February 2011

Divine Desserts | Winter Guide | Students STRIVE

February can be a slog. The holidays are over. You've forgotten the taste of that first snowflake, Christmas is a distant memory, and the roadside slush is black as a bog. The season’s novelty has worn off.

 

Eduardo Ruiz graduated from high school last summer. What makes Ruiz different from most of his fellow students? He is the first person in his family to graduate from high school.

 

There’s nothing to cast a dark cloud over your dessert course like guilty chatter—the talk of diet sabotage or how one rarely orders dessert. This month, we say release your inhibitions, scrap your self-control, and throw proverbial caution to the wind.