A Book for the Season and a Recipe for the Books

by | Nov 20, 2018 | 5 comments

This is just one of the many beautiful illustrations in Cranberry Thanksgiving, a gem of a book that I had growing up. Maggie, Grandmother and Mr. Whiskers, warm by the hearth, decide to let the thieving Mr. Horace inside to share the last piece of pumpkin pie....

Eat Together! Why and How

by | Oct 27, 2018 | 3 comments

Why eat together? When given the facts, the answer’s a no brainer: because it’s ALL GOOD NEWS when your family eats together. A simple Google search on the family meal turns up article upon article touting the benefits for families when they share meals together on a...

How I came to The Broccoli Philosophy

by | Oct 2, 2018 | 0 comments

Some of my earliest food memories are of the nightly dinners my mother devotedly prepared for our family. I say devotedly because I don’t think she loved preparing these meals. She loved us, though, and when I was a young child Mom faithfully had a hot meal on the...