Fri 25 Apr 2008
Cookin’ with teens
Posted by sandi under Uncategorized
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My friend Carol has more energy than most people. She’s written several books, about a million newspaper and magazine stories, AND she’s flown off to all parts of the world to make full-length, incredible documentaries. Plus, she volunteers in the school system and runs the Fairfield Writers Workshop where she teaches three classes a week. All this, and she’s a fabulous cook. Oh, and she’s the mother of two teenage boys.
I long ago gave up trying to figure out where she gets all her energy, never mind trying to keep up with her.
Recently, she let me in on her latest project. She wants to have a cooking show for teenagers, because (1) she’s noticed that quite a few teenagers are left to figure out their own meals while their parents are at work, and (2) that usually means they eat a lot of fast food, and (3) that’s also perhaps why the levels of childhood obesity are so high because kids don’t know the first thing about nutrition and how fun and easy it can be to put together a healthy meal all by themselves.
So she’s made this wonderful You Tube video as a promo to her first show (while she’s waiting for people to send her vast sums of money to finance this worthwhile project)…and she sent it along to me, and I thought it was great, so I’m sharing it with you.
Go watch it. Naturally I can’t embed it into the text here, because wordpress and you tube are not friends…but here’s the link. Enjoy! And let me know what you think, and I’ll pass your advice and comments along to Carol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dB442T5mc






May 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
We need a new method of teaching basic home ec. An article in the NYTimes today speaks to this need, but to moms, too — we all need to relearn some basic things. I’m writing a lot on this on upcoming posts because we’ve lost our simple connection on doing these things in a healthy way.
Thanks for this link….