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Jeanne Muchnick

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Jeanne Muchnick, Daily Voice Deputy Editor, Content, has covered everything from baby advice for Parents Magazine to travel finds for The Rough Guides to human interest features for The New York Times to lifestyle insights for prevention.com. She has been a Senior Editor at top national women's magazines including Woman's World and Woman's Day and was instrumental in the launch of Gannett's InTown, Rockland and Putnam magazines. She is also the author of Dinner for Busy Moms, a 2010 Mom's Award winner. Among her favorite things to write about: Her neighbors and surrounding communities. So email her and fill her in on what's happening near you. And, follow her on Instagram @dailyvoicefeatures.

Jeanne was formerly a deputy editor at Daily Voice.

Jeanne Muchnick's Contributions

Neighbors

Bronxville Quadriplegic Shares Stories That Inspire In New Digital Series BRONXVILLE, N.Y. -- Francesco Clark didn't set out to become renowned for overcoming adversity, but a catastrophic injury that left him a quadriplegic, combined with his refusal to be limited by his body, guided him to an unexpected path -- as an entrepreneur, an advocate for other people's disabilities, and an inspiration for all who meet him. Clark was a 24-year-old with a bright future when he went to Long Island for the weekend. An evening dive into the pool's shallow end changed everything. Paralyzed from the neck down, the doctors said he would never move from his bed or breathe wi…

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/06/2016

Lifestyle

X-Planations: X20 Chef Peter X. Kelly Welcomes Autumn With New Ingredients This column is a continuing series by Chef Peter X. Kelly of Xaviars Restaurant Group. YONKERS, N.Y. -- It’s autumn in the Hudson Valley. Very soon the leaves will be changing color and our beautiful area will be awash in a rainbow of Fall colors. As a chef, I love this time of year because our whole palette of ingredients starts to change. Summer's corn and tomatoes become Fall's squashes and root vegetables. I look for more game birds and slow braise’s to satisfy my guests with. I find few home cooks utilize quail when preparing a special dinner but I highly recommend trying it. Quail i…

by Peter X. Kelly

10/06/2016

Lifestyle

X-Planations: Chef Peter X. Kelly Celebrates Autumn In The Hudson Valley This column is a continuing series by Chef Peter X. Kelly of Xaviars Restaurant Group. It’s autumn in the Hudson Valley. Very soon the leaves will be changing color and our beautiful area will be awash in a rainbow of Fall colors. As a chef, I love this time of year because our whole palette of ingredients starts to change. Summer's corn and tomatoes become Fall's squashes and root vegetables. I look for more game birds and slow braise’s to satisfy my guests with. I find few home cooks utilize quail when preparing a special dinner but I highly recommend trying it. Quail is a tiny bird tha…

by Peter X. Kelly

10/06/2016

Lifestyle

X-Planations: Chef Peter X. Kelly Celebrates Autumn In The Hudson Valley This column is a continuing series by Chef Peter X. Kelly of Xaviars Restaurant Group. It’s autumn in the Hudson Valley. Very soon the leaves will be changing color and our beautiful area will be awash in a rainbow of Fall colors. As a chef, I love this time of year because our whole palette of ingredients starts to change. Summer's corn and tomatoes become Fall's squashes and root vegetables. I look for more game birds and slow braise’s to satisfy my guests with. I find few home cooks utilize quail when preparing a special dinner but I highly recommend trying it. Quail is a tiny bird tha…

by Peter X. Kelly

10/06/2016

Neighbors

Stamford Artist Partners With German Gallery For First European Show STAMFORD, Conn. -- It's not often an artist has the chance to showcase her work in a top gallery in the U.S., let alone Europe, but Stamford artist Jane Ubell-Meyer admits she's never been shy. "If you don't ask, you don't get," she said. "Put your ego aside, and 'go for it.'" That's exactly how her story of a joint art show with a Hamburg artist happened. She and her husband were in the German city last June when, while strolling through the city streets, they came upon a "charming" gallery, which, Ubell-Meyer said, literally took her breath away. "It w…

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/06/2016

Business

Beloved Westchester Gluten-Free Bakery Plans To Open Shop In Greenwich GREENWICH, Conn. -- Gluten-free and forever on the hunt for the perfect muffin, cookie or cake? Look no more. Westchester's By The Way Bakery (BTW) with locations on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side of Manhattan, is coming to Greenwich as of November. According to BTW owner Helene Godin, who started her humble shop in 2010 in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., the plan is to be open the doors at 19 E. Putnam Ave. just before Thanksgiving. After that, it's on to concentrating on her wholesale division. BTW 's mini cakes and cake slices are currently sold in a dozen Whole Foods. BTW recently …

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/06/2016

Business

Trumbull Shop Owner Waxes Poetic By Focusing On Fun TRUMBULL, Conn. -- Portia Antonio is all about highlighting what's local, fun and inspiring in her Trumbull store, Pure Poetry. The gift shop, which celebrated its one year anniversary with a four day celebration in August, is meant to be "an experience that's a pure delight for the senses." So explained Antonio, who said she puts a lot of thought into what will move people -- from the music playing, the aroma of apothecary lingering, to where one's eyes will settle. "The design of the store and the contents within are all part of my vision and my labor of love," she not…

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/06/2016

Business

Gluten-Free By The Way Bakery Expands To Pleasantville WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Fans of By The Way Bakery (BTW) will be happy to know there will be more gluten-free love to be had. The Hastings bakery, which also has locations on the Upper East and Upper West sides of Manhattan, recently moved its kitchen to a new 7,000-plus-square-foot commissary at 99 Castleton Street in Pleasantville. The commissary is for baking purposes only; nothing is for sale. Owner Helene Godin, who founded BTW in 2010, said her plan to expand her production facilities had been in the works for months with construction on a tight deadline due to the Jewish New Year…

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/05/2016

Neighbors

New App Takes Flight Thanks To Experience Of Fairfield World Traveler FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Tom Houge has taken his travel inspirations and turned them into an app. The Fairfield resident, who previously founded two tech companies, Fipeo and FacedYou that never quite made it, said it was a semester at sea in spring 2011 that led him to pursue entrepreneurship. "Conversations with a friend onboard a 377 foot yacht where I was working as a deckhand got me exploring previous ideas from from a fresh perspective," said Houge. The result: "Find," an app designed for the single traveler. Reaching out to people in a foreign city can be difficult, …

by Jeanne Muchnick

10/05/2016

Politics

DV Decision: Vice Presidential Debate Is Important, Say Readers BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. -- As much of the county grows weary on politics -- 34 percent say they can't wait for Election 2016 to be over -- the majority of Daily Voice readers will still be glued to their TV sets tonight to watch the first -- and only -- vice presidential debate. Forty-seven percent say they are more interested in what Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, who's running with Hillary Clinton on the Democratic ticket and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who's with Republican Nominee Donald J. Trump on the GOP ticket, will discuss. The 90-minute event, set for Tuesday, Oct. 4, will air from 9 p…

by Daily Voice

10/04/2016

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