This summer I was missing homemade bread, because I wasn’t willing to turn my oven on. I decided to try the flatbread recipes I normally make (pizza and Focaccia bread) on a grill. Che bello! They came out beautifully. After all, before modern ovens, people made flatbreads on an open fire. (For more on flatbreads [...]

Flatbreads are one of the oldest known foods. Various flatbreads have fed every generation, probably beginning with Adam and Eve. Flatbreads start with whole grains, ground to flour, mixed with water and sometimes a little olive oil and yeast.  They’re often baked over an open fire. Most cultures have a version of flatbread. The Greeks [...]

According to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey most Americans do NOT. They found that 56 percent oppose sin taxes on sodas and junk food. Twelve percent are undecided. A sin tax is taxing soda and other sugar-laden products sabotaging the health of many Americans. Here’s what President Obama said concerning sin taxes on [...]

Last week, I spent a few days in Redondo Beach visiting my three grandchildren and my daughter, Julie-ann. Three PM Sunday Julie-ann dropped me off at the LA Airport for the flight home. On my way to the gate, I stopped in the bookstore and purchased In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. I figured [...]

It’s never too early to begin a baby’s journey to healthy eating. By introducing and then continually offering your baby whole foods, you’ll steer clear of many of the common pitfalls often made by parents. In addition, when the Baby Bite steps with multi-sensory learning are incorporated from the beginning of your baby’s eating experience, picky eating will never become a problem. It [...]

Eat Whole Foods A typical grocery store stocks 40,000 items. Ninety percent of food dollars is spent on processed food. We are used to opening a can or a box or a bag for most of our meals. When I mention the idea of eating only real food (food that has been minimally processed), many can’t [...]

Kid Foods Are Fake Foods Kid food looks and tastes like food; offering little or absolutely no nutrition whatsoever. Real food is a substance eaten for nourishment. You can be assured of a picky eater, by regularly purchasing kid foods, training little taste buds to prefer fake foods. If you want to know what kid food [...]

Finally, an article about daily nutrients that makes perfect “Nonna-sense”! In a recent academic review, a University of Minnesota professor in the School of Public Health has concluded that food, as opposed to specific nutrients, may be key to having a healthy diet. Do you think it could be that simple? Food gurus all have [...]

I wouldn’t have believed it if you told me a few years ago, that I’d be making casseroles for my dogs. I thought I was feeding them the most nutritious of dog foods. In fact, it was a brand sold in whole foods stores. I mused about it in my book, Baby Bites, “There’s something [...]