WYNC/New York, New York
Once again, I really enjoyed my conversation this morning on WYNC’s Brian Lehrer show–and it didn’t hurt to find out that even Brian Lehrer has a picky eater kid (or that his son, age 12, will now eat asparagus even if he hates to admit he likes it. Perhaps there’s hope for The Cheese-Hater after [...]
Friday Food Writers: Anthony Doerr
Four Seasons in Rome is novelist Anthony Doerr’s account of the year he spent in Rome (on a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy–jealous, anyone?) with his wife and twin baby boys, trying to write a book, trying to learn Italian, and often, trying to figure out how to get food for his growing [...]
Greetings and salutations and news
It has been far, far too long since I posted, for which I apologize. Can I blame it on someone very cute, with a big Elvis pompadour to boot?And can I also mention that he weighs 17 pounds at three months and that means….folks, we have an eater!! In the odd moments when I haven’t [...]
The magazine least likely to be read by The Cheese-Hater
I hardly know what to say about this new endeavor, a magazine for foodie kids–apparently “koodie” is now a word–called Chop Chop other than to say that my first reaction upon hearing about it was to realize immediately and completely that it is without a doubt the publication that exists furthest from The Cheese-Hater’s heart [...]
Cheese-Hater Newsflash
Last night, I had dinner with someone who has read my blog but whom I had never met before. (She happens to have a blog of her own, and to be newly engaged to a close friend of ours with a blog of his own. And yes, they met and fell in love via their [...]
The Friday food writers are packed….
….and so I will not be providing you with the usual dose of literary/culinary philosophy today. All of our books are in boxes, waiting to board their Lufthansa flight back to New York. I thought of googling for something, but it seemed (as googling so often does) like cheating. So instead I’ll provide you with [...]
School lunch in Berlin
There’s been a lot of chatter (okay, Tweeting) lately on Twitter about school lunches in the US and around the world thanks to a few different blogs that have posted pictures of them (why does everyone use those horrible divided trays??). Go to this one, which is purely recreational and checks out lunches from Japan [...]
Friday Food Writers: Shirley Jackson
This past week I re-read (for about the 8 millionth time–the pleasure of re-reading never dies for me) Shirley Jackson’s Life Among the Savages, possibly the most wickedly funny book ever written about raising children and family life. It’s quite a famous book, though Jackson is most famous for her short story “The Lottery” and [...]
Fishy chips?
The other night when I was putting The Cheese-Hater to bed, I read him a book called Room on the Broom that contains a scene in which a dragon threatens to eat a witch and bellows (meaning I bellow, because if I try to just read it in a normal tone of voice The Cheese-Hater [...]
Healthy versus happy?
I check in fairly often with Lisa Belkin’s Motherlode blog on the New York Times website, which, according to its author, is about “everything parenting-related, including homework, friends, sex, bullying, baby sitters and the work-family balance.” As such, it’s a great place to get some perspective on one’s own parenting mania. The kind of mania [...]
