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THE 30 DAY RULE The 30 day savings rule is a simple financial trick that can help anyone improve their money management techniques. Using...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 17, 20233 min read
Pop Up Restaurants?
A pop-up restaurant is a temporary restaurant. These restaurants often operate from a private home, former factory, existing restaurants...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 15, 20233 min read
The Cuisine of Portugal
One of the oldest countries in Europe, its territory has been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. The...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 14, 20231 min read
Mother's Day
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family or individual, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 12, 20232 min read
Who Loves Coffee?
Coffee is a beverage prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 10, 20233 min read
Are Chefs Creative, or Simply Skilled Craftsman?
A Ghirlandaio painting and an Eric Ripert entrée are closer cousins than you might think. Whether chefs should be considered artists...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 8, 20234 min read
My thoughts on Millennials, and Work.
We’re a lazy generation who expects everything we want in life to come easily. Hell, some may even say that we lack dedication, patience...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 5, 20233 min read
The Big Six Primary Chef Knives
What are the 6 types of cooking knives? Chef’s Knife, Paring Knife, Boning Knife, Utility Knife, Bread Knife, and Santoku Knife. What are...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 3, 20232 min read
A Pictorial Panorama of Ecuador
This will be my last installment from Ecuador, what better way to recap the trip, than a pictorial expose of food, culture and history. ...
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Brent MacGillivray
May 1, 20233 min read
Termination, and why it's OK
The term termination of employment refers to the end of an employee’s work with a company. An employee may be terminated from a job of...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 28, 20233 min read
Work Ethics and Business Savvy
I thought I would take a look at both sides of my life as a chef and entrepreneur. I've been doing both for 40 years now. This article...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 26, 20232 min read
Foods that Heal, Fruit for Health
Did you know that the skin of cherries relieves pain just as well as ibuprofen? Or that avocado works great as a hair conditioner? In...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 24, 20232 min read
Your Spice Cabinet is your Medicine Chest
Spices have been used for centuries as tools for healing, and an understanding of their use in traditional medicine and cultures can be...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 21, 20234 min read
BARBEQUE...BBQ, Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada; barbie in Australia; and braai in South Africa) is a term used with...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 19, 20233 min read
Artisan Bread Sourdough Starters
Sourdough or sourdough bread is a bread made by the fermentation of dough using wild lactobacillaceae and yeast. Lactic acid from...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 17, 20232 min read
A New & Healthier You
Here’s a resolution you can keep: Stop dieting and start savoring your food instead. That may seem like surprising advice, but there’s...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 14, 20234 min read
Nutrition and Disease, You are what you Eat!
Never has the discussion of nutrition and disease been more relevant, post pandemic, many people are re-thinking how they eat. And what...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 12, 20235 min read
You may know how to spend money, but do you know how to shop?
I was thinking about this the other day, and it may sound a little rude, but do we really know how to buy groceries in an economical way?...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 10, 20233 min read
Foods that Heal, Part Two
Packed with goodness, full of energy and about as healthy as it gets, supergrains are more than just a flash in the food pan. Known as...
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Brent MacGillivray
Apr 7, 20232 min read
Here comes Peter Cottontail...
The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a...
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