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Meet Miss Paloma for Cinco de Mayo

Meet Miss Paloma for Cinco de Mayo 468 700 Alison Ashton

Cinco de Mayo celebrations certainly bring out the tequila cocktails, and among them, the margarita reigns supreme. Well, come this Cinco de Mayo, meet the margarita’s humbler, lesser known sister:…

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Banana Bread, Revisited

Banana Bread, Revisited 700 469 Alison Ashton

I picked up some bananas for a staff snack during a photo shoot the other week. And as I grabbed a bunch at the store, I thought, “Well, if these…

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Adventures with Vegan Cheese

Adventures with Vegan Cheese 700 469 Alison Ashton

A few years ago, I wrote a story about the benefits of a vegan diet. I interviewed Neil Barnard, M.D., founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and considered…

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Vegan Baking Grows Up

Vegan Baking Grows Up 700 446 Alison Ashton

I’m not vegan, but I’ve been on a bit of vegan kick lately. There are plenty of health, animal welfare and environmental reasons to adopt a plant-based diet. But my…

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Playing with Stop-Motion Video on Vine

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“Creative” use of a tripod … So, Content Kitchen got an unusual request: Produce Vine video concepts for a client. Now, with Vine, you’ve got a mere six seconds to…

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Content Kitchen is Out of the Oven

Content Kitchen is Out of the Oven 800 800 Alison Ashton

Content Kitchen is now live and serving up tasty content strategy.With heartfelt special thanks to: Goldfinger Consulting (website design) Fuze Branding (logo and brand package)

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The CK Content Philosophy

The CK Content Philosophy 576 576 Alison Ashton

Great Content Starts with Your Audience I love this quote, because Edward Tufte is a Yale statistician whose work is all about numbers — he pioneered the science of visualizing…

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3 cookbooks, 3 ways to cook

3 cookbooks, 3 ways to cook 1614 1080 Alison Ashton

Between the holidays that just passed and everyone’s renewed enthusiasm to cook and eat right in the new year, people probably do more cooking now than any other time of…

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