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01/21/2015

Thank you for all the new likes! I'm an erstwhile blogger but I hope people will still find something delicious here!

11/06/2014

What is your favorite dessert? The one thing you just cannot resist, no matter what?

10/15/2013

For my blogger friends...

It's over.

05/22/2013

Strawberry season is here! Awesome round-up of strawberry posts from Solid Gold Eats. http://solidgoldeats.com/2013/05/22/almond-milk-pancakes-with-maple-roasted-strawberries/

Almond milk is a new player at the dinner table in my house. I was genuinely curious about the flavor and how I could use it, so I to use it instead of whole mi

05/10/2013

Foodies - without the bees there is no honey and very little pollination of the the food we love. This should be a no-brainer!

Don't Let the EPA Approve A New Bee-Killing Toxic Insecticide!
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=10659

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is weighing approval of a new pesticide, sulfoxaflor, which the EPA itself admits is “very highly toxic” to honeybees. The EPA previously approved sulfoxaflor, brought to us by Dow Chemical Co., for use on cotton. The agency is now poised to approve the pesticide for wider use.

Take Action Now:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ocaactions.cfm?actionnum=10659

03/27/2013

Does anyone else see something wrong with a chemical and plastics company producing our food?

I just made a call to President Obama urging him to issue an executive order requiring the mandatory labeling of GMO's. Please join me in standing up for our right to know what's in our food and keep Monsanto from controlling what appears on our plates.

03/22/2013

If you're interested in food and you're NOT following the Monsanto debacle - you should be! This stuff matters - please sign and repost.

We regret to inform you, but today Congress succeeded in passing Section 735, aka the Monsanto Protection Act, in the Continuing Resolution spending bill. Once again, Monsanto and the biotech industry have used their lobbying power to undermine your basic rights. We need you to contact Congress and…

03/21/2013

Bloggers work tremendously hard at their craft. It is disheartening (at best) when it is scrapped and used without permission (illegal at worst). If you think Pampered Chef should instruct it's representatives to not steal bloggers' work please sign this petition. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/101-Y9s3fBGJbegzZgGp4TfcajuCVrGYP_xqLB-y767M/viewform

Unfortunately when approached to remove content individual content owners have been met with hostility. Some of the representatives have resorted to the public forum engaging their followers to support their stance that they are not doing anything wrong. Of course this has led to the public criticiz...

03/17/2013

Time to nominate your favorite food blogs! http://www.saveur.com/food-blog-awards/

The best food blogs of 2013, chosen by the editors and readers of SAVEUR. Plus, last year's winners.

03/05/2013

Today marks one year since I started the Food Bloggers Network. Let's celebrate with some Italian meringue and chocolate mousse! http://cake-o-cake.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-butcher-baker-blogger-happy.html

I love reading your comments! If you have a question that requires a personal response please email me using the information located on the Contact page. Thank you for reading and happy cooking!

03/05/2013

Trying to write a blog post about chocolate mousse. Distracted by the fact that there is CHOCOLATE MOUSSE in my fridge.

02/25/2013

This happens to food bloggers ALL. THE. TIME. It is not okay to take other people's work and use it either as your own or for your own profit. DKNY not only knows better they can afford to do better than to steal!

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows "around the world." They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said "no."

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don't want any money. But please SHARE this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I'll let you guys know if it happens.

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UPDATE: DKNY RESPONSE:

Since its founding in 1989, DKNY has been inspired by and incorporated authentic New York into its imagery. For our Spring 2013 store window visuals we decided to celebrate the city that is in our name by showcasing "Only in NYC" images. We have immense respect for Brandon Stanton aka Humans of New York and approached him to work with us on this visual program. He declined to participate in the project.

For the Spring 2013 windows program, we licensed and paid for photos from established photography service providers. However, it appears that inadvertently the store in Bangkok used an internal mock up containing some of Mr. Stanton's images that was intended to merely show the direction of the spring visual program. We apologize for this error and are working to ensure that only the approved artwork is used.

DKNY has always supported the arts and we deeply regret this mistake. Accordingly, we are making a charitable donation of $25,000 to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn in Mr. Stanton's name.

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$25k will help a lot of kids at the YMCA. I know a lot of you would like to have seen the full $100k, but we are going to take them at their word that it was a mistake, and be happy that this one had a happy ending. Thanks so much for your support, everyone.