Brigitte Theriault works in the Bay Area as a professional chef AND as a personal chef, where she runs cooking workshops and meal planning services from her White Apron Chef kitchen, while also using her well-honed culinary skills to keep the designers, makers, and builders of San Francisco’s tech scene happy and well fed. By the way, I was just about the write the phrase “…fat, happy, and well fed,”  but that wouldn’t have been in keeping with the nature of this blog, nor in line with the title of this post: “Building Healthy Habits For Life.” Brigitte recently reached out to me, asking if she...

With so much silliness coming out of Silicon Valley these days (and if you don’t believe me, just Google the words “Yo app”) it’s refreshing –– hell, it puts my faith back in humanity –– to hear of tech-centric companies that are actually trying to do some amount of good in this world. Don’t get me wrong: I love technology, and I am a 100% certifiable geek.  I mean, jeez’…  I actually learned how to program in BASIC, FORTRAN, and PASCAL waaaaaaay back in the late 1970’s on a Digital Corporation PDP-11, where I used punch cards to tickle and tease all 512 KiloBytes of that computer’s...