Kids Cuisine

I just got back from seeing Pixar’s latest release, Ratatouille, with my kids and three of their friends. The consensus shouldn’t surprise you, given all the positive press the film has garnered already: They loved it. Like “Toy Story” and “The Incredibles,” this film works because it has a kids’ level that amuses and an […]

I was all ready to get uppity about David Kamp’s piece in the NY Times May 30 about the ubiquity of the chicken finger on kids’ menus all over town. Surely, I thought, this would be another elitist rant about the dreadful way American children are eating.
And I was right. But I also was surprised […]

I wasn’t going to say anything. Some things you really shouldn’t bring up in Berkeley, home of the Free Speech movement 40 years ago. But there were some hard-core vegetarians in our student family complex at U.C. Berkeley, and I used to worry about their kids.
They were so skinny. So small. So…malnourished looking? I understood […]

In the April 22 issue of the New York Times Magazine, Science writer and U.C. Berkeley Journalism professor Michael Pollan wrote up a fascinating critic of the Farm Bill. (Subscription may be required)
The Farm Bill? (yawn). Much as we like to keep abreast of current events, arcane legislation is very low on the radar of […]

I’ve got a lot to learn in the kitchen. Nobody really cooked when I was growing up. My mom was a businesswoman. She taught me how to write a killer resume but left me ignorant in the ways of the roast chicken. And honestly, I was largely uninterested until I became a mom some ten […]

I remember the looks I got from the other moms in the park when I admitted that my daughter, at the time only 3 years old, liked tea.
“Aren’t you worried about the caffeine?” one mom ventured?
Not particularly, I told her. Especially since it didn’t seem to have any impact on her sleeping. She drank it […]

I read an alarming post over at Bloggingstocks this morning. It wrote about how the FDA is likely to green-light the marketing of meat, milk, and other food products from cloned animals.
As if that weren’t enough to give you pause, the Federal agency, which says there is no evidence cloned food products are bad for […]

I’ve been pondering lately how I can best turn my kids into food-loving hedonists, or at least passable home cooks. I’m hoping it has something to do with being around food and those who prepare it in the home, but maybe it takes more than that.
I’m also wondering if there’s a difference between preparing food […]

File this under: Thank Goodness there are such clever moms out there. Just when my kids’ cafeteria cards have run out, and their complaints about the school’s “chef surprise” style meal options have reached a deafening pitch, along comes a blog with me in mind.
Our own Janelle from Talk of Tomatoes has just launched The […]

You’d think the very process of cooking would lure the little ones into the kitchen, what with all those clinks and clanks and curious aromas and all. But sometimes it’s not enough. Sometimes you have to let the “stuff” beckon.
Check out these totally cute silicon oven mitts featured on StyleHive. Would my two kids love these? […]