SECURITY AT THE AIRPORT!!!!

copyright 2010 The Bettina Network, inc. Are you a sexual pervert? Have you been convicted of sexual abuse against children? Are all of your thoughts about sex and sexual abuse against others? Are you listed in all the public places as a sexual predator and on the governments sexual predator listing? Have we got the…

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A Great Web Site for Those Who Cook!

Passed around over breakfast was the web site www.ChefTalk.com. We checked it out and it is great!!!! It claims to be “a food lover’s link to professional chefs and indeed it is. Ask your questions and get many answers in record time. There is a section of articles. A Forum. Reviews and more. My first…

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Travel, Embedded in a Community

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2010 How do you do that? By travelling via the Bettina Network. _________________________________________________ Learn More About How We Use Your Donation! [give_form id=”3763″] ______________________________________________________________ Want to join us? Have a home that you want to open to become one of Bettina Network’s Hedge Schools? Call us and lets talk –…

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Whole Foods Out of the Box

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2010 October is Non-GMO month and we are acutely aware of those who are working to eliminate food grown with GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEED and those who are the great transgressors. Whole Foods has become a leader in the Non-GMO movement and we commend them on that effort and praise them for…

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A NEW BREAKFAST HABIT – FRESH COFFEE

The Bettina Network, inc. copyright 2010 We have started a new tradition, thanks to a guest, from Oxford in England, who makes Espresso for himself every morning with a popcorn popper and good, green espresso coffee beans. It was a fascinating conversation to realize something which I had dismissed as complicated, time-consuming, etc. is being…

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Eggs for Breakfast?

copyright The Bettina Network, inc. 2010 Needless to say, there has been much talk around Bettina breakfast tables about eggs – given all the media coverage which concentrated on one large farms’ transgression and didn’t give any coverage to the alternatives we have to keep away from eggs with salmonella and other bad things. This…

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Breakfast Apples

copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2010 One of the Bettina Host families has finally sent us her recipe for the apples which are a trademark of her breakfasts. Every morning, you can count on geting these apples, no matter what else she serves. We loved them from first taste. They are not stewed apples, which break…

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How to Settle an Upset Stomach

A common problem among those who travel is an upset stomach. A traditional remedy is a cup of peppermint tea. From breakfast conversations and from our work with the Philippa Schuyler Committee we discovered charcoal tablets. Those were recommended by Dick Gregory and Josephine Cogsdell Schuyler for her daughter Philippa who travelled extensively giving piano…

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INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES

NOLA Business Alliance – Chief Executive Officer Application Deadline: October 15, 2010 “NEW ORLEANS – The Board of NOLA Business Alliance is now seeking a Chief Executive Officer. For the right individual, the CEO position could be an extraordinary opportunity – to lead a critical new organization, for a world-famous city heading in a promising…

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What Causes Obesity in Children?

What follows is a synopsis of a breakfast discussion and a copy of what I put on Linkedin because the breakfast discussion and the question under the “White House Linkedin Group” were the same. The Linkedin question was “What causes obesity in children?” The Bettina breakfast discussion was – why is it so hard to…

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