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 …
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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 …
NEW YORK TIMES // MAY 2020
How parents in food-insecure households are stretching meals and struggling to nourish their kids during the pandemic.
I posted this pic on Instagram a few weeks ago, of my effort to give our 4-year-old choices she would enjoy (rather than whine about) at snack time. The goal here was not to police her sugar intake or anything …
I’ve got a new piece up on Slate on how repealing the Affordable Care Act could impact families like mine (yes, even with employer-sponsored insurance). And it will do even more damage to poor families relying on Medicaid to pay …
By now, you may have read about last week’s USDA report on what low-income families buy with their food stamps (officially known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP benefits). Or more accurately, you may have read the initial media …
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Pretty Talk programming today because I need to tell you about another labor of love project hitting newsstands now. It’s one of those stories I haven’t been able to get out of my head and …
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
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