Okay, now that we’re in the homestretch of the $5-per-person dinner menu week, it’s occurred to me that this is both art and artifice. Cooking and eating is always (or should always be) an artistic endeavor, even if it’s just
Category: Food culture
I missed posting last night, so I’ll make up for it tonight: TWO dinners that can be made for less than $5 per head, with no convenience ingredients, no processed items, only real food bought from real sources. Cool, huh?
Hooray! It’s $5 dinner week! Just to recap for those who aren’t in the loop, I’m taking part in the Slow Food USA $5 Challenge this Saturday. I’ll be making a totally from-scratch, sustainably sourced taco feast for friends and
L. and P. are in a Maurice Sendak phase right now. They’re generally found, these days, jumping around the house with “claws” bared as they enact the Wild Things’ rumpus; trying to stand on their heads like the contrary Pierre;
Hey readers…that lunch-packing post I wrote for “another blog” (very mysterious, right?) is up! Bettina of The Lunch Tray graciously invited me to write a post about packing lunches for her site, so I came up with what she’s amusingly
It hasn’t escaped my notice that the internet is buzzing right now with back-to-school wisdom, especially in the realm of lunch packing. Some school districts began the new academic year as early as last week; many others, today; and still
It was about a week ago now that the shocking news broke: There might be BACTERIA in your child’s school lunch! And, no, not the one the school serves up in the hot food line — the lunch YOU’VE packed
It can be done! Actual food — honest-to-goodness, from scratch, unprocessed food — can be served at a child’s birthday party, and it can be good, and the other kids and their families can eat it and enjoy it. I
I’m feeling vindicated this evening. All the struggles we’ve had with L. and his weight…all the conversations and hoopla with his pediatrician…all the stress and worry and trying to stand up for our convictions and what we KNEW was right
As usual, blogger Bettina over at The Lunch Tray got me thinking today with her response to a widely circulated op-ed by the brilliant Mark Bittman. Bittman’s piece makes the impassioned — and well-reasoned, which is unusual when people start