I asked one store owner if I could put a few bottles on the shelf, ... I gave him a cold one to drink. Eight hours later, they called and said they were sold out.

But I recognize it as part of the occupation.

If you don't have the money, you have to be willing to do the work, ... Try to free yourself up to do the sales, because no one's going to carry the torch like the original founder.

It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how people see it as a conflict.

They didn't even recognize the real ginger root I had in my booth!

although it's hard to know if it would be completely out of the area.

This is part of New York, part of the culture here. New Yorkers always try to find a way to deal with things like this. New Yorkers always find a way to overcome.

I've been crawling, and now I can walk a little bit and am starting to trot. We've not fueled up yet. We've not had our first infusion of serious capital to run.

Most of my friends that have good jobs don't live here. As much as I would love to live here, it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of possibilities.

I loved ginger; I've always recognized its tremendous healing power,