Contact When I was in culinary school, I really wanted the recipe for the bacon-wrapped dates that Chef Suzanne Goin serves at her restaurant A.O.C. I scoured the web trying to find it to no avail. One day, I gathered up the gumption to e-mail her and ask. Guess what? Within 24 hours she personally [read more]

Proof, Proof, Proofread Your Blog As we use increasingly quicker, shorter and more casual forms of communication in the new social media sphere,  it’s easy to become more lax about those pesky rules of grammar and punctuation. In fact, on Twitter, you often abandon many rules to get your point across in 140 characters or [read more]

There are some rules in the blogosphere. Not everyone follows them, but it is best to try. Before writing a blog entry it is absolutely fine to surf the web to find interesting topics, facts and inspiration. I do it. I recommend that you do, too. But there are rules. They’re basically common courtesy and [read more]