Recently I tried a recipe that was a legitimate success with my son. It was for African Peanut Soup, which apparently originated in West Africa after the peanut was brought from South America in the 16th century. I was thinking that adding nut butters to savory dishes would be a wonderful idea for children. It adds a … Continue reading African Peanut Soup
As we look at foods for babies and children around the world, one staple is grain porridges or farinas. Today in the US, we often purchase boxed baby rice or oatmeal cereal to do this, but there are many other ways if we look around the world and into the past. Homemade hot cereal is admittedly … Continue reading The World of Porridge
You may be aware that there is currently a debate raging about school lunches in the United States. Books such as School Lunch Politics by historian Susan Levine or Lunch Wars by activist Amy Kalafa have been recently published; activism is gaining momentum; and even the first lady has taken on childhood diet as a main initiative. … Continue reading The ABCs of School Lunch
In case you haven’t seen or heard about this project, I wanted to call to your attention an amazing work of photojournalism called What the World Eats, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, published in 2005. Basically, the idea is that families from every corner of the world were photographed next to the food they eat in … Continue reading What the World Eats
The Children's Table 