Not that a Little Debbie snack cake (gasp!) has ever passed either one of my foodie kids’ lips, but I have been thinking about those snack cakes in earnest lately. It all started while I was visiting the South a month ago. I practiced/tried out being a Suburban mum and did things like go to […]
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Our friend Anne was born on the same day as my daughter Mira and made it out into the world a mere half an hour before her, so the girls are little twin stars. When Anne was still on the inside and ML was taking my prenatal yoga classes at the Kula, we had no […]
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Before getting pregnant and having children and a husband who are huge fans of meat, I was almost completely vegetarian. One of the families for whom I was a private chef was vegan, so a good deal of my cooking and preparing and eating was devoted toward delicious vegetarian foods. Then I fell in love […]
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Since last year when most of my students were two-year-olds and significantly more truculent around the food and one another, I’ve held in the back of my mind a vision of how and when to teach them to make and roll out pie crust. My own daughter already knows the basics. She requested a pie-making […]
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As soon as I saw at the supermarket that a local grower’s cauliflower was both abundant and at a very good price, a soup that my friend JJ has described to me last winter popped into my head. JJ had described three mouth watering ingredients: cumin, coconut milk, and of course cauliflower. Her recipe, gleaned […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…