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Family Dinner: Madeleine L’Engle’s thoughts (and a few of my own)
My family just returned from a week at our friends’ house in Virginia. They live in a little town outside Charlottesville, right in the middle of beautiful farms and many wineries. We tubed down the...
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5 easy ways to get kids interested in family dinner
Simply letting kids create a flavored water for the dinner beverage can get them more interested in actually coming to the table. When it's their creation, they want to join in. When you’re working on...
View ArticleFamily dinner: Laurie David’s TEDx Talk – Dinner makes a difference
A couple of weeks ago I told you that I was going to be adding a discussion of the importance of family dinner weekly on SJL. Family dinner has become as important of an issue (I hate to call it an...
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Family Dinner: Linger longer at the table
There are nights when family dinner is eat and run. Wednesday nights this year will be like that for us. One boy has soccer practice at 6:30; the other has confirmation class at 7 p.m. But we’ll still...
View ArticleFamily Dinner: Don’t eat it in the minivan
Heinz has designed its new ketchup packet for optimum use in the minivan. In fact, it tested the packet by watching consumers in 20 fake minivan interiors as they put ketchup on their burgers, fries...
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Locavore Odds and Ends: What a week!
I had the opportunity to witness and photograph the first lady, the White House chefs, and students from local D.C. schools at the fall harvest of the White House kitchen garden. What a week! The sun...
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Follow my Twitter feed for updates from Food Day’s Marquee event in Times Square
If you want some real time updates from today’s Food Day Marquee event in Times Square, follow my Twitter feed today. I’ll be there with the Blog for Family Dinner team helping to spread the word...
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Read about reclaiming Family Dinner from the latest ‘Edible Jersey’ issue
In the latest issue of Edible Jersey, I have a feature piece in the Food For Thought section titled Reclaiming Family Dinner that talks about the amazing benefits of having dinner, or meals, together...
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