Kids Cuisine

Kids Cuisine writer Michelle Stern and her two children appeared on View From The Bay, a SF Bay Area television show, on November 28 to do a demonstration on how to create delicious and beautiful Holiday Gifts From the Kitchen.
Michelle’s kids, ages 5 and 7, layered the dry ingredients to make chili and pumpkin […]

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Creperies in France are popular little spots; they draw the young as easily as they entice the old. They are unique places where the sweet smell of sugar and savory taste of meat intermingle and satisfy the most finicky of palates. Most creperies are fashioned like little restaurants, specializing in dessert crepes as well as […]

This week we’re slowly putting up the Christmas decorations in our house. One box at a time comes out and gets put in its place, and each day it looks a little more festive here. Leave it to my son to look inside a box of decorations and ask me “when is it […]

Recently, I went to the Georgia Grown Food Show in Atlanta. I had a lot of fun and met many kind, interesting people. I learned about many different food-related businesses.
The Commissioner of Georgia’s Department of Agriculture, Tommy Irvin, was nice enough to invite me to the food show. The purpose of the […]

School lunches don’t have to be junky processed foods like pizza, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets. A University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don’t decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don’t necessarily cost schools more to produce, according to the Associated Press.
“The conventional wisdom that you […]

We had a Progressive Dinner recently, and when I spied a recipe for Monster Eyes, I thought it would be the perfect addition to the menu for the kids. Tasty and easy to make, this is a good recipe to get kids in the kitchen as the steps are basic… mixing, rolling, baking.
A few […]

Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at Kids Cuisine. No new post today, but I’m sure you are too busy to read much anyway. We’ll be back tomorrow with fresh new material.

As I sat down to write this article this week, my daughter curled up in the chair next to me and asked what I was doing. When I told her, she asked if I was going to write about the “snackie course” for Thanksgiving or the “dessert course.” Of course, her words made […]

Today is exactly three weeks past Halloween. Did you worry about how to deal with all the candy your kids brought home? As I listened to friends with young children discuss various schemes for limiting candy, I wondered if this is one example of worrying about the wrong things.
I’m a nutritionist, so people often ask […]