Just in time for the holidays, it’s the zen kitchen’s first annual Holiday Survival Kit! This handy-dandy PDF is full of worksheets and tools - some practical and some downright silly - that’ll help you get through some of the most common family holiday dilemmas, including:

• Planning and cooking the usual many-course meal;
• Navigating the many (many) stops you’ll need to make to family during the holiday;
• Trying to remember who that random uncle is who remembers you when you were “this high;”
• Dealing with those *ahem* uncomfortable questions that are bound to pop up.

You can download the full PDF here, and print out only the pages you really need to make your holidays work. Happy holidays!

One of the truly delicious things about my job at the zen kitchen is getting the opportunity to meet, mingle and work with fellow foodies. At this summer’s Fancy Food Show, I got the opportunity to sample Greyston Bakery’s DoGoodie brownies, which are the same brownies that go into Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. A couple of months after the show, they contacted me to do a brochure and insert card for their new gift boxes, a great idea for corporate holiday gifts (hint, hint). 

The brochure and associated box insert card combine yummy photography (provided by Greyston) with a clean, simple layout that stays true to the DoGoodie brand and lets the product take center stage. The pieces also showcase DoGoodie’s social mission: all proceeds from the sale of these brownies benefit the Greyston Foundation, which supports community development programs for underserved populations in the bakery’s hometown of Yonkers, NY.

Need a new brochure that’ll tempt your customers? Drop me a line sometime and let’s chat.

SkyObs, a green advisory services firm, works with companies to incorporate sustainability into their operations in ways that lower long-term costs and increase profitability. To coordinate with founder Joseph DellaTorre’s speaking engagement at the Green IT and Telecom Summit in San Francisco, the company needed a website that was professional, engaging, and focused on the type of customers he and his team worked best with. 

On an intense three-week deadline, the zen kitchen worked with SkyObs to fine-tune and carefully target content, create imagery, and build a slick, Wordpress-based website that the SkyObs team can update as often as they need to.