Thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a thriving food business in the Hamptons that she sold decades ago, and now her memoir "Be Ready When the Luck Happens" has hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
None of that was in Ina Garten's plan.
Her legendary career began when she was working in Washington DC as a somewhat discontented government employee, and saw an ad for a food store in the Hamptons.
For this Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating gratitude and food, we take a look at how Ina Garten built a successful business, powerful brand and happy life.
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Consider This from NPR - Ina Garten was ready for the luck
Thirteen bestselling cookbooks, a thriving food business in the Hamptons that she sold decades ago, and now her memoir "Be Ready When the Luck Happens" has hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
None of that was in Ina Garten's plan.
Her legendary career began when she was working in Washington DC as a somewhat discontented government employee, and saw an ad for a food store in the Hamptons.
For this Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating gratitude and food, we take a look at how Ina Garten built a successful business, powerful brand and happy life.
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None of that was in Ina Garten's plan.
Her legendary career began when she was working in Washington DC as a somewhat discontented government employee, and saw an ad for a food store in the Hamptons.
For this Thanksgiving, a holiday celebrating gratitude and food, we take a look at how Ina Garten built a successful business, powerful brand and happy life.
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The Journal. - Canned or Homemade? America’s Biggest Cranberry Company Wins Either Way
Happy Thanksgiving! This episode was originally published in November 2023. Ocean Spray’s farmers are responsible for 65% of the world’s cranberries. It’s not a publicly traded company. It’s not a traditional private company, either. It’s a cooperative founded nearly a century ago and owned by roughly 700 families. WSJ’s Ben Cohen tells the story of how the cranberry got into the can and how the company is planning for a future beyond your Thanksgiving table.
Further Reading:
-These People Are Responsible for the Cranberry Sauce You Love to Hate
Further Listening:
-Are Rotisserie Chickens 'Inflation-Proof'?
-The Twinkie: From Bankruptcy to Billions
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Science In Action - Fifty years of Charm
November 1974 became known as the “November Revolution” in particle physics. Two teams on either side of the US discovered the same particle - the “J/psi” meson. On the "J" team, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sau Lan Wu and colleagues were smashing protons and neutrons together and looking for electrons and positron pairs in the debris. Over at Stanford on the other side of the US, Dr Michael Riordan was in a lab with the "psi" team who, in some ways the other direction, were smashing electrons and positrons together to see what was created. They both, unbeknownst to each other, found a peak around 3.1Gev.
It was shortly after that the full significance was clear. The existence of this particle confirmed a new type of quark, theorised in what we now call the Standard Model, but never before observed - the Charm quark. And with Prof Sau Lan Wu’s team’s subsequent discovery of gluons – the things that hold it all together – a pattern appeared in what had been the chaos of high energy physics and the nature of matter. Sau Lan and Michael (author of "The Hunting of the Quark: A True Story of Modern Physics") tell Roland the story.
Prof Matthew Genge and colleagues at the Natural History Museum in London have found evidence of a bacillus growing on samples of the asteroid Ryugu brought back from space by the Hayabusa 2 mission. Rather than evidence for alien life, as they suggest in a paper this month, the contamination shows how easily terrestrial microorganisms can colonise space rocks, even when subjected to the strictest control precautions.
And Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University and colleagues report in Science how they have taken a load of fossilised faecal matter and mapped out the evolution of dinosaur diets. First came the carnivores… then the vegetarian revolution…
(Photo: Samuel Ting (front) shown with members of his J/psi experimental team. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Alex Mansfield
Bad Faith - Episode 427 – Immigration Under Trump: What Now? (w/ John Washington)
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Staff writer at Arizona Luminaria John Washington returns to Bad Faith to talk about what changes the incoming Trump administration will bring to US immigration policy, his thoughts on the Democratic Party's (and Kamala Harris') right-tilt on immigration, and how a populist, worker-centered left should address labor concerns related to a growing immigrant population.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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Federalist Radio Hour - The Rising Threat Of ‘Blue-Anon’ To Free Speech And Free Thought
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," David Harsanyi, Washington Examiner senior writer, joins The Federalist's Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the dangers of "Blue-Anon." While the left has smeared conservatives and those on the right as radical conspiracy theorists or members of "Q-Anon," there is a growing trend on the left that peddles fake news to the masses, distorts reality, and seeks to take down anyone who thinks or says otherwise.
You can find Harsanyi’s book The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists here.
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You can find Harsanyi’s book The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists here.
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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 28 November 2024
Poland’s Donald Tusk fills a leadership vacuum, election shock in Romania, and has Ireland cracked the formula for political stability? In the second half: a special post-COP29 climate episode guest-produced by award-winning British environmental journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor and featuring additional reporting by Ashish Sharma.
Byzantium And The Crusades - BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT – ‘Justinian’s Empire’ Book 4 in The Fall of the Roman Empire
It’s Nick Holmes from the Byzantium and the Crusades podcast. Although I’m no longer making new episodes of this podcast, I thought you might be interested in my latest project which is a series of books as well as a new podcast on the Fall of the Roman Empire.
And I’m contacting you because my latest book, and the fourth in my Roman series, called ‘Justinian’s Empire’, is out now on Amazon in ebook and paperback. It will be with other distributors later and also available in audiobook probably within the next six months.
It's about the triumph and tragedy of the late Roman Emperor Justinian’s reign. Triumph because Justinian’s general, Belisarius, recovered North Africa and Italy from the barbarians. Justinian also created a new law code that would endure to this day. And he built extraordinary monuments, like the iconic Hagia Sophia in modern Istanbul, rivalling the great buildings of Ancient Rome.
But all that glitters is not gold. There was also tragedy in his reign, especially with a mini ice-age that caused famine and bubonic plague. And I also suggest Justinian was a ruthless opportunist, and his western conquests drained the empire’s wealth and critically weakened its army.
So, rather than restoring Rome’s greatness did he in fact pave the way for its catastrophic collapse less than a century after his death?
I think the ebook is also really good value at only $4.99 in the US and £3.99 in the UK – probably cheaper than a cup of over-priced coffee! – and certainly cheaper than most other books on the Roman Empire. Paperback is obviously more expensive since I can’t control the printing costs.
The links to Amazon US and Amazon UK are in the notes to this and I do hope you’ll take a look, and if you do buy it and you’re feeling generous why not leave a review? I’d love to hear your feedback.
Thanks for listening and I hope you continue to enjoy Byzantium and the Crusades!
Please take a look at my website nickholmesauthor.com where you can download a free copy of The Byzantine World War, my book that describes the origins of the First Crusade.
African Tech Roundup - Ambar Van Der Wath Unpacks Baobab Network’s $20K Toe-Dipping Investment Proposition
Ambar van der Wath—who leads investor relations at one of Africa's leading accelerator slash VC firms, Baobab Network—discusses with Andile Masuku how the firm is creating accessible entry points for cautious investors interested in early-stage African tech startups.
Episode Overview:
Picture this: You're an international investor curious about African tech, but you're not quite ready to write million-dollar checks or commit to a 7-year fund lockup. That's exactly the puzzle Baobab Network is solving with their new-ish investment vehicle - allowing investors to back a batch of startups for as little as $20K.
Key topics:
Innovation in early-stage investment vehicles
Market education and investor development
Secondary markets and exit opportunities
Equity considerations for early-stage founders
The strategic role of venture debt
Risk management across African markets
Notable points:
1. Baobab Network is spreading bets across 16 markets (and counting)
2. Their portfolio has hit 60 companies, with half joining in just the last two years
3. They're actively hunting for founders who didn't go to Harvard (their words, not ours)
4. Sometimes they even manage early exits - Van der Wath shares about a secondary sale just 14 months post-investment
Through their innovative batch investment approach, Baobab Network is creating what Van der Wath describes as a "trusted layer" between international capital and African startups. Listen in for her insights on secondary markets.
The episode provides valuable insights for anyone interested in African tech investment, especially newcomers exploring the ecosystem for the first time.
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