Kids Cuisine

Initially, the thought of green ice cream is not appetizing—unless of course by “green,” you mean fully sustainable and organic. Such is the case with the recently opened Three Twins Organic Ice Cream store in Oxbow Public Marketplace in Napa, CA—the only fully organic and sustainable ice cream facility in the region.
Three Twins has 70 […]

I am not often home during the day, so I don’t usually catch the morning news shows.  Then, with the pleasure of having nothing to do one morning last week, I caught Good Morning America.  They featured the story of Robin O’Brien, a mom who became aware of her child’s food allergy only after the […]

Not all kids’ cereals are created equal. There are kids’ cereals that are healthy and wholesome and are designed to provide kids with the nutrients their growing bodies require. No sugar, no drama, no prize in the box. Just minimally processed grains that cry out for the sugar bowl. When I was growing up, these are […]

Recently I was asked by my daughter if I could buy her a new cookbook.  I asked her what kind of cookbook she wanted, and her reply was “one for kids, Mom!” So I spent some time looking around for a new cookbook that we hadn’t discovered yet, and I found a gem written by […]

Why is it that when something is little, even when it is something ordinary like a nose or a foot, it is adorable? Well, the same goes for food! Barilla had a fantastic idea when they thought to create Piccollini - miniature versions of 5 of their pasta shapes: penne, ziti, fusilli, farfalle, […]

On my blog, I wrote about an email I received from Lindsay at Fleishman-Hillard.  She thought I might enjoy a new cookbook from the California Table Grape Commission, Green Black Red: Recipes for Cooking and Enjoying California Grapes  (Chronicle Books 2008). She wrote, “In it [the book], readers learn how to turn this kitchen staple into an […]

Last week, Bravo announced the development of its new creative competition series “Top Chef Junior.” The announcements were made by Frances Berwick, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Bravo Media. “With ‘Top Chef’ as the number one food show on cable comes the natural expansion in our food domain,” said Berwick. “With ‘Top Chef Junior’ […]

The next time you bake a pie or quiche, don’t throw away those scraps of pie crust dough. Reroll the leftover dough scraps and use them to make these amazingly simple and addictive Cinnamon Pastry Flats. Of course, if you’d rather skip the pie and go straight to the flats, feel free! I like to use […]

One of the best things about summer vacation is that my daughter wants to spend more time in the kitchen. Her free time is no longer limited to just a few activities, and the world is her playground all day long. As a result, she’s been spending more time looking through cookbooks and […]

My family and I have been making these delicious, healthy drinks for a long time. I like making up names for our recipes, so when I talk with young people about this drink I call it Fizzy Fruit. If I’m talking with adults about it, I call it Cratalians (Cranberry juice with Italian […]