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Meet professors Ulrike Malmendier and Toby Stuart, the next generation of big thinkers at the Haas School. The recipient of the American Finance Association's prestigious Fischer Black Prize last year, Malmendier is carving her own place in Berkeley's long history as a pioneer in the field of behavioral economics. Stuart, an expert in entrepreneurship, has built his career studying networks while bringing his own powerful connections to bear in his courses at Haas.
An expert in entrepreneurship, Toby Stuart has built his career studying networks while tapping his own impressive connections to create two blockbuster courses.By Ronna Kelly
Silicon Valley Immersion Week
Classes on entrepreneurship at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb. A venture capital panel on Sand Hill Road. Founders or C-level hosts at about 35 of the Bay Area's most interesting companies. That sums up the Silicon Valley Immersion week for the new Berkeley MBA for Executives Program, but it doesn't quite capture the months of work that Haas Professor Toby Stuart put into creating the impressive lineup of companies. Nor does it capture how transformational the week was for students. "I thought being an entrepreneur was for 22-year-old kids with nothing to lose. But what I found from going through this immersion week was there are approaches I can take to minimize my personal risk and still become an entrepreneur," says Neal Fornaciari, a student who works at Sandia National Laboratories. "It really helped me understand how the culture of Silicon Valley fosters and enables successful startups like nowhere else in the country."
"Does anyone take snake oil?"
Silence. Not one student in Haas Professor Toby Stuart's MBA Entrepreneurship class raises his or her hand. Stuart is leading a case discussion about a biotech company developing a drug to stop aging, and he's on a roll, posing all sorts of provocative questions as he bounds up and down the aisles like a talk-show host, a cup of Peet's coffee always in hand.
While the snake oil question draws blank stares, one thing is certain: Stuart is a wildly popular teacher who is always on the move. He has reshaped the school's full-time MBA Entrepreneurship course into what some students call their best class ever and created a star-studded, career-changing Silicon Valley Immersion Week for the new Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. When he's not teaching Berkeley MBA students, Stuart may be leading an executive education course at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, meeting with Silicon Valley venture capitalists and San Francisco entrepreneurs, advising PhD students, or working on one of his half-dozen research projects.
"Among my problems in life: I'm easily bored. I like to switch up what I do," Stuart admits. "I love my job because I do 20 different things in a typical day."
Within that juggling act, however, there's a theme that courses through most of his work: networks—a fortuitous focus given the emergence of social media. Stuart is best known for his research on how social networks contribute to the entrepreneurial process. But his wide-ranging interests also have led him in several other directions only loosely related to networks, including gender within organizations, communication silos, and most recently, which Chinese startups cook their financial statements.
One of the youngest professors to earn tenure at the University of Chicago, Stuart has won several awards, including the $50,000 Kauffman Foundation Prize for entrepreneurship research. Before coming to Haas in 2010, first as a visiting professor, he previously worked at both Harvard and Columbia business schools.
Ask Stuart where he's from and he'll answer, "That's a complicated question." After going to high school and skiing in Salt Lake City, he decided to study economics at Carleton College in Minnesota in part because it had the longest winter break among small liberal arts schools.
He was hardly destined to become a ski bum, however. His father was an academic and, like 70 percent of Carleton grads, Stuart planned to eventually get a PhD. His first taste of academia came when he landed a job at Harvard Business School, which hired recent grads from liberal arts colleges to write cases.
"That still may be the best job I ever had," Stuart says. "It paid as well as a consulting firm, but instead of making spreadsheets, I traveled around the country interviewing CEOs and writing strategy cases when I was 21."
After hearing Jim Baron, a Stanford professor at the time, present his work at Harvard, Stuart set his sights on heading west for his PhD. He had developed an interest in the evolution of technology as an undergrad, so Palo Alto was the right place to be—at exactly the right time.
"I came out to Stanford in 1991 and found myself in the heart of Silicon Valley with the chip industry in transformation," he says. "By the time I finished my PhD, Netscape had gone public, the Internet was taking off, and I found it all very interesting."
At Stanford Stuart connected with Joel Podolny, then a new assistant professor and social-networks researcher, who became Stuart's adviser and guided his early work on networks. Podolny later became dean of the Yale School of Management and in 2008 was hired by Steve Jobs to become dean of Apple University, where he still is today.
After collaborating with Podolny on research related to patents in the semiconductor industry, Stuart went on to investigate new venture creation in biotechnology, the venture capital syndicate network, and patenting and company creation among scientists.
"One of the most important things we can do for students is not just teach them specific knowledge and skills, but help them match their interests to their career path."
During his time in Chicago, a discussion on why the region doesn't have more biotech firms led Stuart to study clustering in the high-tech industry. Later, at Harvard, Stuart began a series of projects on email networks, organizational structure, and career advancement in large companies. After examining more than 100 million emails of 30,000 workers, Stuart and his doctoral students were surprised to find how infrequently workers communicated across silos, and that women are more likely to do so than men.
These days, Stuart is wrapping up studies on the effects of scientific prizes and starting a project analyzing matching on a dating website.
"At every moment, websites with a social component generate reams of data about how people choose to interact and who they choose to interact with," he says. "I'm now working on projects that are massive by the scale of my early work and weren't feasible then."
Stuart says he had no idea the Web would evolve this way when he began studying networks. "I was a little bit slow to become a believer in the social web. I'm still ambivalent," he admits, wondering about the value of a relationship on LinkedIn, for instance, when he hardly knows many of his connections.
Stuart may have a point, but the power of his network has become abundantly clear during his time at Haas.
His MBA Entrepreneurship course has featured an impressive list of speakers, including venture capitalists from Silicon Valley's top firms; startups such as CloudFlare, founded by Harvard MBA students, and TubeMogul, started by Berkeley MBA students; and even a billionaire investor who was promised anonymity.
But Stuart doesn't just hand over the podium to speakers: He brings even more depth to the knowledge guests share in class. After Andreeson Horowitz partner Margit Wennmachers urged female students to learn coding, Stuart contended that limited experience with coding doesn't fully explain why women are dramatically underrepresented in Silicon Valley and offered to hold a session outside of class to discuss gender and entrepreneurship further.
"He spent about two hours with us having a casual conversation," says Kristen Duffel, MBA 15, one of a half-dozen students Stuart met with in the Haas courtyard. "Little things like that just showed that students are at the forefront of his mind and he really wants us to do well and teach us all that he can."
Duffel, who is working on an early-stage startup, calls Stuart's Entrepreneurship course "far and away the best class I have ever taken."
"He's so energetic and engaging," she says. "You just walk out of the classroom every Tuesday thinking that it was the best three hours of the week. I loved it."
Students say Stuart has an unparalleled mastery of case method teaching, which he infuses with unexpected humor. In the case of the biotech company searching for an elixir to end aging, Stuart jokingly shows slides of the firm's "board of directors" before and after its Series A round of funding—and they go from senior citizens to small children.
He peppers students with questions about the firm's chances of success, poking fun at its tests on roundworms and asking whether it should pursue the nutriceuticals market. Along the way, he revises a hockey-stick shaped probability curve to visually illustrate the company's odds of meaningfully extending lifespan, which he estimates start well below a tenth of a percent.
But, Stuart asks, if the company succeeds at slowing down aging, how big is that? "Huge," one student answers.
"Toby really drove home to us the idea of the hockey-stick growth model in early-stage companies," says Bill Blaustein, MBA 15, who is opening the Brazilian market for Uber this summer but hopes to eventually start his own business. "He talked about a number of companies that get stuck in the dip of burning cash, and that what investors look for are companies that can prove they can get out of the dip, as demonstrated by numbers like customer lifetime value, customer acquisition costs, and other such metrics."
Stuart doesn't hesitate to put students on the spot, either. Take the class about a Zipcar case.
"Who likes Zipcar?" Stuart asked, and several students raised their hands, recalls Vivek Ahuja, MBA 15, a former Navy submarine officer. Then he asked, "Who really likes Zipcar?" and some students lowered their hands. Then Stuart asked, "'Who really, really likes Zipcar?"
"I still had my hand up," Ahuja recalls. "He said, 'All right, go to the front of the class and pitch everyone.'"
"I was nervous and my heart rate started to go up a little bit, but my next thought was, 'I'm just going to do it,'" Ahuja adds. "At the end everyone was applauding me."
And so Ahuja experienced pitching a business idea firsthand. Overall, students say Stuart's class gives them a much deeper understanding of the myriad challenges faced by entrepreneurs and the many forms entrepreneurship can take. "Entrepreneurship can come in a more corporate setting. It also can be your garage-based startup and anywhere in between," says Duffel. "It's not just what you read on TechCrunch."
Such takeaways are intentional. Before Stuart arrived at Haas, the Entrepreneurship course focused on helping students develop a business plan. Stuart disagreed with the notion that the course should be geared to students who already have a startup idea and removed the business plan requirement. He restructured the course to serve not only future entrepreneurs but also students less certain about their career paths, bringing in guest speakers and discussing cases on everything from how to divide founders' stock, to what's in a term sheet, to how to exit a company.
"One of the most important things we can do for students is not just teach them specific knowledge and skills, but help them match their interests to their career path," explains Stuart. "Entrepreneurship is not part of the required curriculum, but I hope most students want to take the course."
The course is now consistently over-subscribed, and Stuart and co-instructor Rob Chandra, a Cal alumnus and member of Forbes' Midas list of top tech investors, received the Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence for the Full-time Berkeley MBA Program in May.
Bringing in outstanding, highly accomplished instructors like Chandra is also strategic, Stuart notes.
"I've been spending a lot of time trying to bring on board very successful, well-connected adjunct faculty who are not only superb teachers but can also help place students into the most exciting companies, introduce them to investors, and help them hone their pitches," he says.
Stuart also tapped his network to develop the first Silicon Valley Immersion Week last fall for the new Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. In addition to teaching students in classrooms at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, Stuart helped arrange small group visits with about 35 startups in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
"I spent a lot of time calling friends and Haas graduates, persuading founders and CEOs of some of the region's most interesting companies to host a group of students," Stuart says.
The effort paid off: Students were blown away by the experience.
Joe Inkenbrandt, an engineer in the program, said visiting so many diverse entrepreneurial environments and hearing the passion of so many founders was "eye-opening" and "inspiring"—so much so that two months later he quit his job to work full time with a friend on a 3D-printing security startup.
"Going into the week, I was a little skeptical about what I would learn. Man, was I wrong," says Inkenbrandt. "That week changed my mind: I went from 'I can maybe help someone' to 'I can do this,' and I literally turned around and did."
Inkenbrandt was just one of at least a dozen students who said the week inspired them to consider an entrepreneurial path that they never before thought was possible.
"That's what we mean by a transformational experience," says Stuart. "If I can facilitate this process, there is no more fulfilling teaching experience than that."
Winner of the prestigious Fischer Black Prize for the Top Finance Scholar under 40, Ulrike Malmendier is carving out her own place in Berkeley's rich history as a pioneer in behavioral economics.By Ed Andrews
Prize-Winning Research
One major testament to the intellectual vigor, creativity, and originality of Prof. Ulrike Malmendier's research is the Fischer Black Prize that she was awarded last year by the American Finance Association. The biennial award honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40 years old and is modeled after the Fields Medal in mathematics and the Clark Medal in economics.
Ulrike Malmendier is a scholar on the economics of arrogance, among her many other accomplishments.
She doesn't put it that harshly, and she doesn't gloat in her findings. But over the past decade, she has produced a sweeping body of research on how over-confidence and other deeply rooted character traits underpin and often undermine "rational" business decisions.
In a series of path-breaking papers, Malmendier and her colleagues have mapped the characteristics and pitfalls of hubris at all levels: the remarkably subpar results of "superstar" CEOs; the overzealous bidders on e-Bay who pay more at auctions than they would in stores; and even the overly ambitious exercise enthusiasts whose optimism is exploited by fitness centers.
This is all part of behavioral economics, the study of how emotional biases and character traits affect economic decision-making. It's a field in which Berkeley scholars have long been pioneers, starting with Nobel laureates George Akerlof and Daniel Kahneman and carrying on with Haas Professor Terry Odean.
"This is the birthplace of behavioral finance; Berkeley invented it," says Malmendier, who is hoping to start fundraising soon for a proposed behavioral science research center that would build on that rich history.
Malmendier is at the vanguard of a new generation of researchers. Where previous generations often focused on the biases of individual investors and consumers in and of themselves, Malmendier looks at how those biases affect corporate decisions, stock prices, and markets in general.
"Biases don't only affect decision-making by small investors and consumers; they also affect top business leaders," Malmendier says. "Biases also are embedded in markets and consequently are relevant in explaining corporate outcomes.
Until recently, behavioral economics didn't get much respect, because classical economic and financial models essentially assume that people pursue their rational self-interest. The Great Financial Crisis, which revealed rampant self-destruction at every level of the financial system, jolted that complacency.
Malmendier likes to quote Warren Buffett, who once remarked, "I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were efficient."
Overconfident chief executives aren't necessarily braggarts or crooks. Malmendier studied business leaders who sincerely believed in their outsized abilities. These were the bold thinkers, the risk-takers, and the charismatic leaders.
"We need to dispel the notion that we were all born as Homo economicus. Past experience makes us into different people."
One of Malmendier's big contributions to the field was to identify reliable indicators of hubris. One tell-tale sign, she discovered, was an executive's insistence on putting their own personal wealth on the line. Over-confident executives are reluctant to cash out stock options in the companies they run. They also tend to believe that the market is undervaluing their companies, so they don't like to issue new shares.
That may sound like a reassuring sign of the CEOs' commitment—and it is in the sense that these CEOs are putting their money where their mouth is and truly believe in their companies. But CEOs who overinvest in their own companies are also more likely to plunge into ill-starred mergers and overestimate the returns on their investment projects. Their companies are more likely to lag behind the competition, especially if the CEO has become a media celebrity.
Surprisingly, investors seem to understand this on an intuitive level. Malmendier and her longtime collaborator, Geoffrey Tate at the University of North Carolina, found that investors reacted significantly more negatively to merger announcements from companies with overconfident executives than to deals announced by more subdued leaders.
In another eye-popping study, Malmendier and Tate documented the special pitfalls of "superstar" CEOs who become celebrities. These are the executives who get lionized on the covers of glossy magazines and who win accolades such as "CEO of the Year" or "Innovator of the Year." Among that study's findings:
Malmendier's work has attracted widespread attention. In 2013, she received the American Finance Association's prestigious Fischer Black Award, which honors the top finance scholar under the age of 40. Her research has been cited in more than 6,000 other papers since 2009, according to Google Scholar. Her original paper on overconfident CEOs has been cited more than 1,300 times alone.
But the overconfidence of CEOs is a small part of Malmendier's prolific research. She has closely analyzed the long-term impact on behavior of growing up during the Great Depression. She has found that people with military combat experience are much more willing to take risks.
In a study on the sources of entrepreneurial motivation, she and Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School made the startling discovery that close acquaintance with entrepreneurs does not motivate people to become entrepreneurs themselves.
In that study, the researchers studied the records of nearly 6,000 students at Harvard Business School. It turned out that students who had a high proportion of current or former entrepreneurs as section-mates were actually less likely to launch startups themselves. The reason? Most startup companies don't succeed, which meant that most of the classmates with entrepreneurial backgrounds had discouraging experiences. Instead of inspiring false confidence, many of those classmates were better positioned to see the flaws in new business ideas and help prevent ill-fated start-ups, while encouraging the most promising ideas.
Malmendier has also collaborated frequently with her husband, Stefano DellaVigna, a professor in Berkeley's Department of Economics. The two met while working on their doctorates at Harvard. DellaVigna is also a specialist in behavioral economics, but his focus is more on the role of the media and political economy rather than on corporate decision-making.
One of their collaborations was on the study of fitness centers, which found that gyms induce people to overpay for monthly memberships that they often use very little.
In another collaboration, the husband-wife team analyzed the motivations of generosity. Based on field experiments using door-to-door solicitations by charitable groups, the researchers found that social pressure is often more important than the pleasures of altruism. People who were told in advance that a fund- raiser would be coming at a particular time were less likely to be home or to open the door. The team also found differences between men and women. Women became less generous if they had a chance to avoid meeting a fundraiser in person, suggesting that they might feel social pressure more strongly than men.
"Ulrike is great to work with,'' DellaVigna says. "She really enjoys what she's doing, and she's a very creative researcher. She's a very interactive person, and likes to engage with people about ideas. She's a really good at listening to other people's ideas and coming up with her own insights."
Malmendier's prolific academic effort goes back a long way. Born and raised in Germany, she earned a PhD in law at the University of Bonn in 2000 and is an expert on ancient Roman law. To this day, in fact, she writes academic articles on Roman law.
But by the time she earned her doctorate in law, she had also earned a master's degree in economics. Forced to choose between two very different disciplines, she chose economics and earned a PhD from Harvard in 2002.
"In economics, part of the job is to think about designing better institutions, contracts, and other determinants of human behavior, while in law the main job is to take the given set of legal rules and case decisions and work a case through them such that we get to the right answer. Thinking about 'what would be a better system' is not part of the job—at least in the civil law system," Malmendier says, explaining why she ultimately chose economics.
"I also like the international aspect of economics; with law you are pretty home-bound," she adds. "And I have an affinity for mathematics, which was much better served in economics."
After a teaching stint at Stanford and visiting positions at Princeton and the University of Chicago, she arrived at Berkeley in 2006 with an appointment in the Department of Economics, which was expanded into a joint appointment with Haas in 2010.
Her pace shows no signs of slowing down. The intricacies of economics in the messy real world, where economic decisions are influenced by childhood experiences, emotional impulses, and obscure longings, continue to fascinate her.
"We need to dispel the notion that we were all born as Homo economicus," she says. "If you were born during the Depression, you are going to want to avoid the ups and downs of the stock market. If you grew up with inflation, you tend to over-expect future inflation and have higher debt levels. Past experience makes us into different people."
Behavior and Biases
Here's a quick look at the wide-ranging research and findings of behavioral economist Ulrike Malmendier.
CEOs who are featured on glossy magazine covers and win accolades such as "CEO of the year" tend to underperform noncelebrity peers at least in the three years after the award is bestowed, but they receive outsized compensation increases during that same period. Superstar executives are also more likely to engage in accounting maneuvers aimed at smoothing out reported earnings.
When facing door-to-door solicitors, women and men were about equally generous—but women became less generous if they had a chance to avoid meeting a solicitor directly. People who were told in advance that a fundraiser would be coming at a particular time were less likely to be home or to open the door.
Close acquaintance with entrepreneurs does not motivate people to become entrepreneurs themselves, based on analysis of nearly 6,000 business school student records. Students with a high proportion of current or former entrepreneurs as section-mates were less likely to launch startups themselves because those classmates helped weed out bad ideas and encouraged only the most promising ones.
Gyms induce people to overpay for monthly memberships that they often use very little, based on a study of almost 8,000 health club members over three years. Members who choose a contract with a flat monthly fee of more than $70 average 4.3 visits per month, paying more than $17 per visit when they could pay $10 using a 10-visit pass.


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As soon as I saw the post for these scones on Smitten Kitchen, I knew I had to make a batch myself. They do not disappoint at all -- how could you go wrong with the combination of roasted pear and semi-sweet chocolate? I've been enjoying them all week long during my mid-morning tea break. (Well, if the five minutes it takes to make the tea qualifies as a "break," anyway.)
Roasted Pear and Chocolate Chip Scones (adapted from this Smitten Kitchen recipe)
makes six scones
For the dough:
3-4 firmish pears (about 1 pound)
1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 cup raw granulated sugar (plus additional raw or turbinado sugar for sprinkling)
1 1/2 teaspoons aluminum-free baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold and cut into small cubes
1/4 cup organic half-and-half (or heavy) cream
1 egg
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
For the egg wash/glaze:
1 egg
1 teaspoon filtered water
pinch of salt
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat. Place the chopped pear in a single layer onto the prepped baking sheet. Roast the pears for 30-45 minutes, or until the pears are lightly browned on the bottom and are dry to the touch.
3. Remove the pears from the oven and place them (still on the parchment paper) on a wire rack to cool.
4. Line the baking sheet with another silpat or piece of parchment paper. Set aside.
5. In an electric mixer bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
6. Add the cold butter cubes, cream, and egg. Use the paddle attachment to mix the dough together at low speed until it just begins to come together.
7. Add in the chocolate chips and mix for a few seconds more.
8. Turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface. Pat the dough into a 6" round. Cut the dough into six wedges. Place the wedges about two inches apart from one another (still in the circular shape) on the prepped baking sheet.
9. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, filtered water, and pinch of salt. Brush the egg wash over the top of each scone wedge. Sprinkle raw or turbinado sugar over top scone.
10. Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and firm to the touch.
11. Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

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Merlot has long been a grape associated with excellent quality of character and flavor, and has spread around the globe as a result of its relative hardiness and reliability. From Chile to Bordeaux, Merlot vines grow to ripeness, and end up producing a remarkably wide variety of wines. Single variety wines made from Merlot grapes tend to be beautifully rich in color, and packed full of jammy, hedgerow flavors and notes of plum and currant, and ideal for newcomers to red wines as a result of their medium body. This medium body comes about due to the fact that the skin of Merlot grapes tends to be quite thin, meaning that the tannin content of Merlot wines is lower than those made from other blue-black grapes. The mellowness and roundedness which results is ideal for blending, also, and Merlot is used as a blending grape in some of the world's finest wineries, to produce aged wines of exceptional character.
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Girl Scout cookies are delicious, no doubt. But there's more to the annual cookie sale drive than what's in the box, according to Jessa Rank, service unit director for Sonoma Valley. "When a girl sells cookies, she's creating a plan, interacting with customers, and working as part of a team. She's building a lifetime of skills and confidence."
In addition to the traditional door-to-door sales, the scouts will offer drive-thru booths for cookie sales at Lucky, Safeway, Sonoma Market, Glen Ellen Village Market, Wells Fargo Bank, Westamerica Bank, Chase Bank, Staples, Friedman's and more. On Saturdays and Sundays, there will be a booth at the Sonoma Auto Center lot at Broadway and MacArthur. Cookies are $4 box, and have no trans fat or high fructose corn syrup. "It's really win-win for our customers," Rank said. "They get delicious cookies and girls gain skills that will help them into their adult lives. We are also so proud that the girls use quite a bit of their profits to fund projects for the community."
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It's cold outside. A whopping 28 degrees last time I checked. This time of year, I relish in serving all different kinds of soups for dinner. I got a head of cauliflower from the co-op this last week and decided a good use of it would be Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup. Have you tried it? It's served at Cafe Zupas, a favorite restaurant of mine and yum- you'll love it!
I used the recipe found on The Coterie Blog. Thanks Heather!
Don't be afraid that it's made primarily from milk, water and cauliflower. I served it to my family without telling them what was in it. You know what? Even my husband had no idea! I told him it was cauliflower soup and he said he never would have guessed! It's rich and creamy and just tastes like a wonderful chowder.
I substituted Colby-Jack cheese for the Pepper Jack, being as that's what I had on hand. I think it would be fantastic with diced ham and maybe even some fresh tomato as a topping.
Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup
2 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 medium onion, chopped
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk**
1 1/2 cups water**
1 can (13 3/4 to 14 1/2 ounces) chicken broth
1 head (2 1/2 pounds) cauliflower, cut into 1-inch chunks
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 cup Pepper Jack cheese, shredded
**Can substitute 1 can {12 oz} evaporated milk and 2 cups water for the 2 cups milk and 1 1/2 cups water.
In a large saucepan, melt margarine or butter over medium heat. Add onion and cook until golden, about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Whisk in flour and salt. Gradually stir in milk, chicken broth, and water.
Return cauliflower mixture to saucepan; heat over medium heat until hot, stirring occasionally. Remove saucepan from heat; stir in mustard and 1 1/2 cups cheese until melted and smooth. Serve soup with remaining cheese as a garnish.
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Mmm...I can't wait to try this one, once the weather here cools down! I love your step by step directions with all of the pictures...looks great!ReplyDelete
It's cold outside? Where do you live??ReplyDelete
Looks good - going to share this with my parents, who eat a lot of broccoli soup.
This looks so yummy. Cant wait to try it. I just found your blog its so fun. Come and check out mine if you get a min.ReplyDelete
Love Zupa's and love cauliflower! Thanks for the recipe. BTW, an immersion blender can make your life a whole lot easier when making soups like this. I don't use mine often, but I'm glad to have it when I need it.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe! I love this soup at Zupa's! BTW, an immersion blender can really make your life easier when making soups, salsas, etc. I don't use mine often, but I'm glad to have it when I do.ReplyDelete
With the weather tuning cold i am excited to give this a try. How much soup does it make?ReplyDelete
I tried this and was not a fan. No one in my family cared for it either. I have since tried zupas and really liked it but this isn't the same....ReplyDeleteReplies
I agree! I just made this and I don't feel like it has much flavor. Any tips to make it more flavorful? I, too, love zupas.Delete
What kind of cheese did you use? If you used Pepper Jack, chances are it'd be plenty flavorful. I showed I used Colby Jack in my pictures- I have kids who aren't fans of anything with too much flavor. ;)Delete
You really can do a lot with this soup if you want it more flavorful- add in a little hot sauce if that's your thing. I think it'd be great with a little Smoky Paprika. :)
I tried this soup and I thought it was fantastic. I haven't tried Zupa's so I can't compare it. I used the pepper jack and I don't think I would like it as much without that extra kick- unless it had ham or veggies mixed in (or both). Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
This was really good! It was close to Zupas but much more spicy. Next time i'll use colby jack or more cheddar and less pepper jack!ReplyDelete
Pinning! This looks so good! Cauliflower is one veggie I can tolerate ;)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for the awesome recipe! Hope it works out well!ReplyDelete
I think there is a typo your recipe - it calls for 1 cup of Pepper Jack - though I think based on your picture and the way the soup is supposed to taste - that you meant Colby Jack. Super yummy that way!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Lauri- I stated at the top that I substituted Colby Jack for the Pepper Jack. My kids don't like Pepper Jack so I never have it on hand. I think it'd be fabulous in it though. Or maybe half and half... ;)Delete
Made this tonight and it tastes JUST LIKE ZUPAS!!! Thank you!ReplyDelete
Made tonight and my Wisconsinite fiancé approved!! It was very delicious. We both like heat and flavor so I used habanero pepper jack from WI and added just a little extra of both cheeses to help thicken the soup and flavor a little. I think the flavor would probably be a little bland without the pepper jack. I WILL be making this again. Couldn't detect the cauliflower at all!ReplyDelete
This soup is so yummy! I made this tonight for the second time. Thanks for the recipe!ReplyDelete
This is a perfect knock-off, it was just like Zupa's! My immersion blender made it super easy. I will make this again and again, and I've already recommended it to many. Thanks for the shareReplyDelete
I use chicken stock instead of water. It makes it much more flavorful.ReplyDelete
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Sony Announcing 2 New Titles at Gamescom
Sony has been at fever pitch when it comes to announcing new IP's and new first party exclusive titles this year, from PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Beyond: Two Souls, God of War: Ascension and The Unfinished Swan. But apparently the wave of titles will not stop there, reported by PlayStation Universe two more new titles will be announced at this years Gamescom event in Cologne, Germany.
The report on PSU states that it, "has received details on Sony's line-up for Gamescom," and that they, "will indeed showcase two previously unannounced games" during their Gamescom showing. On the information they have received one of these titles will apparently be from a studio within Japen and the other will be a new PlayStation Move IP. This is quite odd, since many believed the PlayStation Vita would be at the forefront of Sony's agenda after the poor showing at E3 earlier this year.
Weird enough is the statement regarding a Japan Studio, which could mean Studio Japan who are currently busy trying to save The Last Guardian, which is still in development. The other confusing issue comes out of the Move IP, the Move has been losing traction ever since release and even though it has received decent sales it has been forgotten by many. So far Move has been given exclusive titles, for them to produce average sales and average review scores (Sorcery the latest culprit), so this new focus on Move seems odd when the Vita is struggling from lack of games as we crawl towards the holiday season.
Of course the Japan studio title could either be for PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita, maybe even both? But the Move title will 100% be on the PlayStation 3, which seems like a missed opportunity to gain some momentum for the Vita going into the busy gaming release months ahead. Either way it seems Sony will have a big presence at this years Gamescom, also rumoured is the existence of a Super-Slim PlayStation 3 model unveiling.
Gamescom takes place August 15th through till August 19th next month, stay tuned for all the announcements as they come.
What titles could be announced? Could Move be given an exciting new title? Let me know in the comments below.
Source: IGN, PlayStation Universe, Wikipedia
Jamie Briggs looks after Analog Addiction where you can find all his latest reviews, interviews and features. Also follow his daily life on Twitter @Jamierock50 and his videos on YouTube.
6 thoughts on "Sony Announcing 2 New Titles at Gamescom"
I've kinda lost faith in Sony, I am a game tester for them and as far as I can see the future looks bleak, especially in the IP department.
God of war and the Smash bros knock off are pretty much all the fuel Sony is coasting on right now. They're also releasing a new version of their already 6 year old console and a portable console which is failing because of lack of software support?? I'm not on board.
Unless Sony finds away to reconnect with its audience, I fear for the continued gaming stance and dominance that Sony has held in the past.


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Book a table at Bill Kim's newest restaurant, BellyQ. The set lunch menu ($22) includesdishes like lemongrass salmon with red quinoa and Vietnamess cinnamon donuts.| Richard A. Chapman~Sun-Times
Restaurant Week 2013
The annual foodie fest runs from Feb. 1-10 with set menus priced at $22 for lunch and either $33 or $44 for dinner. Reservations are filling up at popular restaurants, so it's best to act quickly. To see all the participating restaurants head to http://suntm.es/V8hElZ or www.opentable.com. Here are but a few with availability:
Naha, 500 N. Clark, (312) 321-6242 , naha-chicago.com
Mexique, 1529 W. Chicago, (312) 850-0288, mexiquechicago.com
BellyQ, 1400 W. Randolph, (312) 563-1010, bellyqchicago.com
Trencherman, 2039 W. North, (773) 661-1540, trenchermen.com
Sepia, 123 N. Jefferson; (312) 441-1920 sepiachicago.com
Perennial Virant, 1800 N. Lincoln, (312) 981-7070, perennialchicago.com
Lowry's, 100 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL (312) 787-5000 · lawrysonline.com
Geja's Cafe
Updated: January 17, 2013 3:30PM
It's that time of year again. Chicago Restaurant Week, otherwise known as Christmas for foodies, begins Feb. 1 and runs for ten days. More than 250 restaurants are participating in this year'sbacchanal, so there's no shame in not knowing quite where to start.
Some hardcore foodies keep spreadsheets to maximize their eating and make all their reservations weeks in advance. For the more casual diner (who still wants a great bargain) here are some recommendations for Restaurant Week 2013. All still had availability at the time this went to press.
A day of Michelin-starred discounts
The Michelin Guide has come to Chicago in a big way, and while some people scoff at their outsider status, others worship this little red book as much as Mao's followers worshiped theirs. For a great day of Michelin-approved dining, start with lunch at Naha. Chef Carrie Nahabedian's restaurant week menu hasn't been released yet, but that just means diners haven't started swarming. We promise, at just $22 for lunch, you will have a memorable meal. Move onto dinner at Mexique, one of the latest additions to the guide. For $44, Chef Carlos Gaytan is serving a four-course meal of favorites from his Mexican/French hybrid menu. Start with Ahi tuna ceviche, move onto pork belly with squash mole and finish with a chocolate tamal.
Try the best of 2012 for less
Who can keep up with all the restaurant comings and going in a city this big? If you aren't the first person to make reservations six months out, you may have missed some wonderful new 2012 openings. Have lunch at BellyQ, Chef Bill Kim's new Korean Barbeque joint in the former One SixtyBlue location. The lunch menu includes dishes like lemongrass salmon with red quinoa and Vietnamese cinnamon donuts with caramel sauce. Make reservations for dinner at Trenchermen, the latest addition to the fine dining scene in Wicker Park. They have one of the most comprehensive restaurant week menus, including favorites like pickle tots, milk-braised pork shoulder and heirloom sweet potatoes with miso cream.
Normally, you couldn't afford this
Let's face it: dining out can get very, very expensive. For restaurant week, try out a couple of restaurants that normally would scare you away with a higher price tag. Lunch at Sepia is a wonderful bargain, with three courses of Chef Andrew Zimmerman's normally somewhat-pricey food for just $22. Start with veal agnolotti, munch on a grilled pork belly pastrami sandwich and finish with a decadent chocolate pecan cake. Head to Lincoln Park for dinner at Perennial Virant, which has opted for the less expensive $33 dinner menu — quite a bargain for Chef Paul Virant's local, sustainable cuisine. A salad of local lettuces with pickled tomato vinaigrette starts the evening, followed by grilled Rushing Waters rainbow trout.
Don't forget the classics
Just because a restaurant has been around a long time doesn't mean it's not worth visiting. Have you walked past Lowry's a hundred times, wondering what kind of people dine inside its windowless chambers? Now's your chance — try a 3-course lunch at the classic steakhouse for only $22. Slow-cooked onion soup, moules frites, brie tart and crème brulee; the menu is a bit old-fashioned, but it's still delicious. Looking for a romantic date night? Head to Geja's Café, often rated Chicago's most romantic restaurant. The fondue-based menu is exactly the same as always, but during restaurant week it only costs $33 a person, a substantial discount.
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Former NYS Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is a long time liberal who now works as a senior fellow at Demos, a think tank focused on the economy and the middle class.
As heard on Sunday's Hardline program, (Click here to listen) he writes that the left and the right have uniited at least in one case, and possibly more often in the future, over opposition to public subsidy of sports:
The Tea Party Gets It Right (Part 2): New York's Yankee-Soccer Boondoggle vs. de Blasio
It never seems to stop. Impoverished American cities can't find money for schools or transit but pump hundreds of millions into sports facilities owned by billionaires.
Last week it was Atlanta's suburban communities subsidizing moving the Braves out of downtown. This week it's an audacious move by departing Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the New York Yankees for a few hundred million dollars in subsidies for a new soccer stadium next to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.
The Yankees have an unmatched record in filching taxpayer dollars to enrich their bottom line. The new Yankee Stadium was a $4-billion boondoggle with tax gimmicks, fake property assessments, and direct cash subsidies. We now have an edifice that rivals the Roman Colosseum in grandeur, and a Yankee franchise that has zoomed in value as a result. But there's no money for rebuilding the transit system or schools or parks.
The latest is a deal that Bloomberg and the Yankees are trying to put together before Bloomberg is replaced by Bill de Blasio on January 1. It's for a new soccer stadium for a team co-owned by the Yankees and Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi, and the owner of England's prestigious Manchester City soccer franchise. His personal wealth is estimated at around $25 billion. His family worth is around $1 trillion. The subsidies he's seeking are around $300 million.
It's a complicated deal with street closures and buyouts of local businesses being negotiated by Yankee President Randy Levine. But at its heart is a combination of greed and a sense of entitlement of magnificent proportion.
To some extent words fail me. By what measure should taxpayers be asked to pony up to benefit two of the richest persons in the world? What are the best priorities for use of public money in a city whose schools and mass transit systems cry out for repair and investment? Who the hell is in charge of this kind of stuff?
In Atlanta, much to its credit, the tea party is leading the opposition. In New York, there really isn't a functioning tea party presence. So this is going to land in the lap of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio. Bloomberg is apparently being cute about it and wants to sign a deal and give de Blasio thirty days to ratify or reject it.
De Blasio brings impeccable progressive credentials to this battle. His key initiative in the mayoral campaign was a proposal to increase the millionaire's tax and use the money for universal pre-K. He's been heralded as the avatar of a progressive resurgence in politics and government. Bloomberg's gift to him is to make his first high-profile decision a choice between more big subsidies to wealthy business interests or criticism for killing a big sports deal. Thanks, Mike.
De Blasio has little real choice. On the merits and on the politics, he's got to show up on the side of rational economic policy, where any public investment must show a clear public benefit. Sports subsidies never do. And he needs to be seen as making a clear break with the failed subsides of the past, with a focus on the needs of middle-class, working families and the poor. In fact, he ought to embrace the opportunity to say "no" to greed and waste.
So our two champions for rationale economic policies are the tea party and America's most progressive mayor. This could be the start of something big.
The Tea Party Gets It Right: Atlanta's Baseball BoondoggleOne of the more intriguing "what-if"'s of American politics is to wonder what the Tea Party would have looked like if it hadn't been bought and paid for by Dick Armey and the Koch brothers. Whatever credibility the movement could have earned vanished when it took that money and became an arm of the Republican/corporate/austerity movement. At the beginning, there were elements of the Tea Party that viewed corporate dominance as a threat to liberty and democracy equal to the threat of big government. Tea Party populism could have been balanced and non-partisan. Imagine that.
Rumblings from that genuine populist element of the Tea Party just resurfaced in Atlanta. The local suburban Republicans came up with around $600 million in taxpayer money to move the Atlanta Braves from downtown to the suburbs. "Economic development" trumpet Cobb County Republicans.
"Nonsense," says Atlanta Tea Party leader Debbie Dooley.
"It's all 'appalling hypocrisy' and 'arrogance,' particularly from the four Republican commissioners who pitch their conservative credentials and champion the idea of a free market. Dooley and other tea partiers typically associate active, expensive government with Democrats, but it was the commission's lone Democrat who cast the only dissenting vote," according to an AP story.
Well, well. These kind of deals for wealthy sports team owners remain simply awful wastes of public money. The teams do not need the subsidies, there is almost no economic benefit to taxpayers, and the use of tax exempt bonds is probably illegal. The mother of all such boondoggles was New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's $3 billion giveaway to the New York Yankees, a deal which incentivized the demolition of the venerable old Yankee Stadium and built a marble and granite edifice enshrining waste and greed. And just when the economy bottomed out. So now the Yankees charge thousands of dollars for a seat for a single game, most middle-class New Yorkers can't afford to go to games, the value of the Yankee franchise has skyrocketed, and New York's City's schools, subways, parks and roads are all facing austerity cuts because we have no money. I'll leave the A-Rod and Cano contracts for some other time. If you want to read about that deal in detail, click here.
It's not just the waste that's appalling, it's the way in which the political establishments of cities all over America become the lackeys of sports magnates. Grown-ups turn into adolescents when professional sports comes a-calling "Many Cobb business leaders back the plan, and they were vocal at the series of hastily arranged town hall meetings ... Supporters wore T-shirts paid for by Cobb business owners. They read: 'Come to Cobb: Home of the Braves.'The spirited residents waved foam tomahawks..." Try those kind of tactics when you're lobbying for building new schools and see where it gets you.
The Tea Partyers aren't backing down. "They're exploring a range of legal options, from lawsuits to petitions to oust the commission. Whether it's Republicans, Democrats, whatever, what's going on here is that the chamber of commerce types run the county, and the politicians are doing their bidding."
It's worth pausing and imagining a national Tea Party movement that was as tough on banks, and corporate excess as it is on food stamps. Our liberty and prosperity are as much affected by the power of large corporations as they are by large governments. Coalitions are built on that kind of thinking.
It's also worth asking the budget conferees trying to jumpstart a budget deal in Washington to end federal interest subsidies for these kind of deals. There is absolutely no national economic interest in subsidizing the move of the Atlanta Braves from downtown to Cobb County, and we could save hundreds of billions in wasteful tax expenditures if we stopped these kind of deals.
Two interesting and important "what-ifs." Let's see what comes of it.


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