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Ali's "A" List : Ali Wing
Ali Wing, giggle CEO and founder February 8, 2010

A Smart Plug

A couple of weeks ago, my husband attended a Martha Stewart show for Dads featuring Super Bowl food and entertaining ideas.  Consistent with what appears to be today’s talk show standard, each audience member walked away with some amazing freebies.  Aside from continuing to be perplexed about how companies can afford to underwrite these large giveaways (they are expensive!) and despite the fact that in my house my husband rules the kitchen, as any good consumer products businesswoman would do, I still checked out the design details of each of the giveaways.

Breville Panini-maker Plug One in particular earned my design-awe — a Breville sandwich/panini maker called “The Smart Grill“.  Or more specifically, its amazingly cool outlet plug!  How many of you have suffered broken nails, squeezed fingers or just gotten darn frustrated trying to remove appliance plugs?  Check out what an absolutely cool idea Breville employed in its already above-the-top fabulous sandwich/panini-maker — a finger hole right below the outlet plug, for easy removal. Brilliant.

I’ve always been a huge fan of great design that is as much about practicality and function as it is about beauty. Breville’s Smart Grill delivers on every level of my “A-list”.  Hats off Breville! And yes, we enjoyed awesome panini’s courtesy of my Martha Stewart-trained husband yesterday watching the Saints beat the Colts among well-fed friends.

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giggle San Francisco : Joani
joani January 24, 2010

Baby Photogragher Tristan Davison

Hey Everyone, look who is coming to giggle for a Photo Extravaganza….. Tristan Davison will be here on Februaray 11, 2010 from 11-4.  Bring your children to have a free photo shoot of approximately 50 to 75 photos that Tristan will upload to his site for viewing.  Check out his work from this link http://www.tristandavison.com/tdp2/kids1/1.html and then come on down and join us for all the fun in capturing awesome shots of your little one.  Photos will be available for purchase from Tristan website.  Don’t miss out on this fabulous opportunity.  Reservations are not necessary but you are welcome to RSVP me at Joani@giggle.com

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Who's Your Daddy? : Will Holmes
Will Holmes December 10, 2009

Be Da Man!

In our house, golf is a big deal.  When we changed to Verizon Fios for TV, making sure we had the proper package so that we got The Golf Channel in HD was a major concern.  The Little Man has inherited his father’s love for the game and lots of good times have been had on the golf course, driving range and putting green.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you might have noticed that Tiger Woods had gotten himself into a bit of a bother.  Another sports star imploding in front of our eyes.  This one seems a bit harder to swallow, though, given them carefully crafted image that has been so delicately developed for our so-called hero.  Squeaky clean husband and father who meanwhile has his handlers shuttling women back and forth.

What has struck me like a Tiger tee shot hitting a fan standing in the right rough is how few discussions I’ve seen about Tiger screwing up as a dad.  Obviously, he will have tons of financial fallout from the mess he has created.  Sure, the revelation of his modern day harem has probably doomed his marriage.  But what about those two beautiful children that now are stuck in the middle of the most public train wreck of this millennium?

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Photo by Keith Allison

Let’s not forget, that Tiger Woods would still be Eldrick Woods doing something other than being sports’ first billionaire without the love, support and dedication of his late father, Earl Woods.  I think it is safe to say that Earl would not approve of the recent actions of his superstar son.  People having been screaming “You Da Man!” after every shot Tiger has hit over the last ten plus years.  So to Tiger (a regular reader of this blog I’m sure), please take a minute and think of your father and then think of your children.  Then step up and “BE Da Man!”

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Healthy Eating : Alexandra Zissu
Alexandra Zissu October 18, 2009

Raising Conscious Carnivores

I was interested to read in The New York Times Magazine’s all-food issue that the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, a vegetarian, is also raising his kids vegetarian.

One of the (many) reasons, he says, is that 99 percent of the animals eaten in this country are produced on factory farms. I also refuse to eat that 99 percent, but I do eat – and share with my family – the other 1 percent. Where I live, it feels like a lot more than 1 percent. I wonder if that statistic needs to be adjusted to take into account the growing-in-number small (usually family) farms dedicated to raising real, pure meat in a relatively humane fashion (considering that they’re still going to be eaten). Safran Foer says these alternatives are “difficult for even an educated eater to find.” This may be true when looking for good, pure meat in some parts of the country, but it categorically isn’t true in Brooklyn, where (I hear) he lives. I know many places to get the best stuff in Brooklyn.

Helping eaters – educated or not – find this kind of meat (and produce) is exactly what my upcoming book, The Conscious Kitchen, is about. It doesn’t come out until March. Until then, eat vegetarian when eating out (unless you know the chef and where they source their meat) and source your own pure stuff to eat at home by shopping farmers’ markets, educating yourself on questions to ask butchers, and look for local grass-fed and pastured animals. Take it a step further by visiting the farms where your animals are being raised. A few good resources:

EatWild.com
LocalHarvest.org
Fleishers.com

The pure stuff can be expensive but we don’t eat much of it. And the alternative – for us – is no meat at all.

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Best Birth : Sarah McMoyler
Sarah McMoyler, R.N. September 29, 2009

Daddy Moseley

What fun to see Jonny Moseley (he and his wife, Malia, prepared to give birth with McMoyler Method in SF) at the Bay Club in Marin, where he was working up a sweat in the weight room-literally propelling himself from one corner of the room to the other!

Trying to respect his work-out time as well as his celebrity status, I approached him and said “are you Baby Moseley’s Dad?” He responded with his million dollar smile and we went on to chat about life with Jack, who at two, is evidently zooming faster than even Jonny can keep up with!

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