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    Creative Cooking: In Your Kitchen and In Your Biz
    Creative Cooking: In Your Kitchen and In Your Biz
    Creative Cooking: In Your Kitchen and In Your Biz
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    Creative Cooking: In Your Kitchen and In Your Biz

    By Paula C. Scardamalia

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    This unique cookbook offers a wide variety of recipes and tips from 17 successful entrepreneurial women who love creating in the kitchen as much as in their businesses.

    The recipes they've shared here range from non-alcoholic cocktails to healthy smoothies, from soups to meat pies, and from gluten-free scones to indulgent brownies, and rise out of cultures from around the globe, such as South Africa, Italy, Hawaii, Colombia, and more.

    Each contributor also shares what she's discovered to be her secret ingredient to success in her business, such as passion, humor, and travel to a new place.

    Come! Cook up something creatively delicious.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    ISBN9780977777525
    Creative Cooking: In Your Kitchen and In Your Biz
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    Paula C. Scardamalia

    Paula Chaffee Scardamalia uses myth and fairy tale, tarot and dreams for her own fiction and nonfiction, as well as tools for helping her book coaching clients. Since 1999, Paula's taught writers at regional and national conferences, like RWA and the International Women’s Writing Guild, how to write stories from the deepest part of their imaginations. She is the award-winning author of the nonfiction book, "Weaving a Woman’s Life: Spiritual Lessons from the Loom", and the former dream consultant for PEOPLE Country Magazine. Paula also publishes a newsletter on writing, creativity, tarot and dreams.

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      Book preview

      Creative Cooking - Paula C. Scardamalia

      CONTRIBUTORS

      Creative Cooking—in the Kitchen and in your Business

      Recipes and Tips from 17 Creative and Successful Women Entrepreneurs

      INTRODUCTION

      Welcome!

      Please come in and have a seat here at our table. Join us as we share our favorite recipes for success—in the kitchen and in your entrepreneurial business. Whatever your creative expression—as a writer or artist, a speaker or a coach—the recipes here offer delicious nourishment for body, heart, mind and soul.

      The idea for this book arose out of a celebration around a meal. Eight entrepreneurial women (some of them contributors here) and two men, attending an internet business conference, gathered around a table at a local, fine cuisine Italian restaurant to celebrate one of the women's birthday. Experiences, laughter and love of food bubbled in the air like champagne.

      I don't even remember what we were talking about as I sat there savoring my butternut squash ravioli with sage butter and roasted pecans but suddenly…

      Inspiration struck.

      As I listened to the happy chatter at the table, I realized how often creativity—especially for women—is expressed through cooking and baking. In fact, one of the women at the table learned much of her business skills as the former owner of a restaurant.

      For centuries, perhaps even since those earliest cave dwelling times, preparing food for family, friends and ourselves has been as much about nourishment of the soul as it is about nourishment of the body. Cutting, chopping, mixing, blending, pouring, cooking, grilling, and baking always offer opportunities for expressing our creativity and our love.

      Yes, some of us do it better than others. Some of us like to do it more than others.

      Nevertheless, learning to work with what is at hand, following directions to achieve a desired result, or absorbing a technique while watching a mother or sister, all lead to an ability to create in other ways with other materials.

      A recipe is a list of ingredients and the steps to follow for combining those ingredients. And, just like there are many ways to make an apple pie—by varying the crust or the seasonings or adding other kinds of fruit—creative recipes of any kind will vary from person to person, and from medium to medium. Twenty woodworkers, for example, can take the same creative ingredients—wood, nails, glue—and, with a lathe, a saw and a chisel put them together 20 different ways to create 20 different chairs. That is the magic of the human mind.

      Creative recipes are helpful because the list of ingredients (colors, textures, scenes, notes, etc.) and the procedure for putting them together give us structures that help us as creative cooks to eliminate some unnecessary choices and work more efficiently. I don’t have to reinvent the apple pie of a fantasy romance every time I write one. In other words, I don’t have to worry if I should put in fantastical elements (I should), or if I should have a happy or unhappy ending (no unhappy endings in a romance, so I shouldn’t).

      Instead, like a skilled baker, I can include the elements that have to be there and by changing the amount of ingredients, or the order that I combine them, or by adding unexpected elements, I can come up with something that is uniquely my own flavor.

      I am not advocating cookie-cutter creativity, although cookie cutters have their uses. The purpose of a creative recipe is to give you the freedom to be more creative not less. Any good cook or baker will tell you that once you know the key ingredients you need for a certain dish, and the best way to combine them, you then have the freedom to add to, change, and adapt as you wish.

      Sometimes we make mistakes, but that is how new recipes happen. Once, thinking too hard about a project while I was baking coconut bars, I inadvertently added eggs to the mix for the crust. I couldn’t take the eggs out and I didn’t want to throw away the butter and other ingredients, so I shrugged and added the remaining ingredients, mixing them altogether. After baking, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the bars were just as good, if not better. Now, I often make them that way, with my recipe.

      Recipes are important for process as well as product. Sometimes, timing, the order of steps, and the tools you use can

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