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"The table becomes the bridge to our cultures." Caryn Antonini

My dear friend, Caryn Antonini is a culinary ambassador who reminds us that food is what connects us around a global table. Influenced by her father and worldwide travels, Caryn has launched Cultivated by Caryn, a podcast and radio show to share her love of cooking, dining and bridging cultures. She also did a TedX Talk about the Language of Food.

After being introduced by our mutual friends, Max Tucci and Jennifer English, Caryn and I met in person last summer while we were both in the South of France. We explored the outdoor food markets in Saint Tropez, dined at the historic Cafe Senequier and met again in Palm Beach for a Kitchen Chat and a lunch at Cafe Boulud at The Brazilian Court with my friend, Nancy Davis, founder of Race to Erase MS.

Caryn and I are both honoring our late fathers who made the world a little smaller through their global palates.

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Emmy Award Winning Actor and Daytime TV's favorite villain, Thaao Penghlis, recently released his cookbook: "Seducing Celebrities One Meal at a Time." This Australian-born Renaissance Man has traveled the world and hosted memorable dinner parties in his Hollywood Hills home with high profile celebrities. While this cookbook imagines the perfect meals for celebrities he has met, his actress friend Doris Roberts once wrote a thank you note praising his meticulous detail to the ambiance, food, and presentation.

Kourabiedes literally changed his life. While Thaao was working as an apprentice at an art gallery in Manhattan, Jacqueline Kennedy knocked on the door. The gallery owner was out to lunch so Thaao invited then Mrs. Kennedy to have some tea and kourabiedes which he had baked. How ironic that the son of Greek immigrants would serve Greek wedding cookies to the future Mrs. Onassis. Of course the featured entree that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis inspired was Thaao's Moussaka. recipe. He shares his delicious touches to this Greek dish including shiitake mushrooms and peeling the eggplants to remove any bitterness. Thaao also highlights delightful stories about other celebrities during our Kitchen Chat.

Thaao hosts a podcast called "Thaao Penghlis' Lost Treasures," a thrilling detective story-style exploration of Greece's greatest contribution to the world's literature, the poet Homer.

Here is Thaao's great wisdom for life and success.

1. Never allow people to be the leaders of your life or tell you what's next. I believe you plant your own seeds and trust.
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3. If someone's not opening the door, it's meant that you look elsewhere. Don't let them be your dominant in the ways they've taken you away from something. Out create them.
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5. Make your life great. Don't shortchange it. Don't let people dismiss you. If they do it means that you have just been blessed by someone who has let you go onto another side of your track.
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7. Be the cause and not the effect.

Enjoy the great recipes and stories in Seducing Celebrities One Meal at a Time.

Savor the day!

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