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IOL News
27-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- IOL News
Join Bettina Campolucci Bordi at The Good Life Show for a plant-based culinary experience
Join celebrated chef Bettina Campolucci Bordi at The Good Life Show in Cape Town. Image: Supplied The Good Life Show, now in its fifth year, is bringing together the best of food and beverage, wellness, and conscious living. Taking place from May 30 to June 1, 2025, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), one of the key highlights of this year's event will be the dynamic UK based Chef Bettina Campolucci Bordi. A celebrated plant-based chef and wellness advocate, Bettina will showcase her innovative, zero-waste, and sustainable approach to cooking. With roots in Denmark, Tanzania, and Sweden, Bettina brings a global flair to her plant-based dishes, blending bold spices from Africa, the simplicity of Scandinavian cuisine, and hearty Danish home-cooked meals. Her journey into plant-based cooking began as a personal health choice, and this then developed into a genuine passion for sustainability and reducing food waste. She has a massive international following, and at the Good Life Show in Cape Town, she will be sharing her passion for inspiring people to experiment with unique and diverse ingredients to create delicious dishes. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Audience members will also get to taste and test her dishes after all her demos. Bettina says: 'I cannot wait to connect with like-minded individuals and share in the joy of plant-based cooking. I believe food should nourish both people and the planet - it is not about being perfect, but about making small, impactful choices. ' I look forward to challenging people to think differently about ingredients and discover new ways to make food both healthy and exciting. I am very happy to be part of the Good Life Show for 2025, because this is where I can inspire others to bring more plants into their kitchens and embrace a more sustainable, plant-powered lifestyle.' When asked some rapid-fire cookery questions, Bettina shared these gems: Are there any ingredients that you believe are stand-out flavours? Miso for umami, citrus for brightness, and fermented foods for that extra depth of flavour. These ingredients can completely transform a dish. Are there any hero foods that you couldn't live without? Lemons! They add freshness, balance flavours, and elevate almost any dish. Also, nuts and seeds for texture and richness. What's your favourite type of seasoning? A good-quality flaky sea salt enhances everything. I also love smoked paprika for warmth and depth. Bettina's involvement does not only take place in the kitchen. As a passionate advocate for the Chefs' Manifesto, a global initiative promoting sustainability and ethical food practices, Bettina will be highlighting the importance of conscious eating, reducing food waste, and supporting all natural food systems. She will demonstrate how small changes in our kitchens can lead to a big impact on our health and the planet. The Good Life Show is the perfect event for anyone interested in food, health, wellness, and conscious-living. Whether you are a food lover, or trade professional, this year's event will offer a unique opportunity to connect with industry leaders, discover innovative products, and engage in thought-provoking conversations around sustainable and conscious living. Take a look at some of the fantastic products featured at The Good Life Show: Be sure not to miss out! Remember to mark your calendars for the event happening this May in Cape Town! SHOW DATES 2025 Cape Town: May 30 to June 1 - Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) Johannesburg: August 1-3 - Kyalami International Convention Centre This highly anticipated event will once again celebrate the evolving plant-based, natural, and organic industries. With the wellness sector experiencing consistent global growth, the Good Life Show continues to support small businesses in these rapidly expanding markets. Notably, the plant-based market is expected to grow by an impressive $13 billion by 2026. TICKETS If you are involved in the Plant-based, Natural and Organic, Free-from, Health, Wellness, or Sustainable Living sectors, we invite you to join us at The Good Life Show or purchase tickets to attend through Quicket. See links below. 🔗 Apply now to exhibit: 🔗 Book Tickets | Cape Town: TheGoodLifeShow-CapeTown 🔗 Book Tickets | Joburg: TheGoodLifeShow-Joburg Partnered Content
Eater
22-05-2025
- Business
- Eater
One of Santa Barbara's Most Popular Restaurants Opens in a Cozy Corner of Carpinteria
On Thursday, May 22, 2025, Montecito, California's popular Italian restaurant, Bettina, opens nine miles south in Carpinteria. Tina's Pizza owners Rachel Greenspan and Brendan Smith took more than two years of plotting and planning their second restaurant inside Linden Square, a new retail restaurant hall adjacent to Little Dom's Seafood and less than three blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Greenspan and Smith shortened the name to Tina's Pizza, which will operate with a slightly pared-down menu. 'No pastas or our intricate, seasonal plated dishes like we have at Bettina,' says Greenspan. 'We're going for more of a chill New York pizza shop vibe, where you can still get our same [Neapolitan] pizzas, but with a little more fun.' The kitchen will sling a margherita, pepperoni, mushroom, or sausage pie with caramelized fennel, shaved garlic, mozzarella, and provolone in an electric oven. Gluten-free crusts are available. Try one of the three salads (Caesar, baby gem with house ranch dressing, and a chopped vegan), meatballs in vodka sauce, garlic knots, or olive oil cupcakes topped with orange buttercream. Instead of arancini, Tina's Pizza developed a twist on the Roman street food croquette, suppli al telefono, with a beef ragu and tomato dipping sauce. Later in the year, they'll introduce square pies served by the slice. Tina's Pizza has a 300-square-foot provisions space, including a wall with 32 wines, sardines, pastas, canned tomatoes, coffee, tea, and their site-made salad ranch or Caesar dressing. They're hoping to service the nearby Carpinteria State Beach campground with grab-and-go items like bowls and quinoa salads. The 1,500-square-foot space is in the mixed-use development and has all the characteristics of a food hall. Tina's Pizza has 15 bar stools and communal indoor and outdoor seating for all Linden Square businesses, which includes several other Santa Barbara imports like Dart Coffee Co., Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant Corazon Cocina, and Third Window Brewing. Tina's Pizza is open daily from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 700 Linden Avenue, Carpinteria, CA, 93013. Sign up for our newsletter.
Daily Mail
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Bizarre way Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend Bettina Anderson is trying to earn her own money
Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend Bettina Anderson has come up with a savvy way to make money online as her relationship with the First Son continues to dominate headlines. The 38-year-old model and philanthropist is monetizing her content by adding product links from affiliate programs and sharing them with her Instagram followers via the platform ShopMy. ShopMy is a digital shop that allows a user's audience to shop their product recommendations while 'building meaningful partnerships with world-class brands.' The platform integrates directly with retailer and brand affiliate programs, and users can convert any product URL into a monetizable URL. According to its website, commissions typically range from 10 to 30 percent depending on the brand or retailer. 'All commissions and collaborations are tracked on the platform, and you receive payment every Friday via PayPal or Stripe,' it reads. Palm Beach socialite Bettina invites her followers to shop her 'obsessions' and has a range of catalogues listing her favorite items from skin care to bags and hair accessories, to athleisurewear, make-up, pajamas and fragrances. Most of her esteemed products are on the expensive side, such as the mini rhodium-plated 18-karat white gold diamond Cartier watch, which is priced at an eye-watering $84,000 on her 'Bettina's Shelf' list. That same list also features another Cartier watch, an 18-karat gold and glossed-leather piece, priced at $6,900, as well as an 18-karat gold diamond ring from Brent Neale for $9,980. Bettina made sure to include a range of designer shoes too, from luxury brands such as Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Miu Miu, and Stuart Weitzman, as well as handbags from Bottega Veneta and jewelry by David Yurman. Fans will have to have a wallet full of cash if they want to dress like Bettina this spring, as her mood board for the season is equally costly. It includes a Tory Burch viscose knot dress at $1,498, a floral stretch crepe jersey knee-length dress at $3,490, a Dries Van Noten studded voile top at $620, and Valentino Garavani slingback pumps at $980. Accessories include Saint Laurent round-frame sunglasses for $460, Ben-Amun, a Streets Ahead leather belt for $235, and a rainbow sapphire opal necklace by Jia Jia for $650. Bettina's luxurious catalogues come after Donald Trump Jr. complained about former fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle's style. Sources close to Don Jr. and the Trump family told People in December that he had kicked up a fuss about Kimberly's wardrobe for a long time. 'Don Jr. has been telling people for months that Kim is so uptight and always dresses so professionally in these kinds of dresses and high heels, and never looks relaxed or casual,' the insider told the publication. Most of her esteemed products are on the expensive side, such as the mini rhodium-plated 18-karat white gold diamond Cartier watch, which is priced at an eye-watering $84,000 'The tight dresses need to go, and she has been told that.' A separate source told the publication that Don Jr. believed that Bettina was a better fit for his family and could be his own version of stepmother Melania. His father famously met Melania when he was still married to his second wife, Marla Maples. Don Jr. and Bettina kept their blossoming romance a secret until spies spotted them enjoying a series of intimate dates in December. The President's eldest son was publicly engaged to MAGA loyalist Kimberly, but that didn't deter him from canoodling with his new squeeze last September in front of stunned diners at a Palm Beach bistro. Weeks later revealed exclusive photos of the pair enjoying a glammed-up date for Bettina's 38th birthday before heading back to her $860,000 townhouse for the night. By that stage multiple sources had confirmed his six-year relationship with Guilfoyle, Trump's nomination for US Ambassador to Greece, had been over for months. Columbia University grad Bettina describes herself on Instagram as 'just your typical stay at home mom… only I don't do household chores… or have a husband… or have kids..' Her profile is filled with glamorous photos from nights out and she often shares snaps from designer events with brands like Akris and Alice & Olivia. In March, she was decked out in an Alice & Olivia gown with silver high heels from Jimmy Choo to attend the Art Production Fund Gala in New York City. Bettina previously worked with women's designer clothing website Moda Operandi to curate high-end shopping guides. In 2021, the fashion website described Bettina as 'a third-generation Palm Beacher, environmentalist, and an active supporter of the local arts community — whose style, like her personality, blends flirty femininity with a spicy sense of humor.' Bettina offered her 'packing essentials, hosting tips, and the styles she's leaning into.'
Telegraph
17-04-2025
- General
- Telegraph
The secrets to a long and happy marriage (according to Telegraph readers)
'Never go to bed on a quarrel', 'have your own separate interests' and 'give and take' – when it comes to the secrets of lasting relationships, there are plenty of hoary cliches. But being with the same person for 20, 40, even 70 years requires much more than platitudes. Recently, Queen Camilla offered her own view on what underpins her happy marriage to King Charles: 'Friendship. Laughing at the same things, getting on with life.' She has previously said, 'It's not easy sometimes, but we do always try to have a point in the day when we meet… we sit down together and have a cup of tea and discuss the day.' For less exalted couples, it may be more about remembering to put the bins out than finding time in the banqueting schedule. For my husband Andy and me, the glue that keeps us together (a mere 11 years so far) is shared adoration of our pets, a GSOH (good sense of humour), basic compatibility and, most crucially, a synchronised tea-making schedule. Twin beds are passion killers Unlike me, however, Bettina Thwaite, 80, married for 50 years, could be considered an expert in lasting marriage, and suggests it's perfectly acceptable to go to bed on a quarrel – 'but do have a double bed,' she advises, in direct contravention of the current 'sleep divorce' trend. 'Any arguments you might have had over dinner are very difficult to maintain in a double bed. Twin beds are passion killers.' Bettina is one of many Telegraph readers who subsequently wrote in to offer their own tips following the Queen's revelations, and believes that shared political views are also important. 'They don't have to be identical, that would be boring, but if one of you is a Corbynite and the other is somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan then, eventually, you are going to be pretty unsympathetic to each other,' she observes. And while money might seem a joyless topic amid the first flush of romance, Bettina is adamant that it must be discussed. 'Do talk about this from the very start. Yes, one of you might be very tight, while the other is a spendthrift. But you must reach some sort of agreement since, in my experience, money, even more than sex, causes more rows than anything else,' she says. 'My husband, 86, and I have always had pretty similar views, fortunately.' Finally, she recommends, 'That awful phrase, ' date nights '. Once a month we make a point of going out to our local Côte and treating ourselves,' Bettina says. 'We don't talk about mundane things but try to appreciate each other. It's so easy to take each other for granted over the years.' Indeed, never mind 'separate hobbies' – often, it's enjoying the same things that keep couples ticking along. Charles and Camilla love fly fishing on the River Dee, while other couples enjoy board games, running, pug breeding or, in our case, watching reruns of Vera with a glass of wine. Retain a sense of self Psychotherapist Geraldine Joaquim, 55, has been married for 32 years, and agrees that common interests can be conducive to lasting love. 'My husband and I took up scuba diving in our early 20s and regularly dived in the UK, with a club as well as on holiday,' she says. Nevertheless, she adds, 'it's also important to retain a sense of self within the relationship. I've always been into arty things – I have a pottery studio in the garden – and my husband loves clay pigeon shooting. We have no interest in each other's hobbies but we happily 'give space' so we can do them.' Joaquim also recommends travel as a bonding mechanism, when possible. 'Seeing each other in different situations, relying on each other in places that are out of the norm, having a go at activities – these have all brought us closer over the years,' she says. 'We have so much shared experience – from diving with tiger sharks in South Africa to camping on the rim of a volcano in Indonesia. We've even done seal diving in the North Sea and ghost hunting in East Anglia!' Most vitally, she advises, 'shared values really matter, and are a must when raising a family. That's not to say we have exactly the same views on things but, in principle, we are aiming for the same outcomes: independence, kindness, love of animals, happiness.' A good dollop of compromise on both sides Brian Varrell met his wife Eve on a flight from Guernsey to Manchester in 1978, and says, 'We're still inseparable and she's the most perfect life partner.' He explains that what underpins their long marriage is 'listening, understanding and a good dollop of compromise on both sides'. Both were recently divorced when they met, and Brian points out that they had already learnt not to take love for granted. 'Mutual belief in a pre-prandial snifter or two does no harm either,' he wisely adds. Divorce can in fact prove the grounding for a far better relationship, after the first marriage has demonstrated what can go wrong. Telegraph reader Malcolm Hobbs, 82, from the Forest of Dean, has been married to his second wife, Sandy, 78, for 42 'wonderful years'. 'We married on my 40th birthday, which is of course when life begins – and I cannot forget our wedding anniversary! Our happiness is about mutual respect,' he says. 'We hold common values, we can talk about them and can laugh at our own shortcomings. 'Why did this one work when the first one didn't?' He muses. 'Shared values. My first wife and I couldn't agree on children's education, work ethic, savings plans or decorating colours.' They parted after 15 years of wrangling. 'Two years later, I married again – and she is my best friend.' Don't knock your partner Friendship and respect are generally at the heart of a long-lasting marriage, agrees psychotherapist Lulu Sinclair. 'When you got married, you liked and loved each other,' she says. 'Don't fall into the often trendy habit of knocking your partner, because respect on both sides remains important no matter how long you've been together.' Nishtha Patel has been married to Mayur for almost 35 years. 'We had a semi-arranged marriage,' she says. 'We spent less than 24 hours together before we decided to say yes. What makes a relationship endure is patience, forgiveness and, above all, respect for one another,' she agrees. 'There will always be small things that can irritate. The secret lies in learning to accept and adapt, rather than allowing minor frustrations to build into something bigger. Being able to say sorry and not stewing over arguments is crucial.' Patel also recommends talking when it's necessary. 'Sitting down and talking things through, whether it's making plans or resolving disagreements, is essential. At times, learning to agree to disagree is just as important.' Like the royal couple, a shared hour or two every day is a must for Nishtha and Mayur. 'It's an important time to switch off from work, listen to each other, and talk about how the day has gone. It shows you genuinely care about each other's lives.' But while most long-term happy couples cite respect and communication, surprisingly few recommend constant discussion of feelings. I learnt the hard way from my previous marriage that prodding at wounds is unwise. Now, we only talk if and when we're ready to forgive and move on. It's repair and resilience, rather than re-hashing, that works, agrees psychologist Dr Carolyne Keenan. Not every difficult phase is a crisis 'Conflict is inevitable. The key isn't avoiding it, but learning how to repair after it,' she explains. 'That might mean apologising, or listening even when you feel defensive. Whether it's boredom, irritation or feeling misunderstood, long-term relationships involve periods of emotional discomfort,' she adds. 'Resilience in a marriage often comes down to learning to stay through those moments rather than assuming discomfort means something is broken. Not every difficult phase is a crisis.' Most of all, perhaps, the true key to a long-term love which survives the soaring highs and plummeting lows, is a degree of selflessness. 'It sounds corny, but when you love someone, it's about wanting them to thrive,' says Geradine Joaquim. 'It doesn't have to be to the detriment of yourself, but it may involve putting their needs first. And in an equal relationship that goes both ways.' Basically, if you want your love to last, be kind – and take turns to make the tea.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Rolling Hills Zoo welcomes new female snow leopard
SALINA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina has welcomed a new snow leopard. On Tuesday, the zoo announced the arrival of Bettina, a one-and-a-half-year-old female snow leopard from the Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Society. 'Bettina's personality is as captivating as her stunning coat. Described as sweet, playful, energetic, and curious—but also cautious—she enjoys observing new surroundings before fully engaging,' the RHZ said on Facebook. 'At the Bronx Zoo, she often waited for her mother or brother to explore first before confidently joining in. Once comfortable, however, she becomes quite excitable and animated.' Bettina was moved to Kansas as part of a breeding recommendation for the zoo's male snow leopard, but she isn't ready to breed quite yet. 'Though still young, Bettina's arrival marks an important step in the Snow Leopard Species Survival Plan (SSP), a collaborative conservation effort among accredited zoos to ensure the long-term survival of this endangered species,' the RHZ continued. Sedgwick County Zoo elephant's pregnancy comes to 'heartbreaking' end Fewer than 6,400 snow leopards are believed to remain in their native habitat, the mountains of Central Asia. 'This elusive cat faces several threats, including poaching, not only for them, but their prey. Snow leopards and their prey may also share habitat with domestic livestock, leading to conflicts with herders whose livelihood depends on ranching. Such losses can be catastrophic for herders, who are often economically disadvantaged. To protect their herds and livelihoods, herders sometimes retaliate against the snow leopards,' the RHZ said. The zoo hopes that Brettina's presence will help raise awareness about snow leopard conservation and their challenges. The Rolling Hills Zoo, located at 625 N. Hedville Rd. in Salina, is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more about the zoo, visit its website at Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
