Kids Cuisine

I recently grabbed a copy of, “Toddler Meals: Lifesaving Recipes and Advice for Making Fun, Nutritious Food,” in search of some new ideas for feeding my toddlers. Sometimes it can seem like they get just a little too much banana and cubed cheese.
Between picky tendencies of toddlers, looking for food that is healthy but acceptable, […]

One of the resolutions I’ve made this year is to make more of an effort to eat things that I’ve stocked in the pantry. That may not seem like much of a resolution to most people, but I have a fantastic habit of stocking the pantry and then letting it all languish. It […]

Since I teach cooking classes for children, people ask me all the time about what their kids can really do in the kitchen. They find it hard to believe that their toddler can actually help, without causing chaos. When I do workshops for mothers’ groups or schools on Family Mealtimes or Cooking with Kids, I […]

In their book, Food Fights, Laura A. Jana, MD, FAAP, and Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP, take on all the most common food questions of parents and even a few questions I never thought to ask, such as how to eat well while traveling. The writing tone is anything but what you would expect from a […]

I always love finding ways to actually get my 4-year-old daughter, who just recently proclaimed to me, “I don’t like vegetables,” to willingly choose to eat vegetables. It’s always hit or miss. Some days she loves one type of veggie, then hates it the next day.
Yesterday, she actually was eager to put vegetables on a […]

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 […]

I had to laugh at the dinner table tonight when my 5 and 7 year old children engaged in verbal battle over which type of squash was better: Acorn or Delicata.
As my daughter groaned about her Acorn squash, I thought about my friend Charlotte and the experiment that she started doing with her son about […]

I ran into Charlotte Hume the same way that I have met many amazing people, our mutual blogs. One visit to her site, The Great Big Vegetable Challenge, and I was in love with her tenacity and humor and her approach to getting her picky son to eat vegetables.
Indeed, the whole project began over a […]

It can be disheartening to think of the endless parade of snacks targeted at kids. Colorful packages, creative characters, and flavorful snacks full of unhealthy fats and sweeteners are dangled in front of our little ones. Luckily, a couple of moms have teamed up to offer healthier options for packaged snacks to be enjoyed on […]

My wife and I are expecting our second child within the next two weeks (any advice?). Anyway, because we’re expecting, we’re reading, again, everything and anything related to newborns and the caring for them (it’s not that we forgot from the first one, but there’s always something new to read).
So, I ran across a news […]