Hosting in the Electronic Age.
While Emily still has some good ideas, things have changed. In the digital age we now live in, we try to jam as many things as humanly possible into our […]
Category Archives: Commentaries
Soul of a Recipe
A recipe is the soul of the cook, written down in physical form. When you use it, you recreate that moment where something was born from nothing– like a mini Big Bang that you can control.
Cooking isn’t set in stone like many believe, it’s a constant flight of exploration even for the “experts.”
The easy -You Can Do Anything- trap.
Our lives aren’t single-tracked– we have parallel lines running all the time. These lines each satisfy a need we have, and when combined make up our whole person.
What we need to teach our kiddos, and each other, is the strength to look at all of our lines running parallel, acknowledge which ones we need, and pursue those instead of killing ourselves pursuing all of them simultaneously… or just one of them singularly.
Are Our Kids Actually Who We Think They Are?
So if you take a kid who’s already not eating the best diet, which is probably causing slight behavioral problems from sugar highs and lack of nutrients, but nothing that’s easy to differentiate from typical toddler (or hey, teenager) behavior, and then add something else on top of it, like a widely known and “accepted” allergy medication, at what point does the straw break the camel’s back?
…At what point is the kiddo being affecting by all these little behavior-changing inputs so much that they’re acting like a whole different person?
…The next time a kid loses their shit or is just being an absolute mindless raging ass, pause to ask the question- are they fully in control? Are their bodies being given the right building blocks to mentally succeed and allow the choice of good behavior? Is cardboard food sparking behavioral changes that we then medicate to fix, and keep cycling down from there.
…where is the root value in how we’re spending our time, and should more of it be used making better food?
Children & Restaurants; why we’re failing and how to fix it.
…we adults lose our minds when someone treats us differently because of our gender or skin color, but in a restaurant we immediately segregate our children with crap food and lowered expectations and think it’s normal; do the math.
…when we’re told we can’t have something, even if it’s something we didn’t want, we tend to falsely value it more.
…we can’t shift the burden of those desires to recapture past freedoms onto the people around us by bringing our kiddos somewhere we, deep down, know we probably shouldn’t.
…but we can find a middle ground of respecting the space of non-parents (or solo parents), and also seeing if parents in a bind need a few minutes of help and kindness. Or even just patient understanding.
Peel & Cleaver 