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Another challenge is getting shelf space. David Hahn, who started commercially selling his products, Caramel Sin and Cranberry Fool, in late 1999, when he was 51, says it took 2 1/2 years of "constant, everyday work" to get his first placement in a Whole Foods Market. His products are now in 80 stores. "What people don't get is how dogged you have to be to pursue it," he says. "It takes months of phone calls once a week, being both charming and pushy...
Hahn, a television writer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and business partner Melanie Ray, started making Caramel Sin, "a fine candy in a jar," and Cranberry Fool, a natural, cooked-fruit topping, as holiday presents for family and friends about 14 years ago. Encouraged by the accolades they received, he concluded that he was sitting on a gold mine. "One Christmas, when it got to be more than 300 jars, my wife said, 'Get it out of my kitchen,'" he says...
...Sin Demands Study...
Presidents, deans and students' boards wrestled with the problem, lectured and scolded and disciplined, knowing their measures inadequate but doing their best. Then the psychiatrist offered his services, and it began to be apparent that these outbreaks of "original sin" were really problems of personality demanding the skill of men trained in the tangled ways of mental and emotional disturbances...
Rather than sullying his new life by getting involved in such a base endeavor, Ripley gives Reeves the name of local British expat framer Jonathon Trevanny (MI:2’s Dougray Scott). Trevanny has recently committed the cardinal sin: At a cocktail party, he said that “the problem with Ripley is too much money and no taste,” within Ripley’s range of hearing. In return, Ripley decides to play a game. Can he kill two birds with one stone: take revenge against Trevanny and aid Reeves simultaneously by turning Jonathon?...