Entries tagged with 'children'
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Photograph by Robyn Lee Looks like Anthony Bourdain's daughter has a more advanced palate than I do: My one-and-a-half-year-old baby daughter loves olives. And caper berries. And salty Parmigiano-reggiano cheese. Her love of rabbits (as food) is already well established. But I discovered today that she adores polenta--served with the hot, rendered fat of roasted game birds. And that she goes absolutely bat shit over risotto made with wild nettles. Gone are the days of apple juice and milk for toddlers, since his daughter also prefers "[a dipped] finger in the local red wine" to juice. No doubt about it, Bourdain is raising a foodie's dream child....
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Illustration for a child's book, "Peter and the Moon" Story and Pictures (32 in color) by Jan Balet—not yet published. November 1946 Paul Lukas, of Uni Watch fame forwarded this awesome illustration to me. (Best children's book illustration ever? Quite possibly," he says.) He in turn got it from a friend. It appears to be from some sort of 1946 promo of a book yet to be published at the time. I can't find any mention on the web of Peter and the Moon in connection to Jan Balet, so who's to say if it ever appeared on shelves—or is so far out of print that it doesn't appear online. Balet appears to have hit his stride in the...
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How will your little one prepare for future food media greatness? With this 18-piece Veggie Cutting Set by ImagiPLAY Toys for $24. While the chopping simulation activates those young motor skills, it could also confuse the divide between food and toys. Little Simon was always told to eat his veggies, but then one day he choked. Other than the swallowing factor, the fake produce looks pretty cool. Fastened together by velcro, pieces can be reshuffled to create new veggie hybrids. Little Simon choked on a tomato-shroom! Related Sushi Toy Head + Playmobil Body Kellogg's Fruit-Flavored Lego Snacks: Awesome or Choking Hazard? Crocheted Edibles...
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I've now read Kim Severson's piece on child food allergy conspiracy theorist Robyn O'Brien twice, and I'm still not sure if O'Brien is a righteous crusader or a nutty zealot. Here's the essence of the story: [O'Brien's] theory—that the food supply is being manipulated with additives, genetic modification, hormones, and herbicides, causing increases in allergies, autism, and other disorders in children—is not supported by leading researchers or the largest allergy advocacy groups. On such an emotionally freighted issue it's hard to figure out who's right and who's wrong. What do Serious Eaters think?...
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Their books, which teach parents to disguise veggies in brownies, mac and cheese, and pudding, are wrong on so many levels, Mimi Sheraton writes. "First, children get the wrong message that sweets and starches are good for them." Second is "the invisibility of vegetables in their own recognizable forms. As a result, children are not afforded the opportunity to get used to the idea of trying and learning about them. Nor will they consider them necessary for good health." Update: Cookbook Author Sues Jerry Seinfeld for Defamation [1/8/2007]...
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Having a kid in the house has changed dinnertime. Not so much what I cook—the actual time dinner is served. It went from a ballpark figure to an ironclad contract. Before my daughter, Iris, came along, my wife, Laurie, and I would sometimes have dinner somewhere between 5:30 and 8 p.m., maybe later if I was trying something fancy. Now, dinner is at 6 p.m., the same way Christmas is on December 25. Iris's bath starts at 7. I can delay dinner until 6:15 if I run into unexpected kitchen obstacles, but if it looks like it's going to go later than that, it's time to switch to scrambled eggs or frozen potstickers. Not every kid has such a lockstep...
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Thanks to my wife, I discovered Roots and Grubs a few weeks ago. It's Matthew Amster-Burton's blog about his food life with his wife and young daughter. I really liked Matthew's take on cooking and eating with children and asked him if he'd blog on Serious Eats here and there. So every other week, on Mondays, we'll bring you a bit of advice from him. Here's his first entry. Enjoy! —Ed Levine By Matthew Amster-Burton | The Man has crushed some of my family's favorite convenience foods under his twin jackboots of recall and import ban! When the FDA announced a recall of salmonella-tainted Veggie Booty snack food in late June, I was concerned for the safety of its young...
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David Kamp struck a chord with parents everywhere with his column on the numbing ubiquity of chicken fingers on kids' menus. My favorite line: "I came to the realization that America is in the grips of a nefarious chicken-finger pandemic, in which a blandly tasty foodstuff has somehow become the de facto official nibble of our young."...
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"Welcome to the World's First Great Big Vegetable Challenge! Take one seven year old boy named Freddie and his mother as they face the challenge of turning him from a Vegetable-Phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life's leafier pleasures. Join us as we work through the A to Z of vegetables!" Fred's mom posts photos and the recipes they've tried (some suggested by readers) and Fred himself rates dishes—recently he's given potage crecy a nine and courgette quesadillas a full ten, so he can't really be that much of a vegetable hater, he certainly seems to like them more than I do! The GBVC is first and foremost a fantastic idea but it's...
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Recent research by the Dairy Farmers of Britain suggests that a significant number of children don't know where their food comes from: "At a time when the government is overhauling school dinners to encourage children to eat healthy meals, the latest findings suggest that changing school dinners may be only half the battle - there is also a need to educate children about the origin of their food. More than one in ten (11%) 8 year olds don't know where pork chops come from, and many more have no idea where yoghurt (18%) or cheese comes (11%) from."...
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