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Meet the graham cracker queen that lives every day like it’s Thanksgiving Polly Campbell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Thanksgiving has a pretty clear suggestion in its very name: Give Thanks. Feel grateful for what you have and express it. Go around the table and say what you’re thankful for before digging into the stuffi ng with gravy. What if you took that suggestion seriously, and what if you did it every day? What if you lived it, even when you aren’t sitting down to a delicious meal with people you love? That’s Rachel DesRochers’ principle for life. It’s also the motivating idea behind her company, Grateful Grahams. She calls it a “gratitude company that sells graham crackers.” Now almost 10 years old, Grateful Grahams sells soft cookie-like graham crackers in 120 stores, has no debt, and employs both her and her husband, Jim. It’s also the springboard for everything else DesRochers is involved in: Her two incubator kitchens in Newport, where she helps young food businesses get started, her In Gratitude podcast, the Good People Festival in Covington, not to mention her family. “Would I have made it if I didn’t have this tool of gratitude in my back pocket? Maybe, but I might have quit.” The day that I talked to DesRochers about gratitude at the incubator kitchen in Newport, where she bakes her grahams, there had been a leak in the kitchen’s roof. “Yeah, it’s what I woke up to,” she said. “I was hoping it was a landlord problem, but no, it was our problem.
Grateful Grahams original grahams ready to be packaged on Nov. 20.
“Would I have made it if I didn’t have this tool of gratitude in my back pocket? Maybe, but I might have quit.” Rachel DesRochers
owner of Grateful Grahams
Well, I’m grateful it wasn’t too complicated and my husband could fi gure it out and fi x it. Everyone’s up and running. And the fl oor’s clean. Anytime there’s a water leak, I can connect it to a clean fl oor.” It reminded me of running into her at Findlay Market one day and when she asked me how I was doing, I replied with some negative mumble about the newspaper business and how I couldn’t keep track of all the restaurants opening. And she said something like, “Oh, you mean, you’re grateful that you still have a job and get to eat at all kinds of wonderful new places.” And I didn’t want to punch her. Because it was true, I could have said exactly that instead of what I did say. She doesn’t just do gratitude in a “be grateful for what you have and stop griping” way. She’s so not a Pollyanna either, she’s not soft. Her idea about gratitude is that it’s an action. It’s not a See GRAHAMS, Page 2A
Packaged Grateful Grahams at the Incubator Kitchen Collective.
Rachel DesRochers, owner of Grateful Grahams, poses for a portrait on Nov 18 in the Incubator Kitchen Collective she started in 2013 in Newport.
You can now drink on the streets of Bellevue Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The holiday season came a little early for the City of Bellevue this year. The Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control approved an Entertainment District on Nov. 13 that allows people to drink on the sidewalks and between businesses in Bellevue. There are rules though.
Where can I drink? Friday, Nov. 29 marked the fi rst day that patrons of bars and restaurants on Fairfi eld Avenue inside of the designat-
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ed Bellevue Entertainment District, known as BED, could carry and consume alcohol while walking during approved days and times. The entire district is on Fairfi eld Avenue between O’Fallon Avenue and Riviera Drive.
When can I drink? Entertainment District hours are from noon to 10 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Alcohol must be purchased from a participating bar or restaurant and can only be carried in a city-approved BED cup.
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Outside alcohol cannot be brought into or taken out of the district. All BED patrons must walk on sidewalks and crosswalks.
What else do I need to know? “This program is a work in progress and we want to be prudent, respectful and careful. This is something new and we’re learning as we go. We have looked at what other cities have done in this department such as Owensboro, Maysville, Somerset and others,” said Mayor Charlie Cleves in a release on the city’s website.
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Visitors can drink alcohol on the streets of the Bellevue Entertainment District during certain hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. THE ENQUIRER/SHAUNA STEIGERWALD
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