Archive for June, 2008
Wow. Grandma’s kind of a bitch, huh?
Friday, June 27th, 2008There’s a food-wine-travel piece by Florence Fabricant in today’s NYTimes about her recent trip with her two granddaughters to Disney World.
Now, I am not especially a Disney enthusiast. In fact, the last time I went (long before I had a kid), I had to be physically removed from what was then The Monsanto Hall […]
Genius.
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I am generally pretty anti-frozen foods, because it uses all that energy to freeze it and ship it frozen and keep it frozen in the grocery store.
I’m usually anti-individual packaging, because it’s just so much waste to be thrown out.
Yet, I still think this is so brilliant:
And if it makes people say I think I […]
Why haven’t I been posting about food recently?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008I can sum up the reason in two words:
Wii. Fit.
Here’s a little film1 of how it works, if you’re out of the video-game-peripherals loop.
Upon buying the Wii Fit, which is basically an oversized scale with a bunch of really fun games, we learned a.) my kid was solidly in the underweight category, which I […]
Amazing.
Thursday, June 5th, 2008A consumer advocacy group called on the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday to ban the use of eight artificial colorings in food because the additives may cause hyperactivity and behavior problems in some children.
Maybe that doesn’t mean much to you, but as the parent of kid who is sensitive to food dyes, this means so […]



