Welcome to MadameBlake.com

We are delighted that you have found our website, and it is our hope that you find content here that will delight, inspire, amuse, and inform; and that its use may prove a real benefit in developing better food and service and in doing so create a fuller understanding of hospitality.

Our working definition of “Hospitality” is:

“The warm, welcoming, and generous treatment of family, friends, guests, or strangers that causes them to feel as if they are uniquely special and to be celebrated.”

Our working definition of “Service” is:

“To selflessly, and with joy, do work that benefits another.”

Our Goal:

• Assist people in living fuller, happier lives
• Learn new skills and develop new constructs for living a full life
• Cultivate a heart for hospitality
• Develop one’s ability to hold life with an open heart
• To rekindle the fires of hearth and home
• To grow in one’s love and understanding of service
• Assist people in managing their homes more effectively
• Develop a sustainable, happy home life

About MadameBlake.com:

I hope that you will find the resources, articles, links, and other resources on this website helpful, and thought provoking. This site is a labor of love and is dedicated to those who have gone on before me and were my teachers, my confidants, partners, and friends.