Boulevard Fall 2016

BOULEVARD Long Island’s Premier Celebrity, Lifestyle and Variety Publication

FALL 2016

REPAVING THE WAY Angela Susan Anton brings Boulevard back

Andrew Zimmern Gregg Allman On Your Feet!

Jacques Torres The Walking Dead

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CONTENTS

6 Letter From The Publisher 10 On The Cover Boulevard is back on the map

Angela Susan Anton, publisher and editor-in-chief of Boulevard, discusses rising above expectations and redefining success in the community newspapers

Parks

17 National 22 Appetite For Travel 24 Food Focus 26 Musical Notes

Spend the day at historic Sagamore Hill

Andrew Zimmern dishes on Long Island and New York City food muses

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Learn about duck eggs as a wonder ingredient

For The Love Of Horses

Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard and Horse Rescue is all about saving noble steeds

The road goes on for Gregg Allman

The Bees

36 Save 40 The Estefans Take On Broadway 46 Runway Rules Not Your Father’s Zombies 48 Estates

56 Real 60 Got Chocolate?

66 Face Behind The Voice 76 Social Diary Debra Del Vecchio’s efforts at bee preservation

Get On Your Feet! redefines the jukebox musical New York Fashion Week recap

Going live with the Walking Dead’s Melissa McBride Behind the doors of Gold Coast’s La Selva mansion

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Jacques Torres talks cocoa confections

Cookbook Maria Rodale talks baking

H. Jon Benjamin sounds off on voicing cult classics

Charity and social events on Long Island

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hese are special times that we’re living in and for me, a big part of that is my decision to bring back Boulevard.

During its original run from 1999 through March 2011, I was proud to publish a vehicle that enabled us to bring our readers a great cross-section of celebrity interviews, wonderful features about interesting people, beautiful photo spreads and a focus on charities, which continues to be a passion of mine. After a five-year hiatus, Boulevard is back with the same mission statement. I sat down with Jennifer Fauci to give her some background about Boulevard’s return, my love of publishing and how Anton Media Group got to its current state as a vibrant source of local community news coverage. In keeping with my passion for charities, Jennifer also did a wonderful job telling the story of Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard and Horse Rescue, only stopping long enough to pen a mouth-watering piece on renowned chocolatier Jacques Torres. Speaking of eating, our resident foodie Steve Mosco shares how versatile duck eggs are, dishes with celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern and also goes one-on-one with prolific voiceover actor H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers). Christy Hinko casts a wide net on local sights whether she’s spending a day at the National State Park that is Sagamore Hill, going behind the scenes at the Gold Coast La Selva mansion or chatting with Debra Del Vecchio about her efforts at bee preservation. We’ve also got all corners of the entertainment world covered as Dave Gil de Rubio sat down with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gregg Allman, got an exclusive interview with the leads of the Broadway smash On Your Feet! The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan and also got a hold of Melissa McBride, who plays Carol Peletier, one of the leads of the red-hot AMC series The Walking Dead, which is returning for its eagerly anticipated seventh season.

Plus, photographer Patrick McMullan, who was aboard for the first Boulevard run, is back and providing us with an array of eye-catching picture pages featuring charity and social events. I’m extremely proud to see Boulevard return and I hope you’ll be as pleased with reading it as we were putting it together.

Angela Susan Anton Publisher Boulevard

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COVER STORY

Legacy

A Local Long Island

It’s been 17 years since Boulevard, a specialty publication, was created. Now, publisher Angela Susan Anton felt it was time for a resurrection. By Jennifer Fauci

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ommunity. A term synonymous with loyalty, fellowship and an interest of commonality among a group of people. It is also linked to the name Anton. In 1984, the late publisher Karl V. Anton, Jr., discovered a small chain of eight newspapers that were up for sale. Already a founder of a Merrick newspaper with solid experience in the Van Son Holland ink business, Anton bought the newspapers from Edward Higgins and began branching out to communities across Long Island. His wife, Angela Susan Anton, is a recognizable Long Island legend in her own right, and has carried on the company with great pride, passion and a heart for local news.

“The name Anton to me, means communi- working with a newspaper was very differty and it means storytelling,” says Anton of ent. When I married Karl, he wanted me to her brand, which today includes 16 commu- come into the newspaper business,” says nity newspapers, the arts and entertainment Anton. “He guided me and I learned a lot publication Long Island Weekly, several from him.” monthly special sections and magazines and Anton became involved with a multitude Boulevard, Long Island’s premier celebrity, of boards, holding positions and attending lifestyle and variety publication. “I love charity luncheons and benefits. Today, she talking to people and I love the charity is involved in more than a dozen charities, aspect of it because our newspapers are very organizations and philanthropic endeavors philanthropic. I love deadlines and seeing across Long Island and Manhattan. the news is out there in a timely manner.”

“The first time I ever joined a board, it Anton wasn’t involved in the publishing was back in 1998 and it was at the Ameribusiness until 1996, previously working can Liver Foundation of Greater New York. in various managerial roles in her family’s They were looking for someone to chair the business. board on Long Island and I had never been “I had leadership roles in the past but a chair before, so they gave me this big book 10 BOULEVARD

of requirements,” says Anton. “I looked at Karl and I said ‘I can’t do this’ and he said ‘sure you can.’”

Her philanthropic involvement extends to her role as president of the Nassau County Museum of Art board of trustees, the North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, the Film Advisory Board of Nassau County, the New York Press Long Island Regional Board, a member of The Explorer’s Club, the Theodore Roosevelt Association, and past service as a board chair of Nassau Community College, just to name a few. In 2003,

Photos by Patrick Mcmullan Company

Anton was the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor award and just last year, won the spot of a character in James Patterson’s novel 15th Affair at an auction.

“I became involved in science and exploration through the Science Museum of Long Island, which led me to be an explorer and sent me to Easter Island and Morocco on these great expeditions to meet fascinating, interesting people. That’s when I took up flying,” says Anton of her adventurous side.

“We’re a female-owned business and I feel very strongly about empowering women.

Karl believed in me and he wanted the newspapers to go on to reach the community and help the community and he felt I was the person to do it.”

But taking over for her husband after his passing in 2000 provided a new set of challenges, as Anton faced competitors that wanted to buy the company. At that time, Anton began reading the autobiography Personal History, by Katherine Graham, whom she cites as her idol.

“She [Katherine Graham] took over the Washington Post from her husband, who

died tragically. She was a young woman and in those days, it was a man’s world, and it’s still a man’s world primarily,” says Anton.

“When Karl died, that book was my Bible because our lives are different, but so very similar and it helped me a lot.”

With the tenacity of a seasoned journalist, Anton weathered the storm and took the necessary steps to lead the company according to her vision and, ultimately, to where it is today.

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Photos by Christy Hinko

some of her newspapers, such as The Roslyn News, have been around for close to 150 years. She believes strongly in community newspapers because people always like to know what’s going on in their neighborhood and they always will.

“We’ve stood the test of time. People in the community have so many stories to tell,” she says. “I always say we make a great marriage with the New York Times because they certainly do what we can’t do and we certainly do what they can’t do.”

As a publisher, Anton believes she is hands on, a feat that was held true under her leadership when Boulevard was first published in 1999.

Originally a paper format, the publication grew from black and white newsprint to a glossy magazine filled with celebrity interviews, fashion, coverage of the arts and picture pages of charity spotlights.

“People would call me up and say they wanted their events in, so that’s when I got the idea to do it,” says Anton. “I would sit behind my desk with all of these invitations, call people up and say if I cannot come to the event, I would love to publish photos and a press release.”

Content of the publication not only covered Long Island, but New York City as well, which allowed Anton to further lend her support to great causes and provide publicity for the story behind the picture.

Publisher and editor-in-chief Angela Susan Anton talks with the company’s president, Frank Virga.

I FIND IT REWARDING WHEN I’M OUT IN THE “ COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE CONGRATULATE ME ON MY EDITORS DOING A GREAT JOB. ” “I found interesting people including my dear friend, the late Oleg Cassini, who contributed a lot to my life and to Boulevard,” says Anton, who put the publication on hiatus in March 2011.

“I always had it in mind to bring it back.

In this issue and moving forward, people can expect photos from Patrick McMullan covering charity events, arts and entertainment, culinary pieces, human interest stories and celebrity content.”

Over the years, the company has altered its name. What originally began as Community Newspapers Inc., has changed to Long Island Community Newspapers, then Anton Community Newspapers and now to its

current name, Anton Media Group, encompassing all forms of media coverage.

All of Anton’s supporters from the beginning are still along for the ride. She is proud of her staff, the leadership under the company’s president Frank Virga and that her editors work together to further embody what it means to be part of a community.

“It’s a great pride to me; we’re out there and covering the news and getting across to people,” says Anton of her company. “As a publisher, I found that I was able to serve the community beyond the newspaper with charities. We represent Long Island and New York City with interesting articles that readers can enjoy.”

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FALL 2016

REPAVING THE WAY Angela Susan Anton brings Boulevard back

Andrew Zimmern Gregg Allman On Your Feet!

Jacques Torres The Walking Dead

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MUSEUMS

President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home at Sagamore Hill

Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidential Estate Old Orchard Museum and park draw millions. By Christy Hinko

J

ust down the hill from the historic and widely recognized home of President Theodore Roosevelt is the once-home of his son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., which is now called The Roosevelt Museum at Old Orchard. The residence is equally fascinating and dedicated to our 26th president, chronologically outlining his life.

However, it receives seemingly less publicity and grandeur than the house atop the hill.

When Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the late-president’s eldest son, started his own family, he fully expected to inherit the family’s home on the hill. When that wasn’t

exactly playing out the way he had expected, his mother, Edith, offered some of the acreage in the apple orchard nearby. He accepted and in 1938, almost 20 years after his father’s death, built what is now the museum.

“This museum is a great resource,” says Susan Sarna, museum curator. “It’s actually a great starting point to the rest of the property and the home.”

Although the home became part of the park service in the 1950s, Theodore, Jr.’s wife, Eleanor, lived there until her death in 1960. The museum was then established by Congress in 1962 to preserve and interpret

the structures, landscape, collections and other cultural resources associated with Theodore Roosevelt’s property, and to ensure that future generations understand and appreciate the life and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, his family and the significant events associated with him.

“T.R. Junior’s home [the museum] complements the house; gives you a better understanding and the story of the entire place,” says Sarna.

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Clockwise from left: Roosevelt’s uniform and hat were custom-made at Brooks Brothers. A medal commemorating Rough Riders and a 1900 campaign button.

Carl Kahler’s 1902 oil painting of Archie Roosevelt riding his pony, Algonquin. Photos by Christy Hinko

explanations of the items showcased. There are three galleries and one audio-visual room, which hosts three short video exhibits. Meanwhile, the Old Orchard Museum is handicapped accessible.

“Our grounds here at Sagamore Hill are extensive; we have a lot of trees that are still here,” says Sarna of the property. “We also have a beach that looks the way it did during [Roosevelt’s] time.”

The park is open to the public and many local schools, clubs and organizations make great use of the property by hosting nature walks, bird watching, cross-country practice sessions, outdoor art and photography classes, beautification campaigns and much more to benefit the park.

“More than 42,000 visitors tour the home at Sagamore Hill, since only 200 people are permitted inside each day,” says National Park Service Ranger Josh Reyes. “It’s hard to say how many people visit the park in general though, but I would estimate it’s in the 60,000-range, including hikers, joggers and people visiting with their dogs.”

The park is dog-friendly and is a popular place for an outdoor walk with a canine companion.

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Reyes says that the trails are undoubtedly the best part of the 83-acre park.

“Winter is a fun time too; we get a lot of cross-country skiers and snowshoers, especially before the park is plowed,” says Reyes.

Who knows, you might even catch a glimpse of some cool wildlife inhabitants like a chipmunk, white-tailed deer or a red fox.

On September 23, Old Orchard Museum debuted the exhibit “Historic Landscape Through Modern Eyes: Re-envisioning Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill,” which features the artwork of previous participants in a juried plein air competition. Plein air is a style of painting or drawing where the artist works entirely outdoors, capturing the natural light and scenery as it’s viewed.

The works will be on view at the museum through January 15, 2017.

The museum, open from 10 a.m. to 5

Top: This Spanish cannon was captured in Cuba during the 1898 war. Right: A bust of Theodore Roosevelt is prominently featured in the entry of the museum.

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p.m., is located on the opposite end of the park, accessible on the walking path through the old orchard, heading toward the hiking paths and waterfront access. Admission is free to the museum, where visitors can view video segments and exhibits at their own pace.

The National Park Service operates Sagamore Hill, located at 12 Sagamore Hill Road in Oyster Bay. The park is open most days from sunrise to sunset. The buildings, including the home and museum, are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Access to the home is by guided tour only. Tours of the Theodore Roosevelt Home are offered between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. The admission fee is $10 per adult. Advance ticketing is suggested, since many tour days sell out (visit www. recreation.gov or call 877-444-6777).

Same-day tickets can be purchased on a first-come, first-served basis (usually sold out by noon) from the visitor center, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays. Throughout the year, the park and buildings close on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.

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FOOD & TRAVEL

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Andrew Zimmern’s East End food musings

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ndrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, has always been a world traveler thanks to his inclination toward exotic eats and fascinating stories.

In some ways, the seeds for Zimmern’s inclination toward travel were planted during a youth spent exploring New York City’s neighborhoods, a variable global community of culinary enclaves.

“I remember my first taste of real ethnic Chinese food driven by contemporary Chinese chefs and it was a revelation,” says Zimmern, who still believes New York City is the best food city in the world.

“You have the best balance of ethnicities, hundreds of them, in large enough numbers to experience their cuisine and quality.”

He remembers going to Chinatown’s Nom Wah for dim sum with his parents and grandparents and accompanying his father several times a week for a burger at JG Melon on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Meanwhile, Zimmern’s grandmother was the head of several committees at Mount Zion Temple and was treated like Jewish royalty during her shopping expeditions—this meant many tasty freebies for the young Zimmern to sample.

“It was the greatest thing in the world because everyone behind the counter, every counter man, would give me a bissel, which is Yiddish for a little taste or nibble,” says Zimmern, adding that he’d also go with his father to James Beard’s house for brunch, which would invariably take place in the afternoon as the legendary cuisine master was “a notoriously late sleeper.”

“We’d hang out there and eat for hours with a ton of food people in the late ’60s and early ’70s in New York,” he says.

As a city dweller, Zimmern made many pilgrimages to Long Island’s East End and routinely spent entire summers in East Hampton, where his family owned a home from the 1950s through the late 1990s.

While he believes Long Island has amazing restaurants, Zimmern said it was never really about going out to eat.

“It was always about accessing the incredible seafood and the incredible farm experience that so many magazines tout now,” he says. “We were living that in the ’60s and ’70s. Amagansett Farm-

Andrew Zimmern spent much of his youth on Long Island’s east end, including Amagansett.

ers Market was open and we were regular shoppers there and they had their actual farm right behind the stand.”

And when it comes to seafood, Zimmern says that life on Long Island sometimes meant hanging around on the shore long enough for the ocean to deliver its briny delicacies.

“Most of the time we were on the beach when a longboat would come in through the waves and we’d walk up to the boat and we’d intercept the fish before it went to the store, which was always a lot of fun,” says Zimmern. “We also foraged for food ourselves—we’d go clamming, and in the bay we’d cast for striped bass and we would crab on Georgica Pond. I grew up doing that.”

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hicken eggs rule the roost in most kitchens and their place on the refrigerator shelf is not one that will likely turn over easy, but there is another shell worth cracking for culinary exploration: duck eggs.

A richer, fattier and larger version of the poultry product, duck eggs boast a higher concentration of nutrients, more protein and are usually about twice the size of a standard hen egg. Duck eggs contain more vitamins A, B12 and D, as well as higher levels of Omega-3 than eggs from chickens. And while they do contain more cholesterol than chicken yolks, duck eggs are a low-carb, high-protein food that is especially popular with so-called “paleo” diets.

The thicker shell of the duck egg gives it a longer shelf life and the color of the egg—which varies by

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Find the best ways to use this versatile ingredient, from breakfast to baking.

By Steve Mosco breed—can range from white or ashy to shades of green or brown.

When shelling out cash for duck eggs, expect to dig a little deeper— about $4 for a half-dozen at local farmers markets, as well as Whole Foods and H Mart.

As for flavor, an unadulterated duck egg mimics that of a chicken egg, but in a more intense—and eggier—flavor profile. Ducks tend to eat snails, slugs and bugs and this high-protein diet results in a more robust egg experience.

In the kitchen, use duck eggs as one might a hen’s egg—fry it, poach it, hard boil it, scramble it or bake with it. One of the most popular

uses for duck eggs is in the preparation for pancakes. While the flavor of the flapjacks remains the same, the finished product comes out much fluffier with the duck variety of eggs. This is often the case when using duck eggs in place of chicken eggs in a recipe—the flavor remains mostly the same, but the texture is ramped up and changed for the better. The same is said for baked items, as the duck egg’s higher fat content makes cakes rise higher and makes meringues more stable.

Simply frying it in butter might be the best way to truly appreciate the duck egg. The larger yolk and reddish-orange hue makes for attractive plating and the higher fat content makes for more pleasurable eating. Pierce the yolk with your fork and let that fatty, unctuous yolk run. Just be sure to have toast prepared and ready to dip.

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ouston-based singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen has a song called “The Road Goes On Forever,” which may be what comes to mind when you think about Gregg Allman. While his main gig, The Allman Brothers Band (ABB),

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called it quits with a final show on October 28, 2014, at the Beacon Theatre, the 68-year-old Nashville native hasn’t missed a step in continuing to tour and record. Despite recent health woes including a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation that’s left him with a chronic cough, Allman

By Dave Gil de Rubio has kept busy, most recently with this past summer’s Laid Back Festival: A Celebration of Music & Food, which got its inaugural launch last year at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater.

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Concertgoers were also able to avail themselves to an array of culinary options that included various local food trucks and stands. For this swing through Long Island, Allman was joined

by Jason Isbell, America, the Marshall Tucker Band, Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, Orleans, Devon Allman and Levon. At the other four sites where Laid Back was held, he was joined by ZZ Top, Richie Furay Band (Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre), ZZ Top, Blackberry Smoke, Mother’s Finest (Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheatre), Peter Frampton, Blackberry Smoke, Roomful of Blues (Chicago’s FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island) and Shovels & Rope and Brothers Osborne (Nashville’s Carl Black Chevy Woods Amphitheater at Fontanel).

Having seen the success of the inaugural festival last year, Allman cautiously went into partnership with major league promoters Live Nation on this venture.

“The first one we did was last year and I managed to go 50/50 with Live Nation. I was nervous about it. I don’t hate to take gambles, but you just never know if the talent is the draw, because getting up to some of these places is an all-day affair,” he explains. “But there’s lots and lots of different kinds of food. If you buy a VIP ticket, you get to taste everything.”

In the meantime, Allman has kept busy on the musical front. Last year he released Back to Macon, GA, a homecoming live set recorded on January 14, 2014, a few months before the ABB signed off. And there have already been reports that earlier in the year he had booked time with Don Was at FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL, for a project tentatively called All Compositions By Gregg Allman.

When asked about it, he replies, “That’s a dream that got blown out of proportion. But dreams do come true.”

The one project the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer did admit to being on the horizon is an album called Southern Blood, which Rounder Records is set to drop in January.

“This new record is me and my band.

Whereas a lot of artists have a road band and a recording band—no. There’s nothing like starting off a song and having it sound exactly like what they were just listening to in their car.

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THERE’S NOTHING LIKE STARTING OFF “ A SONG AND HAVING IT SOUND EXACTLY LIKE WHAT THEY WERE JUST LISTENING TO IN THEIR CAR. IT’S DIFFERENT STUFF. covers from some friends of mine who passed away, Tim Buckley being one of them.

I cut that song ‘Once I Was.’ I used to sit around and play that all the time. We covered ‘Hummingbird.’ That’s all I’m going to tell you, brother. You’re not going to get another word.”

Nowadays, Allman is feeling better and loving life on the road. At heart very much still a music fan, the bug he got bitten by at the first show he went to with brother, Duane, still resonates nearly six decades later.

“I remember the first concert I ever went to

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was a rhythm and blues revue headed up by Jackie Wilson. But they had an orchestra and then the different stars would come and go. First up was Jackie Wilson, who was headlining. Then it was Otis Redding and then before him it was Mr. B.B. King, and he of course was the one who brought his band,” Allman recalls. “The guy had a piece of furniture on stage and he called it a Hammond. I was 9 years old and lemme tell you what—it changed my life. I looked over at my brother and said, ‘We got to get into some of this.

This here is the thing.’”

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Equine Dreams There are fewer creatures more majestic than a horse. The ability to bear heavy loads as a ‘beast of burden,’ a natural beauty and an intuition to connect with humans is what made Sharon Levine so drawn to rescuing them. By Jennifer Fauci

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family-owned business ripened when Sharon Levine’s father Sam Rubin planted his own grapes, later growing an acre of land into the now 17-acre Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard, an award-winning Long Island destination. When Levine and her brother Richard Rubin, who serves as president, opened a tasting house in 2007, corralling a few dozen horses wasn’t in the original plan.

“I started getting a lot of emails about horse slaughter, which I found odd in a country where we don’t consume horse meat,” says the Commack native, who after doing some initial research, discovered that about 150,000 a year were being massacred to be delicacies in Europe and Asia. “Richard and I decided that once we were up and running for six months, we would take in a rescue horse.”

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she would have enough time to educate herself on the care of horses. She was keen on studying books and articles on the fourlegged steeds until one day, a picture of a 1½-year-old filly in a kill pen popped up on her computer.

“We had three hours to decide whether or not we would save her life. That day we rescued five horses,” says Levine. “I thought that rescuing them was the bulk of the expense, but taking care of them is so much more expensive. We brought them in and that really started the whole thing.”

The rescued filly, Angel, is now 10 years old and resides at Baiting Hollow’s horse rescue. The farm is set behind the tasting house and guests can visit several horses, including Angel, and learn about Levine’s passion for rescue.

“I always say she’s [Angel] the horse rescuer, not me. We have a wine named after

her now and three other horses (Savannah, Mirage and Isis), as well,” says Levine.

“We’ve rescued about four dozen horses so far and we currently have 26.”

Initially, Levine’s main goal was to just be a sanctuary for the horses that were rescued, but she found it very hard to obtain donations. The idea came to serve as a foster family and adopt out the horses, which enabled Levine to further educate the public about horse slaughter.

“We’ve only had one injured horse. He was supposed to spend the weekend because they had an adopted home for him, but when he got up we knew something was wrong,” says Levine of the horse, who had a broken

leg. “All of the vets said to put him down, but I said no. We take the young untrained horses because when they’re in the kill pen, no one is going to save an untrained horse.”

Baiting Hollow’s horses enjoy very long and fulfilled lives, thanks to Levine and her team. They not only retrain the horses and find them good homes, but rescuers are extremely careful about where the horses get placed.

“It’s nice because I’m able to see them and check up on them whenever I want, but we have tours that are a $5 donation to the rescue to get the word out,” she says, adding that horse rides for children around the stable are also popular among guests.

“About 80 percent of Americans are vehemently opposed to horse slaughter. We’re here for nine years and almost nothing has changed. Horses are not biologically suited to slaughter and I’m not looking to change our culture, but our society is against it so why are we letting it go on and on?”

As a close-knit family business, everything at Baiting Hollow has always been about family. Levine, her husband Steve, and brother Richard always strive to have something for every guest, including an enjoyable time tasting and learning about wine. The horse wines that the vineyard produces are very special in that the four varieties represent rescued horses Savannah,

Mirage, Angel and Isis, and for every bottle sold, all of the proceeds go towards the rescue. As sweet as the horses themselves, both the Sweet Isis and Cheval Bleu have won gold medals and are just as marvelous over ice cream as they are enjoyed in a glass.

“The horse wines sell very well and the vineyard helps with the rescue, but donations are still very important to us,” says Levine. “As a family business, everything has always been about family, and we hope to keep it that way.”

Baiting Hollow Farm Vineyard and Horse Rescue is located at 2114 Sound Avenue, Calverton. Visit www.bhfhorserescue.org to learn more and to donate to the cause.

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To Bee, Or Not To Bee There should be no question By Christy Hinko

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piders, ants, bees—we typically associate any bug with being a pest and we expedite the process of ridding ourselves of them, sparing no expense. Despite our inability to enjoy a peaceful coexistence with these creatures, they are critical to harmonious flora and fauna and to our own existence on earth.

So much of the food we consume is pollinated, not by wind, but by insects.

Bees, wasps, moths and butterflies all play an important role in crop-sustainability. This delicate balance has been shifted off-kilter, especially by the increased usage of pesticides and land development. While the pollinating

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job of honeybees in hives, as opposed to bees in the wild, is vastly different, a thriving honeybee colony directly mirrors the health of wild bees.

Six years ago, president and chief executive officer of Brooks Brothers Group, Inc. Claudio Del Vecchio had an ah-ha moment while reading about the necessity and decline of honeybees in the city and decided to install four hives on the rooftop of the clothier’s headquarters on Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Each of the four rooftop hives is in honor of the company’s four founding brothers of Brooks Brothers, Elisha, Daniel, Edward and John, who inherited their father’s business

in 1833 and renamed the company to “Brooks Brothers.”

Del Vecchio, not skilled in beekeeping, sought the talent and professional know-how of Andrew Coté, a well-known merchant at dozens of city farmers markets, with a client list ranging from the suburban hobbyist to global organizations and international governments.

Coté has been skilled at beekeeping for more than 35 years, with more than four generations of family skill before him. His family brought the trade from Canada back in the 1800s, then to Connecticut. He’s already grooming his next generation of bee charmers,

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his two sons, who are 9 and 1. They are doing the apprentice work, helping with the bottles, jars and labels.

With the success of the Brooks Brothers corporate beehives underway, fast-forward three years. Del Vecchio’s wife, Debra, presses forward with their beekeeping initiative and installs six new hives at La Selva, the famed Gold Coast mansion property, on Planting Fields Road in Upper Brookville.

“It takes someone who is very skilled; there’s a lot to know when handling the hives,” says Debra. “There’s a lot to do to maintain a healthy hive; Andrew is really good at all of it.”

The bees, apis mellifera ligusticas, more commonly known as Italian bees, were brought to America more than 130 years ago (from Italy, of course) and are the most common honeybee of all species—proven hardy enough for the wide range of climates in most of the country.

“It’s a tough science to figure out how many bees it takes to make a jar of honey,” says Coté. “It takes the pollen of one million flowers to produce one pound of honey.”

Now that is amazing, considering Coté will process dozens of hives, each hive producing 80 to 100 pounds of honey each season.

This year, Debra experimented with the hives and had one installed in the property’s apple orchard.

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La Selva Farms owner Debra Del Vecchio

ence in the honey, between the hives in the clearing and the hive in the orchard,” says Debra of the two locations.

Although bees are very portable depending on the time of the year, what’s growing and what’s blooming, it’s almost imperative to consume honey that is produced by bees from within a few miles of where the person who is eating the honey lives.

“Not everyone knows that eating local honey can prevent or lessen seasonal allergies,” says Coté.

When local honey is processed, it’s

composed of immediately available pollen. Consuming the local honey helps your body build a tolerance to local pollen, so seasonally, you should tend to be less affected while those plants and flowers are pollinating. This is called immunotherapy.

The immunizing effects of honey are not scientifically proven, only anecdotal, but the evidence is convincing.

“If you are deathly afraid of bees, it’s best to not be a beekeeper, but I have a healthy fear and respect for them,” says Coté. “They [the bees] are not interested in you, actually.

They just want pollen and water and are totally oblivious.”

Processing the hive takes real skill, though: understanding the smoking process, how to approach the hive and how the weather and seasons affect the bees’ routine.

“You cannot just walk up and stick your hand in a hive,” says Coté, with a prankish laugh. Attempting this stunt deserves a Darwin Award for attempting to thin the human herd.

“Beekeeping levels all races, incomes and is a great conduit for networking and an icebreaker; it’s also meditative,” says Coté.

“There’s something so charming and soothing about the organized chaos in the hive.”

Coté welcomes inquiries, especially everything from harvesting honey, building hives and bee advocacy. Visit www.andrews honey.com to learn more.

BROADWAY

American Dream

Music and inspiration come together as the heart of the Broadway smash, On Your Feet!: The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan By Dave Gil de Rubio

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t its base, On Your Feet!: The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan is a musical currently playing on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre that tells the tale of the Miami Sound Machine founding duo through song and story. But for those behind the creative scenes and the devoted audience that’s coalesced around this production since its debut on November 5, 2015, the show is far more than that. It represents the culmination of the American dream forged on determination, love and familial ties. That’s certainly how the production’s female namesake feels about it.

“There are a lot of universal things that are part of this story,” Gloria Estefan explains. “There is a love story, a very real one. He was my first and only love. There’s the ‘against all odds’ because we really fought hard for the idea—our musical ideas. It was very easy for people to tell us, ‘No, this will never work.’ They even told him once, ‘Get rid of the girl

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singer!’ Thank God he didn’t.”

Equally cognizant of that fact is Ana Villafañe, who portryas Estefan from the age of 17 until her early 30s in On Your Feet! since it first opened. A huge fan of both Estefans, the 27-year-old actress grew up in Miami and while she spent most of her 20s in Los Angeles pursuing dramatic roles, she jumped at the chance to audition for this lead role, even changing agents to one more sympathetic to Villafañe’s wish to pursue the part.

“I grew up doing theater and it was always my first love and I do have a degree in music. I was acting, but I know what I’m capable of vocally. It was one of those things where I had to convince the powers-that-be to let me go audition,” Villafañe explains. “As soon as I got the green light, they sent a video over to production and casting here in New York and I had three days. They sent the video on a Friday and I was on a plane on that

Sunday and by that Tuesday, I had the job. So it was a total fairy tale. I’d never lived in New York before and I had about two weeks to pack up my apartment in L.A., switch coasts and be in a com-

Far left: Ektor Rivera and Ana Villafañe play Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Above center: One of the many dance numbers sprinkled throughout the show. Above: Eduardo Hernandez (Nayib) threatening to steal the show

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Ana Villafañe (Gloria) and Ektor Rivera (Emilio) share a romantic moment

pletely new environment. I was a fish out of water and in addition to this being my first time on Broadway, it was my first time living in Manhattan—just the whole thing. I’m still learning as I go along, two years in.”

Powered by the music of the Miami Sound Machine as rendered by actual members of the group, the show itself is a whirlwind of anecdotes that deftly hopscotches between the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s thanks to spot-on use of period wardrobe and hairstyles. The audience is introduced to the Fajardos, Gloria’s family, which includes her mother and grandfather. We learn that her father, who served in Vietnam, fell ill and his daughter wound up caring for him much of the time as the family struggled to survive after coming over from Cuba after the revolution.

Not only does the audience get to see Gloria and Emilio fall in love, but they see them fight against cultural stereotypes in a music industry that dictated they remain a Spanish-only pop group. Crossover was the one goal the Estefans achieved through relentless touring, tireless self-promotion and refusing to compromise themselves.

Ektor Rivera, who took over the role of

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“To me, as Ektor Rivera, the transformation of the real American dream is the fact that this is the first time that I’m living in New York and that I have the opportunity to do what I love as an actor and an artist in a platform as important as Broadway,” Rivera says. “That for me, is the transformation of the American dream and that’s exactly what Emilio [Estefan] did at one time, in even more difficult circumstances coming from Cuba. He broke all the rules and transformed all the ‘no’s’ that he received and decided he could do it. He transformed Latin American music. He’s an icon that I admire.”

Both leads agree that the universal message of achieving your dreams against all odds is the central theme of On Your Feet!

“For anyone that’s ever been marginalized, it speaks volumes how [Gloria and Emilio] went against the current and really stood up for their culture,” Villafañe says.

“And I don’t think you have to be Hispanic to really understand that. I think that anyone

Doreen Montalvo plays Gloria Estefan’s mother Gloria Fajardo, who was a singer herself back in Cuba.

can understand that because we’re all faced with our things to overcome. I think the story is important because it really helps you figure out your priorities.”

“Everyone wants to give the best to their families and they have to move to other places,” Rivera adds. “They have dreams

and they have to struggle. And while this is a story about Gloria, Emilio and Cuba, whether you’re a Boricua [Puerto Rican], a Dominican or anyone who might be coming from another part of the world to America, it’s impossible to not feel like it could be your story.”

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Zombies Melissa McBride talks about how The Walking Dead goes beyond the flesh-eating undead. By Dave Gil de Rubio

W The formerly meek Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) embracing her evolving role as uncompromising survivor.

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e can all agree that since debuting on October 31, 2010, The Walking Dead has always had a zombie apocalypse as its main premise. But for those who immediately dismissed it as being another mere horror series about the ravenous undead, they missed the bigger picture. The show’s main characters have found themselves wandering

in a quest to survive while grappling with moral life-and-death dilemmas at every turn. While there is certainly a share of gore generally featuring some hapless person getting ripped apart, the real story is the limits to which people are pushed to survive and how they come to terms with others and themselves following the consequences of their actions. Melissa McBride,

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who plays Carol Peletier, a domestic abuse survivor who went from a meek and battered victim to an uncompromising survivor, sees the relatable thread that those who stick with the show invariably pick up.

“I think that whole, ‘What would I do if I were in that position?’ is a big part of the program’s appeal,” McBride says. “It’s sort of living vicariously in a world we hope we never have to face. Then the characters wind up [being the kind that] we resonate with or have people fall in love with and care so much about. It’s intriguing and every time you turn around, there’s another threat. Now there’s this new evil threat by the name of Negan shaking things up.”

With the main cast (save for McBride and Lennie James’ Morgan Jones) last left on their knees waiting to see who gets picked to be executed by uber villain Negan, this

season’s opening episode is one of the most highly anticipated of the fall season. While McBride, of course, cannot reveal what is going to happen, she is pretty clear about how the characters got to this point.

“Everything is just crashing. There is no illusion for safety. It’s really just seeing it for what it is and it’s getting worse by the day as the resources continue to dry up. It’s just ugly and mean,” she says. “As a viewer, I do love getting to see the bits and pieces of humanity of these characters and the new ones that come along and is there any hope for them. We want to believe so bad, hope against hope.”

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by Chris Hardwick that airs following each Walking Dead episode. Not only does Hardwick host cast and crew members along with famous devotees of the show, but fans vigorously tweet in and take part in polls. That’s on top of the panels TWD actors attend at Comic-Con, various horror film conventions and stand-alone events for the show held at places like The Paley Center and the 92nd Street Y. It’s also at these affairs where fans get to interact with their favorite characters as well as one another in a way that doesn’t go unnoticed by McBride and her castmates.

“This [fan support] is truly awesome and something I would never have imagined for myself—ever. It’s amazing going to the conventions and meeting the fans face to face. They’re all so passionate and their expression on social media—they’re diehard. They bring a lot to our lives as actors on a show,” McBride says. “In turn, the show has obviously brought joy to their lives in a roundabout way. When I say joy, I see

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It’s during this time where the role The Walking Dead plays in someone’s life goes beyond an inconsequential television series, as McBride was quick to share while recounting one anecdote that still gets her emotional long after it happened.

“A few years ago, I was at one of the conventions and I had just done a panel and I was….I’m sorry, it still chokes me up a little bit to think about it,” she said with a sniffle.

“Anyway, I was back at the table signing and a gentleman walked up and said, ‘I just want to thank you for what you said about domestic abuse and that it can happen to anyone. It’s not a stereotype.’ He said, ‘Men are victims as well.’”

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“Even the events of Carol’s pre-apocalyptic life have shaped her, and there’s still so much mystery in that for me as far as she’s concerned. Losing her daughter, having these other children in her care and always trying to do the right thing, like the weapons training, where she’s trying to get them where none of them end up like her daughter did, is a lot for her to deal with,” McBride says.

“It’s so horrible when you’re trying to do the right thing and if that means killing other people, I can’t think of a worse thing to have to step into. So many things have shaped her and what she’s become and the way that she’s approaching the world now.”

Season 7 kicks off solving a major cliffhanger where uber villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, far left) decides which member of The Walking Dead cast he’ll be making an extreme fatal example out of.

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labor of love indeed for the house in the woods, the meaning of La Selva, one of the many notable estates dotted along the famed Gold Coast of Long Island is receiving the rejuvenation that it so deserves, by philanthropist and co-owner of Brooks Brothers Group, Inc., Debra Del Vecchio.

La Selva, a 40-room Italian Renaissance pebble-dash stucco villa sits on 25 acres in Upper Brookville. The architectural team of Richard Howland Hunt and his brother Joseph Howland Hunt, known as Hunt &

Hunt, sons of famed architect Richard Morris Hunt, designed it. The home was built in 1915, possibly through collaboration with the equally known architect Thomas Hastings of Carère & Hastings.

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railroad executive Henry Sanderson, Esq. Following Sanderson, La Selva passed through three owners before Del Vecchio purchased the home in 2013.

Del Vecchio, who studied at Metropolitan Institute of Design in Syosset, has been feeding her passion for interior design and restoration for more than 18 years. Her first renovation and design project began with the Bleak House on Main Street in Suffield, CT, a home originally built in 1795.

She has acquired more than 1,700 documents of landscape notes, plans, diagrams,

schedules and receipts and is trying to restore as much of the house as possible, although the project is taking a lot longer than she had anticipated. Some of the major renovation has included fixing the walls and plaster and although the floors are original, they have been stripped and refinished.

“The bones of the gardens are still here so it’s kind of easy to know what they did when I’m referring back,” says Del Vecchio. “Before I do anything to the landscape, I return to the original notes to see if what I’m doing is keeping with what they did.”

The mansion has a vaulted entryway with carved stone walls, Palladian arches, embellished fireplaces, patterned marble floors, intricately carved wooden doors and a domed rotunda with a spiral travertine staircase. The staircase is highly recognizable, recreated exactly for the set of director Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (2013). The home has been used as the backdrop and set of many period films, historic photo shoots and more.

“The paintings in the dining room are

Pictured clockwise from top left: Perfectly manicured landscape features pools, fountains and lots of hydrangeas; an art restoration team uncovered murals and door panels that had been painted over; a 500-year-old mural that was embedded into the walls of the mansion has been restored; the winding staircase was identically replicated in Scorsese’s The Great Gatsby.

probably the best feature of this house,” says Del Vecchio.

Over the course of several owners, some of the murals had been painted over and in some cases, had layers upon layers of paint.

The art restoration team spent months, armed with dental picks, painstakingly removing each layer of paint to unveil the original murals.

“When the house was originally built, the family went to Florence, Italy, and found these two 35-foot paintings from the 1500s, brought them back and cut them into pieces to fit around the perimeter of the dining room,” says Del Vecchio. “They embedded the two larger 17-foot pieces into the wall.”

Each summer, Del Vecchio brings four artists from Rome to execute the restoration of the murals on the walls and the embedded canvas paintings, which had more than 500 years of grime.

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anhattan is enrobed with chocolate shops. From SoHo and Greenwich Village to Fifth Avenue and Midtown, there is little want for something sweet. Beneath a bright orange awning sits a chocolate oasis established by pastry chef Jacques Torres.

“My love for food, sweets, chocolate and pastries, among other things, began when I was a kid. I became a pastry chef because I wanted to be a craftsman; to create and work with my hands,” says Torres, also known to the masses as Mr. Chocolate. “My father was a carpenter and he took pleasure in creating things, so that’s what I wanted to experience in my profession as well.”

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Mr. Chocolate 26, he became the world’s youngest chef to win the prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France award, the highest honor awarded to French craftsmen in pastry. But chocolate has always held a sweet spot in his heart.

“All my life I have had a love affair with chocolate, and after 20 years or so working with chocolate, I decided I was going to open a company and dedicate my time to chocolate,” says Torres, who chose the cocoa way of life because it is such a versatile ingredient. “You can do so much with chocolate; you can do drinks, cakes, petit fours, bon bons and you can bake. The sky is the limit with chocolate and that’s one of the things that attracted me; the flavor is complex, like wine.”

In 1988, Torres moved to the United States. Two years later, he fulfilled his American dream with the opening of his first chocolate factory, Jacques Torres Chocolate in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Today, the chocolatier has nine shops across Manhattan and Brooklyn, including an ice cream and sandwich

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And yes, he does have a favorite.

“I prefer dark chocolate. When I was a kid I loved milk chocolate because it’s sweeter, but with time, I developed a palate for dark chocolate,” says Torres, who enjoys chocolate from different origins all over the world. “I went to Mexico years ago because I wanted to learn about the origin of chocolate and how it was used hundreds of years ago. I discovered that it isn’t sweet and that they used spices, like chipotle, because it’s smoky, so I decided to experiment and it works with the Wicked Hot Chocolate.”

As a pastry chef, Torres loves a good chocolate cake. He also believes that chocolate can cure the common cold and is healthy, if it doesn’t contain too much sugar.

“Chocolate cake can be magical. The molten cakes, those are still some of the best desserts around,” he says. “But I also love to

create savory dishes with chocolate.”

Among his many awards and accolades, Torres is also a television personality and author. He is the recipient of the James Beard Award and a member of the Académie Culinaire de France. In 2010, the chef and his fellow culinary companions prepared a dinner for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. But perhaps what

tops his guest list is cooking for the Pope.

“I’ve done some highly regarded dinners, but cooking for the Pope is maybe my most favorite,” says Torres of his holiness.

Torres said that some of his customers are very well-known in Hollywood and he is happy that they trust him to make chocolate for them, but for Torres, it’s just about making people happy.

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“If you have the personality and you love to make people happy, one way to do that is to cook or bake for them,” he says. “Most chefs work hard to make people happy. I ask myself, ‘why do I love what I do?’ and when I see a smile on people’s faces, I know I did something right.”

As a new father, Torres has been kept quite busy, but that hasn’t stopped him from

his current venture, the opening of a chocolate museum.

“It’s coming together and I love it. I did it with a friend of mine who owns a few museums around the world,” says Torres of the project, which will be located at Hudson Street. “We hope to open before Christmas and are in the process of getting a giant cocoa tree and some banana trees for inside.”

Always driven by passion, Torres believes that aspiring pastry chefs should embrace the profession only if they love it.

“Get educated and understand what it takes. I learned a lot about it and spent a lot of time learning about being a pastry chef,” he says. “I can guarantee that if you love to bake and cook, you will love being a chef.”

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aving voiced lazy, crass, exasperated and misogynistic characters, as well as a giant moth, a quark, a can of vegetables and the devil himself, H. Jon Benjamin has a face you might not recognize, but vocals you probably do.

Best known for voicing the title characters in the animated series Bob’s Burgers (FOX) and Archer (FX), Benjamin’s voice-acting path began in 1995, with a mostly forgotten elementary role as a particle.

“I played a quark in some ’90s educational science video,” he says. “I don’t remember the voice, but I’m sure it was pretty terrible.”

That series, Understanding, aired on the Discovery Channel back before it exclusively televised idiotic reality shows. While that program has faded into obscurity, many of Benjamin’s voice gigs have become cult classics, including Bob’s and Archer, but also Disney Channel’s Science Court, Comedy Central’s Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and Adult Swim’s Home Movies, The Venture Bros. and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Benjamin stretches his voice to fit a multitude of characters—in order to do that, his voice does require some maintenance to keep it robust and swollen with keen inflection.

“I drink a lot of grade B maple syrup and jelq for about an hour,” he says.

With a monotone cadence and a deadpan delivery that he often alters depending on the age and speech impediment of his character, Benjamin breathes subversive life into animated creations. Even if the name H. Jon Benjamin doesn’t ring any bells, fans of his work recognize names like Coach McGuirk, Jason Penopolis, Mothmonsterman, The Master, Jimmy Pesto Jr., Ben Katz and more. And from time to time, Benjamin’s voice will register with people—even if they can’t quite place where they know his voice from.

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recognize my voice when I order a latte,” he says.

His two most popular characters, Bob Belcher and Sterling Archer, come from different worlds, both in terms of show premise and the style in which his voice-overs are recorded.

“Bob’s is recorded with all the actors together, whereas for Archer, I’m by myself going through the lines in the more conventional way common to animation,” he says, adding that though they are different characters, he does see some commonality between the two. “They both get exasperated easily, but Archer has far more issues. Archer kills people, so that takes its emotional toll, but I could see Archer coming into Bob’s Burgers for a grilled cheese.”

Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard has tapped Benjamin’s distinctive voice for numerous projects and besides Bob’s, the pair have worked together in Dr. Katz, Home Movies and Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil.

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“When I was a kid, my mom cooked a lot and I always loved to eat. I became a single mom at the age of 20, and had another mouth to feed besides my own, so I figured I should learn how to cook,” says Rodale. “I looked at the label of Bisquick one day and then decided to make biscuits from scratch, which was so much easier, more delicious and I can make them organic. That got me started on my obsession on learning to make

the foods I loved organic and simple from scratch.”

On publishing her book within her company, Rodale says it was very important to be respectful of her team and the entire process was nothing short of a team effort.

“I know what is takes to make a good book, so I try and include those principles in whatever I do,” says Rodale of Scratch, which is published under Rodale Inc., a leading publisher of health and wellness. “It’s been a pleasure to work with the team here.”

Having been an avid blogger for the past seven years, Rodale has become one with her garden, one of the many topics she posts about. Although she considers herself more of a landscape gardener, she does grow vegetables, frequents farmers markets and enjoys gathering and foraging for the freshest ingredients.

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Rodale’s recipes come from all over, but there are a lot of family recipes from both sides of the family featured in Scratch.

“I have a good foundation of Italian recipes,” says Rodale, who also travels frequently and tries to recreate dishes she comes across. “It’s become a fun game and hobby of sorts for me and my kids. But the traditional recipes are in there, like my grandmother’s molasses cake that I found written on a card in the back of a closet.”

Always aware of being healthy and how the world around her views nutrition, Rodale stressed that Scratch is not a diet book, and how food trends come and go.

“What I’ve learned is that you should just eat food that’s as close to nature as possible.

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scratch, you’ll feel a lot better and be happier,” says Rodale, who splits her time between Pennsylvania and New York City, but always makes it a priority to cook a good meal.

“Over half of the recipes in my book take half an hour, and I’ve made them dozens of times, so it’s not hard. The hardest part is doing the dishes,” she says. “Anyone can cook and these recipes are super simple.

My kids love to help out and our time as a family is mostly spent in the kitchen.”

As for her favorite recipe, Rodale serves

up her roast chicken because it’s the symbol of her whole message of Scratch.

“Instead of overly stuffing and brining and basting, just take a chicken, put it in a pan breast side up and roast it for about an hour and a half until the skin gets crispy. Then, take that out and make pan gravy on the stove top with flour and water. Some mashed potatoes from scratch and a little salad on the side and you’ve got a meal that will make everyone very happy,” she says.

Rodale’s advice for non-chefs and first time cooks is simple: have fun, don’t be afraid and start with the food you love.

“If you make a mistake, just laugh and start over because the hardest part is getting out of your own way, and Scratch is a cookbook that you can use over and over again,” she says.

Up next for Rodale, she would like to examine how people relate to one another, how food can heal families and how families in turn, can heal each other.

“That’s what’s missing in the world right now, how to get along with other people and how to love one another,” she says. “Food is often a symbol of that.”

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