Doesn’t anybody make food at home anymore? Costco opened a new store here in the nation’s capital last week and the manager, according to one newspaper account, suggested that one of the discount retailer’s big draws is all the food available there that customers can’t make themselves. “I say, if Americans are eating spanakopita, it’s […]
Wanna see kids eat vegetables? Make Greek salad! I wouldn’t have thought it, but kids will even eat raw green pepper when it’s prepared in the traditional Greek fashion. Well, maybe not our pre-K and Kindergartners. The little ones typically shy away from anything green or too healthy looking. But older kids seem to really […]
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“It’s a cantaloupe!” insisted one student. “It’s a sweet potato!” speculated another. “No, it’s a gourde!” Your’re getting close. In fact, the strange object being attacked with a cleaver is a butternut squash–one of the so-called hard squashes–which helps explain the need for a hammer and cleaver to cut it in half. The purpose of […]
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