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Food as a time machine

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· April 13, 2017 
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This time of year I find that food turns into a time machine. As Easter quickly approaches I travel back to my childhood becoming 12 again.

Easter 1952 w/Nancy

Easter 1960 w/Nancy

A time when dying eggs was an all day project that lived on under your fingernails in crescent moons of red, blue and green. Clear waxed crayons would let you draw or write mystery messages that only appeared after dipping them into jars of warm dye.

Holidays were always my mother’s moments and no one did Easter as well as she did. Each kid had their part of the living or dining room where the Easter Bunny would hide the decorated eggs — the center prize being our very own basket.

A nest of shredded colored paper layered the woven bottom where jellybeans would jiggle down to be found just when you thought all had been eaten. A full array of yellow and pink Peeps, shoulder to shoulder with petite foil-wrapped chocolate marshmallow bunnies, surrounded a large hollow bunny stamped to look just like the rabbits on the pages of our fairy tales.

After all the eggs had been found, like clockwork, our Aunt Ethel’s package would appear. My Grandfather Briar’s sister was considered to be an “Old Maid” — never married, no children and not really liberated. Her father had left her inheritance in a trust fund that didn’t provide for her by the 1950s, which required her to work in her later years. Of course, as kids we thought that we were the luckiest ones around to have an aunt who worked at the candy counter in Wanamaker’s.

Aunt Ethel’s Easter eggs came carefully cushioned in layers of white tissue paper creased and folded smooth. To protect the script names, each egg was individually wrapped in clear cellophane gathered and twisted on top secured with a thin strand of real ribbon tied into a small bow. There would be no fighting about who got which egg since they were clearly marked as yours. Names in white surrounded by new growth green vines, each tipped with crafted candy flower buds in pastels of yellow, blue or pink. Inside the thick chocolate coat was a mystery flavor, hidden until mom would slice each egg carefully with a knife too sharp for a child to wield. Chocolate, vanilla crème, coconut, or sometimes even tiny chunks of candied fruit glued together with white sweetness, only to be revealed then.

Not a very good cook, my mother would excel at Easter. Canned ham was spiked with whole cloves to hold up golden rings of pineapple — always packed in syrup back then, never in juice. Each empty center ready to be filled with a maraschino cherry tacked in place with the point of a toothpick. canned hamIf you helped in the kitchen, chances were good that you would be rewarded with a taste of the coveted red cherry juice, sipped straight out of the jar. Baked sweet potatoes lost their tin-taste under a thick layer of gooey toasted marshmallows. Green beans would bathe in real butter, not oleo, for the holiday table. Of course no dessert was necessary. The Easter bunny’s bounty left plenty of sweets for us to eat all day and into the night. Once all the dishes were done we turned on the TV to watch the same show, all together, at the same time.

So, it’s no wonder that I love Easter time and all its many tastes. That the simple sight of grocery shelves loaded with sugar and chocolate transport me to a different time. A time when I was young and all was possible. When I could run like the wind and read without glasses. With my mother feeling accomplished, smiling and gay, and we were a family if only for that day.

Peeps Car

 

 

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Categories : Awareness, Featured, Off the Mat, Surprises!, Travel

Heart Healthy Living

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 30, 2017 
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First image of a larger yogi appears in national publication

Heart Healthy Living covers the start of the body positive yoga movement and adds a side bar on how to choose the right yoga class.

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Prevention

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 30, 2017 
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HeavyWeight Yoga highlighted in Prevention Magazine

Abby’s mission to make yoga accessible at every size is prominent in both the print and online editions of Prevention. Read the expanded online edition here!

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FITNESS Mag

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 30, 2017 
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Abby Named to Fitness Mag’s Fit 50 List

Naming her “Yoga’s Biggest Buff”
Fitness Magazine ranks Abby’s HeavyWeight Yoga as
Number 5 on their Fit 50 List!

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Fit Yoga

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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Thoughts from Fit Yoga on Abby’s DVD

Fit Yoga’s review explores why Abby’s DVD can work for larger bodies without shame or weight loss emphasis.

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Sun Sentinel

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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Sun Sentinel give us the Skinny on HeavyWeight Yoga

Florida’s health column. The Skinny, shines  light on how to make your yoga safe and effective.

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Bitch 2

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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Bitch Magazine sounds off on why they like Abby’s DVD

Placed on the Bitch’n List along with Hugh Hefner Abby still wonders how that happened to her in her sixties!

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Redbook 2

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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Redbook points out how to be a yoga champ with HeavyWeight Yoga

Lifestyle magazine leader, Redbook, features Abby first DVD, Yoga for the Body You Have Today, on their list of 5 Ways to Live Healthy!

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Your Weight Matters

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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Tips Abound in featured article in
Your Weight Matters

Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) has Abby explain why yoga is not a 4-letter word!

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MORE MAG

Posted by Abby Lentz 
· March 29, 2017 
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HeavyWeight Yoga DVD Picked by More

Abby’s first DVD, Yoga for the Body You Have Today, crosses over from More’s Best Yoga DVD category to be included in the Best Workout DVD dozen too!

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