What happens in our bodies is what happens in our kitchen: the more we suppress the real stuff, the more we lose our connection to ourselves, each other, and the true source of our sustenance.
We're all for developing home skills, but this is ridiculous.
Alterations in our food supply and methods of food preparation (or lack thereof) have evinced several detrimental effects.
Canning and preserving food was a common practice to insure not only an adequate annual supply of food for farm families, but also a way to eat fruits, vegetables, and certain meats that otherwise would be more limited in their availability.
Start your child on the path to personal success early: Help them understand the value of their money and why it should be seen as a tool, not a goal.
My parents messed up. Or perhaps my prestigious high school and university did. Maybe I've been oblivious. But somehow I'm 21 -- a legal adult -- and an economics major, yet I don't know the first thing about anything related to money.
For our kids to combat the obesity plague, no single strategy is adequate. We need easy access to affordable good food, plus physical activity, plus kids who are not intimidated by kitchen utensils and raw vegetables.
I would not have thought that the gentle pleasures of being a wife and the mother -- playing a word game with friends and creating a beautiful home -- would be today's pastime for many, many women.
Michael Pollan has now decided that the American Food Crisis is actually the American Cooking Crisis. Why are fewer and fewer folks are preparing healthy meals from scratch?
So, the "secret" is not really a secret -- it is a time-honored tool in a good home cook's arsenal. Are you ready for this? It's called menu planning. Painfully obvious, no?
At every crossroads, prices nudge us to take one course of action or another. In a way, this is obvious: every decision amounts to a choice among options to which we assign different values.
"The biggest thing about cooking is the story about it," says Amuse * Bouche blogger Bradley O'Bryan Hawks. "The story always makes the food taste better."
More news on inequality for children according to the education levels of their mothers. Do more educated parents do it better, or are there other thi...
According to a report estimating how much it would cost to pay someone else for the work we do at home, stay-at-home moms would get $117,856, and moms with outside jobs would earn $71,860 above their salaries.
Starting in the early 20th century, home economics programs around the country used real babies to teach mothering skills to college students.
We are Americans and we are getting an F in educating our children. Wake up and smell the global competition. We need to let our elected leaders know that education is the most important issue in this election.
