CSA 2012: Week 3 — One Tired Salad Spinner

More spinach! The early part of the season is a bit tedious with all the greens. There, I said it. I’m hoping to raise ...

Last year’s garden

April 20, 2012 at 9:50 pm in Gardens

Carrots from our garden Sorry for my absence, I’m getting back on my feet after a debilitating stomach bug. Maybe it was the 24 hour flu, but whatever terrible thing it was, I’m so grateful it’s over. I feel human again. But I’m behind on emails and responding to comments because of my illness. I [...]

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“Just pack!” and other ridiculous notions

April 16, 2012 at 10:37 pm in Packed lunches, School Lunches

Turkey burger with daiya cheese; bread and ketchup; brownie; pears; carrots and broccoli; fruit smoothie When people oppose school lunch reform, one of the comments I hear is “Parents should just pack a lunch for their kids.” If I hear that in the next week, I will have to hold myself back from laughing maniacally in [...]

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We Want to Cook: Chicago’s Lunch Professionals Campaign for Cooking

April 12, 2012 at 10:03 pm in Happening Now, News

Yesterday 200 lunch professionals protested in front of the Chicago Board of Education demanding that real cooking be brought back to school cafeterias. They are sick of reheating frozen food and seeing it thrown away because kids don’t find it appetizing. The effort was organized by Real Food Real Jobs and it was covered by Fox [...]

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Guest Blog: French Kids Eat Everything

April 10, 2012 at 9:04 pm in Guest Blogs, The Food

To start with, I never intended to write a book about children’s food! The idea for French Kids Eat Everything emerged from our experience of living in France for a year (in 2009). In 2008, soon after the birth of our second daughter, my husband and I decided to move back to his hometown in [...]

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Having an eco-friendly Easter

April 5, 2012 at 9:59 pm in Miscellaneous

We celebrate Easter ’round here. It’s not something my (lapsed-Catholic) husband and (non-religious) I even paid attention to until we became parents. But the whole concept of the Easter bunny is too much fun for our son to miss out on. We don’t celebrate in a traditional sense: I guess you could say that it’s [...]

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Expo West: People Before Profit

April 2, 2012 at 10:03 pm in The Food

I went to Expo West in early March in Los Angeles. A natural products convention might be a weird place for a school food reformer to be, but you might be surprised to learn who was there. I went with my buddy Andrew Wilder from the blog Eating Rules. If you peruse Andrew’s blog, you’ll [...]

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5 ways to find your first CSA

March 29, 2012 at 10:18 pm in CSA Boxes

I know it’s tax season and we all have a lot on our financial plates, but now is the time to start thinking about summer veggies straight from the farm and paying upfront for a summer of wellness. If you enjoyed my blog series about our first CSA last summer, now is the time to [...]

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Pink slime: Get a load of this

March 27, 2012 at 10:50 pm in Happening Now, News

If you’ve been following the pink slime story, you know that it has gotten huge. I find it interesting because important people like Michael Pollan and Jamie Oliver have been talking about it for several years, but it didn’t gather any momentum until Bettina Elias Siegel from The Lunch Tray started a petition on Change.org earlier [...]

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