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Review: Souen

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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I have become fully obsessed with Souen! Souen is a Macrobiotic restaurant with a few locations in New York City. A little about Souen:

  • Since 1971, Souen has been offering natural organic food to New York diners, with the foremost priority being to serve delicious meals in keeping with good health. We prepare our food simply and naturally, offering you the best quality grains, beans, and produce. No refined, chemicals, preservatives, meat or dairy products are used in our kitchen. We also employ traditional methods of preparation whenever possible to enhance the healthful quality and natural flavor of our food. With the increasing awareness of the connection between food, health and the environment, we continue our consistent effort to maintain and improve upon our high standards and Macrobiotic principles. Our concept is to let people all over the world experience real traditional Japanese food, delicious Macrobiotic food.

I have no been to two different Souen locations. One in the Union Square area, and the other in Soho. The menu varies between locations. But everything I had at both locations was delicious.

Souen is traditional macrobiotic food, so they do serve fish. But everything without fish is vegan since they do not use any dairy products. So it’s a great place to take friends that might not be vegetarian, but have been wanting to eat healthier.

If you are unfamiliar with Macrobiotics, I really suggest you put on your adventurous hat and give Souen a try. The food tastes amazing, and you will truly feel better afterward.

The basic idea of Macrobiotics is simple.

It is thought that by eating balanced foods such as grains and vegetables that are more local and in season, we can maintain good physical and spiritual health and live in harmony with nature. A typical Macrobiotic plate for our area will consist of a large portion of grains, beans, seaweed, vegetables and vegetable protein, such as tofu, seitan, beans and tempeh. Following the traditional Japanese food model of a simple and natural diet, macrobiotics dictates eating food in a natural way – unrefined and unprocessed.

But what does unrefined and unprocessed mean? It means for example, eating whole foods such as vegetables together with their skins and stems. It means not eating husked, processed rice but whole grain brown rice. It means, we living people should eat from a living land – taking food in season, in its entirety.

To clarify, I do not follow a macrobiotic diet. But it’s something I enjoy eating when I can.

If you try it out, let me know what you think.

Review: Liquiteria

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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This morning when I went to make my usual “green juice”

I realized that I didn’t have enough greens. So I decided to head over to Liquiteria (a juice bar in the east village that I’ve been meaning to try out) and see if their “all greens with apple” was similar to what I make in the morning.

Liquiteria has a menu of fresh squeezed juice, smoothies (that they call liquid meals), and fresh pressed juice. They also have a small take-out menu of sandwiches, wraps, soups, etc.

But I came for the juice! Now fresh squeezed juice would be what I make with my juicer at home, it has more body and is usually a little thicker than pressed juice, but it won’t last as long (you should drink it right away). When you find a place that sells pressed juice its usually made and bottled fresh, and will last a few days in the fridge.

Liquiteria has one of the bigger menus of pressed juices around:

ALL GREENS
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery & cucumber

ALL GREENS WITH APPLE, LEMON & GINGER
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber, apple, lemon & ginger

ALL GREENS WITH APPLE
kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber & apple

MR GREEN
carrot, apple, beet, ginger, Super Green Food & Liver Kidney Lymph Detox

GREENS WITH CARROT
romaine, spinach, kale, parsley & carrot

MIXED VEGGIE
kale, spinach, parsley, celery, cucumber, carrot & beets

GRASSHOPPER
apple, pear, pineapple, wheatgrass & mint

THE KILLER
green apple, ginger, lemon & Immunity Now

THE KILLER XX
green apple, double serving of ginger, lemon, cayenne & Immunity Now

IMMUNE ROCKET BOOSTER
carrot, celery, beet, ginger, flax seed oil & Immunity Now

SKIN TRIP
carrot, spinach, cucumber, parsley, aloe vera & Liver Kidney Lymph Detox

I picked up the all greens with apple because it sounded closest to what I usually make in the morning. I like the juice a lot, it’s a little sweeter than I usually make mine, so I’m eager to try just the all greens next time and see if I can handle cutting out the fruit completely.

Of course the downside to finding a juice place you like is that you will be lazy and buy juice when you could just make it for much less money. So hopefully this will only be a last resort for when I run out of produce.

Do you have a favorite juice place, or maybe a juice recipe that you think I should try?

Social Media Moving

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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As many of you know, I am moving to Philadelphia this weekend for a new job. When most people move they have to empty out where they are moving from, organize all their things, pack clothes, ship larger items, but that’s basically it.

changing the location on social sites when you move

Yesterday I started to think about what moving means for all of my profiles all over the web. Most of the sites and communities that I am active on have a location, or a city in the profile. I will have to go through and change my current city on all of these sites. I know this doesn’t seem like that hard of a thing to do, but it can become very time consuming.

Even harder then physically changing your current city, is keeping everyone up to date with your location. People perceive you to be living somewhere, but that might not be where you actually are.

Sites like foursquare help with this. Letting you know where your friends are in your city, or when your out of town friends are in town. But one of the big problems with foursquare is that you can’t see where your friends in other cities are. You are only shown who is in your current city.

I have found that checking in on foursquare had helped my friends to be more aware when I am traveling, or in a new city.

Yesterday I tweeted “Are there any social media sites for moving to a new city”

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One person responded and said “Does craigslist count?” Craigslist is great when you are moving and need to sell large pieces or when you need to find and apartment.

But sites like Yelp! can also be very helpful when you are living in a new city. Yelp can help you find everything from good places to eat, to a great place to get a haircut. Yelp has been great for me in NYC, but I am hoping that the Yelp Community in Philadelphia is as active.

Do you know of any other sites that have been helpful for you during a move? Or sites that have helped you settle into a new city? I would love to check them out, so please let me know in the comments.

Of course I have my own personal tour guide to Philadelphia, Drew Olanoff (@drew) <3

But if you know me, you know I am always looking for new sites and communities to check out.

Register as press

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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I heard about the Web 3.0 conference in NYC in May so I went over to their site to check out what the conference has to offer. I like attending these kinds of things because it helps me to understand how other people view the web. I already know how I view the web and I know that I think will happen in the future. But it is important to know what “industry analysts” say is going to happen and how they are telling companies to prepare.
For whatever reason I wanted to attend. But I can never seem to absorb the fees that these conferences charge for a pass, so I usually try to get in as press. It usually isn’t very hard, I write a blog about social media, I produce a show about online sites, services, tools and communities, so getting a press pass to cover the Web 3.0 conference should be easy. But listen to their qualifications for press.
To qualify for press credentials, you must:
  • be affiliated with a nationally or regionally recognized media outlet and;
  • hold an editorial title or;
  • hold a position as an industry analyst

To obtain your press credentials at the show, you must present either:

  • a business card, or
  • copy of masthead show name and title, or
  • letter from editor or publisher assigning bearer to cover the event

You do not qualify for press credentials if you are:

  • a publisher
  • a sales rep
  • any other non-editorial personnel
To request a press pass, please email events@mediabistro.com, and include: name, title, publication, URL, and full contact information.
Umm, what qualifies as a nationally recognized media outlet these days? I produce an online show, seen all over the world. I am the only editor of this blog, which is read all over the world, I don’t know what you want from me.
For a conference talking about Web 3.0 they don’t seem to be very open to online media as a press outlet. Or am I just misunderstanding them.

Networking: how much is too much?

Posted on by Sarah Cooley
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Most of us have been taught that networking is a good thing right? “It’s all about who you know” At what point does all this “networking” become useless? Don’t get me wrong I love meeting new people and I think that was one of the main reasons I started going to all these events in the first place. But sometimes I wonder, am I networking, or just making friends? Or is it the same thing.

Gary’s Guide is a popular site for media and tech events that many people will use when planning their schedule. But how are you supposed to filter through all these events. The events listed just for Wed. Dec 17th is enough to make your head spin.


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NY:MIEG – 3rd Annual Holiday Breakfast Event, December 2008 NYC SPIN Meeting, BIM Cafe – Networking Event, Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) Holiday Gala, Contacts & Cocktails: Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Angel Investor Networking Event, Entrepreneurs Roundtable 9, NYLUG – Matt Jamison on Fedora LiveCD & Holiday Pizza Party, Magnify.net Holiday Party, NAMIC-New York Holiday Soiree, The New York City Information Architecture December Meetup, The New York Affiliate Marketing December Meetup, New York Internet Marketing December Meetup, Digital Wednesdays @ Hotel Gansevoort, Innovation in the Music Business: An Action Learning Seminar

Sometimes there are crazy weeks where I seem to be at an event every night. Sometimes more than 1 a night. I have often found myself forgetting events because they were splashed across so many different social networks. I have tried to export everything to the calender on my phone but sometimes I miss something. How are we supposed to keep up with all these events? And what are we gaining from it?

These are some questions I often ask myself. Being in the tech scene in NYC you could easily go to a new event every night, but would that help you achieve your career goals? At this point in my life I am very young and the word “career” doesn’t seem to have a lot of focus. So I wonder if all this “networking” that I am doing will benefit me in any way, but along with all the business networking I have made some pretty amazing friends along the way. Being part of such a thriving tech community has truly added value to my life.

Do you think that networking events have helped your career? How many networking events are you attending these days?