California raised, living in NYC
I've been a painter all my life, always an artist with a day job. I was a Chef for most of the first 30 years of working life.
When I wasn't a Chef, my day jobs included Co-Director at an Art Gallery, Development Director at an NPR station and a Building Manager for an international slumlord.
For the past 12 years, my day job has been a Web Designer - Social Media Producer at a retail store.
Currently, I mostly make art with an iPhone for online sharing and have fun sussing out the Social Web.
The Garifuna of Guatemala | Global Hit | PRI's The World
The story behind today’s Global Hit starts on the Caribbean Island of St. Vincent. In 1635, two slave ships wrecked there, and the African slaves escaped to freedom. They mixed in with the native Caribs, giving birth to a new Afro-Caribbean culture – the Garifuna (Gareefoonah). In the centuries since, the Garifuna migrated and founded villages along the Caribbean coast of Central America. Lonny Shavelson reports from Livingston, Guatemala.
via theworld.org
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It Makes My Mouth Water Thinking About Donald Link's Cooking
When Donald Link left came to Culinary school in San Francisco he applied for a part-time job at the Elite Cafe, where I was Sous Chef. I hired him, he did a surprising job, performed way beyond expectations, change my method for making Gumbo and many other items on our menu. An amazing cook, Donald became Executive Chef after he graduated and I left for New York. He recreated the menu, making it his and fulfilling the restaurant's promise of up-scale, creative New Orleans-style dining for San Franciscans. The best meal I've had in a restaurant was the feast Donald prepared for my party on a visit back to the Elite Cafe after a year in New York. He's an amazing Chef, the best I've known. Ruth and I are looking forward to eating at his New Orleans restaurant, Herbsaint on our one night lay over in NOLA on our New York City to Los Angeles train trip we're taking at the beginning of April.
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Saudi Arabia | Internet | Women online
Most Saudi women cannot work, travel or attend school without permission from their husbands or fathers. They are forbidden to drive. Women generally do not participate in sports and the few public libraries that exist are open for women only a few hours a week. Socializing takes place mostly within extended families because of the country’s strict gender segregation.
It is no wonder then that Saudi women moved into cyberspace at a much faster clip than men.
via globalpost.com
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