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Category Archives: eating well

In the past few years, willpower has been getting more and more attention. From blogs to news articles all of which point to our limited ability to exercise constant decision making of all kinds, including choosing a salad over a basket of fish and chips. It seems we are able to make a finite number […]

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Ideally, eating is a social event, but many of us end up cooking for one. For me, meals are better shared with someone, and savored with conversation and companionship. Many of my meals however are eaten in solitude. I have friends who are happy to eat a bowl of cereal or ice cream for dinner […]

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So many people say they can’t eat breakfast, or they’re not really hungry in the morning, or all they need/want is a cup of coffee to get started. These people are not invited to join my breakfast club. I wake up hungry! In fact morning is the time when I am the most hungry. If […]

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Cooking and teaching someone to cook are vastly different. Both take a certain amount of patience, but teaching requires a very different level of attention. When my daughter was eight I asked her if she wanted to start learning to cook. She was excited, we got a kids cookbook, and I let her choose what she […]

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The words “all you can eat” inspire both joy and horror in me! All you can eat can be a slippery slope, because if I am not paying attention, I can and will eat way too much. I recall a joke my father used to tell about two bubbies at a resort in the Catskills; […]

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