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When TLC Book Tours asked me to review a cookbook, I was delighted and thought this will be great fun. I enjoy cooking and I love to eat (oh my do I love to eat), and that this book was about healthy eating truly lit up my expectations.  The book was not disappointing – it is very beautiful and well put together with all the radiant food colors dazzling the eye and igniting the tasting anticipation.

I spent several hours just looking through the book and figuring out what I might prepare and enjoy.  I particularly liked the coded message on each page that demonstrated the health promotion features of each recipe.  This chart gave me a quick reference guide at the onset.

“Studies suggest that by consuming the ingredients in FoodTrients, exercising, and managing your weight, you may add as many as 10 to 20 years to your lifespan.”  (from the order page)

So what is FoodTrients?

The cookbook is called this because it is the study and use of the nutrients in the foods that defines it’s wholesome, beneficial outcomes.  It is designing meals around the nutrients and how these nutrients provide what our bodies need to defy aging, repair, and energize.  It is a revolutionary way to prepare foods to start with the nutrients.

The recipes were also subtitled with headers like: Age Defying; Health Enhancing, Youth Elixir, Damage Reversing, Inflammation Fighter, Skin Strengthener, etc.

I asked the newlywed engineers next door if they wanted to try some of the recipes and here is what they said:

“ Mango tapioca:  very tasty and easy to make, never would have thought to purée fruit to put in a tapioca. Since this is a book about eating for health I am curious if you could substitute the evaporated milk for regular milk?  Overall good and easy recipe.”

“Trip Tip – very, very tasty and simple marinade.  I followed the recipe but next time I’m going to try a few things differently.  I personally did not think it needed to marinade overnight and then 2 hours in a slow oven is too time consuming after a long day at the office.  I think it would have been just as wonderful grilling or broiling.”  

The Guide to Age-Defying FoodTrients Index was worth the whole book as were the pictures and graphics.

The master chef, biologist fellow who organizes my partner’s bike tours gave a recipe a try too:

John said:
“I made the Tilapia  which was very easy to prepare and served it with brown rice, cranberries and silvered almonds ( his own recipe).  I did not have the specialty wrap so used parchment paper and it worked very well too.  This is a great dish to serve to company and very attractive.  Everyone at my table who eats fish thought it was excellent.  I am not concerned about the nutrient labels or what the dish is supposed to do, I just want to serve good food and this was Good”.

Grace O the author has more than 35 years of experience as a cooking instructor, chef, as well as running restaurants, operating senior healthcare facilities, and studying the healing properties of food.

FoodTrients is based on her scientific research and ancient knowledge of medicinal herbs, and natural ingredients from many cultures all around the world.  The author emphasizes organic.

I am going to serve several of these recipes to my book group for my May and June meetings at my house.  I am excited to figure out which ones!   Both my groups are folks who are into age defying and healthy recipes so I am pleased to be able to share.

Thank you TLC Book Tours for sending me a copy of this book to review.

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Mija is a 66 year old woman who lives in a city in a rural province of South Korea. She is raising her middle school aged grandson as her now divorced daughter works in another city.  She is a pensioner and makes some of her income by working as a maid/caregiver to a senior male who has had a major stroke.

POETRY is a movie about a rather plain ordinary older woman.  The Korean filmmakers did not submit it to the American Awards system, so it has not been nominated or received awards, which means it has not received much attention here in the states.  It is also about an older woman living a rather ordinary life and many would not find this an interesting story and it would seem too slow.

Mija has been told several times that she speaks poetically and when she sees that there is a poetry writing class at the cultural center nearby she decides to take the class and write a poem.  The famous instructor asks the students to be aware of everything in their environment and to be open to hearing what nature and sounds are saying to them; they are to discover their feelings and find the words to describe what they are experiencing.   The students are eager and patient and respectful.

When the door to all the sounds of nature creates awareness by opening it also permits the harder, uglier, and tougher noises and feelings to be revealed.   These too are messages to be gleaned into the poem for the class.  Mija is busy taking notes in her book of the beauty, confusions,blossoms and sorrows.

I was introduced to this movie by Sam Juliano at Wonders In The Dark, where every week movie viewing is shared and my list of what to watch grows and grows.  Just about every writer about POETRY  thought it should have been submitted for awards and there were wonder full words of praise for the photography, the production, the story and the acting.  I just knew I would need to see this film.

It is available from many sources for streaming now and rental.  I have watched it 3 times and found more to enjoy and discover with each screening.  I would like to encourage each of you to find the time to watch this movie.  It is a special experience, a profound discovery within a plain story.

No one paid or sent me anything for this review and I did not receive remuneration.

Do you write poems?  Does writing open you up to your feelings – the beautiful and fragrant as well as the difficult and tough?  Has a new movie been an award winner for you?

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I am very enthusiastic about this book.  THE ART OF THE SALE is about change and success and I am always enthusiastic about those topics.   I picked up this book with the first opportunity that presented itself because I thought it was going to be a difficult read and I had lots of tasks to complete with so much company arriving at my house, I wanted guaranteed focused time.   I could hardly put the book down, it was a great read and so well written.

Mr. Broughton has traveled the globe interviewing the very top salesmen and women.  He believes that we are all sales people and that we all need to be sales people, because this is the basic way we connect to others in our world and it is how we get our needs met.  Here he tells the stories of how these individuals developed their skills and sharpened their talents.  It is fascinating.

At first I thought I should just recommend this book to bloggers and writers, because I think the stories and tools are such valuable lessons, then I slept on that idea and think this book is ideal for everyone.

“Sales is nothing more than the purely human ordeal of rejection and acceptance”

I have taken 2 marketing classes this past year and learned a great deal.  I am still not able to implement good marketing strategies into job interviews or marketing my blogs.   It is not that I do not believe in myself or my words, but marketing is big, big, big picture work; the salesman or saleswoman does the one on one work of promotion.  This is the ART OF THE CLOSE.    After reading this book, I realize that I have lots of knowledge about marketing, I am not fast enough in this environment, and to be truly successful at this business I will need to hire someone and I still have to learn how to be a good sales person because I am not a natural.

My youngest child is a natural and, as she says, #1.  I over talk myself and the customer out of the sale.  I do not know when to stop.  I try to convince folks.   I am not afraid of rejection and I can use it well to learn and grow, but I have to be too “honest” about what I am trying to sell.   I am not a good trickster or promiser and since I am working on selling “change” and releasing “fear”, I have chosen a very difficult market to reach.  I also do not have enough WANTS.   I have to teach my classes at University for a couple of years before I have a waiting list; folks think they know how to think and think ethically because they are not being arrested and the noise in their brains is running all the time.

RESILIENCE

“…being committed to finding a meaningful purpose in life, the belief that one can influence one’s surroundings and the outcome of events, and the belief that one can learn and grow from both positive and negative life experiences.”
“The folks with the most ‘no s’ made the most money.”
“ …this acceptance of rejection and failure as essential to building the muscle necessary for eventual success.”

The stories are about real people and how they succeeded at selling whether it was at street fairs, door to door, on a showroom floor, through big industries such as IBM, and Boeing right through to how to do Internet sales.   It takes a salesman or a saleswoman to close the deal that the marketing folks have set the stage for – you can only close if you meet the NEED of the other.

Martin Shanker asked the author during his interview this question: “What do you most want for your children? The answer, he told me [Broughton] after I fumbled to find my own, was this: the ability to meet their own needs.” “We want our children not merely to be self-sufficient, but to be able to meet the needs any human has in order to live a fulfilling life.”

Selling is about understanding and using your own needs and emotions to find fulfillment.

This book is very valuable information sharing.   Selling inspires thinking skills and faith, when one stops being told what to believe (formulas) and what to say and can truly think and act .   The Art Of The Sale  is what we will need when we give up playing games and being entertained, it is about the art of living life.

I am grateful for TLC online book tours and The Penguin Press for sharing this book with me – It was eye opening and full of great information.

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My eyes, hands, nose and ears have all reached out to select this lovely green reward.  As the shoots are just venturing forth from garden beds in my world, I know this gem has traveled far to catch all my senses.

I have brought it home just for me and now as sunshine burns back the fog and mist of morning walk, I pick up my treasure and begin the task of preparation.  Two good thumps to the side of the sink and the leaves relax to allow the water to cleanse.   Thick stem cut away and set aside for potassium broth. Swift, sharp blade to the top edge and then a slice to create the halves; it is wounded.

Red handled veggie scissors snip the prickly tips and remind me of my mother’s hands at work by the sink; it is a memory.    Small spoon digs into the silky choke to separate and pare away.

Steamer is set into the pot and pure water filled to the level and each half is carefully laid down upon the form.   To boil and then to simmer, and the hands are washed and cutaways are put into the compost for the work ahead.  My fingers are blackened and will remain so for most   of this day; reminder.

A bowl of raspberries and red, red juice are set beside my plate of green.  I do not mind the heat, rather I draw the first leaf slowly across my teeth and savor the gentle offering; there are 42 leaves before the heart, each one granted a minute on its own.

Nothing interferes with the exaltation and pure taste of what has transpired.

The hour has past, dishes are done and steam water is greenish delight in freezer for stock; I push myself back to the work and the list knowing full well that this was enough.

Do you focus on every bite when you eat?  Is it like a gift or a meditation/prayer?  When was the last time/instance you were certain it was enough?

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