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 [...]
Local food hits the big time
There’s a mind-boggling article in today’s New York Times about big corporations’ attempt to appeal to consumers by going “local.” Among the efforts is Frito-Lay’s new ad campaign, which will feature some of the “local” farmers who grow some of the 2 billion pounds of potatoes they use to make chips every year. “We grow [...]
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 [...]
