I’m excited to report that tomorrow I’ll be attending Time at the Table‘s Family Dinner conference at New York University. The speakers include many bloggers who’ve been my “virtual friends” for years but whom I’ve never met in person: Brianne de Rosa of Red, Round or Green, Grace Freedman of Eat Dinner.org, Aviva Goldfarb of [...]
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Hi everyone! I’m finally back from a blogging hiatus taken to celebrate — and then recover from — my daughter’s recent bat mitzvah. Many thanks to all the TLT’ers who shared their good wishes and mazel tovs (mazels tov?) on the blog’s Facebook page. It was a lovely, memorable event. Due to that break and [...]
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Today’s guest blogger is Grace R. Freedman, Ph.D. the founder of EatDinner.org and co-founder of the Blog for Family Dinner. With a background in public health and political science, she writes about family dinner and its far-reaching health and social benefits. She is also an advocate for innovative approaches that promote healthy eating and increased play and physical activity, [...]
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In recent years we’ve heard that gathering regularly for a family dinner has all kinds of beneficial effects on our children, from improved academic performance to a lower incidence of drug use. But in a piece in last Sunday’s New York Times, two researchers challenge those claims. Their study, published in the Journal of Marriage [...]
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[Ed. Note: This post was written as part of the wonderful Blog for Family Dinner project, where it is cross-posted today. This month's B4FD theme is "All Kinds of Families." ] On TLT I write a lot about the importance of family dinner, but I know all too well that for busy working families, getting everyone [...]
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For the last few months, every time someone mentioned Pinterest in my presence I plugged my ears and hummed to drown out any discussion of yet another social media site. Between daily blogging and updates to Facebook, Twitter and my barely used Google Plus accounts, where on earth was I going to find the time? [...]
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Well, I’m back from my week off and although I didn’t accomplish everything on my (admittedly unrealistic) to-do list, it was still a restful time. In going through the TLT archives to share interesting posts during my absence, I realized that there is seriously a LOT of stuff in there. (I suppose that’s what [...]
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[Ed Note: While I take the week off, I'm sharing what I hope are interesting posts from the archives that you may have missed the first time around. Today I'm re-posting my interview (which originally ran February 9, 2011) with J.M. Hirsch, Food Editor of the Associated Press, cookbook author and a dad who cooks. And [...]
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[Ed Note: While I take the week off, I'm sharing what I hope are interesting posts from the archives that you may have missed the first time around. Since the Blog for Family Dinner (B4FD) project is in full swing this month, I thought I'd re-run my interview (originally published on May 4, 2011) with Laurie David, [...]
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Kids generally love fried chicken but, totally apart from the nutritional concerns associated with deep-frying, I’m a big wimp when it comes to standing over a pot of hot, bubbling oil. Yet the oven-”fried” chicken recipes I’ve tried in the past have lacked the satisfying crunch I’m looking for. Then I found this recipe in [...]
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