Several members of my restaurant staff are from Mexico. I learned from them a novel way of celebrating the New Year. As the New Year approached and we were busy preparing for our lunch rush, I noticed my staff exchanging bags and handfuls of lentils. I had to ask what it was all about. I [...]
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Although I am only a nutritionist, I want to share with you a new theory I’ve developed. It’s a syndrome called “cleaning the house before the housekeeper comes.” I have a housekeeper who comes every two weeks to clean up the areas of my house that I’ve missed the previous two weeks. Before she shows [...]
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Today one of my staff gave me hand-full of lentils and told me to put it in my pants’ pocket on New Year Eve. She claims that this will make me make mucho dinero in the coming year. Unlike the United States, where New Year’s day is spent nursing hangovers and watching football, there are a [...]
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Several members of my restaurant staff are from Mexico. I learned from them a novel way of celebrating the New Year. As the New Year approached and we were busy preparing for our lunch rush, I noticed my staff exchanging bags and handfuls of lentils. I had to ask what it was all about. I [...]
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My daughter told me the other day that”we should start our own tradition for the New Year”. That got me thinking about the concept of tradition, and I checked the dictionary, which told me that it was, among other things” an established way of thinking, feeling, or doing.” It is also defined as, “a cultural [...]
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