I am not alone
Every once in a while, the universe conspires to remind you that no, you are not the only person suffering from whatever frustration ails you. As you all know, my particular frustration is funny and wonderful and red-headed and soon to be five years old. I never feel quite so lame as when I watch [...]
'Tis the season
I’m in full-on holiday mode these days. If it’s not writing about cookies for the Food Network and Cooking Channel blogs (today it’s macaroons–yay, Hannukah!–and pecan bourbon balls), it’s pondering upcoming festive dinners–Christmas, New Year’s, random dinner parties. You name it, I’m obsessing over the menu for it. It’s cold and rainy outside, but in [...]
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 [...]
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: Calivin Trillin
There are so many reasons to read Calvin Trillin that I can’t even begin to get into them here. I’m tempted to say it’s because he’s so funny, but even that isn’t wholly right because About Alice, the book he wrote about his wife after she died in 2001 is one of the most moving [...]
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 [...]
