Like every family, we’ve had our food battles with our 10-year-old daughter. With great dismay, we watched a pre-schooler who amazed us with the range of her palate (she couldn’t get enough Altoids or wasabe peas) morph into a bratty pre-teen who turned dinner into a slugfest with a littany of foods she refused to eat.
“What’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'books'
My Daughter, Grassfed Steak Fanatic
August 25th, 2010 · 10 Comments · dinner, kids
Becoming Whole
June 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Wellness
Meg Wolff has been a loyal and encouraging reader of The Slow Cook and for the life of me I don’t know why. Where Meg is a spiritually enlightened lover of whole grains and macrobiotic vegetables, I am an unreformed heathen of a meat eater. Yet we share a common belief in “real” food, in [...]
Tags: books·grains·macrobiotics·vegetables
What’s In A Fat?
May 26th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Blog
The kind of fat you eat does make a difference
By now most of you have probably clued into the benefits of the so-called omega-3 fats (isn’t that why we’re all popping fish oil pills?) Omega-3s, found in oily, cold-water fish as well as animals raised on pasture and certain plant foods, such as flax seeds, [...]
Tags: books·carbohydrates·diabetes·fats·obesity·processed foods
Great Big Vegetable Challenge: The Book
July 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
A package arrived from Great Britain yesterday and look what was inside: the cooking adventures of our friends Charlotte and Freddie at The Great Big Vegetable Challenge blog, in three-dimensional book form.
It’s been great fun watching the blog unfold with A to Z recipes aimed at getting children to partake of the vegetable kingdom. [...]
Tags: blogging·books·kids·vegetables
Brussels Sprouts Are So Exciting
April 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Some of you are dying to know how I prepared the sweet-and-sour Brussels sprouts mentioned in my earlier posts. I will use that as a roundabout way of introducing my latest most favorite book whose title I don’t need to repeat because it is so vividly displayed in the photograph at left.
I heard the author, [...]
Tags: books·Brussels sprouts·vgetables
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
