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 Jill Norman is holding up the book "  Mistress of Spices " by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.  Patty gave Ruth & I a
copy when it first came out a few years ago as a Christmas gift. The book led to the starting of our " Twelve Mistresses of Spices Spice Wisdom School ", which has twelve young lady members .... each is more beautiful, more talented, more filled with potential, than the last, and all young Spice House apprentices. The study material is based  on the beautiful  teachings of the centuries old spice cultures of the Earth. In addition to the twelve young ladies, there are three older lady teachers, and seven lady teachers assistants. Twenty-two ladies in all.  Below Jill has agreed to become, as Patty is, one of the seven teacher assistants.
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Jill Norman with daughter Patty Penzey Erd.  July 2003. ( Chicago Old Town Spice Talks.  No. Three:  Saffron.).
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Here Patty is presenting Jill with her honorary " Pyramid Rainbow Pepper Mill " and the very special whole peppercorns mixtutre known as  " Colored Fancy Mixed Peppercorns:  Peppercorns Sovor/Saveur ".Mixture of four different pepper berries:  the black is for Julia Child,   white is for Dione Lucas,   green is for Elizabeth David,  pink is for M.F.K. Fisher.
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The twelve, in order of them coming into The Spice House ....
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  Melanie & Sarah, Miriam + Jenni + Corrina, Leah & Thuy & Carly, Jessica, Eva & Caity, & Theodora.


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.  http://www.spicehousebrand.com/ms-spice-ladies.htm       http://www.spice-work.com/ms-spice-ladies.htm
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  note about the re-write for this page that I discussed with Sarah Marx Feldner ..... I am going to use her energy to
..... finally ..... get this special valuable letter from Julia Child posted to our web site.  Perhaps Sarah might advise me
if I am being " out of bounds " in any way in doing this, as I do not really comprehend the rules of publishing re: rights, etc.
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The very first meeting of our " twelve young lady mistresses of spices " was held actually on Julia Child's birthday ....
Aug 16 of 2002.  We had planned to hold the meeting that day, then Billy & Jeri decided they would get married on
that very day ..... it was a conincidence as they actually had not thought of the birthday aspect of it ..... But Billly did
spend an hour with Julia Child showing her around our Spice House on her first visit to Milwaukke back in 1990.
.I see the letter has a few tiny saffron threads attached to it. Odd that this should happen, but a  fitting thing, as she did the saffron French Marengo dinner with Patty helping her on the stage here in Milwaukee at an AIWF fundraiser.

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About the" Twelve Mistresses of Spices " Ancient India Spice Wisdom School now operating as a licensed
franchise here on Kavanaugh Hill in the old Village of Wauwatosa:  show pyramid rainbow pepper mill .....
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 Jill Norman is holding up the book "  Mistress of Spices " by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.  Patty gave Ruth & I a
copy when it first came out a few years ago as a Christmas gift. The book led to the starting of our " Twelve Mistresses of Spices Spice Wisdom School ", which has twelve young lady members .... each is more beautiful, more talented, more filled with potential, than the last, and all young Spice House apprentices. The study material is based  on the beautiful  teachings of the centuries old spice cultures of the Earth. In addition to the twelve young ladies, there are three older lady teachers, and seven lady teachers assistants. Twenty-two ladies in all.  Below Jill has agreed to become, as Patty is, one of the seven teacher assistants.
                                                                                      
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Jill Norman with daughter Patty Penzey Erd.  July 2003. ( Chicago Old Town Spice Talks.  No. Three:  Saffron.).
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Here Patty is presenting Jill with her honorary " Pyramid Rainbow Pepper Mill " and the very special whole peppercorns mixtutre known as  " Colored Fancy Mixed Peppercorns:  Peppercorns Sovor/Saveur ".Mixture of four different pepper berries:  the black is for Julia Child,   white is for Dione Lucas,   green is for Elizabeth David,  pink is for M.F.K. Fisher.
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The twelve, in order of them coming into The Spice House ....
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  Melanie & Sarah, Jenna, Miriam + Jenni + Corrina, Leah & Thuy, Carly, Theodora, and Eva & Caity.
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.,  In the center is a special hand made pottery shard sent to us from the fabled Silk Road in China.
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Friday, Feb. 27, 2004.  Two young ladies, both Spice House apprentices, doing " stances " on the side of the store.
  They are doing the " horseman " stance, which is quite painfull to do for any length of time.  When we study
    quality; where good stuff; really good stuff, comes from, we do have to think about that it is not easy, that
really good stuff will be hard to come by.  I dunno, is this true?  Or is this one of the most romantic of notions?
And what about that we have to become right inside in order to do good work; really good work?  I dunno about
that either.  But we have to entertain these thoughts and think about them, consider them.  this exercise comes about
because a man is after me to help him set up a " Spice House " in Indiana.  I am telling him that he really has to get
very strong inside; that also he has to get right inside.  But I don't think he wants to hear these things .... he just wants
to get the store open because he want to have something like we have.  But I don't think it is quite that easy.  Just
to get the money and open the store and there you have it.  Voila!  ( as Ruth & her buddy Joanny used to say ) ....
our kids each worked with us from four to eight years .... and I never let them sit down either, just as I still do not
allow myself to sit down.  I recall Billy sitting one time tho .... he had ground Jalapeno peppers in our wonderful
Dr. Lee stone mill .... and they caught him by surprise, their heat .... his arms & hands started to burn ... he ran to
the bathroom sink and poured cold water .... than thurst his arms in the water.  He had to sit there for an hour before
the pain started to lessen.  Paying the price.  What is this all about, eh?  Our kids, when they did get rolling on their
own, after Ruth & I helped them to get into spices in their individual ways .... did know what work was, real work,
and they knew about paying the price.  Yes, all of them because millionaires.  Isn't it something.  Lots of money yes,
but the main thing is not the money, it's this other thing.  What other thing?  We'll get into that on these pages ......
but in the backround from Melanie & Leah, is the new $ 25,200 auto the son Billy just gifted his Mom with.  She
just picked it up this week.  Thought we should have a picture of it on our pages.  Thanks Billy.
I am attempting to explalin to the two young ladies in the picture that I can help them become entrepreneur millionaires too.
But like I say, that isn't the main thing.     Sat. Feb. 28, 2004.


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