In the Paper

Wow, it's been a long time . . .

Recipes and Food and Health

• I loved this post at Motherlode on mealtime rules--and all the comments (including mine own!
• NYC Ed policy: Pop Tarts are good, homemade baked goods are bad.
• Mmmm, a recipe for cranberry bean-kale soup--and believe it or not I have both in my house!
• A NYTimes take on Michael Pollan's Food Rules. If you don't read the book, read the article.
• On city nut roasters, a disappearing breed. At least I got my own stove top one for Christmas, to tide me over when I can't get those glazed peanuts!
• Check out the crazy results of FDA rules on servings and how one bowl of microwave soup is actually 2 servings!
• Dexter's dad goes healthy--with pretzels--from the series on cooking with and for a child in the NYTimes.
• "Generation Snack"
• Mmmm, a whole wheat muffin recipe.
• And baked frittatas from around the Mediterranean.
• And recipes for bulgur (of which I now have a bag).
• And recipes for beans from Greece!
• And yet another discussion of better bread with less kneading'
• And for Mama, do it yourself yakisoba.
• Another great essay by writer-turned-nurse Theresa Brown, on "bully nurses." (Hope you don't know any of these, Aunt Banana).
• Does one cookie hurt? On dieting strategies.
• On the importance of touch: it'll make you more successful and happy!
• More health directives: to eat more slowly, get off your tush . . . .
• But no one knows what to say about salt.

Parenting

• It's a playground out there . . . .
• Another touching essay on Motherlode, this one on losing a child.
• Advice for those who employ childcare workers: how to speak "nanny."
• A new book on a mom's assisted suicide.
• Motherlode on the parents of Olympians. Can you imagine that could be our kids in 13 ish years?
• In Loco Parentis: A scholar's about-face on education policy.

Art and Culture

• Sleuthing on Faulkner and a plantation diary. (good even for non-fans).
• Some letters by Salinger (alright, I didn't like Catcher in the Rye but I'm fascinated now by its author)
• The medical history of King Tut--it sounds as if he had a short, ill life.

On Texas (which I always hate to see in the papers; it's never good)

• On how Texas is contributing to the miseducation of America, through textbooks. (Don't read if you're a liberal and have high blood pressure).
• (And certainly don't read this, which is all about how TX kept a man in prison despite having the signed confession of the actual murderer. And now only exonerated the man, years after he died of asthma in prison).