exhale lifestyle magazine spring issue

Linda Pizzuti Henry

Making her own Mark in Boston a city she loves

Vienne Cheung, Samantha House and more ...

STYLESWomen Behind

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Spring 2012

Vienne Cheung keeps it cool with VienneMilano hosiery12

Wilson Farm 41Farmers Market Recipes 42SundayBrunch 44Discover local flavor in Massachusetts 46

Four steps to a healthier heart 50

Is heart disease gender biased? 52

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome a hidden problem 54

Veronique LeMelle 62

Shea Rose 64Reviews with Joyce Kulhawik 67Cultural Calendar 70Travel 74

Is Work an endurance sport 77Pipeline Fellowship 79Womens Resources 80Q&A with West 82

Contents

Works of art18From minimalism to the bright colors from Matisse... show your inner light this spring!

Bold Statement14How Samantha House turned a relaxing hobby into a profitable business

Fashion Patrol16Local experts share this springs wear-able trends

Designer Meghann Van Dorn resurrects an old Victorian in Dorchester20

Contents

Boston Latino TV dares to be different23

Mary Mazziodoesnt take no for an answer25

The ultimate survivor fights for the Cambodian community 28

Dr. Una Ryan CEO of Diagnostics For All aims to save lives 31

Linda Pizzuti HenryMaking her own mark in Boston a city she loves

Public market comes to Boston 36

Lydia Shire a Boston chef determined to succeed 38

Healthy meals made easy at Healthy Habits Kitchen48

Battling breast cancer one day at a time 56

Retaining your style in the face of cancer treatment59

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PhotographyIan JusticeA native of picturesque Melton Mowbury in England, Ian Justice has wrought his sense of style and impeccable work ethics into a pho-tography career that approaches the two-decade mark. Justice not only makes beautiful images for print and web-based advertising, but realizes worlds in which products tell a story.

His skill with the camera and profound knowledge of the equipment and its possibilities make each project sparkle with creative freedom and originality.

Health ContributorJoanne M. foody, MD, fAcc, fAHAJoanne M. Foody is the medical director of the Cardiovascular Wellness Center and Pollin Cardiovascular Wellness Program at Brigham and Womens Hospital. Foody has active and international roles in cardiac disease prevention and rehabilitation with a par-ticular focus on women and heart disease.

Stylisterica corsano

Erica Corsano works for Gilt City Boston, a subsidiary of Gilt Groupe, Inc. Corsanos deep roots in the lifestyle realm reach back over a decade, beginning with roles as a fashion publicist in New York City for some of the worlds most recognized luxury brands. She moved over to journalism, regularly contrib-uting to publications like Daily Candy Boston,

The Boston Globe, and later held editorial positions at Lucky Magazine, Boston Common Magazine, and most recently served as the editorial director of STUFF Magazine.

Professional DevelopmentSally Ourieff, MDA native of Los Angeles, Sally Ourieff graduated from Stanford University. She attended Harvard Medical School. Upon receiving her medical degree, she completed her training at Childrens Hospital, Boston and McLean Hospital, specializing in child and adult psychiatry. During her career as a psychiatrist and coach, Ourieff focused on helping individuals build positive, strong relationships and personal and professional lives that allow them to flourish. She later became interested in coaching within organizations. This led her to found her own business, Transla-tional Consulting, an executive consulting and coaching firm.

DietitianAllison Knott, rD Allison Knott became a registered dietitian in 2008 and is currently pursuing a masters in nutrition communication at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She completed her dietetic internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nash-ville, Tenn., and worked as a clinical dietitian in Northern Georgia before coming to the Friedman School. Knott is passionate about communicating accurate nutrition information to the public.

Arts and EntertainmentJoyce KulhawikJoyce Kulhawik is best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008). She is currently lending her expertise as an arts advocate and cancer crusader to nonprof-its all over town and appears on TV as a judge on New Englands premiere musical talent showcase Community Auditions. Kulhawik has covered lo-cal and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood. Kulhawik is the president of the Boston Theater Critics Association, and serves on the The Boston Society of Film Critics.

For more arts news and reviews by Joyce visit www.joyceschoices.com.

Health ContributorPaula A. Johnson, MD Paula A. Johnson, an internationally recognized cardiologist, is the executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Womens Health and Gender Biology and is chief of the Division of Womens Health at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston.

DesignLeslie MacKinnon Leslie MacKinnon is a blogger, marketing communications, public rela-tions social media consultant with over a decade of experience on the New England publishing scene. Positions held in advertising for Boston Magazine and New England Home magazine led her to her recent role promoting design, lifestyle and food brands. Her passion is for her vibrant neighborhood, Ashmont Hill, Dorchester and its many amazing residents. She regularly showcases the best of Dorchesters hidden gems on the blog, DottieHotties.com along with her collaborator and subject of her story in this issue, Meghann Van Dorn. She also earned a BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art.

The Fashion Doctors Marianna toroyan, PhD

Marianna Toroyan has been involved in many arenas of the fashion industry for more than 10 years. While she was earning her doctorate degree, she developed a curriculum to improve self-esteem and real-ized that fashion was a factor in increasing self-image. She also earned a degree from Parsons New School for Design.

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Its hard to believe that we just published our 9th issue of Exhale. It seems that the pace of life has

become more hectic in the last few years. Perhaps thats just my perspective as a person in the throes of the rapidly changing in-dustry of print media! Our Exhale team worked hard these last two years building a community of read-ers with our magazine and hosting and sponsoring networking events.

Our goal has been to inform women about the many resources available to help them in their per-sonal and professional growth. It was rewarding to hear about the connections that were made at our Sisterhood of Startups event in February. I could identify with the stories from women entrepreneurs and the challenges and rewards of starting and running their own companies. I found important resources to help Exhale. We will be working with an excellent team at Simmons School of Management to develop our business plan. We have been a big supporter of SOMs annual Women Leadership Con-ference and it seems fitting to work with them on our strategy. Women supporting other women is central to Exhales mission.

Publishers Note

Sandra CasagrandPublisher

Each cover shoot is a unique experience. Coordinating the teams schedule with the cover persons schedule is always a struggle. So we felt lucky when our favorite location to shoot Elevin Studios/Boldfacers was available on the day that Linda would be in town. That set the tone for the rest of the shoot, which was filled with great energy. I enjoyed getting to spend some time to speak to Linda. I loved her philosophy of social activism under a for-profit model and she asked me some really good questions about Exhales business model and our plans for the future. Another shared interest is local food and she was happy to see that Exhale promotes the local farm-ers markets and the local food initiatives in Boston. Speaking of food Linda showed up with a bag of the most amazing cookies. I have to admit, we made gluttons of ourselves. I was thrilled when she agreed to share her nonnas recipe for the ricotta cookies, which were my favorite. Linda has a very busy schedule these days, but there are certain things that she is very focused on: local food, entrepreneurship and innovation, and the city of Boston which, she loves.

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Linda Pizzuti HenrysNonnas Ricotta Cookies

Linda Pizzuti Henrys nonnas recipe perfected by chef Rob Chalmers.

Ingredients1 cup ricotta, room temperature

(Try Narragansett Creamery, Providence, R.I., www.richeeses.com)

1 cups sugar

4 oz. of butter, room temperature (Try High Lawn Farm, Lee, Mass., www.highlawnfarm.com)

1 cups whole wheat pastry flour or all purpose (Try Four Star Farms in Northfield, Mass., www.fourstarfarms.com)

1 egg, room temperature (Try Stillmans Hardwick, Mass., www.stillmansattheturkeyfarm.com)

1 tablespoon baking powder

teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon almond extract

Glaze1 cup of powdered sugar

1-2 tablespoons of milk (Try Thatcher Farm Milton, Mass., www.thatcherfarm.com )

teaspoon almond extract

Preheat oven to 350F. In a mixer fitted with a paddle, whip butter, ricotta and sugar until light and fluffy, 2-4 minutes. Add egg and almond extract, mix until incorporated. Sift dry ingredients and fold in threes.

Using a tablespoon, scoop batter on a cookie sheet 1 inch apart and bake for 8 min-utes. Turn sheet and bake 4 more minutes. Cool and then glaze.

For glaze, whisk all ingredients until thick. You might only need 1 tablespoon of milk. I usually dunk the tops of the cook-ies in the glaze, pull them out, garnish with crushed almonds (optional) and let firm on a cooling rack.

For fun, add a few drops of food coloring to the glaze. Serve with love.Photo courtesy of Kristin Chalmers Photography

Vienne Cheung(Ted Ancher photo)

Women behind the style

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Theres not much room for self-expression in most boardrooms, unless you count your laptop case color or how far you push the envelope on casual Fridays. With cubicles and dress codes,

the corporate world isnt exactly the place to be you. Longtime Boston resident Vienne Cheung couldnt stand it anymore. As a 30th birthday present to her-self, Cheung left her compartmentalized cubicle as a product manager in corporate America. And as it turns out, the two legs she stood firmly on the other side of that office door ended up being a canvas for an exciting new enterprise. Armed with her MBA from Bentley University, Cheung combined her business savvy with her fashion sense to begin VienneMilano, a luxury hosiery brand and online boutique dedicated exclusively to thigh high stockings. From deciding on the brands name in March 2011 to putting on a pair of hose for the November launch party, Cheungs ven-ture was realized in under a year thigh highs made from Italys finest luxury textiles in sumptuous shades and indulgent textures.

Theres something about having the band around your thigh that feels super sexy. Its like your little secret that you can choose to share.

Vienne Cheung keeps it cool with VienneMilano hosieryA Womans Sexy Little SecretBy Cheryl Fenton


Theres silver glitter, the la Mad Men back seam, a rich

mocha oval cut-out pattern, preppy but sexy argyle styles, and of course, every day neutral opaques and sheers. Each pair is made with a silicone thigh band for stay-up confidence, a trait Cheung herself boasts.

We met up with this Boston-via-Hong Kong fashionista to find out her style of success. What fears did you have taking the leap into a new career?

I think the fear for most people, myself included, is will it succeed? But I couldnt let myself think about that. For getting over that hurdle, I just focused on what I needed and wanted to do. As a woman who isnt married, didnt have kids, wanted to learn, be chal-lenged, and have always wanted to start a business particularly in fashion, I felt that turning 30 was the perfect opportunity. If I didnt make the jump now, I dont know if I ever could. What are the joys of owning your own business?

First is the challenge. I dont know if many people can say that theyve launched a brand in 10 months. Ive enjoyed the journey and all of the things that Ive learned from the people that Ive met.

This leads to the second joy, which is friendship. Its been really awesome getting to know all of the amazing people around the world.

And third, Ive enjoyed traveling to and from Italy. Just last fall, I was able to visit our engineer, who lives in Sicily. You chose Milan, Italy, for your hosiery line an obvious epicenter for the art of fashion.

Italy is the home of beautiful artwork, cars and all things fash-ion, including hosiery. It was the first European country I visited as a girl. One of the things I recall was the beautiful paintings. While in Venice, I remember staring at a piece of artwork from afar, trying to figure out if it was a statue or a painting. It looked so realistic. Thats when I knew that it was an artisan country. What empowers you?

I think empowerment is a way of life. You decide whether you want to stay happy, sad or mad. I empower myself by believing that Im responsible for my way of life. What empowerment do thigh highs bring, even under the stuffiest of business attire?

The intention of wearing a business suit is for a woman to present herself in a serious way, which can sometimes be re-stricting. Hosiery is often paired up with a business suit as it allows a woman to look more elegant.

VienneMilanos thigh highs are elegant, playful and sexy. Theres some-thing about having the band around your thigh that feels super sexy. Its like your little secret that you can choose to share. A woman chooses whom-ever to reveal the band to, which is very empowering. Whats your style?

For personal style, I am a rela-tively social person. I love to get to know people, where they come from, what makes them tick. For fashion, I love to accessorize, whether its shoes, bags, jewelry or hosiery. You can really make a state-ment about yourself with the right accessories.

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How Samantha House turned a relaxing hobby into a profitable business

When Samantha House, a former local fashion and beauty editor, left Boston in 2007, she wasnt sure if shed be back. Although impressive, her seven-year stint as a local editor was incredibly stressful, leaving little time for life outside of work. After eight years in Boston, House moved to the Big Apple, primarily for love, but also to explore other areas of fashion, particularly jewelry design. Creating beaded baubles became a calming refuge from writing, styling and producing while she was in Boston. Soon after her arrival in New York, the young entrepreneur took her love for jewelry to a new level.


When did you first start designing jewelry?It started out as a hobby. When I worked in Boston all of my time was taken up by work. With the little free time I actually did have, I would go to Beadworks (a store that used to be on Newbury Street), play with beads and make jewelry. I would give the pieces away to friends, and then people like Gretchen Monahan would say things like, You need to sell these in a store. But I thought to myself, I already have the workload of 10 jobs, so theres no way I can do more.

How did you make the transition?I just had a lot of encouragement when I was looking for a job in media in NYC, and the scene is so cutthroat and competitive there and I just wasnt interested in dealing with it. So I started making jewelry while I was freelancing as a writer and for a modeling agency. Six months in, I showed my pieces to a dear friend and she was like, I am going to be honest with you; these are pretty but just not special enough. That changed my perspective on everything. So many people want to be designers I knew I had to do better.

So then what?I ditched the entire collection and started from scratch. I labored over every single piece until I thought, Wow, thats amazing, and I did that for every single piece. And then I decided to launch my website featuring my pieces. A week after the launch, I got a call from Barneys New York saying that

they wanted to sell my jewelry.

That must have been incredibly gratifying. What happened next?Once I got into Barneys, everyone started calling. Womens Wear Daily featured the collection, then Elle. I have even been in Vogue twice! Intermix called to carry the collection and I also accessorized shows at Bryant Park. It was great. I didnt have to sell, and people were just coming to me.

Were there challenges along the way with the business aspect of things? Keeping up? Production?Basically, the biggest thing for me was that I am not a business person, I am an artist. I lost so much money making little mistakes. You

learn everything by default. Its really difficult to be a single owner rather than have a business manager. Thats the best way to go about it, getting a business partner.

Whats the status of your business now?I recently moved back to Boston, and I have someone in New York that runs things for me there and its going well. I have a full-time job here and I am in the process of restructuring my jewelry company. I am also launching a lower price point line SAM, where every piece will be under $100.

Why move back to Boston?Living in New York really makes you appreciate Boston. Im such a Boston girl. I feel like it has a lot of what New York has to offer, but on a smaller scale.

Where can we find your jewelry in Boston?Flock in the South End is my number one place. They buy more jewelry than some of the bigger companies, and they sell them. They have been incredibly loyal, I love them, and they are amazing. You can also go to my online store: Samanthahousejewelery.com.

What kind of woman wears your jewelry? The women that wear my jewelry are usually bold and outgoing because my jewelry is bold and noticeable. If youre wearing a piece, someone is going to talk to you. Ive had people email me to say that they wear my jewelry when they want to meet people.

What are some of the secrets to the lines success?I have tons of loyal customers and I believe in amazing customer service. There is not an email or phone call that I do not personally answer. The stuff is handmade, so pieces are not always going to be perfect. I personally fix any piece for free and make it up to the person. We also have a lifetime repair guarantee. If its tarnished or broken, we will refresh it or fix it for free.

Youve been back in town for just a few short months. What do you hope to do or achieve now that you are back? Is there anything you might do differently this time around?I was and am a total party girl and I am happy about that. That will never change. But I have grown up a lot and [Im] serious and really focused on my business and my career. But Ill always have fun, thats just who I am. Id like to take some of the lessons I learned in New York and bring them here to Boston. I believe in the fashion scene here and it has come so far. People care about fashion here. They are a lot more daring than they were when I was here before. Its really inspiring.

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Gatsby GreatWe all know that television shows can have a huge impact on fash-

ion (Mad Men, anyone?). HBOs Boardwalk Empire, set in Atlantic City during prohibition, was perhaps the first small screen smash hit in recent history to give Americans a full taste of roaring 20s fashion. Further adding to our love affair with the eras style, the big screen has fashion bloggers buzzing this spring with the remake of the film The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel of the same name. Think embellished tops, bejeweled headbands and dresses with dropped waistlines. This throwback style is one of stylist Lydia Santangelos favorites. I love this trend because it doesnt require a closet overhaul, says Santangelo. She advises us to em-brace it by adding stand-out accessories to the mix.

Get the look: Sue Wong Beaded dress, $475, saksfifthavenue.com.

Local experts share this springs wearable trends

By Erica Corsano

fashion PatrolA recent window-shopping, people-watching adventure on Madison Avenue reminded

me of how trend-obsessed New Yorkers are. Dont get me wrong, its not an insult, but a compliment they look great. They also happen to have access to hundreds of indie boutiques, throngs of fashionable celebrities, socialites and eight million people for stylish inspiration. The rest of us might peruse the latest blogs, check out the shows on style.com and thumb through fashion magazines to try and understand what the fashion powers that be have deemed hot each season.

But how many of us are actually capable of incorporating runway trends into our real lives? And for that matter, how many of us want to? Sorry, I dont care how cool it is, I look like a corpse in neon green. In search of a real take on this seasons hottest trends, I con-sulted a few of my favorite local fashion experts.

Rainbow BrightIf youre tired of wearing dreary winter colors, this season brings a

much-needed breath of fresh air. Both neon and primary colors make replenishing your wardrobe bright. Add a touch of neon with a cardigan, handbag, belt or pair of shoes, or color block with sexy separates.

If youre not ready for full-on brights, Stacey Simon, owner of National Jean Company, says, try just a pop of the vibrant pinks, yellows or greens by accessorizing with them. Simon adds, A hot and practical bag for spring is the perfect way to add a hint of color, without overloading on the trend. If you love this comeback from the 80s, then you might also embrace cropped, printed pants. Youll find them just about everywhere this season, and when worn the right way, these fancy pants are actually fun and flattering.

Get the Look: Cambridge Satchel Companys neon bag, $155, at National Jean Company, 218 Newbury St.

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1. Restored Ashmont Hill Victorian seen from the street.

2. Necklace found at The Beauty Bar in Dorchester.

3. Turquoise Dansk Paella Pan found at ampersandvintagemodern.com.

4. Antique galvanized tub found at Dark Horse Antiques in Dorchester.

5. Vintage seamstress model discovered at The Annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale.

6. Block print. 1930s hand-chiseled block used to print posters for a traveling circus, discovered by Van Dorn at a garage sale in Buffalo, N.Y.

7. Kings Chair seat from Cote dIvoire in western Africa.

8. Scent: Tea Rose by Perfumers Workshop, been wearing it since high school!

9. Restaurant: Neptune Oyster the Ciopinno is my fave.

10. Upholsterer: Melo & Sons in Somerville.

It felt like we had the entire community behind us, she said, rooting for us to be the ones to take on this forgotten lady, pick her up, dust her off and bring her back to her original glory.

Meghanns Picks


Interior designer Meghann Van Dorn renovates a dy-ing classic Victorian in one of Bostons most exciting neighborhoods. Her love for old houses drew her to Ashmont Hill in Dorchester as did the opportunity to find fixer-uppers with backyards, tree-lined drive-ways and original period details. Over lunch at The

Ashmont Grill one spring afternoon in 2009, she and her husband, Will, soaked up the local atmosphere and found it to be diverse and welcoming of newcomers, she said.

Discovering a lonely foreclosed property on Ocean Street, they took note of the many challenges, including the porches in

need of repair and the vinyl siding requiring removal. It also needed a new roof and new gutters.

Ultimately, the couple was able to look past the ugly finishes, she explained, and focus on the beauty found in the three-story turret, side piazza entrance and built-in cedar closet. They purchased the property, packed up their South End apartment, and quickly devoted their time and energy to restoring the historic house. It felt like we had the entire community behind us, she said, rooting for us to be the ones to take on this forgotten lady, pick her up, dust her off and bring her back to her original glory. Built in 1894 for the Rowbotham family, the house on Ocean Street remained in that family until the 1920s, when it was sold and converted into two apartments. Servant quarters were on the third floor.

Forty years later, the property became a boarding house during a time of great change in the ethnic landscape in Dorchester. During the 1960s, the

neighborhood was transitioning from a primarily Irish-American popu-lation to a more diverse one. ^ p22

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Victorian in Dorchester By Leslie MacKinnon

In the 1990s and through the turn of the millenni-um, the house was pur-chased and sold several times with each owner rehabbing it slightly.

Unfortunately, some of those own-ers removed many original details and then the house was up for fore-closure. Moving into a home in need of repair while eight months pregnant with their first child brought its own unique challenges for Meghann. But she and Will were able to quickly do much of the repair work to make it livable for a young family.

After the birth of their son Garrett or Rett, in early June, they added a new roof and gutters. Over the past two years, theyve slowly stripped away the layers to reveal original elements and restoring ones that have been lost, like the original shingles.

Meghanns trademark modern, vintage and antique design style appears throughout her home. Items found at yard sales, or even on Craigslist live a second life via reupholstering or a new finish. Her savvy eye brings in 21st century pieces to easily coexist with the older antiques. An interior designer for the commercial firm Architectural Resources in Cambridge, Meghann grew up in an antique-loving family in rural Pennsylvania. According to Meghann, her mother was a real collector with a great eye. She brought Meghann to her first antique show when she was seven years old.

Her husbands family also offered a distinct style. Her in-laws mid-century home in Wellfleet on Cape Cod employs the simplicity that really calls to me.

She says she finds inspiration in design mentors like Duxbury na-tive DD Allen, who always offers a sense of humor to the space.

Walking around Meghanns home, it becomes evident that many pieces are highly personal and tell a story about her familys history. Meghanns older brother, Matt Sullivan, is an artist who created the shadow boxes that adorn her walls. An intense, intelligent man who rode motorcycles and oozed cool in the eyes of his younger sister, he started making the boxes as a hobby while living in Chicago, where he was a builder of movie sets.

He moved to Uganda, Africa, with his partner and their 10-month-old daughter, and it was there that he suffered a massive stroke in 2004. His speech and cognitive abilities were affected as was the right-side of his body but she says he was still thinking in much the same way as he did before, but was unable to communicate what was going on in his head.

Now living in Dorchester, he has turned back to his boxes to create a visual interpretation of his view of the world. They are like tiny win-dows into his mind something that Ive been fascinated with since I was a little girl who idolized her big brother, she says. Reflecting on her labor of love, Meghann says, Since moving into the neighborhood, there isnt a spring or summer day that goes by without someone stop-ping one of us to say thanks for putting some love back into our old gal as they pass by. And that is so gratifying not only do we love what weve done, but they do, too. =

Designer Meghann Van Dorn

Boston Latino TV (BLTV) is bringing Latino culture to the masses. For more than seven years, the inde-pendent production that broadcasts its programming

in English has been using new media to show-case the Latino presence in Boston and in the rest of the nation. It started off as a hobby. No one [mainstream media] was covering events that we were interested in, says Digna Ger-ena, BLTV founder and senior production & marketing associate at Massachusetts Spanish TV network MASTVWCEA. So we started showing up. According to its mission, BLTVs goal is to highlight the positive contributions of Latinos to American culture in sports, arts, busi-ness and community service.

Theres little new in Latino-focused pro-gramming. But English-speaking Latino TV is. Long-standing network Univision is consid-ered the number one TV station for the Latino community followed by Telemundo. But both of them have Spanish-only programming with companion websites that are also in Spanish [unless consumers choose to translate to Eng-lish]. The estimated Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2009, was 48.4 million, making people of Hispanic origin the nations largest ethnic or race minority, according to Census data. By the year 2050, the projected Hispanic population in the U.S. is expected to jump to 132.8 million. With the Hispanic population expected to grow exponentially, one might assume that media representation of the Latino community would change as well. Mainstream media misrepresent us . . . or were underrepresented, says Gerena. The BLTV show is a culmination of short clips of important events, art, sports coverage and interviews. It airs Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. on Boston Neighbor-hood Network (BNN) and on Comcast chan-nel 23. The short segments allow for BLTV to have a major presence on YouTube and cover a lot of news during the half-hour show. We are a unique TV show that offers positive portrayals of our culture in a diverse range of topics, says Araminta Romero, director of development and marketing at BLTV. Understanding is the first step towards integration. We want to share our culture among English-language speakers so everyone can get insight into the Latino com-munity from our point of view. ^ p24

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(Above) Araminta Romero, Digna Gerena and Evelyn Reyes pose at the Access Awards.

(L-R) Clairemise Montero (BLTV host), Araminta Romero (director of development), Gil Matos (co-producer & host), Digna Gerena (founder, executive producer) Tim Estiloz (broadcast & film critic) and Evelyn Reyes (public relations, co-producer).

Boston Latino TV dares to be different By Jacquinn Williams


Romero is also the founder and man-aging director at The Merge Point, a public relations and marketing commu-

nications firm that introduces business-es, organizations and consumers into the multicultural, urban and ethnic markets, and new age segments. She joined Bos-ton Latino TV in November of 2007, a year or so after she met Gerena. The show had been on air and available on the Internet [via their YouTube chan-nel] for years, but it had little exposure in other social media outlets, and needed a new and more updated image to reach its target audience. I wanted the great work being done at BLTV to be seen, so we started an aggressive marketing

campaign that included a new website, new image, video streaming in other social networks (Facebook, MySpace TV, iTunes), and special events hosted by BLTV. After a couple of months, our viewership increased from hun-dreds to thousands, and we improved the TV shows brand awareness among the most important Latino professional organizations in New England, says Romero. The BLTV team is gearing up now for their biggest event of the year, the Access Awards in June. It is an an-nual celebration, where Boston Latino TV honors and recognizes individuals and organizations that have demon-strated commitment to the Latino com-

munity. The idea for the Access Awards started with Gerena wanting to thank Evelyn Reyes a colon cancer survivor who would show up and host through-out her chemotherapy treatments for all of her work. Reyes is a co-producer at BLTV and was the first host. In the beginning, Evelyn was right there with me, Gerena explains. Araminta and I used to plan events for Mass. General Hospital. Five years ago, I went to Ara and told her I wanted to create a way to thank Evelyn Reyes for her hard work and dedication. She always made her-self available even when she had gone through chemo treatments and her looks changed. She is a true hero in my eyes. Thats why we created the Com-munity Media Award.

She adds, Araminta was also rec-ognized with the Make a Difference Award the first year [of the Access Awards] because she saw what Evelyn and I were doing and the value that it was providing to our community. She revamped the website, created a mar-keting campaign and made our hard work visible to the world. There are a number of other categories including the Influential Leader Award, Visionary Award and Artistic Expression Award. Each category is a way for BLTV to give a nod to those who have helped them along the way, from BNN who helped train Gerena to the Latino Professional

Network who have helped them spread the word to Jose Masso who helped con-nect BLTV to more artists. Each win-ner gave us access to something me-dia, space, networks, technology, Reyes says. This year were thanking the next layer of helpful people.

Though BLTV is doing great work, at the onset there were some who want-ed the show to be in Spanish. Some older people asked, Why is the show in English? Reyes recalls. But, no one has a legitimate argument against it.

Right, counters Gerena. But were part of the fabric of this nation, so why not English?

Broadcasting in English certainly hasnt hurt BLTVs popularity. They won El Planetas 2011 Readers Pick award and theyre highly sought af-ter to cover events. If I miss an event because Im on vacation or something, theres no coverage, says Gerena. I want more people to cover our stories. I dont mind being the third or fourth camera. The more people that cover our stories, the better. Reyes agrees. Wed like more folks at the table, she says. For the most part the team at BLTV are all volunteers. Theyre committed to the community and their message. Our motto at BLTV is: We do it because its fun, says Romero. And we live by it. That doesnt mean that we dont have moments of stress, but we enjoy it.=

(L-R) Araminta Romero, Anthony Galluccio, Digna Gerena, Gov. Deval Patrick and Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz.

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All photos courtesy of Mary Mazzio/50 Eggs Productions.

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Now a full-time documentary filmmaker, Mazzio operates her business, 50 Eggs Productions, from an office at Babson College in Wellesley. With nary a wrinkle or gray hair, the now over 40 entrepreneur exudes a similar vivaciousness to the un-dergraduates surrounding her.

A Newton native, Mazzio grew up in Needham and attend-ed Mount Holyoke College, a women-only liberal arts school in Western Massachusetts. An advocate of girls sports teams and

organizations, she believes that women benefit from participa-tion in all-female institutions.

Her own son and daughter Jamie, 15, and Daisy, 13 both attend same-gender schools. A single-sex environment does two things, Mazzio says. It helps children stay children a little longer, even if its six months or a year. And, particularly for girls, I think its critical they hear their own voices and become more comfortable.

Her own experience at Mount Holyoke helped strengthen her voice and build a foundation for her professional life. You cant make everyone happy, so just be yourself, Mazzio says with a shrug and trademark megawatt smile. Mount Holyoke gave me the courage to be myself.

However, the voice she developed at an all-womens school met greater resistance in her classes at Georgetown and in her career as an attorney. While working at the Boston-based firm Brown, Rudnick, Freed and Gesmer, Mazzio spoke freely as she did at Mount Holyoke. However, when male colleagues repeated her ideas only minutes later, they garnered more attention.^p26

Mary MazzioDoesnt take no for an answer By Astrid Lium

Mary Mazzio likes a challenge and she has the life to prove it. By the age of 40, the self-proclaimed iconoclast rowed in the Olympics, made partner in a Boston law firm, had two children and launched her own movie production company.

Gently pointing out the inequality, she would respond by rhetorically asking with a chuckle, Didnt I just say that? Mazzio opts for humor instead of anger or criti-cism while making her points, no matter how serious. Claiming that malevolence is a sign of people being

less than enlightened, she believes that angry responses negatively brand people, especially women.

Mazzio kept this philosophy in mind while making her first film, A Hero For Daisy. The 1999 documentary follows the story of Chris Ernst, captain of the 1976 womens crew at Yale, and the hardships endured by the team only a few years after the ivy league school went co-educational. The crew protested insufficient athletic facilities and made a statement in the athletic directors office by stripping their clothes and revealing Title IX written across their backs and chests. Mazzio admits that her film could have been a diatribe about gender equality. However, she believes that making people feel uncomfortable fails to capture the truth and ulti-mately thwarts communication.

While an advocate for womens rights, Mazzio admits to not fully understanding what feminism has become in the 21st century. I know it meant in the 1970s you took your bra off and you burned it, she says. However, now she believes that the term encapsulates women who want to be good mothers, good workers and good people. I dont know if thats feminist, though, or just trying to be a good human.

Despite her success in various fields, Mazzio is no stranger to adversity and disappointment. Often the last kid picked for a team, she lacked natural athletic ability. Known as the cellist in her family, the musically inclined Mazzio recalls being cut from sports teams in high school as her sister ex-celled in athletics. While trying out for crew at Mount Holyoke, she claims that she was awful but determined. At the end of the first week, most of the 150 potential rowers dropped out and she made the team by default.

The former attorney also faced external skepticism in her professional life. Told by her superiors that she may not have what it takes to be a part-ner at her law firm, she questioned her career choice as a lawyer. However, she believes that failure is underrated, deems it a key ingredient for tenac-ity and claims that it gives you character.

Mazzio ultimately refuses to take no as a final answer. No means not now, but that could change tomorrow, she explains. The award-winning director, producer and writer of five documentaries concedes that feeling disheartened is human but perseverance is essential to suc-

Mary Mazzio doesnt take no for an answer

Mary Mazzio and Dennis Gomez on the set of her new film.

Mary Mazzio doesnt take no for an answer

cess. Not one to dwell in self-pity, she follows her mothers advice: You can cry for a day, and then you figure out what to do.

Thomas Hermann, an attorney at the Boston firm Smith, Duggan, Buell and Rufo, worked with Mazzio in the 1990s at Brown Rudnick and recalls her effort and work ethic. She carried off both training and work a highly difficult chal-lenge superbly, he says. Describing Mazzio as a world class elite rower, a world class elite attorney and now an award-winning filmmaker, Hermann wishes that he could do even half of that with the same resolve.

Although he has not worked with Mazzio on a film proj-ect, Hermann co-produced the 2002 film Life From Bagh-dad and enjoys recreational rowing on the Charles River. Despite their shared interests, Hermann claims, were not on the same planet. After a pause, he adds, with a chuckle, but maybe on the same river.

After the Olympics, Mazzio enrolled in film classes at Boston University while working as a lawyer. Four courses shy of a graduate degree, she halted her studies in 2000, when she left the law firm and started her own company. The stress of working as a full-time attorney, making films and raising two small children caused a yearlong stomachache. Mazzio real-ized that she could not simultaneously manage all of them. You can have it all, just not at the same time, she says.

Mazzio attributes some of her success, especially as an entrepreneur, to the support of her family. My mother in-stilled in me an I can do anything attitude, she says. Also, she relies on the support of her husband, Jay Manson, whom she met rowing. Especially in the early years, you need some-one to lean on, she says. [ Jay] has been incredible.

While she loves motherhood, Mazzio says she felt in-consequential at first and lost touch with her identity. If I were a stay-at-home mom, Id be in a padded room, she ex-plains. I need to be in the world achieving. The outspoken mother emphasizes quality over quantity of time with her kids, maximizing their activities together.

Claiming that all mothers have angst and struggle with the balancing act, she says that no one gets it quite right, whether they stay at home or work. Ill never be a mother I seek to emulate, Mazzio admits, referring to bake sales and school involvement. However, despite her busy schedule, she insists, If my kid has a hockey game, Ill go.

The businesswoman, mother and athlete still manag-es to do a lot. Although her Olympic days are behind her, Mazzio rises at 5:30 a.m. six mornings per week to train on the Charles River. She also competes in the annual Head of the Charles Regatta. I will continue to row until my teeth fall out, she says with a chuckle.

Mazzio is currently promoting her latest film, The Apple Pushers, which follows the story of five immigrants selling fresh produce from pushcarts in New York City. She chooses projects carefully, prioritizing stories with inspiring role models and social impact. I feel like Ive started to make a difference, she says. But I have a lot more to do.=

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On a recent late-winter afternoon at the Kun Khmer Federation, Chantary (Tary) Meas roams the gym, demonstrating punches and kicks to a dozen Cambodian kids. The sounds of children learning and laughing echo off the whitewashed stone walls of the old building on Middlesex

Street in gritty downtown Lowell. This is what its all about, says Tary. Were trying to start some-

thing important here hope and opportunity for these kids and the Cambodian community.

The Kun Khmer Federation serves as a social center for Lowells Cam-bodian community, a training gym for at-risk youth, and a venue for staging professional kickboxing matches derived from Kun Khmer, the ancient form of Cambodian kickboxing whose rituals are engraved on the stone walls of the Ankgor Wat temple.

Tarys remarkable journey from war refugee to Cambodian community leader and martial arts entrepreneur reads like a movie script. The wildly suc-

The ultimate survivorfights for the Cambodian communityBy Brian Wright OConnor

Tary Meas and business partner Vannak Kann flank Prince Norodom Ranarith during their 2005 visit to Phnom Phen to open discussions of bringing Cambodian Kickboxing to the U.S.


cessful Mark Wahlberg vehicle, The Fighter, perhaps deserves a sequel, with Tary Meas rather than Mickey Irish Ward serving as the center-piece of a Lowell story of redemption and resolve. As much as war trans-formed Cambodia, it also transformed Tary, diverting her from the path of a conventional Khmer woman submissive to a husband, devoted above all to family to a more active life.

Tary is a very strong woman emotionally, mentally, physi-cally and spiritually, says former Massachusetts state Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos. She has an amazing tale of survival and has used her abilities to give back and help others. The daughter of an architect who served in the Cambodian parliament, Tary enjoyed the privi-leged lifestyle of the Buddhist bourgeoisie in her early years. She and her seven brothers and sisters lived in a home filled with flowers and the soft rustling of silk.

In 1975, when she was seven, all that changed with the arrival of the Khmer Rouge, who slaughtered some three million Cambodians, target-ing the educated and the middle class, over the course of their regime.

The Meas family fled Phnom Penh for the countryside, hoping to find anonymous refuge among the masses living in makeshift camps.

Her parents bartered jewelry and gold for food while hiding their identity from marauding cadres of soldiers who led the innocent to The Killing Fields of mass graves.

There was no more school, no more property, says Tary. The only religion was the barrel of a gun. The Meas family sent one older child to live with relatives while the rest were scattered among camps. Tary and her two younger sisters were allowed to remain with their parents. But the union didnt last long. Her parents were led away to prison. Tary was sent with her sisters to a camp for children, where her first task was to scrub the floors clean of the blood of the murdered owners.

They told us to forget about our families, our homes, our old lives that it was all dead. After two months there, I was told that I now belonged to the government and had a responsibility to watch out for others.

Tary was put in charge of 30 children and ordered to make sure they worked steadily in the fields. She often saw soldiers leading groups of people tied together like livestock into groves of trees, where they were

lined up and mowed down by bursts of gunfire. In my mind, I just be-lieved my parents were no longer alive, she says. I was numb and just did what I had to do. We ate insects. We shivered at night. We had to overcome darkness and ghosts. In 1979, Vietnamese soldiers flooded across the border into Cambodia to oust the Khmer Rouge. In the midst of bombing and shelling, Tary and her sisters fled the camp. Moving by an abandoned clinic one night, she heard moaning. Inside, she found a woman in labor, struggling to deliver twins. I just did what she said helped pull them out and cut the umbilical cords. She was just 11.

After months of trudging through the countryside, Tary found an older sister. Weeks later, while selling potatoes on the street, she spotted a man walking by, searching the crowd, looking. It was her father. Miracu-lously both her parents had survived the war, along with six of her siblings. Only one was missing taken away by soldiers, never to be seen again.

Reunited, the family snuck across the Thai border to a refugee camp. In September 1981, a U.S. transport plane flew them to San Francisco and to a new life in Richmond, Va. Everyone pitched in to pay for food, heat and rent.

Tary entered the local public school, raked leaves, cleaned houses and worked at a day care center. She studied computer science at a local college. At age 19, she had her degree and a future husband a Cam-bodian she had met at a Massachusetts wedding. In 1990, she moved to Lynn and began working with a Lowell startup. A daughter, Seda, was born in 1992, and her son, Tevin, in 1998. Meanwhile, the company flourished but the marriage faltered.

In 2000, she struck out on her own a highly unusual move in Cambodian culture. Nobody put a bullet to my head to stay. After ten years, it was time to go. Why stay in a marriage that puts me down? she says. I am not a meek Cambodian woman. I had my own work, my own life.

She bought a home in suburban Dracut, and to supplement her income, opened a convenience store in Lowell. Her life took another turn when Dicky Eklund, the half-brother of Mickey Ward, walked into her store. Intrigued by the attractive proprietor, the former welter-weight described his life in the boxing world and invited her to a fight in Revere. When I saw the ring and the crowd and felt the excitement, a light went on, she says. I knew it was what I wanted to do.

Working with a Cambodian friend, Vannak Kan, now her busi-ness partner, Tary traveled to Phnom Penh in 2004 to discuss promoting Cambodian boxers in the U.S. Their mission received massive media cov-erage and they were summoned to meet with Prince Ranarith Norodom in his office at the Cambodian parliament. They returned to Lowell as official representatives of the Cambodian government.

By then, she was working at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety as a systems manager. The states boxing commissioner soon named her one of the commissions 28 deputies.

Tary has overseen about 35 boxing and mix martial arts bouts. She is easy to spot, the only woman on stage fully dressed. If anything goes amiss, in the ring or out, she can stop the bout immediately. There were many who doubted her ability to keep cool amidst the sweat and carnage of human beings pummeling each other for profit, but shes considered one of the states most reliable commissioners. Kann, who left a successful banking career to run the federation, hopes the club can open its doors to its first matches before the fall. Its all due to Tary, he says. She is a great model for me but especially for Cambodian women because she shows that they can be whatever they want to be. She wants to make a differ-ence, and thats exactly what shes doing.=

Photos courtesy of Tary Meas


(Above) Dr. Una Ryan in her lab. (Right) Dr. Ryan with colleagues. (Steffen Thaleman photo)

A small nonprofit in Cambridge aims to save lives, improve health and boost productivity in developing countries around the world with pieces of paper the size of a postage stamp.This is no NGO with grand goals found-ed on idealism. Diagnostics For All (DFA) is grounded in science. Its the pioneering work of a distinguished Harvard professor who discovered a way to test for diseases and medical conditions easily and accurately without technicians and costly labs.

Getting the ground-breaking technology that chemistry pro-fessor George Whitesides developed for the Defense Department first past regulators and then to the sick in poor countries is the mission of a former medical school professor and corporate CEO Una Ryan, who was born in war-torn Asia. Since her childhood in England, Ryan has yearned to heal people in the developing world.

I think if you want to manage the health of a person or of a population, youve got to have the right information, says Ryan, CEO of DFA since 2010. The more cheaply you can gather that intel, the better, because you want to save your health care dollar or rupee or whatever for the treatment and the education. Testing people accurately saves lives and saves money.

Even in this country, diagnostic tests are expensive, and rela-tively more so in poor nations. The testing that is available may be

unreliable. So health professionals dont test. Instead, they go with their educated hunches.

If you have a child who has a fever who is not coughing, theyll be given an anti-malarial. Only 50 percent of the time does the child actually have malaria, Ryan says, citing one example of mistaken diagnosis. So youre producing drug resistance, exposing people to side effects, giving them the wrong drug sometimes.

The medical tests that DFA is preparing to distribute are somewhat similar to home pregnancy and blood sugar tests, only

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Dr. Una Ryan

CEO of Diagnostics For All aims to save livesBy Kenneth J. Cooper


more reliable and sophisticated, according to Ryan. Tiny channels are etched in small pieces of paper and treated with disease-de-tecting agents. A patient can self-administer the test by applying a dab of blood or other body fluid, and then eyeballing the color-coded results.

This is high tech at low-tech prices, she says. Its postage-stamp size pieces of paper, and we make the device on a printer. We use wax printing on an ordinary desktop printer that I could send a letter on.

The test at the most advanced stage is for liver damage, a potential side-effect of drugs for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis pa-tients. The incidence of liver damage from those drugs is much lower in the U.S. than in the developing world, and thats because people test for liver function here, Ryan explains.

The condition can land patients on dialysis or make them need an artificial liver, both expensive procedures. If the damage goes unnoticed, ultimately you die, Ryan says bluntly. Detection affords an easy, simple solution to stop the liver damage switch patients to another antiretroviral drug for HIV or a different TB medication. Field trials are being conducted in Vietnam.

Though her words resonate with the accent of Oxford, Eng-land, where she grew up, Ryan is a native of the developing world she strives to help. She was born during World War II, in an air raid shelter of a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as Japanese troops roared down the Ma-lay Peninsula in the early 1940s. She and her Chinese mother escaped; her British father did not.

My father was captured and in-terned by the Japa-nese. The last thing [my mother] remembered my father saying as he disappeared in a sea of faces at the docks was, Go to Mary in England, Ryan says, without self-pity. So, after struggling across the world as refugees, we ended up in my Aunt Marys house in Oxford. I grew up in Oxford from 18 months to 18 years. But I had lived in Africa and India and everywhere by then, just getting across the world. Thats a very dramatic beginning.

Oxford is known for its elite university, home of the Rhodes Scholarship. The early, informal education that Ryan received from her relative there proved valuable.

Aunt Mary was from that wonderful generation of women who had lost the loves of their lives in World War I, but yet had done something very useful they were all doctors or dentists or missionaries, Ryan remembers. So that was the exposure I had to strong, capable women when I was a very little girl.

Her aunt once took her to a gathering of missionaries and they watched a movie about a small African boy whose family had been taken away and quarantined because they had leprosy. It really broke my heart, and I decided when I grew up I was going to be a missionary doctor and I was going to cure all these dread diseases, recalls Ryan with a chuckle. She was five then.

Ryan earned a PhD in cellular and molecular biology from Cambridge University and got hooked on research. For more

than a quarter century, her specialty of studying the lining of blood vessels carried her up the academic ranks to full profes-sor of medicine. She has her own lab and 500 academic journal articles to her credit.

But the little girls dream of healing the sick in poor countries tugged at her white lab coat. I hadnt saved a life yet, she remem-bers musing. But she lacked the medical training to care directly for patients. I made the case to myself that if I could save count-less lives of people I didnt know, that would be just as good.

Ryan joined Monsanto, a large pharmaceutical company, in St. Louis. Her next transition brought her to the Boston area as chief scientific officer of a small biotech company that became known as AVANT Immunotherapeutics. She became CEO and built a company that produced vaccines for travelers going abroad. On the side, she secured grants to spinoff technologies to help the developing world, for example, vaccinate for diarrhea, a major cause of death among children.

After the sale of AVANT Immunotherapeutics in 2008, she left the company to run a startup, Waltham Technologies, that used algae to convert waste from breweries and wineries into fuel. As a benevolent sideline, she was plotting ways to apply the meth-ods she learned there to clean the water in ponds and wells in the developing world. Then the opportunity to run DFA came along.

The academic scientist and corporate CEO finds the non-profits devotion to helping the develop-ing world appealing. She has devised a way to make it self-sustaining with a for-profit subsidiary that will license the tests to paying customers. I want something

that will stand on its own feet and out-survive me by centuries, Ryan explains.

During her two years there, the nonprofit organization has grown from one employee to eleven. Ben Whitesides, son of the Harvard professor who invented the technology, is one of those employees.

Ryan estimates it will take a year to guide the liver function test through the regulatory regimen of the Food and Drug Ad-ministration. Clinical trials will follow. Another test to predict premature births is being researched in southern Africa.

Once the tests have been cleared, distributing them to the poor around the world will be next. Its a creative challenge for Ryan. She says DFA may work with governments, schools, clinics, retailers and nimble NGOs for further reach in host countries.

We may have to have some nontraditional distribution, Ryan says to get our diagnostics, very inexpensively, to everybody who needs them in the developing world. That is a grand goal.

In India, chain convenience or drug stores may stock the stamp-sized tests. They may be handed out in Africa by health workers who bicycle to rural villages or vendors hawking cell-phone cards in urban slums.

Im seeing a very big future here, Ryan says. Its not a small vision at all.=

I want something that will stand on its own feet and

out-survive me by centuries.

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During a recent breakfast in Back Bay, Linda Pizzuti Henry orders her usual morning fare. Fifteen minutes later, a plate of scrambled eggs, a generous portion of steaming oatmeal, a bowl of fresh ber-ries, and a pot of freshly brewed green tea arrive on a tray. As the waiter spreads the dishes around the table, attempting to split the meal between two people, Linda gently corrects him. Sorry, she says politely, thats actually all for me.

Her svelte frame may indicate otherwise, but Linda loves food. A culinary passion, which started at an early age, continues to surface in both her personal and professional life. Although reluctant to refer to herself as either a foodie or an expert, the self-proclaimed proud Bostonian does admit to an appreciation of good food and health consciousness.^p34

Linda Pizzuti Henry

Making her own Mark in Boston a city she lovesBy Astrid Lium


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The youngest of four girls, Linda grew up in a family in which food played an impor-tant role. Both of my grandmothers were incredibly talented cooks, she says. [They] prided themselves on serving their families whole food from scratch with love.

The Lynnfield native grew up learn-ing to appreciate fresh ingredients and enjoy seasonal dishes. She still bakes her Nonna Pizzutis ricotta cookies, the recipe for which she proudly shares with Exhale.

Besides food, the other family focus was business. Growing up, the four Pizzuti sisters helped their father with his real estate develop-ment company. I am very grateful that I started working young be-cause I developed an early love and understanding of business, Linda says. I was exposed to so much, especially as we had to start at the bot-tom. Having duties from filing and cleaning to political fundraising and decorating, she learned the intricacies of development and learned to love the process of it.

Linda also has a formal education in business and real estate, which she applied to her post-graduate work in the family firm. She earned a BS in Business from Babson College and an MS in real estate development from MIT.

I learned to look at a building in the context of how it serves a

neighborhood, smart growth [and] street activation, she says of her hands-on studies. After finishing her thesis, Linda worked with her family on residential development projects and investment.

She enjoys staying busy and taking on the challenge of time management. But her participation in other entrepreneurial projects MassChallenge, The Awesome Foundation and the Pipeline Fel-lowship among others has curtailed the amount of work she does with the development firm. Currently, all three of my sisters are run-ning the family real estate business, and doing a great job, Linda says. I have limited involvement these days.

Instead she spends more of her time working with the team be-hind the Boston Public Market Association (BPMA), which is now launching Bostons first year-round public food market. Projected to open in the downtown area, between the Financial District and North Station, the market plans to offer local produce and regional products seven days per week in a centralized location.

The transition from property development to a food market comes naturally to Linda, who claims that the Boston Public Mar-ket is, in fact, a real estate project. It is utilizing the built environment to serve the community, she says. Without finding, designing and building-out a site, the market cant take place.

An investor, philanthropist and volunteer, Linda is involved in several local, national and international organizations. Although she invests most of her time in The Red Sox Foundation and the Liver-pool Football Club both of which are owned by her husband John Henry Linda feels most passionate about the BPMA.

The idea of a public market in Boston first piqued her interest in 2006, when she read about the efforts of the BPMA. She followed the organizations developments more closely after discovering that one of her teaching assistants from MIT, Yanni Tsipis, was on the board of directors.

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I want to utilize creative ways to reach, enable and empower others as much as I can.

Now a board member herself, Linda joins a panel of professionals from a variety of fields, including real estate, agriculture, nutrition and law. I met Don Wiest, the in-credible visionary that is leading this movement, while on tour of the proposed parcel, and eventually started working with the group, she recalls.

Lindas first project with the organization was an on-line video that encourages viewers to contact Gov. Deval Patrick and bring the States attention to the project. Ac-cording to Wiest, the president of BPMA, Lindas video project illustrates her knack for combining project strategy with social media. Featuring Boston farmers, chefs, busi-ness owners and foodies including Todd English and Ming Tsai who underscore the importance and ben-efits of a public market, the video was set up to be viral and easily forwarded. Wiest underscores the ripple effect of such a project, noting that the video spawned hundreds of letters sent to the governors office.

The idea of a public market resonates personally with Linda, whose grandfather worked as a vendor in Bostons Haymarket Square as a young man. While traveling, she prioritizes visiting local food markets in each of her desti-nation cities. It gives me the clearest, unfiltered window into the heart of where I am, says Linda. The public mar-ket reflects where a city is currently, whereas most tourist shops show you what the city once was.

Hoping that a local public market reflects Boston in a similar fashion, the avid traveler believes that such an ad-dition to the city offers myriad benefits.

Underscoring the diversity of the project, Linda claims that a market will provide goods to local shoppers and tourists, as well as business for regional entrepreneurs and artisans.

There are precious few feasible projects that I have come across where you can really enhance the lives of such a broad range of people economically and cultur-ally, she says.

Although Linda splits her time between Massachu-setts and Florida, traveling the globe when time allows, she deems Boston her home. When discussing the local com-munity and the opportunities it proffers, Linda has grand plans for her citys future. Boston can be just as much of a food destination as San Francisco, she says. We in Boston live in the heart of one of the nations great food regions. Linda hopes that a public market will showcase the best that New England has to offer with a public market.

Likening her involvement in the BPMA, and other community projects about which she feels passionate, to puzzle pieces, Linda is gradually combining her skill sets and seeing a bigger picture. These projects are all related to an overall philosophy, she says.

Although she admits to not having it all figured out, Linda does have a common goal circulating her partici-pation in each project. I want to utilize creative ways to reach, enable and empower others as much as I can.

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The popularity of lo-cavorism growing, purchasing and con-suming locally grown products has dra-matically increased

both locally and nationally. The number of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) participants, community gardens and green restaurants serving local food is rising. In 2011, the state of Massachu-setts boasted 257 farmers markets an increase from 237 in 2010 about 30 of which operated in or around Boston.

But due to the limited growing season in the northeast, farmers markets only sea-sonally provide access to fresh local pro-duce. Vendors at Haymarket Square sell goods all year, but many of their products avocados from Mexico, Hawaiian pine-apple, garlic from China do not qualify as local, or even regional. As it is now, Bos-ton lacks a year-round marketplace that exclusively sells local products.

The people involved with the Boston Public Market Association (BPMA) want to change that. For more than a decade, the association has been planning a viable way to open a market in downtown Boston that is open seven days per week all year. Ac-cording to the BPMAs website, in 2001, a group of food lovers, food producers, and State and City officials gathered to begin what would become the Boston Public Market Association. Later this year, those plans may finally start coming to fruition.

Donald Wiest, an attorney with Bren-nan, Dain, Le Ray, Wiest, Torpy & Garner, P.C., is the president of BPMA. He joined the organization about seven years ago and has been a chair member and president since 2007. Wiest attributes the depth of his participation to personal interest in the development. I got involved because I

work in real estate and I like food, he says. The two come together with this project.

Despite his position in the organiza-tion, Wiest takes a humble stance in regard to his involvement with the BPMA. Refer-ring to himself as just a volunteer, he says that he is but one member of a very active board of directors, which consists of about 25 members with an array of backgrounds, from architecture and farming to commu-nications and community activism.

Wiest says the project is a group ef-fort, emphasizing that it has benefited from the involvement of some extremely talented, committed people. The involve-ment of the board members and various other volunteers ranges from a couple to 10 hours per week.

Having served as the Land Use Coun-sel to the Boston Redevelopment Author-ity (BRA) from 2001 to 2006, Wiest be-lieves that his background and expertise in real estate benefits the association.

Boston is a densely developed and relatively small city, he says. It lacks park-ing space ... and a feasible site seemed to be the key piece. The market will be housed in the 30,000-square-foot, ground floor space of Parcel 7, a state-owned building

located on the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston.

Having grown up with a garden at his home in Pennsylvania, Wiest has had a life-long appreciation of homegrown food. He shopped at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, the diversity of farmers and patrons of which inspired him.

My own food culture experiences were limited, he says. I had them through the market.

Modeled on that and other North American public markets, like Seattles Pike Place and Atwater Market in Mon-tral, the Boston Public Market plans to adopt similar practices and thrive in the same fashion.

One of the primary objectives of the BPMA is to combine the efforts and ener-gies of disparate supporters and participants to create a community. There is something about public markets that are happy, says Wiest. There isnt the human connection at a grocery store that you get at a public market.

He says he hopes the market will help bridge the gap between the country, where most of the food is grown, and the city, where the demand for food is the highest in volume.

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the highest number of people, the BPMA plans to have extensive hours seven days per week to attract commuters on their way in and out of the city. Also, Wiest emphasizes the inclusive nature of the project, noting that it will accept payments from the Sup-plemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which are the same as food stamps. The BPMA matches money from SNAP dollar for dollar, he says. We want to make it affordable to all.

The market will sell primarily, if not ex-clusively, produce, seafood, cheese and spe-cialty foods from Massachusetts. But, main-taining a strict statewide policy or expanding into regional goods remains a debated aspect of the project.

According to Wiest, the state wants to see a lean toward Massachusetts, but there are other products. He notes that New England has become a great cheese-making region, and wants to choose the best prod-ucts in the area, even if that means reaching into Vermont or Maine.

Although the BPMA has garnered a great deal of support from the local com-

munity, such popularity has actually been a drawback for the organization.

It seems counterintuitive, but op-ponents make the proponents that much stronger, Wiest says. Everyone looks at this and loves it, so the tendency is to think that it will happen naturally. As a result, items like a public market slip in the priority list as the state tackles more urgent matters first.

To nab the attention of the public, potential supporters and the government, Wiest insisted on spotlighting the project. Fellow board member Linda Pizzuti Henry suggested a video for the website and set it up to go viral.

It features local farmers, business owners, chefs and foodies including Barbara Lynch and Michael Schlow encouraging viewers to share the video via email or social media. According to Wiest, Linda knew a lot of people in the video, [which was] cleverly and expertly shot, edited and scored with music.

Below the video is a virtual postcard pre-addressed to Gov. Deval Patrick, which urges the government to support the public market. Wiest claims that the phenomenon spawned

hundreds of eloquent emails from thoughtful people who sent them to the governors of-fice.

The state leapt into action after the public spoke out, he says. Linda harnessed the people and leveraged the response. The state has allocated about $4 million of the projected $15 million required for renova-tions and startup costs of the public market.

Both Wiest and Pizzuti Henry empha-size that there is power in numbers, especially when everyone involved benefits from the project. He claims that connecting farmers and patrons directly removes unnecessary costs of transportation and adds a more human ele-ment to the transaction. Pizzuti Henry says she is excited about promoting local products and helping farmers maintain their economic autonomy with public demand.

I love the ripple effect on how this will be an economic boost to the region, she says. It will enable independent farmers as long as the market exists.

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A Boston chef determined to succeedBy Allison Knott, RD

Inside Bostons Liberty Hotel, a warm restaurant with copper and reddish orange accents fills the space that was once a city jail. The original brick walls contrast the fiery atmosphere of renown Chef Lydia Shires restaurant Scampo.

On a recent sunny afternoon in Boston, Shire is perched on a chair that she designed. They named it the Lydia chair, she says to illustrate how she had her hands in all aspects of Scampo, from the chair to the color of the linens. It has been a true labor of love, she says.

She goes on to explain how all her restaurants are like children. Each one is different, they are equally special, but you love them all the same, she says. And they will need you at different times.

Shire is a Massachusetts native with an unlikely path to success. With three children at the age of 21 and facing an early divorce, she sold her engagement ring to pay her way to Londons Cordon Bleu culinary arts school. After completing her time in London, she went on to be the first female to work at Maison Robert in Boston.


Her first interview for the job was almost a disaster. I prepared a seven-layer cake with a real buttercream icing, she says. I had to order an air conditioned cab to drive me to the interview in the middle of July just to be sure the cake didnt melt.

With that sort of uncompromising attention to detail, Shire went on to work in some of the best restaurants in Boston Harvest, Caf Plaza at the Copley Plaza Hotel and Parkers at the Parker House Hotel.

It didnt stop there. She went on to become the first female executive chef of the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts Company after opening the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was named Americas Best

Chef Northeast in 1992 by the James Beard Foundation and was also honored as One of Americas Top Ten Chefs by Food & Wine. But Shire might best be known in Boston for her takeover of Locke-Ober, a restau-rant that prohibited women from its dining room for 97 years.

Despite her enormous success, Shire is modest and friendly in her ap-proach. Her philosophy for success is to pursue what you want. There is no no in the world. There has to be a way, she says.

Her determination is clear. She reminds her chefs, You have to make your eight hours in a job work for you. And if you look around and see what everyone else knows, and you know one more, that will make you rise to the top.

When asked where she will go from here, she says she is in the best spot of her life. She is working with three great chefs Simon Restrepo, Mario Capone and Oscar Figueroa who have followed her for more than 15 years. These three chefs and myself, we are truly a great team, we think alike, says Shire.

In addition, Shire is teaching cooking classes in Boston at Towne. Al-though she describes the classes as traumatizing, she enjoys the work and enjoys challenging the participants to make culinary creations that arent considered easy, a word Shire says is not in her vocabulary.

Ingredients

2 cups heavy cream

1 tablespoon tomato paste

cup of dry white wine

1 teaspoon black peppercorns

1 small onion

5 cloves of garlic

Olive oil

2 shallots

Whole 2 lb. lobster

Handful of ricotta salata cheese

Handful of parmesan cheese

Saute cup olive oil with 2 shallots and 3 garlic cloves, put aside. Cook the lobster, blanch until it comes to a boil, 4-5 minutes. Remove lobster from the body and set the meat aside. Saut onion and 2 cloves of garlic, bay leaf, peppercorns and cup of white wine. Add lobster shell/body. Then add 2 cups of cream and 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Reduce to one cup, strain and cool, then add lobster meat. Place pizza dough on pizza stone.

Add a handful of ricotta salata and parmesan cheese. Add diced lobster cream to next layer. Sprinkle shallot-garlic mixture on top. Sprinkle with julienned scallions as a flavorful garnish.

Lydia Shires Lobster Pizza

Wine Pairing With Lobster Pizza

A treat as unexpected as lobster pizza deserves a wine to match. For me thats the 2005 Trimbach Muscat. It shines the spotlight on everything

you expected to be there, except it isnt. You expect

it to be sweet, except it isnt. (It actually finishes bone dry.) You expect it to be floral and aromatic and it is that, certainly, except theres depth and

endurance to the aroma rather than a simple, fleet-

ing top note. And you expect amidst all of this for the taste to stand up and make a statement, except it doesnt. Its more serene and restraine

d than that, more come-back-for-more.

Which I do, of course.There may just be more of the unexpected going on in a single glass of t

his wine than there is in Lydia Shires lobster pizza.

Its that special.Just like well, lobster pizza.

To purchase: This is a wine that like lobster pizza is not widely available. The folks over at the

Lower Falls Wine Company, however, have been kind enough to special-order it for me.

For more information, contact Jo-Ann Ross at [email protected] or www.jrosswine.com.

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since the 1930s. Rhubarb seems to stump a vast majority of shoppers and many cannot think beyond the strawberry-rhubarb pie recipe. But Todd Heberlein, head chef at Wilson Farm, encourages their shoppers to try other recipes. Ac-cording to Heberlein, In-season rhubarb has much better flavor. Youll definitely taste the difference. When buying rhubarb, look for stalks that are firm, avoiding any that are starting to brown or show damage. Once purchased, rhubarb should be stored in a plastic bag, in the refrigerator.

Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Rhubarb Thyme JamServes 4-5

Ingredients2-3 lbs. pork tenderloin

5 sprigs thyme

2 cloves garlic, smashed

Olive oil

Salt

Rhubarb Thyme Jam4 cups rhubarb, diced

cup white wine

cup orange juice

1 box (1.75 oz) pectin

5-6 cups sugar

1 star anise

2 slices crystallized ginger

2-3 sprigs thyme

Pinch salt and pepper

Combine pork, thyme, garlic, olive oil and a pinch of black pepper. Refrigerate for at least 2-4 hours. Meanwhile, make the sauce.

Place the wine, star anise, and ginger in a sauce pot over low heat. Reduce almost all the way. Add orange juice

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