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The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies
The Pampered Chef is Doris Christopher’s extraordinary account of how she turned an innovative concept and $3,000 investment into a business with annual sales approaching the billion-dollar mark. It is packed with real-life lessons and inspiring insights for small-business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. In 1980 Doris Christopher, a former home economist and teacher, was itching to get back into the workforce after an eight-year hiatus as a stay-at-home mom. Drawing on her personal and professional expertise, and determined to make cooking easier and more convenient for families, she started selling high-quality kitchen tools through cooking demonstrations to groups of women in their homes. Today, the company she started in her basement, The Pampered Chef, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary and has grown into a corporation (now owned by Berkshire Hathaway) with tens of thousands of independent Kitchen Consultants who present more than a million Kitchen Shows a year, attended by more than 12 million people. The Pampered Chef is the story of the vision, energy, hard work, and chutzpah that drove Christopher and her company to the height of success. She describes her early days as a “one-woman show,” chronicles the company’s gradual expansion, its challenges and growing popularity, and the process, offers invaluable advice and sound strategies on how to found and grow a business, including: • Hard learned lessons for start-up entrepreneurs • How to create a business concept and set your priorities • Knowing when to expand and when to slow growth so that demand doesn’t overwhelm your operations or supplies • How to counter the naysayers and deal with adversity Today, as at the company’s founding, achieving a better balance between work and family remains central to The Pampered Chef’s mission. The Pampered Chef brings Christopher’s recipe for success to women, and men, everywhere..
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Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause: Health, Beauty, and Lifestyle Advice for the Best Years of Your Life
It's not your mother's menopause--and this is the book that tells you why! Unlike most midlife guides for women, Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause offers more than somber discussions about hot flashes and hormone replacement therapy Instead, award-winning journalist Colette Bouchez created a rejuvenating handbook that blends authoritative clinical research with the humor, fun, and conversational tone of a lifestyle magazine.
Your Perfectly Pampered Menopause delivers expert medical wisdom on everything from hot flashes, insomnia, and dysfunctional bleeding to incontinence, bone loss, and weight control and recommends the latest in both natural and traditional care. Offering a totally new understanding of the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy, Bouchez also explores the latest buzz on alternative hormones and prescription drugs to provide women with a complete guide to all their midlife health care options.
She also clues us in on everything from antiaging skin and hair care to the hottest news in midlife nutrition (including an anti-hot flash diet!), divine new relaxation techniques, optimal exercise and midlife dieting secrets, and how to put the kick back into your sex life.
Tens of millions of women will hit forty in the next decade--and millions cross the threshold into menopause every year. This is the definitive guide for living well--no prescription required! .
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The Pampered Black Queen
Right or wrong, good or bad, the twenty first century has become much more tolerant of many of the alternative life styles that have previously lain just below the mainstream of American society. Female domination is one of those life styles that has risen to become more visible in our collective awareness through our comedy, movies, and television documentaries. The Pampered Black Queen is a story of one such relationship between a beautiful young black woman and her white, husband/sex slave. The story follows the evolution of their role playing from the early beginnings of their marriage to the assumption of undisputable domination by the beautiful, black queen. She avidly learns to use many of the toys and devices associated with S&M sex including whips, handcuffs, blindfolds, and body clamps. The story contains explicit, detailed sexual activities in which pleasure and pain are commingled to produce the ultimate in sexual release and gratification for the insatiable mistress of the house. Our tale follows the couple as they delve deeper and deeper into the sadistic world of female domination over a willing, well trained, submissive sex slave. Eventually, their activities include other young women with similar tastes and desires which are only realized after exposure to the black queen and her white slave but, when awakened, are even more intense than those of the mistress herself. The story admittedly concentrates primarily on the daily spoiling and pampering of the black queen and her constant efforts to come up with more and more entertaining ways to torment her helpless slave and consequently satisfy her endless lust for power, control, and sexual satisfaction. But it also deals with the deep underlying love and trust necessary to make such an arrangement function. In the end, the mistress makes some life decisions that have devastating consequences for both herself and her love slave. The book is intended for the open minded reader who accepts that these types of pain and pleasure, control and submission, love and lust relationships exist in every city and state in the country under the auspices of the concept of consenting adults..
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Dog Parties: How to Party with Your Pup (Pampered Pooch)
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Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Animals, History, Culture)
In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor -- in all, forty-two live animals In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in eighteenth-century Paris. In the streets of the city, residents and visitors could observe performing elephants and a fighting polar bear. Those looking for unusual pets could purchase parrots, flying squirrels, and capuchin monkeys. The royal menagerie at Versailles displayed lions, cranes, an elephant, a rhinoceros, and a zebra, which in 1760 became a major court attraction. For Enlightenment-era Parisians, exotic animals both piqued scientific curiosity and conveyed social status. Their availability was a boon for naturalists like Buffon, author of the best-selling Histoire naturelle, who observed unusual species in a variety of locations around the city. Louis XVI saw his menagerie as a manifestation of his power and funded its upkeep accordingly, while critics used the caged animals as metaphors of slavery and political oppression amidst the growing political turmoil. In her engaging and often surprising account, Robbins considers nearly every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, from the vast literature on exotic animals and the inner workings of the oiseleurs' (birdsellers') guild to how the animals were transported, housed, and cared for. Based on wide-ranging and imaginative research, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots stands as a major contribution to the history of human-animal relations, eighteenth-century culture, and French colonialism. .
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Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy: Beauty, Health, and Lifestyle Advice for the Modern Mother-to-Be
The moment a pregnancy is announced, all eyes are on baby. But what about Mom? Not only is her body changing, everything about her lifestyle is turning upside down.
A revolutionary new kind of self-help guide, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy puts Mom at center stage, with hundreds of tips on how to have the healthiest, most vibrant pregnancy possible.
Culling advice from top medical, beauty, and style sources worldwide , award-winning health reporter Colette Bouchez delivers sound medical advice as well as beauty and lifestyle tips to keep Mom happy and healthy, ensuring baby will be healthier and happier as well.
Highlights include:
*The five most common pregnancy complaints—and how to beat them
*The beauty, hair, and skin care products that are safe to use—and what to avoid
*How to choose maternity clothes without losing your sense of style
*Natural and relaxing ways to beat stress, overcome sleep problems, and handle pregnancy fears
*How to treat painful—and often embarrassing—pregnancy problems naturally and easily, and how to know when it’s time to seek a doctor’s help
*Advice on how to blend your career obligations with impending motherhood—and look and feel great while doing it!
*How to make pregnant sex the best sex of your life
Written in the caring, one-on-one tone of a best friend, Your Perfectly Pampered Pregnancy is a unique (and long overdue) addition to the booming baby category. .
Price: $6.50
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