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BusinEss 5 | Innovate Your Business 6 | ‘ Tis The Season to Network 10 | Career Coaching for Kids

BEnChmarks 8 | CNN’s Latino in America 13 | Proverb Ltd. Takes on the

Marketing Goliaths

EntErtainmEnt 14 | John Woo’s Red Cliff 15 | Mummies at the MFA

LifEstyLE 16 | Craving Korean: A Food

Junkies Journey 18 | Why We Drink Wine &

Trond’s Power Picks 20 | Color Reads for the

Holidays 21 | The Jewelry of

Catalina De La Torre

diaLoguEs 22 | Strangers to the Land

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From the Publisher:

I recently visited the JFK Library and Museum in Boston and was inspired by an inscription of Kennedy’s words stated more than 30 years ago.

“I want Africans and Latin Americans not to quote Roosevelt or Lincoln or Jefferson. I want them to quote the next President of the United States.”

As I reflected on those words, I thought about where we stand today, not only do we have a man of color as President, we also have men of color as governors of New York and Massachusetts. As professionals of color, we have the opportunity to be all that we can be. Re-gardless of your political views, you must admit that, “Yes, we can!”

I am grateful to meet the individuals, promoted within our pages, who are committed to inclusion; it is truly an honor. And in the spirit of the season we should give thanks for all that we have, family, friends and opportunities.

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ada Gonzalez is a Jungian analyst in training at the C.g. Jung institute. the focus of her work is on cross-cultural issues and psycho-logical trauma for individuals, couples and families. she has a private practice in Cambridge, mas-sachusetts.

trond arne undheim is an en-trepreneur, speaker and author. he lives between Boston and London, speaks six languages and has a Ph.d. in sociology. he writes frequently on wine and society.

natascha Faye saunders is a certi-fied career coach and speaker, focused on our youth. natascha is an assistant direc-tor of undergraduate Career services at Boston university, adjunct faculty for the university of rhode islan and Education Chair of naaCP Boston.

anna Giraldo-Kerr founded shades of success, a career coaching firm, to help professionals of color proactively manage their careers. in 2006, anna’s edito-rial commentary on immigration and education was awarded national recognition at the first national Ethnic media awards.

Marvin smith has a long career in innovation manage-ment working with strategy, new products, executive coaching and train-ing and development. his business, deliberate synergy, helps leaders and entrepreneurs get better results using innovation as a platform.

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From the editor:

On my commute home, an African-American kid, no more than five years-old, sat down next to me on the train. I was proofreading a draft of this is-sue. The boy asked me, “Is that a newspaper?” I

responded, “Kind of. It’s a magazine.” He points to the image of Forest Whitaker on the cover, “Who’s that?”

He gestured for me to turn the pages, and picked out every black person in the magazine, asking the same question, “Who’s that?” He even found our house ad on page 23, with the small picture of Cleve Killingsworth. The pictures of children on page ten, seemed the only other worthwhile subjects in the issue.

It’s rare to observe someone reading your magazine without them being self-conscious or sugar-coating their reaction. (The only other time I am able to do this is watching my roommate flip through the magazine on the couch.) So what did I glean from my younger, inquisitive friend? We are intrigued by those like us; it’s human nature.

It is important to recognize this when we talk about di-versity. It explains why people tend to hire those of a similar background; it’s usually not a conscious effort to maintain the status-quo. Likewise, we seek mentoring from those similar to us, because it seems like we are, already, one step closer to achieving their status, skills or position.

It is essential to provide people of all backgrounds with role-models who are “like” them. Furthermore, we must question what “being like someone” really means. After all, we are more alike than we tend to realize.

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hen your best efforts to grow the business are not yielding desired results, it may be time to reframe how you see the world. When your insights about your prospects

and customers seem thin, and the competition appears robust and privileged, how can you give yourself and your organization a decided advantage?

innovate your BusinessCreative Practices To Give You the Edgeby MarVin SMith

Be in the Moment. Being present, responsive and tuned in is critical for establishing rapport. This rapport will help you to move around in the conversation and share control of the meeting with your prospect.

Make Meaning. Make con-nections, which may not make immediate sense, from what you see happening. This takes skill at cracking the code and reading be-tween the lines. Strategies include,

questioning (which is a linear function and the fundamental com-ponent of collecting information), thinking and learning. Get curious; ask permission to ask questions that give you a foundation to build an effective proposal and help you un-derstand beyond the obvious facts and needs.

Guessing is a different, more right-brained strategy for code

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s the holidays approach, what comes to mind? Presents, time off, or, perhaps, parties? How about networking? “You have to be kidding. That’s the last thing on my mind.” answered Martin Williams, a consumer products manager based in New York City. Martin’s comments reflect a feeling shared by many regarding networking during the holidays. During the holiday

season, our priorities tend to shift to taking time off, shopping or making travel plans. Others, looking for a job, consider postponing their search efforts until the beginning of the year when, “everyone is back in business mode,” as Williams explained.

‘tis the season to network by anna GiraldO-kerr

In her book, The Networking Survival Guide, Diane Darling describes networking as, “the art of building and sustaining mutually beneficial relationships.” This definition implies that there is an ongoing effort required that is reciprocal in nature. Since the holiday season fosters an envi-ronment of sharing and camaraderie, why should the two not go together? Let’s look at the reasons and places to network during the holidays.

screen, start and strengthenSavvy networkers know that holiday gatherings provide a suitable environment to identify and engage in potential relationships. “It’s the time of year when people are more open to meet new people. They are friendlier, and there are a lot of events to go around,” said Sandra Walker, As-sistant Dean at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The plain fact that many profes-sionals put their networking efforts on hold until after the holidays creates a prime opportunity to network. Simply put, there is less competition and more chances to get to know key people one on one.

For those looking for work, holiday events hosted by professional organizations provide

an optimal environment to connect with those interested in your field. An added bonus: the holiday season is the one time when companies sponsoring professional organizations make a point to be visible.

Planes, trains, Parties and the Food PantryA great number of people commute during the holidays. Planes, airports and other means of transportation are excellent places to engage in conversation and ‘practice’ networking. Given the current wait time between check-in and boarding, travelers have a greater opportunity to make small talk that could lead to more meaning-ful conversation.

A second opportunity for holiday network-ing is the office holiday party or professional organization. Office parties take place in dif-ferent shapes and venues. Whether it is a pot luck get-together or lunch at a nice restaurant, the office holiday party gives you the chance to share a meal with your department head or build rapport with a colleague with whom you will be working in a future project. As Ming-Hao Shiao, Finance Manager at Harvard University puts it, “What I love about holiday office parties is that it allows everyone to set aside work priorities and focus on the personal aspects of our relation-ships. I find that when I go back to the office the next day or week, we have more than just work priorities to talk about and it really helps to build a more cohesive and engaging team.”

A third – often overlooked place to network – is through volunteer work. An overwhelming sense of generosity kicks in during the holidays. While delivering meals on Thanksgiving Day several years ago, my husband and I met a woman who lived in our town and worked for a company that I had targeted as a potential em-ployer. She gave me some pointers regarding her organization, and I helped her connect with a town official whom I knew well and she was try-ing to reach. It was a win-win that resulted from

casual conversation and common interest.Holiday networking may seem an

unorthodox way to connect with people and build relationships. However, if you follow the premise that network-ing is a lifelong skill and not a tactic to a short-term goal, you will uncover

the secret that savvy networkers share: Networking does not take a holiday.

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Cnn’s soledad o’Brien Explores What it means to be

Latino in americaby Michelle Mckenzie

Latino in America, a two-part, four-hour documentary and follow-up to reporter Soledad O’Brien’s popular Black in America series, debuted on CNN in October following National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Like its predecessor, Latino in America documents the ex-periences and struggles of the United States Hispanic popula-tion through personal stories of regular people intertwined with interviews of high-profile Latinos and how they achieved success in our country.

O’Brien aims to delve into how Latinos are reshaping communities across America, from North Carolina to Missouri to Ohio, as well as Los Angeles and New York. It also examines the cultural effect, not only on the Hispanic culture so many immigrants are trying to maintain in a nation of assimilation, but also on America itself.

Hispanics are the fastest growing population in the United States and will reach nearly 48 million people by 2010 – more than double the number of Latinos in the U.S. just 20 years ago according to the Census Bureau. From 2000-2006, they accounted for

half the population growth in the country.Made up of people from 21 different Spanish-

speaking nations, Hispanics – probably the most diverse population in America – are expected to top 102 million people by 2050 or 24 percent of the entire U.S. population.

In 2008, the first Black In America series

Check local listings for subsequent airings of La-tino in America. You can purchase the series on iTunes and amazon.com. A companion book by Soledad O’Brien, with Rose Marie Arce, is also available.

drew an astounding nearly 16 million viewers to the cable network, and the CNN website drew nearly 15 million unique visitors. Mark Nelson, vice president and senior executive producer at CNN Productions, black viewership “increased

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almost 900 percent.” Part 1 of the series, “The Garcias,” looks

at the lives of Garcias across the country. Gar-cia is now the eighth most common surname in the U.S., behind the Smiths, Johnsons, Williamses and Browns, and catching up with the Joneses. It addresses the issues of education, teen pregnancy and depression and how changing demographics are affect-ing religion.

Part 2, “Chasing the Dream,” addresses the reason so many immigrants from all countries are here, to achieve a better life for themselves and their families – realizing the American dream. It also touches on the plight of illegal immigrants and how the U.S. is addressing the issue which it had turned a blind eye to for decades.

One of the biggest criticisms of Black in America was that it didn’t answer any ques-tions, and Latino in America doesn’t either. It presents startling and upsetting statistics – more than half of Latina women are pregnant before age 20; 1 in 7 Latino teens attempt suicide; and so on – but doesn’t provide any insight as to how we as community or a country can start to change it.

Latino in America does however convey the importance of family and maintaining cultural ties as well as capturing the frustra-tion that creates and why so many Hispanic citizens feel they “live in two worlds.” It shows the warmth and optimism this group brings and through the personal stories, it shows an intimate side of our neighbors, classmates and colleagues, their dreams and their challenges.

O’Brien says that the series is meant to open a dialogue, and maybe it will. What Latino in America does is shine a light on the biggest cultural change America has seen in more than a century and make all viewers think and rethink just what it means to be an American.

soledad o’Brien with Edward James olmos

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Evaluate your child’s skills, interests, abili-ties and habits> Be attentive to their behavior patterns. I noticed very early on that my niece was really good at counting and noticing price differences when we’d purchase something at the store. Skills like that should be nurtured. Notice if your child loves to talk, perform, draw, etc., so you can support it. > Be open to feedback from family members and friends who are in different professions than you – they could notice traits in

Help Your Chil-dren Become Career Minded> Introduce ideas and concepts> Read your

kid stories and identify the characters that have profes-sional roles.> Take your

kid to museums with exhibits

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career coaching for KidsSuccess Means Starting Earlyby nataScha SaunderS What do your kids want to be when they grow up? If the typical answer ranges from a fireman to Barack Obama, you are not alone. The key is to get the kids to consider career possibilities even when they might rather play video games or hang with friends. Here are five tips to get kids excited about work.

your children as well.> Maintain a list of the books your child reads and note which ones are of special interest to them.> Keep a diary where you record observations of your child’s activities and accomplish-ments of particular significance, and record ideas for the future.

physicians, etc.> Purchase educa-tional board games that stimulate their mind.> Go on easy field trips to fire stations, zoos, bakeries and sports arenas etc.> Share what you do at work – give them examples or tell it as a story or how you helped someone today.> Visit the library with them to find books that stimulate various career interests.

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Support their activities>The earlier you in-volve your child in school activities, the better. Listen to the input of teachers/counselors. Listen to your gut when you think your child may excel in a particular area and help foster that growth. > Place your kids in activities that would support their skills and/or interests. If they are active, con-sider martial arts, which can teach them discipline and self-confidence.> Consider play groups with other children, kids clubs, camp and having them take lessons.> Utilize resources such as careerkids.com. They provide assessments, books, and articles on a variety of topics for kids at all ages. Kids.gov provides links and great resources for K-8. The site explains careers for children in NASA, FCC, Fire Safety and more.

Teach them the basics> Give your children chores early on such as cleaning and put-ting away toys to teach responsibility, organizational skills and how to set

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the Second all-inclusive awards

WHAT: a ceremony to honor leaders of inclusion

WHEN: 6:00 to 11:00 p.m., thursday, dec. 3

WHERE: Marriot boston copley place

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1. the first annual all-inclusive awards at the Westin Waterfront hotel in Boston

2. Last year’s keynote speaker, soledad o’Brien, with Josefina Bonilla

3. Joanne Choi with the red sox World series trophies

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Join us in honoring the people and organizations that are paving the way for inclusion at the Second Annual All-Inclusive Awards. This year’s keynote speaker is Hollywood icon, Forest Whitaker. A total of six awards will be given in the categories of Leadership, Supplier Diversity and Change Agent.

Forest Whitaker is a highly influential and successful African American actor, activist, producer and director. He has won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last King of Scotland, and in 2006 was named “Hollywood Actor of the Year” at the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival.

This year, Color Magazine will give a gift to The Greater Boston Food Bank from the proceeds of the event. The Food Bank feeds more than 320,000 people annually in nine counties in eastern Massachusetts. The Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and one of the largest food banks in the country.

To reserve your seat, sponsor or nominate, visit www.colormagazineusa.com.


“The lion’s shares of the awards go to compa-nies like, Arnold, Hill Holliday and Modernista! These are organizations that are 100 times, or 200 times, our size,” said Daren Bascome, founder and director of Proverb. “It’s not that we are just bringing more efficiency, it’s that we are delivering a product at the same level or better.”

There are qualities one would expect from a boutique agency: a personal touch, flexibility and an understanding of niche markets. And there are qualities one would expect from a big firm: competitive value, comprehensive services, di-versity and general market sensibilities. With just nine employees, five of whom work part-time, Proverb has achieved all of these qualities.

hen Proverb Ltd. took home two Hatch Awards (for B.Y.O.B. and Myers + Chang) at The Ad Club’s annual advertising show, it was a benchmark for how far the boutique marketing agency has come since its inception in 2004.

Proverb Ltd. takes on the Goliaths

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b.y.O.b.Greenrock, a Bermuda-based, environmental advocacy group, sought out Proverb to create their Bring Your Own Bag/Bottle campaign. Bascome’s goal was to create “visually arresting” campaign with a “sense of humor” that would encourage change without being “preachy.”

< Myers + changFor the trendy, diner-inspired, Asian restaurant in Boston’s South end, Myers + Chang, Bascome wanted the design to be “bold yet sensitive.” The comprehensive brand-ing effort included logo design, print ads, restau-rant décor, and an 80-foot dragon on Washington St.

Before founding Proverb, Bascome was a free-lance graphic designer. Today, he and his partner,

Christine Needham, are projecting $720,000 in sales for the year, more than double their revenue from last year.

“There’s a tremendous amount of diversity in interests, experiences and background. You wind up with more ideas to draw from and there is a synergy that comes from it,” Bascome explained. That synergy is one of the keys to Proverb being able to compete with the bigger companies. “By having different people in the room, we interpret the data differently. There are subtleties what we pick up on, to embrace the audience, that others might not get.”For more information visit www.thetruthmadesimple.com.

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fter a decade of directing action movies in Hollywood, legendary filmmaker John Woo has taken what he’s learned behind the cam-era making films like Mission Impossible II and Face/Off and used it to create the sweeping epic, Red Cliff, his first feature film shot in mainland China and, with an estimated budget of US$80 million,

the most expensive Asian-financed film to date.

classic tale, epic scaleby JOhn black

(Photo CourtEsy of magnEt rELEasing)

“We have all seen Hollywood’s epic blockbusters. The world’s audiences have also enjoyed the various genres of Chinese cinema, including kung-fu, action and drama,” Woo said. “Chinese his-torical epics, however, are rarely depicted with the scale and tech-nique that is found in Hollywood blockbusters. Chinese cinema contains much of our cultural heritage, including the spirit of the martial arts. Using the medium of cinema, we are able to express our ideals and culture through different layers. These thoughts led me to make a film about the heroes of the Three Kingdoms outside of the martial arts genre. Red Cliff is a film I had long dreamed of making, ever since I read about the heroes from that glorious time in history.”

Red Cliff is the legendary tale of the Battle of Red Cliff that took place in China in 208 AD.

The story was first immortal-ized in the classic Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Although written more than seven hundred years ago, the novel is still widely read all over Asia and has spawned more than a dozen videogames and numerous comic books. To capture the epic nature of the story, Woo created two ver-

sions of the film: a two part, five-hour version for Asian audiences and a single two-and-a-half-hour version for other territories.

“My goal is for this film to rise above cultural and historical barriers, so that the Western audi-ence feels as if they are watching an Asian Troy, while the Eastern audience can discover new perspectives on a familiar story,” Woo explained. “I truly wished to make a film that could be en-joyed by audiences all over the world. Inside my

heart, film knows no boundary. While audiences in the East love many great movies from the West, western audiences also appreciate the splendid culture of the East. Therefore, I genuinely hope that when American audience’s watch Red Cliff they do not look at it as a Chinese film or a Hol-lywood film, but as a global film.”

While it remains to be seen how Western au-diences will react to Woo’s film, Asian audiences have embraced Red Cliff with record-breaking results: The first part was released in Asia in July 2008 and went on to gross more than US$124 million, breaking the box office record previously held by Titanic in mainland China.

“The world has many kinds of heroes, but I like heroes that are real and human. I see many similarities between my idea of what a hero should be and the characters of Three Kingdoms,” Woo said. “I genuinely believe that human emotion is universal and not bound by culture. The same values of virtue, morality and friendship are praised in the West just as they are in the East. Though these feelings are expressed in different ways, deep inside, we all essentially share the same emotions.”

John Woo on the set of red Cliff.(Photo CourtEsy of magnEt rELEasing)

red cliff

DIRECTED BY: John Woo

STARRING: tony leung chiu-Wai, takeshi kaneshiro, zhang Fengyi, chang chen, zhao Wei, hu Jun, nakamura Shidō ii, lin chi-ling, you yong

Red Cliff debuts in the United States November 20.


“This exploration of ancient Egypt provides a window into one of the most fascinating civiliza-tions in history,” said Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA. “The artistic and historical treasures found in Tomb 10A bring to life the world of 2,000 BC – a time of glori-ous artistic achievements. By revealing what the Djehutynakhts considered most important for their journey to the afterlife, the exhibition offers a better understanding of the Middle Kingdom, the least known of Egypt’s major eras.”

The Djehutynakhts – Governor Djehutynakht and his wife, Lady Djehutynakht – are the origi-nal residents of Tomb 10A excavated in 1915 by the Harvard University/Museum of Fine Arts expedition in Deir el-Bersha, a necropolis 186 miles south of Cairo. The find, which is still being excavated today, represents the largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered, and the new MFA exhibition features more than 250 objects, many of which have never before been on view.

Highlights of the exhibit include four beau-tifully crafted coffins, including the coffins of Governor Djehutynakht and his wife. Painted on both the inside and the out-side of the governor’s coffin were two pairs of wedjat eyes depicting the Eye of Horus, a protective symbol which gave Djehutynakht a window to see through in his journey into the afterlife. When the coffin was first brought to the MFA in the 1920s, the left Eye of Horus was missing, however in preparing objects for the new exhibition, curator Pamela Hatchfield discovered the missing frag-ment.

There is also a collection of wooden fig-ures posed to represent a range of activities and items that would have been found on the couple’s estate, such as brick making, carpentry and baking. A centerpiece to the

The Gund Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts has been transformed to take visi-tors 4,000 years back in time to let them explore the mysteries of Ancient Egypt in a fascinating new exhibition called The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2,000 BC.

who spent ap-p r o x i m a t e l y 10,000 hours on the project.

The exhibit also features a mummified head which curators believe belongs to either the governor or his wife. A team of experts is currently doing a series of DNA tests on a tooth

extracted from the head to determine just whose it could be, and museum officials said they are hopeful to be able to announce the solution to the mummy head mystery before the show closes.

Visitors coming to the MFA hoping to see hordes of unearth Egyptian treasure will be disappointed, in a way, since tomb robbers stole most of the items in the tomb made of precious metals and jewels. However seeing what they left behind – a priceless collection of masterworks of Egyptian art – is worth the trip.

“We are thrilled to present this material for the first time,” said Rita E. Freed, John F.

Cogan, Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chair of the MFA’s Department of Art of the Ancient World, who helped organize the exhibit. “It has been a privilege to study it now that our talented conser-vators have restored it to its original splendor. The consummate skill of the ancient artists is revealed for all to see and enjoy.”

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC will be at the Museum of Fine Arts Oct. 18 through May, 2010. Ad-mission is free with general admission to the MFA. For more information, visit mfa.org.

exhibit is a flotilla of model wooden boats that were painstakingly reconstructed by five conser-vators (including one from the Cairo Museum)

the secrets of tomb 10aa rare Look at Life in 2,000 B.C. Egyptby JOhn black

governor djehutynakht

mummy mask

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If Kimchi, Kalbi, Bibimbap and Bulgogi are not part of your vocabulary, they soon will be. The Korean government is running a campaign to raise the global status of Korean food. Part of the initiative is to make dishes more contemporary – expect fusion dishes, cool designs and high-quality meat. As for me, I need no campaigning. Every few months, when the cravings hit, I start to lurk around Korean eateries in Boston and make plans to visit friends in New York or New Jersey to get my fix. I guess I just miss eating Korean food every day, like I did when I was growing up.

There are three main types of Korean cuisine: traditional, Japanese style and Chinese style. Most restaurants in America are Japanese style and serve traditional food along with raw fish options. A lot of these half-Korean, half-Japanese places have tables where you can grill the traditional marinated meat, Bulgogi, or the short rib version, Kalbi, at the table. A popular Japanese-style dish is Hwe Dub Bap, sashimi over vegetables and rice seasoned with a spicy red sauce and served with a bowl of miso soup. Traditional foods are like the hearty and spicy tofu stews and cold noodle dishes. Chinese-style dishes tend to be noodle dishes and fried meats covered in sauce.

My preference in restaurants is Japanese style – I adore raw fish but still need a spicy sauce and side dishes along with my entree. When I crave Hwe

Dub Bap, but I am dining with a bunch of red meat eaters, I head to Koreana in Cambridge, Mass. It has both the sushi selection and the barbeque option. (And their ample ventila-tion system prevents the lingering smell of barbeque from getting on you.) Privus in Allston, Mass., also has a satisfying Hwe Dub Bap.

Buk Kyung II in Allston has solid Chinese-style Korean food and the noodle dish, Ja Jung Myun, hits the spot along with the Tang Su Yok (fried meat in a sweet and sour sauce). The Ja Jung Myung noodles are made in-house and the black sauce is full of meat and vegetables.

But alas, Boston does not have the range of Korean restaurants that New York or New Jersey boasts, so a Boston-based, Korean-food lover must be willing to travel. A good meal makes the long bus ride to New York or New Jersey worth it, plus, entrée prices are usually about 30 percent cheaper.

Dong Bang Grill in the Fort Lee area of New Jersey

is my go-to place, does great barbeque and serves spicy traditional food.

In Manhattan, KumGangSan Restaurant, was a welcome stop on my journey and served nine little side dishes (Banchan) with various traditional offerings to go along with Kimchi and white rice. This was at ten in the morning – so imagine their evening offerings.

Moim in Brooklyn bills itself as modern Korean cuisine and lets you choose your side dishes, tapas style. The offerings incorporated the best of

The final leg of my journey for good Korean food brought me back to Massachusetts, to the opening of a new H Mart, the Korean-American supermarket chain. The September 26th opening of H Mart’s Burlington, Mass. location saw a packed house. I ran into at least three people I know, including my father. It seemed like every Korean person in the common-wealth must have been there that night.

Even several weeks later, H Mart was packed. Such a large-scale Korean grocery store will – as Ko-rean food becomes more accessible – slowly change how Korean food is viewed by the mainstream. Within

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Korean cuisine and made it accessible without watering it down. The dumplings filled with Kimchi and pork were memorable.

Before leaving New York City, I made a quick pit stop at WooriJip in Midtown and picked up some fresh and très cheap Kim-Bap (vegetables and rice rolled in seaweed) and Man Du (vegetable dumplings). WooriJip has restaurant quality food that is super fresh and packaged for take out.

New York and New Jersey have many places that sell packaged Korean food to go along with pre made side dishes. One can easily pick up ingredients for Bibimbap (rice mixed with meat, vegetables, an egg and chili pepper paste) and Kim-Bap from those places.

a few years, the quality in Korean restaurants in Massachusetts will rise significantly while the prices drop. People will do the math – why go out to eat when you can buy ready-to-eat or almost ready-to-eat meals at the grocery store for a fraction of the cost? Just make some rice, perform some Korean “magic,” invite some friends over and feast at home.

What I call Korean “magic” means using fresh, high quality ingredients to create a visually appealing dish with a kick, via the soy sauce, spice, garlic and Gochujang (red chili paste). The Korean Tourist board, H Mart, and media focus is turning my ideal comfort food trendy and cool. Hopefully, they can still capture the magic.

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mpowerment is not a simple concept. Histori-cally, rulers used wine to sedate or excite the masses. Women and men use it to seduce each other. Artists use it for inspiration, food

lovers for pleasure. The daily ration of wine was, for centuries, a major item in the sustenance of the French soldier, and extremely important to his morale.

Why does wine seem to empower you? Ob-viously, wine contains alcohol, and this is one reason why we enjoy it. However, it may not be the most important reason. Situational power might be. Mastering wine has always meant be-ing powerful. Serving wine has meant becoming popular. This did not even escape Jesus, whose contribution to the Marriage at Cana consisted in turning water into wine. But, of course, drinking wine is also linked to losing control, which can be good and bad.

Being human and enjoying wine seem related in intricate ways. Sociologically, many societies drink alcohol during rites of passage. Wine has social and ritual significance, a function it retains up to this day. Just think of how altar wine signi-fies the blood of Christ, sparkling wine signals joy, and mulled wine means winter.

In contemporary society, wine takes two main roles; that of conveying youthful exuber-ance and that of conveying sophistication, sta-tus, brand and identity. Focusing on the latter, wine is among those consumer goods where we have the most choice. Selecting a wine means making a statement. Superficially, you could be

showing off. In reality, you could be making a statement about where you come from or where you belong, or what you believe in. Think of the whole spectrum from organic wines, domestic wines, or budget wines to Super-Tuscans, cult wines or trophy wines from over-hyped Napa or Bordeaux vintages or vintners. But, do you drink Chilean wines just because you are His-panic? Do you prefer domestic wines for politi-cal reasons? Do you buy budget wine because you always shop at discount stores or expensive wine because you think you belong to the elite? Do you only buy wine based on some magazine or figure’s 90+ rating? When do we see beyond the label? Can we?

We drink wine because we want to but also sometimes because we are told to. There has always been an inescapable mythology around wine. Nowadays, there is also marketing, and even science to back it up. Do you know why you picked up that last bottle? The situation might matter more. As Paul Giamatti’s character from the movie Sideways (2004) learned the hard way, there are times when a good Pinot Noir (in his case a Cheval Blanc ‘61) should not be opened. Being alone at a diner is one of them.

You drink because you are part of, or want to be seen as being connected to a particular aspect of society. There is nothing wrong with that. Alcoholism apart, you do not drink because you need to, but because you want to. Beyond a gastronomic experience, it may be a cultural and political statement, or at least it looks that way. You drink because you exist, not in order to ex-ist. In this process, you might become what you seek. Just be sure you know what that is. Wine is linked to empowerment, in intricate ways.

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he name, Native Americans, is given to the groups of people who populated parts of the pre-Columbus land we now call the United States.The myth passed down about these peoples is that they learned to honor the land with all its majesty and mystery. Their connectedness to the land cre-ated a sense participation in many of nature’s activities. For example, the ritual to honor the rising sun and salutation to its appearance every morning validated the sacredness of

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That connectedness, which groups like the Navajo, who in their own way “help the sun to rise,” supports the natural ecological cycles on earth, and that connectedness has largely been lost. Unlike the Native Americans, many of us are alienated from the natural cycles of the planet.

To Native American and Africans, the rela-tionship to the earth is one of “I and thou.” Cur-rently, the people of this land relate to the earth as an “it” – a stranger that only has utility. We westerners exploit the land. We don’t have love for its creations and cycles. We see ourselves as alone in a perpetual state of “loneliness.” We live as if we were missing something. We reach out to others in an attempt to relate to what is “miss-ing.” And out of that, we create “dependency.” It is a way to live with deficit. We want from the other what we have not found in ourselves.

We are here in the land, but we have not worked on the human task. We are not a com-munity with each other. Western culture is basi-cally alone… and afraid.

The land feeds and nurtures us. The way we

ignore or mistreat the land reflects how we relate to one another. Keeping the natives in captivity – in segregated spaces – disallows us our capac-ity to expand, progress and heal as individuals and as a society. The loss of connection with the land is also the loss of connection with the universe. The boundless capacity to surrender to the magnificent space that life has put in our sur-roundings is mitigated by isolation and feelings of not belonging.

Some say that mental health has everything to do with work and love. What is denied is the capacity to experience the magnificence of cre-ation and the rhythms of life on the planet. What we enjoy inside is connected with the flow of day and night, the sound of the waters, the illumina-tion of the moon, the chirps of crickets and birds, the feeling of being one with the universe.

The truth is that we are never alone. We have a vast universe also inside of us. We connect with it through our dreams and with reading the daily rhythms of life, like a heart beating. The inner world is a great companion. The human experi-ence lies somewhere between the inner world and the outer. If we learn how to dance in its waves, we will be always in peace. Like children playing at the beach and enjoying life carelessly, we also have the capacity to enjoy nature, the inner and outer forces that make up our lives. As we are able to observe and participate in both processes, we will be at home – like a person native to this place.

cracking that does not yield immediate right answers. This strategy, however, can help you bump into unexpected outcomes as you interact with your prospect. This kind of thinking can achieve unique and powerful ideas.

Send a compelling message. Make of-fers that are irresistible to your prospects. This entails knowing their business and needs in ways that they haven’t thought about before. Surprise them with what you know. Make the potential organization your hobby. Liken it to an opera-tion where you want your physician to collect surgical data, paying attention to the minute particulars. Small changes and subtleties can make a quantum difference.

Listen to prospects until they have said something new to you! You increase your effectiveness if you are at the intersection where new connections are made by your pros-pects. If they are thinking in a new way while in your presence, you will be there at the origin of the thought and ahead of the competition.

Find out why you did not get the busi-ness. Follow up as a regular practice. Find out what you did well and what you didn’t do well. Become a faster learner, so that today’s failure can be the front-runner for tomorrow’s success. Develop a list of buyer preferences and use a compiled list as a platform to build specific com-ponents of your program.

End the bias against yourself. With your minds eye, see yourself being successful. Purposely cre-ate a win-win situation for you and your buyer. See this successful image in such vivid detail that you can touch it, feel it, tell a story about it. In the movie of your mind, show up as the leading character.

Value partnerships. Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Many ideas grow bet-ter when they are transplanted in a mind other than in the one where they sprang up.” Find a thinking partner. Form a strategic alli-ance and get synergy going with someone who is of a different mind or who has different skills than yours. “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have” - Emile Chartier.

Use Consultative Selling. After generous listening and establishing rapport (like an examining physician), ask the prospect for permission to probe specific areas in order to

help them get the maximum benefit from your offerings. Proceed gently when asking for critical information:> Are there others bidding for the work?> Have you established a budget, pricing bound-aries, delivery requirements, etc.?> Who are the decision makers?> How many chances will I have to get this right? Work on getting more than one chance at the plate; this allows for problem solving and shows versatility and stamina.

Then take some personal risks: > Is there anything I have not asked that you think is important?> I will be working personally on this one.> I have a pay-for-performance option if you are interested.> What are the conditions to be your vendor of choice?> What long-range/larger possibilities are you thinking about?

Now that you’ve read another article, what will be different about how you act tomorrow? In baseball, the .300 hitters take batting practice everyday. What practice do you give yourself on a daily basis?

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