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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Over the weekend, political columnist Kathleen Parker had an opinion piece in the Washington Post entitled, “Health Reform and Obesity – Eat, Drink and Watch Out” in which she argues that the federal government should have no role in solving the obesity crisis. Instead, Parker harkens back to an earlier, simpler time, and concludes that, “[a]s [...]
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I write a lot on TLT about family dinner – why we value it so much in our house but also the challenges many families face in trying to pull it off, especially on busy weeknights. So when I learned that Laurie David — best known as an environmental activist and executive producer of the Oscar-winning [...]
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A friend of mine once told me that after preparing a weeknight dinner, she and another friend take pictures of their respective meals on their cell phones and send them to each other. When I asked why they did it, she said, “For bragging rights!” I laughed at the time, but as we’ve discussed here, [...]
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No, that’s not a command — it’s a blog recommendation . . . Eat Dinner.org — and a nonprofit by the same name — was founded by Dr. Grace Freedman, a public health and policy expert who wants to spread the word about the importance of the sit-down family dinner. Her blog is chock full [...]
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A while back I posted an amusing video entitled, “Would You Give Your 2-Year-Old a Chef’s Knife?” The creator of that video, J.M. Hirsch, actually did give his toddler a chef’s knife, compelling evidence of the importance he places on teaching children about food from an early age. (And of the disregard he has for his [...]
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