The girls won the prestigious (in the food world) James Beard award last year. When asked how the fame of winning the Beard award affected her daughters’ lives, Heidi said, “Well, their confidence level in the kitchen—and outside it, too—has grown hugely. But it’s not a big deal at school. They have all their other activities, the way most kids do—ice skating, piano, Brownies, swimming, drama.” In fact, Heidi reports, producing the webcasts every two weeks is really “not a big deal.”
Winning the Beard award, however, did make quite a wave in the family’s life. Shortly after the award was announced at the gala in New York City, the girls’ parents turned on their cell phones and were astounded to find their message boxes full. “We thought we’d see the Statue of Liberty on our visit,” said Heidi, but the next day they were on the PBS program All Things Considered, and for the next few (thankfully, summer) months, there were appearances on the Today Show with Al Roker, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Rachel Ray and five offers from publishers to do the Spatulatta cookbook. The girls just finished work on the book, which Scholastic expects to be on the shelves this fall.
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