Remembering
Posted by estiator at 7 September, at 09 : 00 AM Print
Τry to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow.”
Maybe you remember the song, from The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in history. The musings about bygone days of innocence are apropos for those of us old enough to recall more easy-going times. Times when political differences were discussed in a gentlemanly manner over a glass of scotch; times when hard work paid off; times when kids spent hours outside on bicycles and baseball diamonds instead of in front of a video monitor.
Now that we’ve got you in a state of remembering, let’s exercise that hippocampus of ours by remembering some things that help us in business, such as “There’s strength in numbers.” We help you remember this truism with this month’s cover story on GARC, the Greek American Restaurant Cooperative, “The Power of Being Connected: How Joining Your Restaurant Co-Op Can Be a Key to Success.” In the meantime, our restaurant expert and business coach, Constantine Kolitsas, offers ten times the remembering with this month’s installment of his always must-read column, “Managing for Success,” as he gives us “Ten Aphorisms to Manage By” (and yes, it’s okay to end a sentence with a preposition, according to the latest grammar dictums).
Now, if you’re more in a mood to forget, just flip to “The Shift Drink,” where our resident mixologist Frankie Rodriguez is mixing a wild gin from Greece with sour cherries (also from Greece) for a late-summer cocktail that will wow any guest at your bar.
Other highlights in this issue include senior contributor Michael Kaminer’s visit to Mina’s, a restaurant/bakery housed in the Queens branch of the Museum of Modern Art, owned and operated by Greek American Mina Stone, and a visit to Estiatorio Delta on Leoforos Sygrou in Athens by our Greece-based correspondent, Gina Kallitsi (check it out in our Greek-language section).
Also in our Greek-language section, Ms. Kallitsi gets salty with her regular “Greek Products” submission, this time quite literally as she looks at Salt Odyssey, a Greek company that is producing and marketing all the salt solutions a crafty chef could ask for. Oh, and let’s not forget that salt is important
for brain health. There, we tied up the whole memory thread quite nicely!
Now, just remember to enjoy these last weeks of summer, and to go out there and make money!
Cheers!
The Editorial and Publishing Staff
