If you spend any amount of time writing and thinking about kids’ relationship with food and their bodies, a tip you’ll run into early and often is to serve meals “family style.” This means you stop pre-plating your kids’ meals …
If you spend any amount of time writing and thinking about kids’ relationship with food and their bodies, a tip you’ll run into early and often is to serve meals “family style.” This means you stop pre-plating your kids’ meals …
For years, whenever anyone asked me for advice on starting a freelance writing career, I said “invest every dime you can in childcare so you can protect your work time.” When I wrote the acknowledgements to The Eating Instinct, …
The summer I was 16, I went to a creative writing camp at a former women’s college with a lot of early 90s feminists and theater kids. (Everybody wore Doc Martens and flannel, even in 90 degree heat, and/or really …
Here’s a milestone to celebrate: Last week Amy Palanjian and I posted the 60th episode of the Comfort Food Podcast, our podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves. Our guest, Jessica Jones, RDN of …
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that I write so much about eating disorders and food struggles, even though I’ve never had an eating disorder myself. The first answer to that is: I’m a woman who grew up in modern …
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday break and is ready to save the world now because 2020, we’ve got work to do. But first, a look backwards.
Here are my favorite things I wrote last year……
A few weeks ago, America’s Drunk Moms (Hoda and Jenna) decided to intermittently fast their way through the holiday season and we’ve been subjected to all manner of diet culture-y banality from them ever since. When I posted about it…
A question that I’m asked repeatedly (by readers, podcast listeners, and social media folk) is some version of: “Do you have something my spouse can read to get on board with this?” (Sometimes replace spouse with parent or babysitter. Mostly, …
If you’ve been feeling over-confident about gender roles lately — maybe because so many women are running for president, or because She Said is on the NYT Bestseller list and Harvey Weinstein got indicted again — you can slow that …
I’ve spent a lot of this summer feeling a little bleh. Uninspired. Burnt out. The Eating Instinct has been out for the better part of a year and while I still hear from readers weekly (thank you!) its “moment,” so …
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An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.