At home in Palo Alto or Portland in her family’s “center of gravity” (a.k.a. the kitchen), Michelle Tam, founder of the award-winning food blog Nom Nom Paleo, has a goal: no more short-order cookin’. “When the kids were little, I fell into the trap of trying to please everyone by cooking one thing for me and …
Sarah Copeland built a career out of making home cooking more accessible for the masses. The former food director of Real Simple magazine and Food Network vet just released her third cookbook, Every Day is Saturday, offering recipes and strategies for elevating weeknight dinners from “good enough” to great. Sarah, a busy mother of two, …
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Every other month, I gather with a dozen or so women to share dishes we’ve made from a specific cookbook. Mind you, usually, I make the kind of food that qualifies as “easy weeknight meals,” meaning it uses ingredients I tend to already have, requires a minimal number of pots, and keeps well so I …
When it comes to tater tots, what’s not to like? The little golden cylinders are perfect for small hands, and they’re at home alongside almost any main course. Which is why it’s a shame that more families don’t make them at home. It’s surprisingly easy, according to Dan Whalen, author of Tots! 50 Tot-ally Awesome …
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Picky eaters aren’t made; they’re born. That’s the realization food and culture writer Joshua David Stein had when his first son, Achilles, started (not) eating solid food. “Food is a big part of my life, but the only way Achilles and I interacted about food was through fighting,” Stein says. He turned to children’s books …
