Kids Cuisine

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 […]

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’ […]

When I was in middle school, students were required to take one quarter (roughly 9 weeks) of Home Ec. If you took it in 7th grade, you learned to sew. If you took it in 8th, you learned to cook. I was lucky enough to take Home Ec during 8th grade, though “learning to cook” […]

Do any of you happen to live near Freeport, IL? If so, have I got what looks like a great opportunity for you. The Freeport Journal-Standard has a feature article this week about Danny Hershey, a local 12-year-old who loves to cook and spends loads of time in the kitchen. Danny has special dietary needs, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Attention parents: Are you interested in feeding your children healthy food, the smart and easy way? Lunch Lessons, Changing the Way We Feed our Children by Ann Cooper and Lisa M. Holmes is a must-have book. The authors are graduates of the Culinary Institute of America and are employed by educational institutions. Together they apply […]

If you recognize the name Art Smith, you probably best know him as Oprah Winfrey’s former personal chef.   But, believe it or not, the cookbook author has a few other achievements under his belt as well.  Four years ago, he created a nonprofit to help teach low-income kids all about healthy eating.  As he recently […]

Unfortunately just in time for back-to-school activities, approximately 56,000 lunchboxes were recalled last week in the state of California. They were made in China and given out at various health fairs and public events to promote healthy eating. There is a chance they may contain lead, and recent testing found elevated lead levels […]