he or she needs to govern effectively, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The EOP has responsibility for tasks ranging from communicating the President’s message to the American people to promoting our trade interests abroad.

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Written by: Gay Thomas Wilson Personal Development and Career/Business Strategist

The Purpose Perspective

Written by: Gay Thomas Wilson Personal Development and Career/Business Strategist

After a few years of advocating for idea of understanding Purpose and how important it is to discover and channel purpose through every area of your life, I can now say, Purpose is and will always be the discovery of an organic and transformative experience that empowers and elevates every area of life and work. It effuse literally accelerates your ability to create not just success but, that illusive gift called fulfillment.

Why, because it is the simply the discovery of YOU! Apart of you that has been waiting to live out your life through an innate and intuitive ability, that informs your everything.

As you discover and connect to your purpose, everything in your life shifts into warp speed simply because you are walking out and making both authentic and conscious choices that accelerates your process and your progress toward the life and lifestyle that you envision.

Let me say here, Purpose is not to be chased, or pursued, but rather discovered, as you begin living your life in ways that are innate and original…. Your Purpose is an intrinsic part of who you are and have always been. Purpose is your GPS to life, success and fulfillment.

Your purview widens to include those opportunities, decisions and even actions that converge with who you are at your core where you intuitively long to live out loud.

Clarity is a benefit of connecting to Purpose. As you begin to connect the dots by connecting your life, as a child, as an adult and as a working professional as a mom, as an entrepreneur, it all suddenly makes by revealing the picture of the path you’ve always been on. It’s a BIG “AHA” moment that changes your perspective as you step into the life that is waiting for you.

The Purpose prospective creates a confidence and knowingness that directs your life toward the hopes and dreams you’ve always carried in your soul…in your purpose where your purpose lives!

More of us are connecting to a deep understanding of who we really are. The last few years have shifted our focus. It seems that we have arrived at a place where success is no longer enough, but rather fulfillment has become our focus along with the determination to create it, at all cost.

We’ve had a taste of the feelings of fulfillment as we’ve sat in our homes with

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or without children, forced to find ways to create a life that is productive but also includes that needed sense of safety, peace and comfort.

During this past year, we have forged an inside space that we’ve quietly developed while walking through the chaos. We have been forced to excavate the heart felt “causes” those righteous choices, that we’ve decided to support if only through prayer.

We are willing to look beyond our own survival and participate in a greater cause, something bigger than ourselves.

Now it seems we just might be ready to step outside, embodying what has become our new normal, made clear by a new

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consciousness, as we find ways to live there, in-spite of whatever we’ve decided to accomplish.

Our values have changed, having experienced what we no longer want, we have become the architects of our own vision. As we release a life that once enslaved us to the construct of our culture, we have clearly assessed our choices and unwittingly discover the courage to take steps that would have been too risky to take before.

It’s true that most people want to return to the way things were, but most of us are quietly aware that it will never happen, we cannot go back, we must move forward.

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We’ve survived years of trauma, and we can finally begin to breathe now.

We must breathe now! We must build a life that holds our breathing space.

This is the moment when you have acquired the clear ability to discover, uncover or suddenly remember what you’ve held in your heart from as far back as you can remember being you.

Purpose carries your intention, your hope and your desire to make a difference. The amazing thing about Purpose is it always includes others. Whether it’s starting a business because you realize you can fulfill a need that you’ve recognized for years, or you are suddenly crystal clear that you want to home school your kids…something you never thought you’d do before.

Passion, joy, peace, grace, opportunity, tenacity and endurance, will come to your rescue and you will begin to apply your Purpose Perspective to your everything with ease.

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Purpose is born out of your heart and includes your gifts, talents, skill-set and your life experiences. It is the coalescing of everything you’ve ever done and everything you know…your wisdom, knowledge, understanding and includes that desire that has haunted you for most of your life.

Living out your Purpose requires courage and commitment. Your Purpose demands the best of you and yet, you’ll wonder why you’ve never embraced it before. Maybe that’s because you didn’t know where to find it?

You are born with Purpose, it lives right there in your heart, within your deepest desires to live your life with integrity and passion. You are created to live out your purpose, and interestingly enough, as you become more conscious of your life’s experiences and the choices you’ve made along the way, as you begin to connect those dots…

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Don’t Drop the Mic

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The Power of Your Words can Change the World

By T.D. Jakes Communicate boldly and effectively like never before with the help and guidance of a #1 New York Times bestselling author and trusted Bishop.

In Don't Drop the Mic, Bishop Jakes speaks to readers about communication and how the ways we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday ministries. He helps readers understand: • Why the way we speak and the words we use matter • How speaking well, no matter your topic or audience, improves your chances of getting the result you want • How to craft your message, whether it's a simple email or a speech under the spotlights, to connect with listeners • Why good communication is important for building connection and community • How sharing God's Word produces abundant fruit

craft insightful and meaningful communications, but the heart of this book is really about how we can communicate more clearly to build community and share the hope of Christ in our everyday lives.

The more adept we become at using all available resources to convey our message, the greater our impact. From lovers to litigators, entrepreneurs to entertainers, and bloggers to board members, we all want to communicate more effectively, intimately, and efficiently. Whether you're interviewing for a new position, proposing a new business plan, auditioning for a performance, delivering a report for your committee, teaching Sunday school, or sharing your heart with a loved one, this book will help.

Drawing lessons from Scripture and his own life, Jakes gives career advice for those who have or want to grow into a speaking career, but he also provides clear direction and insight for everyone who gives presentations, writes emails, or talks to other people in their job or home life.

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Principles

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By Ray Dalio #1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.

In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his twobedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine.

Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.”

It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.

argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.

Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and “the philosopher king of the financial universe” (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.

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Giftology

By John Ruhlin

Does it feel like you work in a 'red ocean filled with sharks?' Eat or be eaten.

Fierce competition. Continual battling over scarce resources.

What if there was another path? What if you could create your own blue oasis where profits are higher, marketing is as natural as breathing, and competition is nearly nonexistent? This nirvana can be a reality when you practice the principles of Giftology. In this unusual un-marketing resource you'll discover... * Why Giftology isn't an expense...it's an investment that can pay off with huge dividends. * How to practice Giftology on a tight budget... it's easy and very effective. * How Giftology turns existing clients into Page 98 E The Magazine for Today’s Female Executive

your best salespeople. * Why (and how) gifts with a relatively low value can trump something expensive. * When is the best time to send gifts? (The answer may surprise you.) * How to unleash a Referral Factory, a small army of influencers vouching for you no gimmicks, no catches. * Find out how Giftology can transform your supply chain. * The ten worst gifts...definitely avoid these.

(This info is available in the expanded bonus resource. Just click the link inside! It's my gift to you.)

The average person is hit with at least thirty thousand messages a day, courtesy of that red ocean filled with sharks. Giftology neutralizes that deadly philosophy and equips you with every tool you need to make your message a priority. Every time. Get your copy today!

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The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook

By Danielle Newnham A New York Times Bestseller--more than 400,000 copies sold The perfect for-two cookbook for newlyweds, college graduates, and empty nesters Learn the ins and outs of successful smallscale cooking from the experts at America's Test Kitchen. This groundbreaking resource was the first to re-engineer recipes to serve just two. We put our expertise to work to scale down 650 of our best recipes including the trickiest dishes, from soups and stews to stir-fries and meatloaf, even cakes and pies.

We did the math to take the guesswork out of cooking for two so you can be sure that anything you want to make--whether it's lasagna or a batch of fudgy brownies or a fluffly yellow cake--will come out perfectly every time. The extensive introduction includes clever shopping strategies to reduce waste, smart storage tricks that help extend the freshness of key ingredients, and our picks for the most useful kitchen equipment for any two-person household.

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