Senior Lifestyle Corporation & Barton Healthcare

Great News!! I am going to do cooking demonstations at 6 senior assisted living homes in May. Five of them will be at Senior Lifestyle Corpoation communities and 1 will be at Barton Heathcare. At these events, I will be cooking one of my favorite dishes and then talking with the residents and getting their bittersweet memories of their lost loved ones! I am so excited to sit and and listen to their favorite stories and recipes. Here is the schedule:

Tuesday May 4th
Barton Healthcare in Zion, IL
*not open to public

Tuesday May 11th
Lincolnwood Place in Lincolnwood, IL

Monday May 17th
Lake Barrington Woods in Lake Barrington, IL

Wednesday May 19th
Autumn Green at Midway Village in Chicago, IL

Friday May 21st
Autumn Green at Wright Campus in Chicago, IL

Tuesday May 25th
The Breakers at Edgewater Beach in Chicago, IL

Some of these are opened to the public. Please feel free to come and watch me do a cooking demonstration. And remember, bring your favorite bittersweet memory and recipe!!!

Book Proposal

It's been 3 long months of preparing the book proposal. After countless recipes cooked, tons of stories edited, writing a cover letter, table of contents, chapter by chapter summary, and completing a sample chapter, the 45 page proposals are in the mail! I sent out 10 today; 9 to literary agents and 1 to a publisher. I'm so excited to receive feedback and to hopefully have someone want to pitch the book!
Now, all I need are more fabulous submissions! Please forward www.bittersweet-memories.com onto your friends, family, and coworkers and ask them to submit their favorite storecipes of lost loved ones!

Cooking Recipes for the Book

What an amazing weekend! When I receive submissions that have touching stories, I make the recipes to make sure that the directions are correct. This weekend I made potato salad, pecan sandies, carrot cake, donuts, taffy apple salad, brownies, chocolate snowballs, holiday cheese danishes, homemade chocolate pudding, three layer chili cheese dip, cherry cool whip dessert, and chili! WOW!! It was absolutely amazing! The recipes were delicious. The one that was the most fun for me to make were the donuts. I have never made them before and it was so cool to see the batter being deep fried. They were incredible!! I'm having a blast testing all of your recipes, so, keep them coming!

NEW WEBSITE

I am so excited to announce that my website has been completely reconstructed!! Lisa Mollo has rebuilt the site within 2 weeks!! She is the absolute best and could not have done this without her. Lisa does not just work 9-5 and she doesn't take sick days. She works 24 hours a day no matter what and I need to thank her for all of her hard and beautiful work. Please check it out at www.bittersweet-memories.com. Please sign the guestbook and let me know what you think!
I can't wait to get everyones recipes and stories. The holidays are a great time to remember our loved ones and happy memories.
We have lots to do this week! We are working on celebrity mailings and hope to get submissions in as soon as possible.
REMINDER*- Due date for submissions in January 31st, 2010!

November 11 2009

WOW!! It has been an intense 2 weeks! Last week I hired a publicist. I am using Skirt PR and they are wonderful!! They are all so nice and such hard workers. They move at a fast pace, which I love! In the past week, I have gotten so much done! I hired an attorney who is drafting up releases for my submitters. We have been working on logo to represent "A Blending of Bittersweet Memories." Also, we have been working on my bio and taking head shots! It was so much fun! I went to a bunch of local stores and brought home many options to chose from. I can't wait to see the pictures and share them with you!
For the remainder of this month, we are working really hard to put together lists of people that we want to solicit! This is all amazing and making great progress. Now, all I need are 1,000 recipes by January 2010!!!! Please help me by submitting your memories and recipes today on www.bittersweet-memories.com. Thanks!!

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