Food + Beverage

Iced Pumpkin Cookies

Soft, heavily spiced, and glazed only after they are completely cool. Article by Ellie Chan This is a soft cookie, not a crisp one. Dry ingredients in one bowl, creamed butter and sugar in another, a full cup of pumpkin, and the spice list doing the heavy lifting: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves. The icing is the part people get wrong. It has to go on cold. Glaze a warm cookie and it slides straight off onto the parchment. Let the tray come all the way to room temperature, then spread. COOKIES 2...

Education

Fifty Years on Whole-Person Education

Sofia University in Palo Alto teaches gratitude for credit. Article by Will Cotterall | Photography by Corey Sandler, OC Event Photos and Sofia University Marketing There is a university in Palo Alto where gratitude is worth three credits. The course sits in Sofia University's doctoral catalog: Positive Psychology, Gratitude, Compassion, and Forgiveness. Students trace how gratitude and compassion function across a course of therapy, then apply the same material to their own lives. It carries...

Arts + Culture

Buckets on the Sidewalk

How Elizabeth Gamble's garden became the community's. Article by Will Cotterall | Photography by Karina Pemberton Neighbors walking down Waverley Street found buckets of cut flowers on the sidewalk, set out by Elizabeth Frances Gamble. Her family brought her from Kentucky in 1902, when Waverley was a mud road. One year at Stanford, a degree from Wellesley, and then a lifetime at 1431 Waverley Street. The flowers were one gift among many. She made arrangements for the hospital and helped young...

Food + Beverage

Built for Charlie

A mother's search for her son's future became a cafe with 42 employees and a goal of 100. Article by Will Cotterall | Photography by Audrey Anne Photography Kathleen Foley-Hughes is the mother of twins with disabilities. Charlie had always been a social kid, someone who learned by doing. When he reached Terman Middle School, now known as Fletcher, Kathleen began asking a harder question: what would happen after high school, for a student who wasn't headed to college. The only option in Palo...