Can picky eating be transformed into kids who have the skills to try new foods? Will we ever enjoy family meals together? You might be surprised, especially at what it takes. Instead of recipes, raising happy, healthy little foodies calls for curiosity, patience and courage. Moving beyond picky eating is more about character than kale….
What would Ina Garten do? (Picky Part 3)
How the Food Network taught me not to feed a family. I was a single girl in New York for so many years that a PB&J with baby carrots on the side became my default dinner. Why cook for one? Unless I was hosting a dinner party and changed gears. Here’s how that looked: First,…
Welcome to Italy. And Parenthood. (Picky Part 2)
Please. Just. Eat. It was raining babies in Rome. My husband and I left New York City, applied our Type A personalities to parenthood, and had three children in four years. Barely settled as expats in Italy, we had no support team, no nearby parents or aunties. It was a blurry haze of diapers, sweet…
How Moving to Italy and Back Taught a Mom of 4 to Find Peace with Her Picky Eaters
Picky Series, Part 1 “Veloce! Veloce!” My bulging belly threatened to burst from the bathing suit I bought a month earlier in the Italian department store near our new apartment. With no maternity section, I settled for a matronly black and white number bearing a striking resemblance to a real life orca. Since moving to…