Tonight at dinner: Me: “How’s your spaghetti?” FoodieTot: “Not good. There’s something wrong with it.” Me: “What’s wrong with it?” FoodieTot: “It has tomatoes in it.” He did consent to eat several bites, trying to avoid the visible tomato pieces. I used a different brand of crushed tomatoes tonight, which had a more visible chunk […]
Kids vs. Tomatoes
February 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments
Tags: food for thought · food news
Slow Food Cliff Notes
September 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Slow Food Cliff Notes
While CNN may have been distracted by some political events taking place in Denver and Minneapolis, all eyes in the locavore world were on San Francisco this past weekend, where Slow Food Nation attempted to show the world what eating real food means. Slow Food International was founded in Italy as a protest to the […]
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Compromise and Indulgences
July 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments
This week, the Washington Post‘s Mighty Appetite blog is hosting an Eat Local Challenge. I signed up, even though we are already doing the One Local Summer challenge, and frankly, at this time of year it’s almost more of a challenge not to eat local — at least when you spend as much time at […]
Tags: eatLocalDC · ingredients · one local summer