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Between movie nights at home, my kids’ after-school cravings, and my nervous-energy snacking while I work, it’s safe to say my family eats a lot of popcorn.

Usually I pop plain kernels in my trusty silicone popcorn popper. It’s cheaper than (and just as fast as) the bags from the store, and I can control the sodium and flavorings, so I can legitimately call it a healthy snack. But sometimes we want the full-on faux-butter goodness you can only get from the movie theater — without actually going to the theater.

That’s where the store-bought stuff comes in.

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Julia Child knows how to kick off an iconic television career. While the first episode of most shows — especially classic shows — highlights its imperfections, the first episode of The French Chef is 30 minutes of soothing perfection.

From the first notes of her jaunty opening song, I’m completely spellbound. She looks into the camera and says “Hello, I’m Julia Child!” and it’s funny to imagine a time where her voice didn’t spark instant recognition.

Welcome to the very beginning of The French Chef. Your future cooking legend is here, and she brought beef.

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A couple of months ago, I reviewed nine of the best cheeses at Trader Joe’s, because I have the best job in the history of jobs. Because pretty much everything in the cheese case is delicious — and because I am the kind of person who would spend all of her money on cheese — I asked my Facebook friends to help me narrow it down by recommending their favorites.

I was completely unprepared for the number of enthusiastic cheese-related comments that post received, and I was also surprised by how many people said that Unexpected Cheddar was their hands-down fave.

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The kitchen is the de facto command center in most homes. This is where families gather for breakfast and dinner — and homework and work work, too — every day, and it’s the spot to catch your kids or your spouse if there’s something you need to communicate about your day. So no wonder companies and bloggers make a big deal about putting a command center in the kitchen. It sounds so good: a designated spot, bulletin board and all, for controlling your household.

The quintessential command center, IMHO, starts with Pottery Barn’s Daily System, a selection of wall-mounted organization accessories including whiteboard calendars, bulletin boards, file holders, and the like. The premise is, you kit out your designated nook with all these things, and your kitchen is outfitted, office-level, with everything you need to manage your days.

And yet, I won’t be putting one of these in my kitchen. Here are my reasons — do you agree?

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In 1976 Julia Child wrote an essay for Architectural Digest about her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In it she called her kitchen “the beating heart and social center of the household … both practical and beautiful, a working laboratory as well as a living and dining room.” Sounds so lovely, right?

We — as her humble servants, now and forever — can’t get enough of her kitchen either. Over the years Julia’s famous pegboard has gotten a lot of attention, but there’s so much to learn from the rest of the kitchen, too! From how she set it up to the amazing way she labeled her utensil crocks to the copycat paint color we found for those iconic blue-green cabinets, here are five other things to take away from Julia Child’s kitchen.

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If you need another reason to keep that cast iron skillet out on the stovetop, let this five-ingredient dinner be it. The cheese tortellini cooks directly in a fresh tomato sauce — meaning less mess and tons more flavor. A handful of baby spinach is stirred in at the end, and the whole skillet is finished with a little more cheese (because that’s always the right move). It’s just the kind of weeknight meal that’s guaranteed to become a new favorite.

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Kitchn’s Delicious Links column highlights recipes we’re excited about from the bloggers we love. Follow along every weekday as we post our favorites.

If a recipe doesn’t begin with melted butter and six cloves of finely diced garlic, is it even worth making? I know I’m being dramatic, but a pretty big percentage of our favorite recipes here at Kitchn start with the magical combination of butter and garlic. We’ve got garlic butter salmon, garlic butter steak and potatoes, garlic butter rice, buttery garlic knots, and garlic butter mashed potatoes. Are you noticing a pattern here?

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Even though we all know and love Julia Child, she produced so many tried-and-true recipes over the years that it’s hard to keep track of all of them. To take a deeper look at the breadth of the recipes she left us, we chatted with 10 smart pro home cooks who have cooked their way through a whole lot of her dishes.

Here are the — often undersung! — Julia Child recipes they’ve come to love the most.

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Health professionals who care deeply about their clients or patients look for professionals in other areas of practice who they can trust and to whom they can guide their clients or patients needing services beyond their scope of practice. To provide the highest level of service and care for your clients, it is critical that you develop relationships with professionals in these areas of practice and build a trusted referral network.

Developing a Relationship with a Client’s Existing Healthcare Team

The following list highlights a few ways you can build relationships with your client’s current healthcare team. Not every strategy applies to every practitioner or every client relationship. It’s up to you to find out what may or may not be acceptable to your client and to her healthcare practitioner.

Open communication and trust are at the core of a solid relationship with your client, and those must be in place before you can take further action. It is ideal to obtain written, signed permission from your client before contacting her healthcare provider, since this eliminates the initial barrier for the medical professional — that of confidentiality. Though sometimes a phone call or verbal specification from your client may be enough.

1. Connect with your client’s healthcare practitioners on social media and like, follow, and share their content if it’s a good fit for your platform. Supporting them and showing an interest in what they are doing is a great way to develop a relationship. (Of course, remember to maintain confidentiality.)
2. Strive to share relevant, helpful, evidence-based content online, so if your clients’ practitioners are active on social media, they or their staff may take notice and recognize your dedication to helping clients and honing your craft.
3. If you have a close relationship with your client, ask permission to attend one of her appointments to meet her healthcare provider and ensure you are both on the same page in terms of what is appropriate for her at this particular stage of her pregnancy and postpartum experience.
4. If you send a letter or email, introduce yourself and explain succinctly the situation at hand: if there is a specific concern, or your specific questions. Most medical professionals do not need nor want a long essay; make it easiest for them to respond. Include your contact information and let that provider know you’d like to be informed about any potential contraindications for her training and nutrition regimen that may arise throughout your client’s pregnancy.

Be aware that it may not always be easy to connect with a client’s healthcare practitioners. Often, it depends on a practitioner’s perception of the coach’s role in their patient’s healthcare team, their previous experiences with other coaches, and their individual schedule. For example, a practitioner with a very heavy caseload may not have time for long consultations with you.

If your client is experiencing a new injury or condition and is consequently hiring a new health professional, she can ask them about their willingness to work with your and other members of her wellness team during their first meeting. If it’s important to your client that the professionals working with her establish communication and are on the same page, this could be a determining factor to help her choose who she will hire for her care.

Developing a Relationship with Other Healthcare Professionals

Developing relationships with healthcare professionals with whom you currently don’t have a connection or mutual client or patient may require a bit more work and time. Although not every strategy will apply with all healthcare practitioners, the following tips may help you build these relationships:

1. Do your research to find out which healthcare practitioners in your area practice in a way that aligns with your mission and values. For example, if you’re a coach who does a lot of strength training with your clients, you’ll be searching for an OB-GYN or pelvic health physiotherapist who also values the benefits strength training in order to set yourself up for a successful, mutually beneficial relationship. Search association directories (like the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Section on Women’s Health of  the American Physical Therapy Association, to name just two) to find healthcare practitioners locally or nationally.
2. When you’ve found healthcare practitioners who align with your mission and values, reach out to them via email, a short handwritten note, or a phone call introducing yourself and briefly explaining what you do. Let them know that you’re interested in connecting with practitioners whose mission and values align with yours. Ask if you may bring coffee or lunch to their office sometime just to meet in person. Keep the interaction brief and low pressure. Remember that they are often busy, and when communicating with them your focus should be on how you can help them and their clients and patients, rather than how they can help you.
3. As previously suggested, connect with them on social media by liking, following, or sharing their professional accounts or content, and make sure you’re consistently sharing relevant, helpful, evidence-based content on your own social media channels.

Once you feel that you know and trust a particular provider, begin referring your clients to them. Sending someone more clients and patients is a surefire way to strengthen your relationships.

Likewise, it is important to remember that medical professionals who witness coaches and trainers offering excellent care are more likely to refer other patients in turn. This is a symbiotic and active relationship in which all of the involved benefit — most importantly, the clients.

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Learning to roast a chicken has a promise beyond what most recipes deliver. Yes, a chicken will become dinner, leftover lunch, and hopefully soup, but a roast chicken also promises an evening spent in the kitchen with family and friends. Mastering a simple roast chicken also teaches kitchen confidence and patience, which the greatest cooks understand.

For a recipe much lauded and loved, roast chicken should be, above all things, simple — the meat tender and juicy, gently seasoned with salt and scented with herbs. Most of your work will be in preparing the chicken for roasting and then finding a way to while away an hour in the kitchen while it cooks.

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