In a cocktail shaker, muddle blackberries and thyme with a wooden spoon. Add orange juice, lemon juice, honey, and cinnamon and shake well. Pour a glass, and top with soda. Garnish with blackberry in thyme sprig. Serve chilled.
If you are adding eggs, whisk them in a glass measuring cup. After the lentils are cooked, slowly pour the eggs into the simmering lentils while slowly stirring with a wooden spoon.
He is a four-time James Beard Award nominee and regularly works with Share our Strength, City Harvest, C-CAP: Careers through Culinary Arts Program, and Madison Square Park Conservancy, among others. In 2012, Floyd won Season 3 of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters.