By Linda Iaderosa When Kozue Morii’s 5-year-old son, Charlie clung to her the first day of kindergarten and wouldn’t let go, she knew she had a problem. “He would not stop crying; he’d hang onto my clothes,” she recalls. “He was so used to being with me at home.” She dug deep into her Japanese roots and began to think…
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EatWith Makes Meal Sharing a Fun New Pastime
By Linda Iaderosa “Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else; dinner is the evening.”__Art Buchwald Food fit for a king in Saudi Arabia, a big, fat Greek meal in Athens or recipes made from a modern day Julia Child in Columbus, Ohio may be what’s for dinner tonight, tomorrow or as many evenings as you…
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Child Obesity Tackled by Restaurants and Schools
By Laurie Wiegler In the 1960’s, the healthy part of a “kid’s” meal at a restaurant was the cherry in our Shirley Temples. And who doesn’t remember slathering cold butter on her crackers as the waiter brought us mini steaks and fries, followed by chocolate pudding with a whipped cream topper. Even dentists gave us a lollipop after a teeth…
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Home Cooking From a Box
By Linda Iaderosa Millions of people are ordering boxed dinners and meal services to the tune of $5 billion in sales and growing. The growth and variety of these services is dizzying but basically it boils down to this: recipes, ingredients, and delivery. All you add is cooking and cleanup. After that it gets interesting. Competitors looking for their piece…
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New Year Food Superstitions and Traditions
Southern families wouldn’t dream of missing their black-eyed peas on January 1. But where did this tradition come from? Believe it or not, the custom is over 1,500 years old and hails from Jewish tradition when black-eyed peas were eaten on their new year, Rosh Hashanah. Possibly, Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Georgia, brought the custom with them. And during…
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U.N. Climate Talks: What They Mean for Food
With this past summer the hottest on record globally, it’s not hard to sense the tangibles at stake as tens of thousands gather in Paris this week for the UN’s 21st annual Conference of the Parties. COP21 will bring together world leaders, including presidents Obama and Hollande as well as over 140 other heads of state, as delegates meet in…
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