Slow Cappuccino
After trying my best to sleep on the long flight from NY, I knew I’d need some caffeine for the last leg of the trip to Rome. I stopped on my way to my connecting flight at the Milan airport for a quick cappuccino. Unlike every other airport I’ve been to before, this coffee was [...]
Continue reading »Picky Eaters and Labelling
I recently became involved in an interesting online conversation about the word “picky eater” with some mommy bloggers. Christina Le Beau who has a blog, SpoonFed. wrote a recent post that makes the argument that labeling kids becomes a crutch for parents and sets up a self-fulfilling prophecy. Plus it minimizes the very real food [...]
Continue reading »Carlo Petrini: The Father of Slow Food
Once upon a time in the late 1980′s a man named Carlo Petrini organized a bold and powerful campaign against McDonalds. The fast food chain was planning to open a branch of the golden arches near the Spanish steps in Rome. Carlo and his pals brandished bowls of penne past as weapons of protest and [...]
Continue reading »The Race to Nowhere
Tonight, I attended a screening of this film that highlights the dark side of our over-achieving communities. I live in a highly competitive town where kids are under played and over scheduled. Most are tutored and just about everyone is on some sort of travel team for sports- regular ol’ AYSO soccer is just not [...]
Continue reading »Recipe: Super Slow Super Easy Chicken Stock
The three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, tie in nicely to my slow cooker chicken stock. Here’s the recipe along with info on my Slow Cooker Cookbooklet.
Continue reading »Recipe: Black Bean Burritos
This year, my eldest daughter is cooking her own meals at college. No more school food for her! She and I have made a deal. I’ll send her recipes if she’ll do some fancy food styling and take some photos. Between the two of us, we should have a pretty decent cookbook within a few [...]
Continue reading »Chinese Chicken Salad
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen! It was so hot yesterday, I had to get out of my kitchen. So I fired up the grill and whipped up one of my favorite salads on the deck for dinner. I had some skinless, boneless chicken thighs marinating in some teriyaki sauce, [...]
Continue reading »Summer Reading
I was fortunate to have a bright sunny week at the beach last week. I unplugged as best as I could and caught up on some reading. Thanks to a speed reading course I took freshman year in college, I’m a voracious reader. After spending much of my summer in a camp garden, my reading [...]
Continue reading »The CDC and Childhood Obesity: Thinking Outside the Box
School food reform is not about building a better nugget for the cafeteria or pumping up the pizza with whole wheat crust and low fat cheese. What we must do is raise the Food IQ and transform the culture of food in each and every school district in the USA. Here’s how.
Continue reading »Fun @ Camp is About to Begin
Camp Ballibay is leading the way in camp food that is fun and delicious.
Continue reading »
