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Mark Etinger
One of my talented friends performed in a cabaret here in New York with my boyfriend and was brilliant! This year, she provided cookies for the White House Halloween party. How cool is that? She got to dress up and meet the President of the United States! She even had to get special clearances and have all of her baked goods checked before entering the White House. She was always cooking and baking. Breads, cookies, cakes, Chinese pork buns, and a myriad of other tasty delights flew out of her kitchen. I always loved going over to her apartment for dinner parties. She started a bakery here in Brooklyn, NY that did fairly good business and her friends were constantly clamoring for her yummy treats. Then, this past summer, she and her husband moved away so she could get her master's degree. She's now down in Washington, DC where she is happily providing pumpkin cookies to the President. I'm happy for her, but I miss her…and her cookies. Thankfully, she's been loyal to the client base she built here in New York by creating a mail order service where we could munch on the same pumpkin cookies as President Obama. But she had to find the right packaging product. The first time she sent them, I ended up with a box filled with bubble wrap and crumbs. Don't get me wrong, they were delicious crumbs, but nothing that you could dunk in milk or leave for Santa (though they were delicious on top of ice cream). Shipping food is a little difficult. Even though you mark something as "fragile" it will inevitably turn up as a crumpled mess in your mailbox. The correct food packaging helps to provide protection to those scrumptious little treats. One of the hardest things about finding the correct packaging product is to find someone who is willing to cater to your specific needs, dimensions, and specifications. For example, my dear friend makes the most amazing high hat, chocolate dipped cupcakes. They're so good to eat, so hard to ship. The right food packaging product manages to get them from the nation's capital to the city that never sleeps without collapsing, molding, or getting generally crushed. Which I can tell you is much appreciated by the party guests who gobble them up at holiday gatherings. I'm almost salivating thinking about those pumpkin cookies. Do you think Mrs. Obama will share? Maybe I should just ask my friend to cook up another batch and ship them to me.
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