Columbia Home Magazine - December 2012/January 2013

Tweet Treats

Bird Seed Ornaments P. 42

Adam Beckett & Rick Baker

Healing the

World P. 73

Sarah Redohl's

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Edito r ial Betsy Bell, Publisher Betsy@ColumbiaHomeMagazine.com Sarah Redohl, Managing Editor Sarah@ColumbiaHomeMagazine.com Jacob Klinghammer, Assistant Editor Jake@BusinessTimesCompany.com

Shop local or die It often takes a conscious community effort for a business simply to survive—to pay the rent, pay employees, order products and provide services.

Most small business owners I know aren't doing what they do to get rich. They have a passion for something or a gift they want to share. They're artists, inventors and connoisseurs with an entrepreneurial spirit.

They are willing to take risks, and they aren’t afraid to fail. Many feel a deep sense of responsibility and pride in their ability to provide for their employees. They give to their staff before they give to themselves – a trait that speaks to their character.

Last week in meetings with Aaron Dolan, owner of Studio Home, and Melissa Murphy of Johnston Paint and decorating, I learned that both of them donated to Ragtag's recent fundraiser, and neither of them are moviegoers. That's not why they gave. They gave because they love Columbia. They don't just live here along with 100,000 other people, they feel ownership of our community. Thanks to them and all the others who donated, Ragtag will continue to operate, providing us with jobs, entertainment, and the art of film…now in digital format.

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone reading this decided to reciprocate Aaron and Melissa’s gesture? Let's all agree this year not to put Pottery Barn under the tree—not when we have a business like Studio Home on Walnut. Trust me, they have impeccable taste and hearts of gold. Come to their Hot Chocolate Cocktail and Open House on Dec. 7 at 5 p.m. I'll be there. As for Johnston Paint and Decorating you’ll be amazed by the array of products and their customer care. Anyone who has been doing business in the same town for more than 85 years knows a thing or two.

It's not always easy to shop locally. It may be out of your way, you may have to make multiple stops in lieu of one, but this year let’s commit to it. Let's get ridiculous about it. If you find yourself wavering, tempted by convenience, ask yourself these questions.

Will I ever see the CEO of (fill in the blank) waving a paddle at my favorite fundraiser?

Voicing his concerns at a city council meeting? At the ball field or rooting on the Tigers in the pouring rain? No. I'd venture to say never. But you know who will be there… local business owners.

With all that being said, I want to thank my advertisers. Thank you for your support, for finding value in this product and for finding value in our readers. We are here because of you. If you want to join Columbia Home's Shop Local or Die campaign for 2013 (don't worry mom, it's just an expression) join the Facebook page and tell us about your small business shopping experiences. Consider it your shop local community support group.

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table of contents

FEATURES

34 The Happy Hostess

Hosting a party at home with a little preplanning and an easy menu

38 Gourmet Hot Chocolate

Adult variations on the classic winter drink with garnish and a little liqueur

42 Tweet Treats

Emily Southerland's fun and simple craft to decorate your trees and keep the birds happy

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48 Apple and Stilton Salad

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This tangy salad incorporates unique ingredients into the perfect entree for four

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53 Reuse, Restyle, Repurpose

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Jana Gebhardt with Studio J transforms a Columbia family's dining room from overthe-top to casual cool.

59 A Community of Cookies

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Some of Columbia's favorite women share their family's favorite cookie recipes.

67 A Grand Entrance

Ben Huhman brings culinary trends from the Coast to Missouri's capitol with the opening of The Grand Cafe in Jefferson City

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72 Healing the World

Rick Baker and Adam Beckett are Columbia's traveling doctors, taking their services to third-world countries

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On the cover Bird Seed Ornaments P. 42

Adam Beckett & Rick Baker

HEALING the

WORLD P. 73

Sarah Redohl's

classic

CROSTINI 3 Simple Variations P.34

DEC 2012/JAN 2013 THE HOLIDAY ISSUE

Oscar winner Dan Lindsay and his uplifting documentary, Undefeated

IN EVERY ISSUE

34

Tweet Treats

79 Better than Fiction

Dan Lindsey Remains

UNDEFEATED P. 79

A Community of

COOKIES

P. 59

Ashley Shryock, homemaker and mother of two, is all about delivering homemade treats around the holidays. She keeps the spirit of the '50s alive with her neighborly tradition, so for the cover, we gave her a June Cleaver look with some new-world attitude. Staged

by Anne Tuckley; contributions by McAdams, Dillard's, Hobby Lobby, Haute Hostess, and S. Stewart Home. Photo by Taylor Allen.

13 Welcome 16 Calendar 19 Home Tour 25 Expert's Advice 27 Design Trend 29 Mommy Chronicles 30 Shopkeeper's Story 86 Travel 88 Makeover 91 Fashion Forecast 93 Announcements 95 Wedding 97 Welcome to the World 99 City Scene 103 Home Bound 106 The Last Word columbiahomemagazine.com | 15

december Sunday

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Tiger Con Scale Model Contest & Vendor Fair, Parkade Center, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Free Christmas Craft Bazaar, Boone County Fairground, 10 a.m., Free

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Marcus Roberts Trio, Murry’s, 3:30 p.m., 7 p.m., Free

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“Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”, Wrench Auditorium, Memorial Union, 7 p.m., Free

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The Comedy and Magic of Jean Pierre, Tiger Hotel, 6 p.m., $30

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Odyssey Chamber Music Series, First Baptist Church, 7 p.m., Adults $20, Students $10, 12&U free

Jingle Bell Run/Walk, Roger B. Williams Government Center, 8 a.m., $25 preregistration, $30 day-of registration, 14&U $15

Living Windows Fest, The District, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Free

The Cabin Sessions, The Blue Note, 9:30 p.m., $5

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Nebraska Theater Caravan: A Christmas Carol, Jesse, Auditorium, 7 p.m., $19 to $29

Dec. 31 First Night Columbia, The District, 4 p.m., $8

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Christmas

The Music of Manheim Steamroller by Chip Davis, Jesse Auditorium, 7 p.m., $29 to $49

Casey Donahew Band, The Blue Note, 9 p.m., $15

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26th Annual Bridal Spectacular, Jefferson City YMCA, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., $5

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Columbia Toastmaster’s Club, College of Veterinary Medicine 5:30 p.m.

Free

Missouri Men’s Basketball vs. Bucknell, Mizzou Arena, 6 p.m., Ticket prices vary

Crawdad’s MO Stream Team Clean-up, Hinkson Creek, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Missouri Men’s Basketball vs. Alabama, Mizzou Arena, 6 p.m., Ticket prices vary

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The Bad Plus, The Blue Note, 7 p.m., $18 to $30

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Washer Tournament, Cedar Creek Saloon 7 p.m., Free

Missouri Men’s Basketball vs. South Carolina, Mizzou Arena 6 p.m., Ticket prices vary

Missouri Men’s Basketball vs. Georgia, Mizzou Arena, 7 p.m., Ticket prices vary

Columbia Values Diversity Celebration, Holiday Inn Express Expo Center, MLK III is Keynote Speaker, 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., $14 (preregister Nov. 16)

Missouri Men’s Basketball vs.

Vanderbilt, Mizzou Arena, 4 p.m., Ticket prices vary

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Aaron Dolan and Jon Trigg present the first annual

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Hot Chocolate Cocktails & Open House at STUDIO HOME

• Gourmet Hot Chocolate Cocktails • Live Christmas Music by Lisa Rose • Door Prizes including merchandise and gift certificates.

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December 7th 5-8:30 pm

Studio Home will donate a portion of the proceeds to The Giving Tree, a project of the Boone County Foster Parent Support Group.

Studio Home’s Mix and Mingle Hot Chocolate Cocktails & Open House will run in conjuction with All Wrapped Up a North Village Arts District event!

Friday Night enjoy the Living Windows Celebration and Saturday a Festive Shopping Day with good cheer, refreshments and merriment all happening on Walnut street from College to 9th and north to Rogers.

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STUDIO HOME

For the Love of Christmas Dene and Michael Myers’ 19th century Victorian home is bursting with Christmas Spirit.

by Kelsey Gillespy Photo s by Angelique Hunter Loved ones shuffle up the steps, bundled in festive layers of red and green.

Wool-wrapped fingers juggle gifts and mutedly thud against the wooden door, eagerly seeking refuge from the bitter bite of winter. Christmas lies on the other side of the threshold and Santa, with his frosty-red cheeks and crimson robes, waits patiently with them on the porch. They have waited all year for this moment. Slowly, the doorknob turns and the resonance of cordial laughter invites them inside. Knocking snow from their boots, they squeeze into the open arms of Dene and Michael Myers as the two hosts welcome their guests.

The aroma of home-cooked cuisine floats through the air and heats it, thawing the frozen noses of new arrivals. Outside, winter drapes the earth in darkness and stars shimmer like shivering pieces of ice in the sky.

Dene and Michael Myers’ home quickly transforms into its own universe, separated from the rest of the world and warmed with rekindling friendships.

Time slows into the rhythmic hum of friendly conversation while children search for a jolly man in a red suit.

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For 12 years, Dene and Michael Myers deck the halls of their Victorian home for Christmas as early as mid-October.

agree. In the corner rests a large tree surrounded by fabric-wrapped gifts. Handcrafted floral arrangements rest on the table in the open entrance hall, displaying a touch of the holidays as well as Dene’s skillful professionalism. Lively garland lines the floating staircase and fireplace mantel, artfully infused with ornaments, pine and glowing lanterns. “I think it’s very festive and welcoming,” she continues. “I wanted the whole look here to be very whimsical.”

Since Dene’s childhood, Christmas was always a time when loved ones would gather back together. And, for 12 years now, Dene and her husband, Michael, have provided the place where everyone flocks during the holidays. “That’s what inspires me,” Dene admits. Dene remembers her introduction to holiday decorating. “We grew up on a farm so we cut our own trees,” she explains. “Throughout the year, mom would look at a tree and say, ‘I think that might make a good Christmas tree.’ So that was

always fun.” To further that tradition, a family tree with homemade ornaments resides on the second floor of the Myers’ beautiful Victorian mansion. But they don’t stop there. Instead, Dene and Michael embellish their home quite a bit more elaborately.

“Christmas is my favorite season. I just love the decorating—changing and transforming the house into something different,” says Dene, an interior designer. “I’d like to think it’s natural-looking.” Glancing around the open foyer, it’s difficult to dis-

"Christmas is my favorite season. I just love the decorating— changing and transforming the house into something different.” – Dene Myers To supplement the fanciful nature of their winter wonderland, Dene and Michael devote nearly the entire year to crafting Santa Clauses by hand. Dene states, “We make all of our Santas. Michael sculpts the faces out of clay and builds the body out of columbiahomemagazine.com | 23

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Dene and Michael Myers work together to create and sell custom Santa Clauses that take up to 10 hours each.

PVC pipes. Then we make the clothes and dress them up.”

Michael, who makes a living working with precious metals, seems cut out for this kind of handiwork. However, Dene started sculpting Santas before she met him. At the time, she created 18-inch decorations with cast faces and painted features. Since they’ve united, their Santas have grown in size and popularity. Dene recalls, “I sculpted one face and he looked at me and said, ‘I think I can do that.’ And, of course, his are much better than mine.”

The most recent commissioned piece was ordered by a client in Kansas City and stood 7 feet tall. Now, instead of hand-painting facial features, the faces are molded by Michael’s hand and Dene constructs each beard from individual locks of lamb’s wool. “Dene hot glues all that on,” Michael says proudly of his wife, “so it can take eight to 10 hours just to make a beard on a full-sized Santa.”

As evidenced in the Myers’ gorgeous 19th century home, these life-like creations are wonderful yuletide decorations.

However, many clients request a custom-made Santa Claus for more than just display purposes. “Two-thirds of Santa Clauses that Dene makes are custom orders because people will turn them into a family heirloom,” Michael reveals. “So, for custom pieces, she’ll incorporate very personal belongings of the family and put it in their Santa. And nobody else knows what they are, but the family does.” Grandmothers’ old quilts and furs now rest joyfully as part of Santa’s cuffs or his satchel of gifts, allowing loved ones to share Christmas with the family forever. After all, Christmas is always a time when loved ones gather back together. columbiahomemagazine.com | 25

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expert's advice | Broadway Ergonomics

Wellness at Work

Eric Schultz and Bret Derrick are partners at Broadway Ergonomics, an industrial and outpatient physical therapy group in Columbia.

What are some simple tricks to make my work environment healthier for others and myself? We would recommend sitting down with others and discussing what everyone would like to accomplish.

These topics can range from eating well, increasing physical activity and exercising, stretching and workplace ergonomics (how we interact with our work environment). Once you know what your workplace or group would like to accomplish, set goals TOGETHER! Research shows that working towards a goal as a group is more effective than individually.

For example, if a goal is to increase physical activity and exercise, start a walking group at lunch or over breaks.

Do psychological factors play a role in physical health? How? Psychological factors play a large role in physical health and rehabilitation. Research shows that if a patient is motivated to improve and feels they have a high likelihood to improve, they will be more likely to achieve their goals. Our comprehensive fitness assessment (FitTESTTM) analyzes a client’s willingness and readiness to change their health and fitness. This helps guide us in formulating a client’s customized exercise prescription.

Which is healthier—being physically active or being skinny? According to Fang, et al. in the Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2003, physical activity is a more powerful factor in preventing cardiovascular disease than body composition (percentage of body fat) of an individual.

This shows us that physical fitness, even with an overweight individual, protects cardiovascular health. It is critical to understand your current physical fitness level; this directly correlates to your health.

We recommend an annual fitness assessment to track your health.

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How do know how fit and healthy I am? We are licensed providers of the FitTESTTM physical fitness assessment. This is an evidence-based individualized exercise prescription designed to establish baseline measures of strength, flexibility and endurance. It is designed to meet your health goals, address your lifestyle constraints and provide specific exercise dosage, frequency and duration.

Who would benefit from a FitTESTTM physical fitness assessment? Anyone interested in improving or assessing his or her health and chronic disease risk would benefit from an assessment. The FitTESTTM is appropriate for anyone between the ages of 16 and 90 years. The four leading causes of death in the U.S. according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are heart disease, cancer, chronic lower

respiratory disease and stroke. Exercise decreases the risk of heart disease and stroke by more than 50 percent and has been shown to lower the risk of certain cancers.

How can I slow or alleviate the natural aches and pains that come with aging? First of all, natural aches and pains as we age are a myth.

As we age we shouldn’t expect pain—there are usually underlying issues causing these “aches and pains”, often a lack of physical activity and decreased fitness. The best advice we can offer is to keep moving and increase your physical activity. If aches and pains are already limiting you, consult your physician and physical therapist. You might benefit from a comprehensive fitness assessment to outline your current flexibility, strength and cardiovascular fitness so we can identify your limitations and address them.

I want to play with my kids, but I often get winded and sore. What should I do? It appears we have two issues going on here—aerobic and anaerobic limitations. We’d recommend starting with both an aerobic (walking, jogging, biking) and anaerobic (resistance and weight training) exercise program. Start with low duration, low intensity fitness activities at least three times per week—this can include playing with your kids— and increase the duration and intensity to the level you need to play with your kids.

Working out seems to cause more pain than gain. What do most people do wrong? What most people do wrong is not listen to their body appropriately. People often experience soreness and avoid exercising again due to the uncomfortable feeling they experienced.

On the other hand, other people often work through the pain, even though they are potentially injuring themselves. We recommend consulting with your physician and physical therapist to identify what your issues might be and how to improve your performance.

After beginning a work out routine, when can I really expect to see results? That depends on what your goals are. If you’re strength training, you will see increased strength in the first two weeks. The second noticeable increase in strength will occur four to six weeks into the program as you build muscle. If your goal is aerobic and cardiovascular conditioning, depending on the intensity and duration you start at, you can expect to see increases in endurance and intensity almost immediately. columbiahomemagazine.com | 27

Tips for setting your New Year’s Goals Always make SMART goals: S: Specific: Well-defined goals so that anyone can understand what you are trying to achieve.

M: Measurable: The goal should have parameters to measure success.

A: Attainable: Make sure the goal is realistic, but still challenging.

R: Relevant: Make goals that are important to you, and that you are passionate about achieving.

T: Timely: Have a time-frame in place for when you want the goal to be accomplished!

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home design trend | christmas couture

J. Mendel Winter 2012

Christmas Couture

By Cy d ni Roberts on p hoto s by whitney hay war d

‘Tis the season to be trendy! Toss the tinsel and trade it for something that is exciting and stands the test of changing seasons. Create a rustic environment within your home and impress your guests by introducing traditional holiday décor to winter whites.

P ro d u c t i n fo rm a t i o n ( c o u n te rc l o ck w i s e f ro m top lef t): B eaded gold tree, Fr ameworks, $50; Snowf lake or nament, Hockman Interior Design, $8.50; Metallic ornament, MacBrooks, $10.95; Evergreen candle, Frameworks, $50; Cardinal ornament, McAdams Lt d . , $ 9 . 5 0 ; Ru st i c S a n ta , M cAd a m s Lt d . , $ 3 5 0; M oose décor, M ac B rooks, $41.75; Snowy tree, Mac B rooks, $66; Antique sled, McAdams Ltd., $150; Opaque glass tree topper, MacBrooks, $33; Brown owl, McAdams Ltd., $39; Napkins, Tallulah’s, prices var y. columbiahomemagazine.com | 29

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mommy chronicles | QUIT YOUR WHINING

We’re having fun.

So quit your whining.

By J i l l O r r

comprised of only 10 percent actual fun. The rest of Family Fun consists of complaining, whining, sibling rivalry, snappish comments, over-priced snacks, temperatures that are too hot, temperatures that are too cold, overpriced souvenirs, lines that are too long, rides that are too short, museums that are too boring, cars that are too small, planes that are too bumpy, food that is too different, and one too many requests to ‘say cheese’.

Inexplicably, when you combine all these factors together and look retrospectively through the lens of a proper cooling off period, more often than not you are left with what passes for fond memories.

I’m still waiting for the fond memories to replace my accurate memories of my most recent Family Fun experience. My husband and I decided we would take our kids on a family bike ride.

Mom & Dad: “Hey kids, how would you like to go on a family bike ride?”

Son: “Maybe.”

Daughter: “Will there be food?”

Mom & Dad: “No –what? We thought we would go on the trail and just enjoy this nice day!”

Son: “How far? I don’t want to go far.”

Daughter: “Can we bring snacks?”

This lukewarm reception should have served as a warning. But we ignored whatever alarm bells were going off in our collective parenting brain and spent what felt like five hours getting out the bikes, filling up tires, getting on the proper attire, gathering helmets, stuffing the 4 bikes into our minivan and yes, packing snacks.

Exhausted, but undaunted in our quest for fun, we headed out.

Mom & Dad: “Ready, guys?”

Sometimes, having fun with my kids can be a lot of work. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a worthwhile pursuit – but there are times when it just plain wears me out. And I know I’m not the only one. I recognize the same weary look in the faces of moms and dads all over the place – at zoos, at museums, at parks, and always, always at Disney World.

I’ve been trying to figure out why Family Fun isn’t as “fun” as it should be, and I’ve come up with a new theory: Family Fun is

Daughter: “It’s freezing out here.”

Son: “It looks like it’s going to rain.”

Daughter: “What will happen to the snacks

Mom & Dad: “QUIT YOUR WHINNING! THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!” Son & Daughter: “Well, it isn’t fun when you yell…”

Stalwart parents that we are, we went ahead and took our Family Fun bike ride anyway, despite the fact that no one seemed to want to – not even us by that point. Here are some of the highlights from the event itself: • We went a total of seven miles in an hour and a half (that felt like four).

• We stopped eight times for water.

• We stopped six times for snacks.

• We stopped to look at a snake, gently prod him with a stick, and take his picture.

• A passing biker yelled at us for blocking the trail while we looked at the snake.

• My husband snapped at me for being too negative.

• I snapped at my husband for being too cheerful.

• The leg of my yoga pants got caught in the gears on my bike, tearing my pants and causing me to fall–inexplicably in slow motion—off my bike.

In keeping with my theory, only one of the things that happened on the bike ride was actually fun. Finding the snake was the highlight of the whole experience. Finding that snake oddly buoyed us all, and the ride back was pleasant–even enjoyable.

I said to my husband during one of the kid’s meltdowns, “Why do we keep doing things like this? No one likes this. This isn’t fun.” He agreed, as he does every week when I complain about Family Fun time. But we both know that at some point between this Sunday and next Sunday, the memories of The Bike Ride From Hell, will be magically transformed into The Time We Found That Snake and we will all look back on the experience with fond, however distorted, memories as we set out on our next quest for Family Fun.

if it rains?”

Son: “I don’t want to get wet.”

Mom & Dad: “C’mon - it’ll be an adventure.”

Son: “I don’t want an adventure.”

Daughter: “I don’t want to eat wet snacks.”

Son: “My bike seat is too hard.”

Daughter: “My helmet itches my chin.”

Jill Orr is a stay-at-home mom of two (an odd title because she is rarely ever at home). In her pre-Mommy days, she graduated from the University of Missouri with an undergraduate degree in journalism and a master's in social work, with an emphasis on children and family studies.

But she wishes she would have gotten a Ph.D. in What's For Dinner and How to Get Bubblegum Out of the Carpet. That would have served her better. Read her blog at jillsorr.com.

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shopkeeper's story | world harvest foods

Harvesting Responsibility Owais Abdul-Kafi will take care of World Harvest Foods customers in the absence of his father, Shakir Hamoodi.

By Molly Wright

An unexpected change By 2001, Hamoodi was ready for a career change. Resigning from the university, he decided to open an international food store. According to Abdul-Kafi, “We had friends who had a similar store in Champaign, Ill., who encouraged us and helped us set up our store in Columbia.” In December 2003, Hamoodi opened World Harvest Foods at its current location. Before long, with its wide variety of Indian, Oriental and Middle Eastern foods, as well as broad selection of cheeses, olives, teas and chocolates, the store became a Columbia favorite. Everything was going well for Hamoodi’s business and for his family.

That is, until Sept. 18, 2006. Abdul-Kafi remembers the day well. “Dad was out of town and mom was at school. My sister and I both had a college class at 9 a.m. Half way to school, my sister realized she forgot her cell phone and we went back to get it.” Not two minutes after they returned home, 35 agents, many with guns drawn, showed up at their front door and 32 | DECember 2012/January 2013

raided the family home. When they finally left, they had removed three SUVs full of the family’s personal items. Six years later, on Aug. 23, 2012, Hamoodi was sentenced to three years in prison and two years’ probation for violating sanctions by providing financial aid to his family.

Today, the family is still reeling from the verdict. However, they are hopeful Hamoodi will be released soon. In the interim, Abdul-Kafi, (whose last name differs from his father’s because Iraqi children take the last name of their father’s father), now a medical student at MU, oversees his father’s business. “I’m taking care of the finances, the accounting and making sure people get paid and orders are taken care of. Other store associates take care of day-to-day operations,” he says.

Learning to lead Although the demands of medical school make the undertaking challenging, Abdul-Kafi is glad he can step in while his father is gone. He is also proud of his father’s uniquely different store. “We probably have 150 to 200 different kinds of cheeses,” he says. In addition, they carry 300 different teas, 40 to 50 types of olives and a large assortment of olive oils ranging from milder French versions to more peppery Sicilian

Thirty-five agents, many with guns drawn, showed up at their front door and raided the family home.

When they finally left, they had removed three SUVs full of the family’s personal items.

Photos by David Owens

Though perhaps only a few Columbians know World Harvest Foods is located on Monterey Drive, most can tell you how to get there. Just take Nifong, drive behind Landmark Bank, and it’s in the little strip mall next to the Dollar General. With an amazing selection of international and gourmet foods, World Harvest is a popular shopping destination. In addition, many World Harvest customers appreciate the store’s owner, Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, for his tireless efforts as an activist for peace and social justice. Yet, today, as Hamoodi serves a controversial prison sentence, his eldest son Owais Abdul-Kafi oversees the store in his absence, along with the help of store manager Tawfeeq. Continuing his father’s tradition of providing mid-Missourians with a delicious global experience, Abdul-Kafi, along with the rest of the family, anxiously awaits his father’s return.

It was 1985 when Hamoodi and his wife Lamya Najem emigrated from Iraq to the United States. Hamoodi holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri, where upon completing his degree, he accepted a research professor position on campus. Over the years, Hamoodi and his wife also raised five children, one daughter and four sons in their adopted country. But following the First Gulf War, Hamoodi discovered his extended family still living in Iraq was suffering financially from U.S. sanctions against the country. Troubled, he began sending money to them and continued to do so until sanctions were lifted and they were able to get back on their feet.

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For customers like Mary Furness, World Harvest Foods not only provides Columbia with a taste of the world, but also a taste of home. “I grew up on the East Coast, outside of Washington, D.C., and my father was from Bulgaria,” she says. “We had access to stores that sold foods from all over the world, but when I came to live out here, I really missed those things. It was a joy to discover World Harvest, and find the Bulgarian cheeses readily available.”

Abdul-Kafi prays for his father’s release, along with his mother; sister Lamees, 26, a teacher at the Islamic school; and younger brothers, Salahodeen, 22, an electrical engineer in Seattle; Husam, 18, a freshman at Wesleyan University in Connecticut; and AbdulRahman, 15, a 10th-grader at Rock Bridge high school. Although Hamoodi calls just about every other day (they are not allowed to call him), they miss him terribly. Abdul-Kafi speaks for the family when he says, “We are hopeful he will be back soon.”

For now, Abdul-Kafi hopes current and new customers will visit the store and see what they have to offer. “We have all kinds of food for all kinds of people,” he says.

“Whether you’re interested in trying new things or have traveled the world and developed new tastes.”

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The Happy Hostess Hosting a party at home may seem like a good idea…and it can be, with a little pre-planning and an easy menu.

By Sa r a h R ed ohl P h oto s by J ak e Ha milton

It’s 7:56 p.m. on December 31st, 2011, and my guests will be arriving in four short minutes. I had thought a small gathering at my place would be the perfect way to ring in the New Year. I was wrong, because here I am in my little black Marc Jacobs and a sauce-splattered apron, sweating in the sweltering heat of my kitchen to finish the last details of the menu while the rest of the food gets cold in the dining room. I burn my hand, drop the spatula and stain my ivory satin shoe. Then the doorbell rings.

It’s a hostess’s worst nightmare. It was also my final attempt to wow the crowd by sacrificing my sanity. A friend, recently returned from a year in Italy, introduced me to crostini, or “little toasts” in Italian.

These basic, crispy baguettes can be topped with flavor—cured meats and cheeses, fresh herbs and produce. They can be made in advance, served warm or cold and last hours at room temperature without getting soggy. And crostini is a fantastic partner to wine.

The three crostini recipes here incorporate rich ingredients like smoked salmon, spiced blueberry compote and caramelized mushrooms that will satisfy a group of 20 for about $50, as well as spare a hostess from a last-minute meltdown. columbiahomemagazine.com | 35

Smoked Salmon Crostini • 4 oz. smoked salmon, pre-sliced • 6 oz. herb & garlic cheese spread, like Alouette • 1 baguette • 2 T. olive oil • ¼ C. vertically sliced green onions (optional) • 2 T. chopped fresh dill

Blueberry & Brie Crostini • • • • • • • •

2 ½ C. fresh blueberries 1/3 C. sugar 1/3 C. water ½ C. candied walnuts 8 oz. thinly sliced Brie 1 baguette 2 T. olive oil Dash cinnamon (optional)

Caramelized Mushroom Crostini • • • • • • • •

3 T. olive oil 1 baguette 12 oz. mushrooms, thinly sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 T. butter ½ C. dry white wine (like Pinot Grigio) Salt and pepper to taste 2 T. chopped fresh rosemary

Directions:

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1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Cut the baguettes into ¼-inch slices. Brush both sides with olive oil, and lay out on a baking sheet.

Bake for four minutes on each side, or until golden brown.

2. Make the compote by combining half of the blue berries with the sugar, water and a pinch of cinnamon in a small saucepan. Cook on medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring, until the berries burst. Add the rest of the berries and cook for eight minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture coats the spoon. Set aside.

3. Sauté the mushrooms by heating 1 T. of olive oil on medium-high heat. Add the mushrooms in a single layer. Let cook until

the bottoms are caramelized, without stirring, about two minutes. Toss, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for five more minutes without stirring. Add 1 T. butter and the garlic, and cook until brown. Add rosemary, lemon juice and wine, and simmer until evaporated. Set aside.

4. Spread 1/3 of the baguettes with herb & garlic cheese spread, layer with sprigs of green onion, thinly sliced salmon, and garnish with dill. On another 1/3, spread a thin layer of blueberry compote, layer a slice of Brie cheese, add another dollop of compote and garnish with the candied walnuts. On the last 1/3, layer the caramelized mushrooms on top, and garnish with fresh rosemary. Plate the crostini, and enjoy your own party.

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Hot Chocolate

By J ake K l i ng h a mme r P h oto s by J ak e H a m i lto n

I’ve always dreaded winter. The cold, frigid air penetrating your skin and turning your bones to ice: not my idea of a good time. When I was a kid my friends and I would race down snowblanketed hills and attempt to construct grand snowmen, but the cold would set in and we’d rarely make it past that first bottom ball. The only silver lining on that dark, grey cloud of winter’s scorn was the promise of hot chocolate.

We would kick off our snow-caked boots at the front door and run into the kitchen where mom had a pot boiling and mugs waiting on the

counter in a neat, uniform row. We were anxious but did our best to show grateful patience.

Before we could completely thaw out, mom poured four cups – one for me, one for sis, one for the neighbor kid we didn’t really like that much and the last for herself. To the last mug she added a splash of some clear liquid from a bizarre-looking bottle.

“Momma works hard,” she would say in response to my confused expression. “That’s a little something extra for me. Don’t worry. You wouldn’t like it.”

It wasn’t until I move away from home that I tasted the classic Peppermint Schnapps spin on hot chocolate. Suddenly, winter’s only redemption just got better. Over the next few years, I experimented with mixology and cocktail creation – the flavors best suited for vodka versus gin mar-

tinis, appropriate proportions in a Long Island, even things as simple as the best rum and Coke recipe (Captain Morgan and Diet Coke, by the way). But few have brought me such great tidings of comfort and joy as these hot chocolate wonder wells.

They’re simple and easy to make. For this season, I sought out garnish from Natural Grocers: peppermint, whole hazelnuts, raspberries, chocolate.

Of course, we don’t always have the time or energy to make every cup of cocoa its own picture-perfect creation. Hot chocolate is all about comfort, not stress or anxiety. My mom would always start with a foundation of hot milk and hot chocolate powder.

Serve that to the kids. Then she’d doctor up the final cup for herself.

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Hot chocolate 1 oz spiced rum 1 oz hazelnut liqueur whipped cream crushed hazelnuts for garnish

Toasty Almond Dagoba Cocoa Almond Milk Stevia 1 oz Dwersteg’s Organic Amaretto Liqueur Garnish with whipped cream and sliced almonds

Irish Spirit

Hot chocolate 1 oz Bailey’s Irish Cream Whipped Cream

White Chocolate Raspberry

1 oz white hot chocolate liqueur 1 oz chombard raspberry liqueur white hot chocolate (you can get the mix from Hy-Vee) Whipped cream and whole raspberries for garnish

Hot Cinnamon Mocha Hot chocolate 1 shot of espresso 2 oz coffee liqueur 2 cinnamon sticks

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1 oz peppermint schnapps hot chocolate crushed peppermints for garnish whipped cream

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P h oto s a nd sto ry By Emi ly S o u t h e r l a nd

If you want a fun and simple craft to make with your kids to help them celebrate the start of winter and to teach them another way to serve the world around them, making birdseed ornaments to decorate an outside Christmas tree is the perfect solution. These sweet little ornaments will be happily received by neighborhood birds and wildlife, and your

children and you can enjoy watching your new visitors from the cozy warmth of your window. To add to your outdoor Christmas tree, you can string popcorn or hang slices of fresh or dried oranges and apples. If you use natural twine, yarn, or jute, your birds get the added bonus of a piece of string they can take to make their nests, come spring. columbiahomemagazine.com | 43

You’ll need:

• Between ¾ C. and 1 C. small birdseed (parakeet food from the pet aisle works great!)

• ¼ C. water • 1 packet of Knox gelatin (this can be found in the canning section of your grocery store) • Wax Paper • Cookie cutters or Mason jar rings • Twine or yarn

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Directions: Pour the water and the packet of gelatin into a small sauce pan. Heat on medium until the water simmers, stirring the gelatin until the clumps smooth out and dissolve. Once it is dissolved, pour the birdseed into the mix and stir. If you think the liquid could manage more seed to soak it up, add a little at a timeprobably no more than one cup total when all is said and done. Turn off the heat and let the mix cool for a few minutes.

Lay out a sheet of wax paper and set out your cookie cutters. Once the mix is lukewarm, you can begin spooning the birdseed mix into the cookie cutters. You’ll want to use your fingers or the edge of your spoon to press it into the corners and to get it firm.

A note—this stuff will stick to your fingers like crazy. Just be ready for it to be a seedy little mess for a while. It may help to contain it by working on your wax paper within a cookie sheet. It does clean up easily, though, so don’t worry about it too much.

There are two different tricks to getting the string into your ornaments. The first

technique happens as you’re pressing the seed into the cutters—take a loop of string and knot it, then push the knot into the seed mix as you are forming the ornaments. Add some seed on top of the string to anchor it.

The second trick, my preferred method, can be done once the cookie cutters are full. Take a straw and clip an inch-length off of it. Stick this into the birdseed at the appropriate spot and let it stay there.

Once the seed has firmed up, you can twist this straw piece out and you’ll have a tidy hole to thread string through. Repeat with all your ornaments.

Once your cookie cutters are packed to the brim with seed mixture, you’ll let it set overnight. It might help it set a bit faster if you flip them every hour or so, but you don’t have to. When they are ready the next day, you will just need to gently nudge them out of their cookie cutters and they are ready to hang.

Meanwhile, since you have to wait for the ornaments to be ready anyway, why not try making a few Birdseed Tubes out of toilet paper tubes?

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Directions: Using a butter knife, spread a generous layer of peanut butter all over your toilet paper tube. Roll it in the dish or pile of birdseed until it is thoroughly coated. Easy!

String some yarn through the tube and this little treat is ready to go.

NOTE: If you choose a tree or shrub near one of

You’ll need:

• Empty toilet paper tubes • Peanut butter (creamy or chunky will work) • Birdseed in a wide shallow dish or pile

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your windows to hang your treasures on, you can enjoy watching your visitors explore your presents to them from the warmth of your home. You not only get to see the fruits of your labors, but also your little ones will get to experience the satisfaction of giving gifts to even the smallest of creatures in their world.

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apple and stilton salad

This tangy salad incorporates unique ingredients into the perfect entrée for four.

By Ca mille St yle s

This Apple & Stilton salad has it all, and the ingredients come together in the perfect medley of tangy and sweet. A creamy blue cheese tastes divine with the crunchy-tart apple. The secret ingredient? The raisin walnut crisps that I make with day-old bread from the farmer’s market. I cut super thin slices, brush with a little olive oil or melted butter, then pop into a 400-degree oven until golden brown and crispy, turning once during cooking. After they’ve cooled, I break into rustic, bite-sized pieces, and throw them into salads, serve next to steaming cups of coffee, or just munch on when I need something that tastes “cookie-like.” Trust me: they’ll become a new addiction.

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Salad Ingredients: • • • • • •

10 C. baby greens 1 C. chopped walnuts ½ C. currants ½ C. blue cheese crumbles 1 granny smith apple, sliced thinly 2 chicken breast halves, grilled and sliced (optional. chickpeas would be a great vegetarian option.)

• Day-old raisin-walnut bread (or any kind of bread with dried fruit or nuts), thinly sliced

Dressing Ingredients: • • • •

4 T. extra-virgin olive oil 2 T. aged balsamic vinegar 1 tsp. honey Kosher salt & freshly ground black pepper

Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place currants in a small bowl, and pour boiling water over them to reconstitute and “plump.” Set aside.

2. Spread walnuts on one baking sheet and raisin-walnut slices on another baking sheet. Toast in oven until golden, about seven minutes for walnuts and 10 minutes for bread. During the cooking, you’ll want to toss the walnuts a few times and turn the bread once to cook evenly. Remove from oven and let walnuts and bread cool.

3. Drain currants and pat dry with a paper towel. Break toasted bread into bite-sized pieces.

4. In a large bowl, stir together balsamic vinegar and honey. Slowly whisk in olive oil, then season to taste with salt and pepper.

5. Add baby greens, currants, raisin-walnut crisps, walnuts and apple slices. Toss to combine. Divide among four plates and top with the blue cheese and chicken.

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Reuse, rest yle, repurpose Jana Gebhardt with Studio J transforms a Columbia family’s dining room from over-the-top to casual cool.

By Sar ah R edohl Photo s by Taylor A llen an d Katie B ell

Jana took the room from over-done drab to a bright and airy aura that meshed with the personality of the Fowler family. Studio J strives to be easy on the wallet and the environment.

In every home, there’s a room that separates that house from perfection—impossibly poor lighting, a family heirloom no one wants or a color scheme that’s just never quite right. For the Fowlers, the formal dining room ranked in all three of those categories. The north-facing windows emitted barely any light, and the dark palette— stained wooden furniture, taupe walls, wood floors and beige cushions—overpowered what little light existed. The oversized dining table with intricate carved details and chairs outfitted in a dusty gold damask print felt more like a visit to the home of a duchess than a trip to the beach, and the buoyant blond family of four would rather be seaside.

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and deep sky tones to coarse burlap and the opalescent gold of sunlight on rippled waters. Finally, the formality dissolved into an inviting and uncluttered dining room in perfect harmony with the contemporary cottage feel of the rest of the Fowlers’ home.

“This looks exactly like I envisioned it in my head,” Becky Fowler says. “I can’t believe you did this!” she tells her designer, Jana Gebhardt from Studio J Homes.

Anyone can find her around town. In her SMART car wrapped in the Studio J aqua damask print, the interior designer’s presence is not nearly as subtle as her craft.

Jana, who returned from a career on the east coast to her hometown of Columbia, started a new chapter of her life last February when she decided to spend her retirement years fulfilling a lifelong passion— making the ugly, beautiful; the old, new; and the stale, fresh. Studio J specializes in

an unconventional kind of interior decorating—one devoid of a huge carbon footprint or an overpriced invoice.

“Many people have a conception about interior decorating that you have to start from scratch and spend lots of money,” she says.

“It’s a thrill to me to give a new life to something that people have cast off or is sitting in the garage, unused.” Her business model aligns with her message: reuse, repurpose and restyle.

The process of the project It typically starts with Pinterest, a social site where users can “pin” photos they like to their own boards for specific categories; magazine clippings; a color test and power words. “Not everyone uses the vocabulary of an interior designer, so I try to give them the best way I can to describe what they want,” Jana says.

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“We had switched that piece all over town between my parents’ home and ours, because no one wanted it,” Becky says. “Now she’s going to want it back!” Atop the pine piece sit two garage sale lamps disguised by a coat of white paint and burlap shades Jana created.

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1. Oatmeal Jumbles • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1.

1 ¾ C. flour 1 tsp. baking soda 10 T. butter, softened 6 T. vegetable shortening ½ C. sugar 1 ½ C. brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 2 C. quick oats 2 oz. chocolate chips ½ C. walnuts or pecans ¼ C. raisins ¼ C. dried cherries ¼ C. coconut Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cookie sheets with oil.

2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, shortening and both sugars until light and fluffy, about three minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture to butter mixture. Stir in oats, chocolate, nuts, raisins, cherries and coconut.

3. Scoop dough into 2 T. balls several inches apart and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, rotating pans halfway through.

Let cool on racks.

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2. Snickerdoodles

• ½ C. butter, softened • 1 C., 2 T. sugar, divided • ¼ tsp. baking soda • ¼ tsp. cream of tartar • 1 egg • ½ tsp. vanilla • 1 ½ C. flour • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

2. In a medium mixing bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add the 1 C. sugar, baking soda and cream of tartar.

Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for one hour.

3. In a small mixing bowl, combine the 2 T. sugar and the cinnamon. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in the sugar-cinnamon mixture to coat. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

4. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.

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• 1 C. butter • 1 tsp. baking soda • 2 eggs • 1 ½ C. flour • 1 C. brown sugar • 2 C. quick oats • 2 tsp. vanilla • 1 C. sugar • 2 C. Rice Krispies • 1 tsp. baking powder 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

2. Beat butter and sugars. Add eggs and blend well. Add remaining ingredients.

3. Place on baking sheet by teaspoon-full and bake for 10 minutes for soft cookies, 12 for crispy.

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1 C. light corn syrup 1 C. sugar 1 ½ C. peanut butter 6 C. Rice Krispies 1 C. semisweet chocolate chips 1 C. butterscotch chips Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan, and set aside.

2. In a large bowl, mix together corn syrup, sugar and peanut butter. Microwave until the mixture melts, stirring every minute (about three minutes total). Stir in cereal.

3. Transfer the mixture into a pan, and pat it down to spread it out evenly.

4. In a medium bowl, microwave chips for one minute, stir and microwave another minute or until the mixture melts.

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6. Salted Chocolate Chip 5. Molasses Lace Cookies • • • • • • • 1.

1 C. flour 1 C. coconut ½ C. brown sugar ½ C. light corn syrup ½ C. butter 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. rum or brandy (optional) Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2. Mix together flour and coconut, and set aside. In a heavy saucepan, combine brown sugar, corn syrup and butter.

Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Remove from heat. Gradually add flour mixture and vanilla.

3. Drop by scant teaspoonfuls onto parchment-lined cookie sheets, at least 3" apart. Cookies spread when baking.

4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Remove parchment paper from metal sheet, and allow cookies to cool slightly before trying to remove them.

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1 C. butter, softened 1 ¼ C. light brown sugar ¾ C. sugar 2 eggs, slightly beaten 2 tsp. vanilla 3 C. unbleached flour (I use 1 cup whole wheat flour...so they're healthy!)

• 1 tsp. salt • 1 tsp. baking soda • 2 ½ tsp. hot water • 2 C. chocolate chips, half milk chocolate and half bittersweet • ¾ tsp. coarse (kosher) salt 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.

2. Cream together the butter and sugars, then add the eggs and vanilla to the creamed mixture. In a separate bowl, mix the flour(s) and salt.

3. Dissolve baking soda into hot water and add to batter. Stir in the dry mixture until smooth, then add chocolate chips. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least two hours. (Can keep refrigerated for 24 hours).

4. Scoop dough out in 2-inch balls onto cookie sheet and lightly sprinkle each cookie with a small pinch of kosher salt.

Bake for 9 to 10 minutes.

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• 1 bag corn puffs • 1 C. brown sugar • ½ C. light corn syrup • 2 sticks butter • 1 tsp. baking soda 1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

2. Boil brown sugar, corn syrup and butter for two minutes. Stir in baking soda. Pour over corn puffs.

3. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every five minutes.

• 1 C. butter • 1 C. sugar • 3 oz. cream cheese • 3 C. flour • 1 ½ tsp. baking powder • ½ tsp. baking soda • ½ tsp. salt • 1 C. chocolate malted milk instant powder • 1/3 C. buttermilk • 1 egg • 1 tsp. vanilla • 3/4 C. chopped nuts (optional) Frosting: • ¼ C. butter • ¼ C. milk • ½ C. chocolate malted milk powder • 2 ½ C. powdered sugar 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.

2. Cream together butter, sugar and cream cheese. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt and malted milk powder. Add to creamed mixture. Then add buttermilk, egg, vanilla and nuts. Scoop 1-inch balls onto cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool before frosting.

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10. Chocolate Crinkle Cookies • • • • • • • • • 1.

9. Champagne Macadamia Nut • • • • • •

2 sticks softened butter 1 C. brown sugar ½ C. sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp. Vanilla 2 ½ C. self-rising flour (or use 2 C. flour with 1 tsp. of baking powder, 1 tsp. baking soda and ½ tsp. salt) • 2 C. white chocolate chips • 1 C. Macadamia nuts, roughly chopped.

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine butter and sugars. Beat until creamy. Add vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, and continue beating until well combined.

Mix in flour. Fold in white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts.

3. Drop dough by the tablespoon onto a lightly greased cookie sheet 2 inches apart.

4. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly brown around the edges.

5. Cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.

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3 C. sugar, divided ¾ C. cocoa powder 2 1/3 C. flour 2 tsp. baking powder ½ tsp. salt ¾ C. vegetable oil 4 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 1 C. confectioner’s sugar Combine 2 C. sugar and vegetable oil until well combined. Add cocoa, eggs and vanilla.

Beat until smooth. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.

Add flour mixture in parts to sugar/cocoa mixture with beaters on low speed (I add in 4 parts or more). Allow flour mixture to fully incorporate each time.

2. Place cookie mixture in refrigerator overnight, or for more than six hours. The dough must be very cold to roll without being sticky. I leave the dough in the mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap. It’s really sticky stuff.

3. When you are ready to make the cookies, preheat oven to 350 degrees.

4. Put 1 C. confectioners sugar in a bowl, and 1 C. granulated sugar in another bowl. Scoop out approximately 1-inch balls of dough and roll in the palms of your hands. I find that coating my hands in Crisco or butter helps A LOT to keep the dough from sticking. Roll the ball completely in granulated sugar, then in confectioners sugar to coat. Space 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.

5. Bake until surfaces crack, about 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool one minute on cookie sheet, and then on wire racks. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers for three or four days…but they never last that long at our house!

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A Gr an d En tr an ce Missouri native Ben Huhman brings culinary trends from the West Coast to Missouri’s capitol with the opening of The Grand Café in Jefferson City.

By M a rc u s Wil kin s | Photo s by Anthony Jin s on When Ben Huhman invites you into his place, he wants you to feel comfortable. That’s not to say he doesn’t want you to step outside of your comfort zone. As owner of Jefferson City’s new casual fine dining restaurant, The Grand Café at 107 E. High St., Huhman sought elements including the signature pressed tin ceiling, the exquisitely hand made bar and the unadorned butcher-block oak tables serving as the culinary canvas for food, wine and candlelight. The menu, however, is slightly unconventional. Grilled lamb chops with a stone ground mustard sauce, duck breast with blueberry compote and even escargot in a Marsala and demi-glace reduction might grace the parchment on any given night. columbiahomemagazine.com | 67

“Some people get intimidated when they see certain things on the menu,” Huhman says. “I’m not saying lamb and duck are the craziest things in the world, but I have always said that if I order steak at a restaurant, it’s because nothing else has piqued my interest.”

Nevertheless, the impressive 20-ounce bone-in ribeye with garlic mashed potatoes is popular and undeniably delicious. Just remember to try an imaginative special during your next visit.

Coastal Trends in the Capitol Huhman’s road to restaurant entrepreneurship started in 2002. After growing up in Williamsburg, Mo., and working a handful of kitchen jobs throughout high school, he tried factory work at ABB. He knew right away it wasn’t for him and moved with his future wife, Lindsay, to San Francisco to attend the California Culinary Academy.

The couple appreciated city life but wanted a shorter drive home to visit friends and family in Callaway County. After Huhman graduated, they moved to Chicago where he caught on with the trendy eatery BIN 36, located underneath the House of Blues Hotel.

“I learned more there than any other place I have worked,” Huhman says. “We did room service for the House of Blues. A lot of what I do now is kind of derived from that place.”

About a year later he moved on to XO Chicago, another hip restaurant where he fell in love with the small plate concept. It was an idea that was just starting to catch on back in his home state.

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At Right: The Grand Café is located at 107 E. High St. in Jefferson City. Above: Ben Huhman “Nationally, you see everything kind of work its way from the coasts in,” says Huhman. “It even happens in Missouri, with St. Louis and Kansas City on the borders.”

Huhman had toyed with the idea of learning the beer brewing industry and opening a brewpub when the young couple moved to Jefferson City. Instead, a stint as a line cook at Mizzou’s U Club turned into a chef position at Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield, Mo., where he could spread his wings.

“If I could sell it to the customers, I could buy it,” says Huhman of the freedom the club’s owners granted him. “I had a hard time selling duck and lamb there. I just really enjoy cooking duck. It’s fun to watch that skin render down and get crispy.”

About a year later, Huhman knew it was time to migrate. He walked past The Grand Café’s future home on High Street in November 2011 just as construction workers were finishing the shell. Built in the 1880s, it had housed a pharmacy, a deli and a

dress shop, but Huhman envisioned his dream in the remodeled space.

By April, he had the keys. By July, he and his brother Craig had finished the breathtaking bar, and on July 26, Huhman opened the doors to The Grand Café.

“It was a very soft opening, and the only advertising we had done was on Facebook,” Huhman says. “But we’re both from large Catholic families, and Lindsay knows a lot of people.”

For weeks, Huhman and his newly hired staff could barely keep up. Specials would debut Thursday only to sell out by Friday night, and the first-time restaurant owner felt the good kind of growing pains that come with success. It was invigorating.

Now that The Grand Café kitchen and wait staff has settled in, the service is impeccable.

“People will get something here that they won’t get any place else,” Huhman says. “I think it could be a destination place for people from Columbia to come check out from time to time.”

The “Huhman” Touch It’s not uncommon for patrons to enter The Grand Café and ask how long the bar has been occupying the west wall. Its antique yet modern look glistens with lacquer and

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glass, and Huhman trusts his wine selection to A. Bommarito Wines in St. Louis.

“I had no idea that I would sell the amount of wine that I sell,” Huhman says. “I knew I wanted to sell good wine, and I knew I wanted to have wine that you couldn’t go to the grocery store and get.”

In keeping with his commitment to freshness, he also stocks local products such as beer from Piney River Brewing Co. out of Bucyrus, Mo., and gin and vodka from Pinckney Bend Distillery in New Haven, Mo. The pastas are also made from scratch, including the butternut squash ravioli and the ever-popular carbonara, with black pepper fettuccini, wild mushrooms, bacon, sundried tomatoes and Asiago cheese in a white wine and herb sauce. The seafood arrives twice weekly, and each piece of warm focaccia — a recipe he picked up in Chicago — steams when you tear it in two.

As with any young restaurant, The Grand Café is a work in progress. The walls are sparsely decorated as the owner still contemplates the ultimate look he wants to achieve.

“I tend to overthink things — except for in the kitchen.

Everything just clicks for me back there,” Huhman says. “I don’t want to slap some art up just because there needs to be something on the wall. I want it to be the right thing and I want it to fit.”

Huhman believes he has found his niche in the energetic High Street area of Jefferson City. As he and Lindsay move forward, they will continually strive for that “Huhman” touch.

“When we first opened, a few people would come in and say, ‘We’re happy you’re here. We needed a place like this,’” Huhman says. “Nobody’s happier than we are. It was nice working for somebody with the regular paycheck and what have you, but I wouldn’t trade it for this.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 71

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A blue tarp

dilutes the strong Caribbean sun into cerulean shadows near a hospital in Milot, a small village 10 miles outside of Cape Haitian, Haiti’s second largest city. Patient rooms are divided by no more than chalk-

drawn lines on the concrete. Mat after mat host Haiti’s pain and suffering following the 2010 earthquake, which claimed more than 220,000 lives and displaced upwards of one million people. Newborn babies share beds under broken windows.

On January 22, 2010, Columbia native Rick Baker boards a 13-seat luxury jet in St. Louis, Mo. Four hours and a few new Creole phrases later, the flight medic from University Hos-

pital touches down in the pile of rubble that, one week prior, had blanketed the small island nation. A few weeks later, coworker and ER doctor Adam Beckett also flew to Haiti to provide emergency medical care to some of the 300,000 injured in the quake. columbiahomemagazine.com | 73

The first sight that greets Baker as he steps onto the tarmac is that of a broken down airplane and a single-story ramshackle airport the size of Booches—a staple of their childhoods in Columbia, and a place where the two men often meet to recount their adventures together.

Although they both grew up on Glenwood Avenue, and Baker’s mom briefly dated Beckett’s dad in high school, the two didn’t become close until their recent medical mission trips. Post-quake Haiti was their first.

As they exit the airport, locals swarm the group for the opportunity to carry their luggage for $1. More than half of Haiti’s population lives on less than $1 per day, according to the UN World Food Programme. On their way to Sacre Coeur hospital, an overflow location for refugees from Haiti’s capital of Port Au Prince, the pair confronts the reality of the disaster firsthand.

“There was a pile of body parts waiting to be burned, but there was so much for us to do, and we were working 20-hour days, that there wasn’t even time to process it until we got home,” Baker says.

This was the first of 16 medical mission trips between the two men.

“It’s the type of healthcare we thought we’d be doing when we first started off,” Baker says. An athletic trainer for MU football in college, a long family history of helping others encouraged him to become a medic. His grandfather, James Baker, was a doctor in Columbia, and his other grandfather, John McMullen, a pastor at the Presbyterian church. His mom, Betsy Baker Rall, was a teacher and later a principle, and his father, Jim Baker, was a psychologist.

For Beckett, his dream of being a doctor started when he was a child—he had a great pediatrician, Charles Abramovic, or Dr. Chuck.

By the time he graduated from MU with his bachelor’s degree in biology, Beckett knew he would be a doctor. But he had another dream to live out first.

“I went into the Marines for four years,” the ex-platoon commander says. “Just like my dad and my brothers.” His brothers Matt, Daniel and Andrew also live in Columbia, near his parents, Bruce and Donna. While in the Marines, Beckett traveled to Malaysia, Jordan and Eritrea, among other places. These trips sparked his passion for travel and world affairs. Baker, too, was inspired by his military experience as a Navy Corpsman. Now, both are once again traversing the globe and seeing how little the situation of the 3rd world has improved since then.

“Here in the U.S., because of well-funded and advanced medical care, the expectations of patients and their families are high," Baker says. The people they help on their trips don't have these expectations, he adds. “Simply being there to offer our time and care is deeply appreciated.”

Shortly after the quake both Baker and Beckett saw patients with horrible fractures laying on straw mats on the ground, grateful to have a roof over their heads. "It is impossible not to be humbled by that," Baker says.

Beckett’s delivery of a baby during a power outage was another example. “I had to deliver her with a headlamp,” Beckett recalls. “The mom had [some serious injuries], but she was ready to walk out, smiling, with her new baby girl.”

Death, too, pervades each medical mission to Haiti. In 2010, almost two out of every 10 children died before the age of five. In Haiti, the average life expectancy, 62 years, is a full 15 shorter the Dominican Republic, which shares the Mississippi-sized island with Haiti.

Both Beckett and Baker can recall multiple instances where micropreemies, newborns born within the first six months of a pregnancy, were born without hope of living more than a few hours. Often, parents would just leave. In one instance though, the mother left and the father, a blind man, stayed until his baby died. A Canadian volunteer guided his hands over the new-

“It’s the type of healthcare we thought we’d be doing when we first started off.”

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Hospitals, like the one above, in the foreign places Beckett and Baker assist are also very foreign to the pair used to the amenities at University Hospital.

born, described what the blind man touched and told him how the baby reacted. Even if it’s something as small as 10 minutes of human connection, or squeezing additional patients into the hospital hallways, the volunteers do what they can with the little they have.

In a healthcare system where resources are so limited, triage—assisting injured people based on their need and the likelihood of successful recovery—is necessary.

“It’s a hard decision to make on how long you’ll keep someone alive before you pull life support and offer life to another patient,” Beckett says.

In Kenya, two doctors and handful of assistants saw more than 350 patients in one day in a roofless concrete hut in the middle of a field. At some point, they had to cut off the line and tell people to go home.

“For many of them, it’s the first healthcare they’ve had in years,” Beckett says. “Often its stuff as simple as basic hand washing, covering your cough and brushing your teeth.”

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“It’s a hard decision to make on how long you’ll keep someone alive before you pull life support and offer life to another patient.” – Adam Beckett When the pair are not on medical missions abroad or working at University Hospital, they’re building a website to centralize information for healthcare providers considering a medical mission trip. The website will offer facts and figures about the countries, but also list what type of work is necessary and share previous volunteer stories.

“When we first arrived at our village in Kenya, it was 10 p.m., but the locals stayed up just to perform a welcome dance for us,” Baker recounts. They are convinced heartwarming stories like this will encourage more people to go.

Baker says he and Beckett have already lit a spark with local healthcare providers.

“People want to go with us because they know we know what we’re doing.”

Natalie Harris was one of those people. A single parent with two daughters, her family was concerned for her safety abroad.

Baker and Beckett convinced Harris’s family to be comfortable with her trip.

The experienced pair wastes no time educating newbies on-site of the dos and don’ts. “You can tell who [they] are because they look at us with our snacks and music and ask, ‘We can do that?’” Sometimes, after a long day, what they need is just a bit of comfort and normalcy.

Baker and Beckett have been in the hospital in Haiti so many times that it’s almost normal. Almost. They aren’t allowed to leave the compound, which is located in the dangerous slums of Port Au Prince. After the earthquake, there was a food riot outside the hospital in response to corrupt distribution of food vouchers.

Long lines and harsh conditions are common in the places Beckett and Baker go to give medical care.

“[The distributors would] just give them to family and friends,” Baker says. The healthcare volunteers barricaded themselves in the pharmacy until the United Nations resolved the conflict half an hour later.

“Most of the time we don’t have problems because people know we’re there to help,” Beckett adds.

Although it’s been almost three years since the pair’s first trip to Haiti, little has changed. There’s no trash service or sewers. “People burn trash in the streets and share a bucket for a toilet,” Baker says.

“When I show people my photos from my last trip, they’re shocked because it looks like the quake just happened.” He said the tent cities have been relocated out of Port Au Prince-proper, so it appears to the world press that there’s been progress.

Although they are trying to evoke change through their website, the pair understands they need to paint the very best picture of how necessary medical help is to these people in order to do so. “There’s a saying among the Haitians,” Baker says. “The heart cannot feel what the eye cannot see.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 77

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artist profile | Dan Lindsay

better thanfiction Changing his career path from accounting to filmmaking was a good move for Mizzou graduate Dan Lindsay, and he has an Oscar to prove it.

His uplifting documentary, Undefeated — commonly described as Hoop Dreams meets The Blind Side — has captivated audiences and critics alike.

By St ep h a n i e D e t i l l i e r Dan Lindsay had no idea whether the film was any good. Back when he and T.J. Martin had been shooting in Memphis, they were certain that they had stumbled upon something powerful and poignant. But after editing down 500-someodd hours of film, they had reached the point where artists become discontented with their work.

Fatigue and frustration clouded their vision.

But as their documentary, Undefeated, began playing in front of its first test audience, Lindsay noticed that people were responding just as he hoped they would. They morphed into invested fans, cheering for the Manassas High School Tigers — a football team that hadn’t won a single game in nearly 14 years … until now. They became enamored with Bill Courtney, a

white, well-to-do businessman who volunteered to coach the mostly poor, black team for free.

They pulled for left tackle O.C. Brown to pick up his grades and make it to college. They waited impatiently for troublemaker Chavis Daniels to realize the err of his ways, while their hearts grew heavy as lineman Montrail “Money” Brown suffered a devastating injury.

“Our task as directors and editors is to take the emotional rollercoaster we went on and distill it into a two-hour experience so the audience members care as much about what’s happening as we did while filming it,” says Lindsay, a 2001 University of Missouri graduate. “Watching that first audience respond was the most emotional I got in the process of making this film.

It was the highest high.”

Following that peak came a series of shock-and-awe moments.

The film debuted at South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and The Weinstein Co. purchased the distribution and remake rights during a bidding war. Lindsay recalls his reaction of pure surprise: “What?

That’s ridiculous. They release really good movies.”

Then Undefeated aired at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. “Toronto had been a dream of mine,” Lindsay says. “I just never thought it would happen this early in my career.”

The film received Critics’ Choice Award and Academy Award nominations, and if those weren’t shocking enough, Lindsay then received word that Sean “Diddy” Combs wanted to help with the film. “He had seen it that week and really responded to it. His desire to come aboard was about getting awareness of the film,” Lindsay says.

Then on Feb. 26, after walking his mom down the red carpet in a Brooks Brothers suit, Lindsay heard Undefeated named as the 2012 documentary Oscar winner. “It was an amazing rupture of energy like I’ve never had columbiahomemagazine.com | 79

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come through my body. I remember just glimpses of things.

I jumped over one of the series of stairs. Wow, this award is really heavy, I thought. Why I am up on stage? I remember hugging T.J., saying something and then looking down and seeing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Why are they laughing at me? I wasn’t nervous; I just felt a ton of energy, like I had drank 5,000 cups of coffee.”

Just like the best documentaries, Lindsay’s unscripted life had become more vivid and unpredictable than any scripted story.

An unlikely start If things had worked out like Lindsay planned them in high school, he would have gone to the University of Illinois, his family’s alma mater, and become an accountant. A few Uturns along the way landed him in a much different university and profession.

While visiting his aunt and uncle in St. Louis, Lindsay decided to tour the University of Missouri on perhaps one of Columbia’s worst wintry days. The Rockford, Ill., native arrived at Jesse Hall in the middle of an ice storm, leading his tour guide to assume that he wouldn’t want to travail around the slippery campus. But he did, and his next day in town proved more promising.

“It looked like what I imagined a college town would look like,” says Lindsay, who still calls Columbia one of his favorite cities.

“I’m very much a person who likes experiences. Early on, a lot of mine were tied to the fraternity [Beta Theta Pi]. For some reason, I always remember walking down what we called Beta Highway toward Memorial Union on nice days and just thinking, ‘I love this place.’”

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sen the right school, he began questioning his major. “I kept trying to come up with cool ways to be an accountant, like maybe I could be an accountant for a band and go on the road with them.”

Becoming a filmmaker wasn’t a natural second choice. Lindsay didn’t grow up as a film geek; he didn’t even particularly like watching movies. He vividly recalls going to see The Empire Strikes Back as a toddler, but he remembers more about the car ride in his mom’s MG convertible than he does about the film or theater. His first movie camera experience came when his middle-school teacher gave the class an option of writing a paper or making a video about World War II. “It seemed like a no-brainer to me,” he says. “I could make a film and mess around. For a paper, I would have had to type and all that terrible stuff. But I never thought of it as something people did. I didn’t know what directors did until I was 21.”

Lindsay switched his major to marketing and enrolled in filmmaking classes at the University of Southern California during the summer before his senior year.

Upon graduation, he and several Mizzou friends moved to Los Angeles. “My plan consisted of four words: I’m moving to LA. I hadn’t thought about much more than that,” he says.

Going to graduate school for film was an option, but Lindsay found a cheaper way to get experience. While at Kinko’s copying his resume, he met producer and former Washington, D.C., reporter Cody Shearer, who took a copy of Lindsay’s resume.

Following the Sept. 11 attacks, Shearer asked Lindsay to direct a short documentary he was filming called Why U.S.? While later working on his first featurelength documentary, Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong, Lindsay met film editor T.J. Martin. The pair made plans to

collaboratively direct and edit a documentary, but one big thing was missing: a compelling story.

A surprising season No one could have guessed that 2009 would be the season when one of the worst performing and worst funded high school football programs in Tennessee would make a run for the playoffs. That’s not the story that Lindsay and Martin set out to document — it’s not a story that anyone could have predicted.

Their producer Rich Middlemas led them to Manassas High School after reading about O.C. Brown, a talented athlete with lots of promise on the field but problems in the classroom. His living situation piqued the crew’s interest. His mother died when columbiahomemagazine.com | 81

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he was young, and his father wasn’t around — leaving him in the care of his grandmother. But he also partially lived with one of his coaches in a luxurious suburban home because no tutors were willing to drive to where his family lived in inner-city Memphis.

“What attracted us was the opportunity to tell a coming-of-age story about one character

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during an important year of his life,” Lindsay says. “When gathering some initial footage in the spring, we captured some moments that made us realize we had entered a special world.”

In one of those scenes shot early on, football player Montrail Brown shows the film crew around his house and likens his pet turtle to people: They try to be hard on the outside but are really soft on the inside. It was one of those “Did he just say that?” moments.

They decided to expand the scope of the storyline but insisted on keeping their approach the same. To blend in and capture intimate moments, they limited the number of crew members. Lindsay, Martin and Middlemas would do nearly all of the filming and editing — though they had scant experience

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“We didn’t think about the challenges,” Lindsay says. “The ball moves really fast, especially when you’re trying to track it looking through an eye piece. We hid a lot of mistakes through our editing. One decision we made early on, however, was to capture what the experience is like for people getting the thrill of it. I remember going to high school football games and being bored. We wanted to get the energy and intensity of the people who are in the games, so we filmed on the sidelines instead of in the stands.”

The hallways of Manassas High School were much different than those of Lindsay’s Boylan Catholic High School, but he noticed many similarities, too.

“Teenagers are teenagers,” says Lindsay, who played soccer and wrestled during his high school days. “They are all worried about the same things. It’s a time of life when everything is so important because the world is so small; when you’re still in the bubble of high school you feel things more.”

For the entire crew, their year living in north Memphis — where single-parent homes, poverty, unemployment and crime are common — was an eye-opening experience. But they purposely veered away from becoming an advocacy film. Rather than convincing audienccolumbiahomemagazine.com | 83

es of what to think about certain social issues, the documentary subtley raises questions about race, class and the American dream.

The result was what Salon described as “a genuine crowd-pleaser, a rousing and inspirational flowers-in-the-junkyard fable of hope and possibility in grim circumstances.”

An unchartered future Lindsay’s golden Emmy statute sits on a shelf next to his scotch bottles, where he placed it after the awards ceremony.

“It’s not like there’s a trophy case built into my residence,” he says with a laugh. “The Oscar is probably worth more than the entire building it’s in. So for right now, it just hangs out in the hallway. When I walk by to shower in the morning, I think, ‘Oh yeah; that happened.’”

Although the film has long been done, Lindsay still keeps in touch with nearly everyone in Undefeated.

“That’s just the nature of making a documentary. You spend so much time with your subjects that you can’t help but get close and start to care for them,” Lindsay says. “It was a difficult position to be in at times. Your duty as a documentary filmmaker is to observe and not interrupt, but it’s difficult to watch someone make a bad decision in front of you without being able to intervene. On the completely opposite side, when they were scoring a touchdown in a game, we were so excited that we’d almost screw up filming.”

The critical acclaim and national release of the film brought much unanticipated acclaim to both the subjects and the filmmakers. Lindsay’s calendar is now chocked with media interviews and meetings about future projects. He can’t reveal specifics but says that his next film is likely to be a feature-length scripted narrative, his first. But then he’ll make another documentary. It’s a genre with much allure for adventurous filmmaker types such as Lindsay. It doesn’t require a huge set or budget — just a camera and a solid story.

“When making documentaries, you get an invitation into a world you normally wouldn’t be exposed to or invited into,” Lindsay says.

“You meet people you normally would never meet. That’s one of the things that has drawn me to documentaries and why I’ll always want to make them. It’s because of the people you meet, places you get to go and opportunities that I never would have had if I had become an accountant.”

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travel | New England

Frenchman’s Bay, Bar Harbor, Maine

Newry Brigde

Mount Desert Island

Portland Head Lighthouse

St. Patrick’s Church

Vacation Getaway

Discover New England

By G r e g R enner | Photo s by G reg Renner Portland Head Lighthouse This lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, rises 80 feet above ground and 101 feet above water. Its beacon marks the entrance to the primary shipping channel in Portland Harbor in Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. It is easily the most photographed and recognized site in Maine.

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Newry Bridge Built in 1872, the Newry covered bridge (also known as the “Artist’s covered bridge”) is of Paddleford truss design, spanning 87 feet across the scenic Sunday River, between Newry and Bethel near where the White Mountain National Forest extends into Maine.

Mount Desert Island This sandy beach is located on Mount Desert Island, Maine, along the Northern border of Acadia National Park. With its broad coastline, surrounded on both sides by towering rocky cliffs, this beach has strong resemblance to Magen’s Bay in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

ST. Patricks Church Built in 1808, St Patrick’s Church, which sits along the old road from Newcastle to Damariscotta Mills, Maine, is the oldest Catholic church in continual use in the New England states. The Church is quietly nestled within a beautiful woodland setting.

Bar Harbor, Maine

Cadillac Mountain

Glenn Ellis Falls The engaging 64 foot Glenn Ellis Falls is located in the Pinkham Notch region of the White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire.

Bottom Left: Southern view from top, back side of Glenn Ellis Falls.

Glenn Ellis Falls

Cadillac Mountain On clear days a panoramic view is found atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, the highest elevation within 25 miles of the entire United States Atlantic coast.

Glenn Ellis Falls

Petit Manan Lighthouse

Petit Manan Lighthouse This lighthouse rises 119 feet (2nd highest in Maine) above Petit Manan Island, located east of Frenchman’s Bay, along the Atlantic coast of Maine.

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makeover | Sheri Phillips

Indulging in Me

Before

Sheri Phillips

By Sa r a h R edo h l | P h oto s by Tay lo r A l l en

When Sheri Phillips walked into the Columbia Home office in a baggy green top and Bermuda cargo shorts, there was little indication of the mother of three’s perfect figure underneath. A school secretary at Kingdom Christian Academy, she needs to dress professionally, but also wear clothing that allows her to play with her three daughters, ages 3, 7 and 9. Typically, the Sandra Bullock look-alike goes for comfort and ease above style—there isn’t enough time in the day to tame her curly hair or put on much makeup. “I need help coming out of my box,” she says. To remain lowmaintenance and fulfill her wardrobe needs, experts at The Strand Salon and Spa, Swank Boutique and Dryer’s Shoes walked Sheri through a transformation and gave her gift cards to help her maintain her look.

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Chic comfort Abiding by her mantra of comfort, Sheri never wears heals. But what she didn’t know was there are plenty of options for comfortable heels at Dryer’s Shoes downtown.

“We go for a more European, comfortable take on shoes,” says Becky Rudd, the owner.

With the help of Dryer’s employee Shawny Green, Sheri decided on a camelcolored ankle boot with a stout two-inch heel to really draw attention to her toned legs and make the most of her new skinny jeans.

Rock what you got “We needed to show off the figure she’s obviously hiding,” says Erin Wagoner, the owner of Swank Boutique. Sheri wanted something a bit dressier than she normally wears, but stressed the importance of comfort.

“We went for something more sophisticated than the slouchy shorts she was wearing when she came in,” Wagoner says. Sheer shirts, skinny-legged pants and the perfect mix of textures gave Sheri a new look she could feel comfortable with.

Out of the box “I love my new look— and so does my hubby,” Sheri wrote us after the day of indulgence. “I felt like a queen for a day,” she says. “I didn’t realize how much I needed it.”

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Neutrals, naturally Columbia Home and Sephora teamed up to give Sheri some new options for an easy morning make-up application. Nars lip gloss, in its famous fit-all color, Orgasm, and Urban Decay’s all-inone Naked2 palette, all in neutral colors, are easy to coordinate without mistakes.

Brazilian blowout To tame Sheri’s corkscrew curls, Christy Huggans at The Strand Salon and Spa decided to do a three-hour keratin smoothing treatment known as a Brazilian blowout. “It’ll be smoother, straighter and shinier,” Huggans says. “She won’t have to fight with her curls, so it’s very low-maintenance.” The semipermanent treatment will last for 12 to 14 weeks, and Sheri, who never straightens her hair, is already enjoying the new look.

“I can run my fingers through it for the first time, and it is so much lighter,” she says, adding, “I love it, I love it, I love it.”

Huggans also gave Sheri special Brazilian blowout shampoo and conditioner to extend the look as long as possible. . columbiahomemagazine.com | 89

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fashion forecast | Winter wardrobe

Colors of the Wind

By L i ly Daws o n & C yd n i Ro b e rtso n | P hoto s by Taylor Allen

Don’t ditch your summer and autumn attire just yet. Mix and match cool colored and lightweight garments with rich earthy gemstone colors and bold patterns for an eye-catching winter look. Layer up in neutral hues with a leather jacket, opaque tights, turtle neck sweater or knit scarf and you’ve instantly transformed from cool to cozy.

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announcements | engagements

Love Stories

Three Columbia couples on the road to "I do" “Kim has this thing where she has to touch feet when we sleep… no matter what position I’m in, she has to have my foot touching hers.”

– Kevin Weete

Tanner Burton and Sarah Meyer

The wedding bells are set to ring Dec. 12, 2012, in Columbia.

Kevin Weete and Kimberly Williams

Mar. 22, 2013

As the saying goes, there is no love without laughter. Columbia native Kimberly Williams has found both in her fiancé Kevin Weete—the funniest person she’s ever met, she says. “For instance, we said we wanted a friend with a boat, and he said ‘Ahh, friends with boat-a-fits’. Just typical Kevin!” The funniest, though, was the day Kevin heard a jet flying over the apartment. He got up to see it and ran right through the screen on the sliding glass doors, completely destroying the screen. “The dirt implant of the screen was left on my forehead,” Kevin says, Kimberly adding, “I have never laughed so hard in my life.”

“He proposed to me on Mother’s Day—the ring was inside the flower he was giving me.”

– Cindy Sheridan

Les Pudney and Cindy Sheridan

Every year on their anniversary, Sarah Meyer and Tanner Burton spend the day together and share a picnic near the covered bridge in Union, Mo. Sarah cherishes those days, she says, “because the whole day is just about us.” On their third anniversary, May 12, 2012, Tanner had more in mind. “He proposed to me where he had taught me to skip rocks each year on our anniversary.” The wedding will be held on Aug. 10, 2013, at Broadway Christian Church in Columbia, and the couple is planning a trip to Europe together for their honeymoon.

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wedding | Wendling-Menser

When it’s Real

By Megan Tho mas Davis photo s by Ki m Wad e o f Silver Box Photogr a p hers Both Columbia natives, Suzanne Wendling and Mills Menser narrowly missed running in the same circle growing up. Their fate was to meet September 2008 at a grand opening party for local hotspot Room 38.

Suzanne was out on a girls’ night when Mills spotted the bubbly blonde from the bar and asked the mutual friend she was with for an introduction. “He asked if he could have the honor of taking me to a steak dinner, were his exact words,” she says, laughing. She first noticed his laugh; he, her warm personality. A date followed that Sunday and so began their relationship.

Two years later, Mills surprised Suzanne with a pajama-clad morning proposal where he spelled out ‘Will you marry me?’ in rose petals on the golf course below the couple’s deck.

The bride always wanted an elegant winter wedding. On Feb. 26, 2011, she got her wish. Substituting the snow for rain (a nuptial good luck sign), Mills and Suzanne said ‘I do’ in front of 500 guests at Columbia’s First Baptist Church. Keeping with the winter wonderland theme, Suzanne’s father constructed white Birch tree archways covered in white lights, through which the couple marched down the aisle.

Following the ceremony that included the help of no less than 11 bridesmaids, ten groomsmen, three flower girls and one ring bearer, the couple held the reception at the University of Missouri Alumni Center.

To surprise the guests, the couple made a secret back entrance through the kitchen

area and together slipped into the reception hall before the others arrived. White draping covered the walls and a single harp held court in the center of the fairytale-like room.

Both were in awe.

After the wedding day, the couple dashed off to the UK for a week away in London and finished out the honeymoon in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where they enjoyed snorkeling and conch diving.

True to form, life returned to the busy state it had been pre-wedding when they came home—Mills as president and owner of Buchroeder’s Jewelers, Suzanne, as assistant director of Academy of Fine Arts, where she teaches dance. In June 2012, the couple welcomed baby Suebella Kate, now a 6-month-old with a penchant for large hair bows and color-coordinated outfits.

Both couldn’t be happier with how married life has treated them, but Mills says it takes work. “You have to appreciate your chemistry and the fact that you found somebody that is very special,” he says. “You have to remind each other how lucky you are.”

Suzanne believes the key lies in marrying one’s best friend. A self-described hopeless romantic, she says the idea of the fairy tale reeled her in, but discovering she couldn’t live without Mills is when she knew she had found the one. “You can make anything work for a while,” she says. “You can make yourself be with a dream Prince Charming, but it’s the people you can’t live without that matter in life. That’s when it’s real.” columbiahomemagazine.com | 95

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announcements | Babies

Welcome to the World

Clara Adalene Pfannenstiel

Caroline Grace Bennett

Parents: Jeff and Christine

Parents: Brandon and Ashlee

Weight: 7 pounds, 11 ounces

Birth weight: 7 pounds, 4 ounces

What do you love about being a parent? Seeing all her firsts in life! And that great snuggly time you get with them.

Would you do it again? Absolutely, without a doubt. Everyone always says, "Having a baby is the hardest and most painful thing you will ever do...but you will forget." I remember right after delivery telling my mom, “All of those people who say you forget...they were lying." Now that we are nearly two months down the road, I would do it again with no hesitation!

What has surprised you most about parenthood? How little sleep you can actually function on.

Where did you deliver? Who was your OBGYN? What do you remember about the nurses/care?

Boone Hospital with Dr. Elizabeth Wilson—I always joke that I'll get pregnant again just so I can go back to see Dr. Wilson. She gives top priority to her patients and their care, and her care is always toped off with compassion and a big smile!

Sariah Miles Parents: Kenyata and Sarah Birth weight: 7 pounds, 13 ounces What is the funniest thing that’s happened to you since becoming a mother? Not sure if it’s the most pleasant, but being peed and pooped on is always an experience!

What things have surprised you most about being a mother? The continued strength it takes to be a mother, even though we already have children, and that every child is completely different.

Has this changed the way you view your spouse? How? I see Ashlee as the most wonderful wife and mother one could wish for. She demonstrates this by the care she provides our daughter Caroline. She puts our daughter before herself and, at the same time, is able to be a very wonderful loving wife.

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city scene

Susan G. Komen

Alexis & Julie Brown

Nancy Dorris & Karen Heusted

Carter, Gene, Camryn & Shelly Devone

Prodacall

Beth & Jean Hill

L-R,F-B: Allison Dunwoody, Carrie Rubuck, Ashley Vigil,Alex Wyatt, Mindy Huffman, Mindy Cunningham, Donna Schweikert, Amy Wyatt, LisaHerrin

L-R, F-B: Jaimie Tyler, Britney Adam, Ellie Schwartze, Angie Thompson, Olivia Schwartze, Leann Stratman & SaraWeidinger

L-R, B-F: Mary Bossallerber, Pat Bossallerber, Sheryl Rice, Jenny B. & Glenda Pilbert

This 5K benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation was held Sept. 16, 2012. The Foundation supports finding a cure for breast cancer.

Hailey Beckett, Tori Dremonas & Stephanie Kempfer

Kayla Melton,Bridget Cauley, Megan Brillos & Marisa Arunakul

Betsy, Mark & Drew Schlimme

Sara Blacklock, Tara Garzend & Christina Wingate

Gail Baker & Jen Gill

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Gladys, Earlene & Shanelle Brooks

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Rock & Roll Wine Tasting Lili Vianello & JohnShrum

Karen Crabtree

Nancy Allison

Kathy & Matt Concannon

Melissa & Justin Malone

Pauline Sullinger & Anne Tuckley Jay & Michelle Lindner

Marieta & James Fairlamb

Jeff & Stacia Coughenour

Kenley and Bryan Hickey, Brent Hays, Amy Davis, Michayah Brown & SashaMcMillin

Kristie Kopriva & Hazel Schlottach

Cara & Nick Owings

Mozow & Aaron Zuidema

Jake Klinghammer & Sarah Redohl

Nick Ruthmann & Emily Burnham

The Third Annual Wine Tasting Event was held at Old Hawthorne Sept.

29, 2012. The Heart & Stroke Ball kickoff event and fundraiser for the American Heart Association introduced guests to wines from around the world.

The Fortnightly Club The Fortnightly Club held a Founders Day Tea at the Chancellor’s Residence on Francis Quadrangle Oct. 10, 2012. The event celebrated 120 illustrious years of the Fortnightly Club.

Tara Nieuwenhuizen & Erna Lee Dunkerley

Carol Vinkler & Stacy Thompson

Evelyn Yanders & Miriam Hemphell

Hilda Fennel & Scherrie Goettsch

Julie Drury, Laura Page & Cindy Owens Judy Nemmers, Sandra Basu, Lana Coggeshall & Mary Margaret Bayer

Joni O'Connor, Jamara Stam & Susan Heinsz

Marilyn Cameron, Pat Cowden, Janet Lindstrom & Diana Groshang Thelma Hewett, Lynn Storvick & Pat Waid

Joan Mudrick & Pat Wills

Sandra Bullock & Caroline Davis

Judy Nemmers

Rosemary McLaren, Fatima Thomas & Carol Headley

Stephanne Walker & Carla Anderson

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Home Bound Diego

Age: 1 year (male) BREED: Domestic Short Hair TEMPERAMENT: What a friendly guy! This lap cat loves attention from everyone he meets. Neutered.

Maya

AGE: 3 years (female) BREED: Domestic Short Hair TEMPERAMENT: Calm girl who loves belly rubs and ear scratches.

She would do best in a quiet, loving home.

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Lucy

Age:8 years (female) BREED: Boxer TEMPERAMENT: Sweet and gentle.

She needs a lot of TLC in her life. Great with all creatures.

Housebroken. Spayed.

Otis

Age: 2 years (male) BREED: Yellow Labrador TEMPERAMENT: Super smart and active dog! He knows how to sit, stay, shake.

Housebroken.

Molly

Age: 1 year (female) BREED: Black Labrador TEMPERAMENT: Full of energy and ready to play. Friendly, happy and outgoing, great with other dogs. Sweet, wants to be with her people. Active, needs room to run and play.

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the last word | Denise Payne-Nielsen

Juggling Life’s Lemons After suffering through a handful of terrible circumstances, realtor Denise Payne-Nielsen reminds us we don’t have to do it all alone.

By D e n is e Payne- Niels en | p hoto by taylor allen There are two sayings I live by: “is that a need or a want?” and “make lemonade”.

Raised by a single mother in the early 1960s in Nevada, Mo., there was always a need we couldn’t afford. It was uncommon then to be raised by a single mother—the lemons thrown my way were unusual to my friends. I later learned they and their parents sometimes wondered how I dealt with so many lemons.

All of us have lemons thrown our way, some larger and sourer than others. I have found that even if the lemonade does not come squeezed, sugared and over ice when I want it, it will eventually come.

Many of us have dealt with a parent or grandparent illness, a child illness, a job we hated going to everyday, an illness of our own or a relationship that fell apart. What we want is to have it all, but what we need is the ability to make lemonade when we don’t get it all.

Squeezing lemons In 2002, I used what I learned as a child on a pile of lemons I’d been given: a bad car accident, a marriage falling apart, raising children and starting a new business. I made lemonade: healing, dating and getting my realty business off the ground.

Again, in 2011, I had to make lemonade. I spent my birthday working from the intensive care unit at Boone Hospital. My husband had a bad reaction to high blood pressure medicine and his airways almost completely swelled shut. When I spoke to him at 8 p.m. the following Saturday, he spoke like he had a stroke—his tongue and lips were so swollen he couldn’t form words. The ambulance didn’t even take him to the emergency room; they took him straight to the intensive care unit. After a few days of watching him expend 100 percent effort just to stand up, I was reminded that I hadn’t been giving my clients the 100 percent effort they were used to while I struggled to take care of my husband. My heart was torn between helping them and staying at my husband’s side. It was the sourest lemon I had dealt with, and I needed to figure out how to make it into lemonade.

Making lemonade After many sleepless nights making sure my girls were okay, my clients were okay and my husband was okay, I decided I couldn’t do it all myself.

My upbringing made me think that was never an option, but with so many lemons I had to ask for help. I decided at that moment to hire an assistant and team for my realty business that could give clients 100 percent when I couldn’t. Not a bunch of money-hungry sales people, but people with the heart to give their all like I had. Now, whenever any of us have an issue, the lemons aren’t so bad. We don’t have to do it alone.

We all go through strife, but what we do with it makes us the people we are. Some use strife as an excuse to lie and cheat, and others use it as a way to build their moral compass and stand strong for their beliefs. I guess it depends on what kind of lemonade you enjoy.

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