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Some actual recipes (I’m improvising)
from Too Many Chefs
from Food Network
from Bill Telepan & Andrew Friedman

Step 1: roast the butternut squash


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This will be updated as we go. Plans are to make butternut squash gnocchi, whole wheat bread, mushroom sound and possibly roasted vegetables. Whether you cook along at home or just watch for ideas, enjoy!

Ingredients you might need to buy:

  • butternut squash
  • tf

  • mushrooms (i have 3 pounds)
  • onions (lots)
  • whole wheat flour
  • white flour
  • vegetables for roasting
  • yeast
  • bleu cheese
  • staples: milk, cream, eggs, olive oil, butter, garlic, salt & pepper
  • UPDATE: have lots of butter, something for chicken stock & some dry vermouth too. OH, AND HONEY OR MOLASSES

UPDATE: Roasting garlic, something extra


UPDATE: Ingredient Alert!


UPDATE: SeesmiCooking, with kids


First though, we have a special closeup on Fresh Sweet Tamarind:


Part 2


Deek tells us more about Tamarind: the tree, the medicine, the worcestershire sauce


Goldie asks about Tamarind
(Check out her Sachertorte at http://www.twitter.com/goldiesseesmics

“Beyond Blogging: PR and Today’s Social Media Revolution”

Tech PR Gems: Panelists for next week’s PRSA event. Hope Boston area folks will come out for this evening of Social Media discussions (panel and breakouts) with:

  • Mike Prosceno, Vice President, Communications, SAP
  • Ian Lamont, Senior Editor, New Media, Computerworld
  • Lois Kelly, Partner, Foghound Communication
  • Laura Fitton, Principal, Pistachio Consulting
  • Why Seesmic?

    It’s very, very simple.

    I knew ZERO about web video going in. Didn’t have to. You hang out in the browser, hit a button to record, another to stop & then click and it’s live (and on your Twitter if you choose).

    It’s newsy

    I can try to be useful and interesting and share info. Who knows if I succeed, but I can try easily. If 1000 people try, someone will be great.

    It’s silly

    Can’t believe I am actually pointing this one out to people.

    It’s immediate

    It’s conversational

    And hard to keep up with, but you can take it at your own speed.

    It’s human

    That last one I struggled to blog or tweet or explain in some way. I never meant to get so emotional on video. But, could text have possibly been so real at telling that story?

    You as a journalist should be aware of this situation with Facebook.

    Facebook reportedly banned/censored profile photos of nursing mothers on the grounds that they are obscene:

    -The Age (Australian Newspaper) report dated Sept. 7th (note, topless
    ads are referred to even back then)
    -Facebook Group (yeah, ironic, I know) that is petition against Facebook for banning nursing photos. As of the other day, this group has 34,264 members
    -Blog post dated Sept. 12 about the situation.

    This week a prominent Boston-area blogger named Chris Brogan was served, and reported on his blog and on twitter, ads for a sex video chat service. The ad was a photo of a topless woman provocatively posed
    -Blog post documenting topless ads served to a Facebook business user.

    In addition to the inconsistency of these actions/policies, having topless ads on a “business-oriented” social network is a serious liability for Facebook.

    Another piece of the puzzle is that according to analysis of Facebook’s own targeted advertising data, 2/3 of their use is coming from women. Interesting they would treat women/breasts so badly, considering this.
    -http://www.profy.com/2007/11/23/women-growing-to-become-great-majority-on-the-social-web/

    To editorialize: I find this very egregious, and I am amazed they haven’t been called on it or pressed to respond. I think the general public would be kind of horrified by this. I think the situation is outrageous and Facebook should immediately, and loudly, address it, fix it, and apologize.

    Thanks for any ideas or follow-up you wish to share.

    With regards,
    Laura Fitton
    (Social Media Consultant and nursing mother)

    www.Twitter.com/Pistachio

    www.PistachioConsulting.com

    Haven’t been able to watch it yet, but @jchenard saw the nut there somewhere…

    Heh heh. Thanks to Loic LeMeur & Seesmic, I was “at” the Media Forum last week in Monaco. Listen at 4 some minutes and a couple times later on. Thanks Loic, much love!

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