Yup - this is the one week notice for you.  Our Chuck's Eat the Street episode is getting set to air next week.  Thursday, Halloween night at 10 pm is the designated time for the program.  As you recall, the folks from Cooking Channel spent a couple of days here in August, filming the cafe (with you enjoying your lunches) and then coming to my home to meet my bees, watch honey being extracted and then coming back here to the shop to film me cooking with Chuck.

 

I have not seen the show, though the Assistant Director said good things to me about it. 

 

 

Here are dinners to go for this week. This, if you do not know, is a fabulous way to have dinner. It's easy - just call us by noon and your dinner will be ready for you to pick up by 3 that very day.

You can stop by to pick yours up until we close at 8.

Add Salad (3.25) or bread (1.25) if you like.

 

Monday, October 21     

Braised Chicken, Fennel and Olive 8.95  

                           

 Tuesday, October 22           

Spicy Black Bean Quesadillas with Roasted Corn Salad 7.95     

    

Wednesday, October 23     

Spinach Ricotta Stuffed Pork Tenderloin w/Rice (gf) 8.95     

                           

Thursday, October 24     

Blackened Flank Steak with Blue Cheese Slaw 9.95     

              

Friday, October 25    

Mango Curried NC Catfish 10.95

The Casserole of the week:

October 16 Chicken Pot Pie Whole: 35 Half: 17.50                                

 

The Lasagna of the week:

October 25 Butternut Sage Lasagna whole: 40 Half: 20                      

Oh this is a quick note for those of you in the neighborhood of Midtown Atlanta: I'll be at Cooks' Warehouse tomorrow from 7-9pm conducting a guided honey tasting for you.  We'll make a couple of recipes from my new book and I'll be helping you understand how to taste honey.

 

Follow the link right below this story for more information and to sign up.

 

Sorry for the late notice.  I hope you get to come.  Let's put it this way: with a small group you'll be able to taste a lot of honey and learn a lot!  You'll come away with my Honey tasting wheel and some nice ways to use honey.  See you tomorrow!

1544 Piedmont Road, Suite 403-R (behind Pet Supermarket)
Atlanta, GA 30324
Phone: 404-815-4993 / 800-499-0996 - See more at: http://www.cookswarehouse.com/locations_contact_info#sthash.dDSJTOgW.dpuf

1544 Piedmont Road, Suite 403-R (behind Pet Supermarket)
Atlanta, GA 30324
Phone: 404-815-4993 / 800-499-0996 - See more at: http://www.cookswarehouse.com/locations_contact_info#sthash.dDSJTOgW.dpuf

1544 Piedmont Road, Suite 403-R (behind Pet Supermarket)
Atlanta, GA 30324
Phone: 404-815-4993 / 800-499-0996 - See more at: http://www.cookswarehouse.com/locations_contact_info#sthash.dDSJTOgW.dpuf

And I'll be at our local Williams Sonoma store this Saturday. Swing by to taste some honey, say hello, taste some treats from my new book.  I'll be in the neighborhood starting around noon so do drop in.  (While you're there you can pick up some honey and start gearing up for your Thanksgiving cooking plans.)

 

Here is the store information:

I have a friend who rehabilitates injured birds and animals.  She brought a truck full her friends to visit me the other day.  What a lovely thing that was.  This is a baby Saw Whet owl, one of two.  I think this one's name is "Nod" but it's hard for me to tell.  I do know that it is a very special feeling to have a cute little owl step backward onto an oustretched hand.  One he was positioned he just stood, as did I.

 

Sasquatch has been with my friend for a number of years.  She is not "releasable" so she travels to schools and educational opportunities, sharing herself with children and people like me, reminding us that there is much more to a day than whatever fills most of our days.

 

 

October 21, 2013

 

Hi hi and hi.

 

It is a glorious Monday here in Asheville, dry, crisp, sunny, moderately chilly and quite lovely. I am just back from a couple of days in Austin, Texas where I was a speaker for the Ride for the Roses Weekend with the LiveSTRONG Foundation. Last year I was there, riding my bike and speaking about healing and surviving. This year the schedule included a Golf Tournament (I don’t know how this happened but, improbably, I won in my division…) a few catered meals, a few speeches and some time to wander around in the dusty Austin landscape. It was a time to think about organizations and transitions too.

 

I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of a beehive and a bee colony as a “super organism.” It’s like an “all for one and one for all” mentality. No superstars exist in a beehive. Actually, in contrast, all the bees live to make sure the whole hive and entire colony does as well as it possibly can. Keeping the colony healthy is the main goal. Each worker bee holds a progression jobs needed to keep things going. The jobs, as some of you may have heard me say, start in the interior of the hive and progress to the outside, to the area immediately outside the hive and then beyond, out into the wide world.  

 

I am finding it interesting to use this model as I consider my role in the world right now. The origin of my book came when I gave a TED talk a few years ago. At that point it seemed that I fit as one of the stages the worker bee (not the Queen and not the drone either) as The Pollinator, the one who goes out, finds nectar sources and comes back to tell the hive mates where to go, how to find the nectar. Mine was a small-ish message, told to a new people at a time. Now, with my book out, the message is a bit bigger, the audience widening slowly.

 

Now, it seems, the most urgent and pertinent message is this of the Super Organism. I am still talking on an individual level in many cases and I am still conducting myself on that level. The “one person at a time” matters. I wear my honey-filled amulet around my neck, reminding me that there is nothing insignificant about a small act. As my necklace reminds me, a bee’s entire life’s work results in just 1/12^th of a teaspoon of honey – a seemingly insignificant amount. But cumulatively, that is nothing small. A pound of honey, which we eat in a year, is the work of some 600+ bees. There is nothing insignificant about that, nor is a simple interaction with one person, one small speech, or one random encounter with a stranger anything to dismiss.

 

But the idea that I am a part of something bigger, whether in my home or in my work or within the groups where I spend time, seems, more and more, the most important thing. Tiny, seemingly insignificant acts all add up and, when my thoughts are in the right place, remind me that I am part of something much larger.

 

This is going to be a good and fun and full week for me. I’ll tell you all about it next week, okay?

 

Cheers,

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