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This and That - April 2008

If children are our future, it seems we’re looking at a diet of chicken fingers and fries—unless we get them into the kitchen. Rozanne Gold knows exactly how to do this. What kid wouldn’t want to make Burger on a Stick or Strawberries in Nightgowns, both found in her cookbook Kids Cook 1-2-3? You’ll find her Mother’s Day menu here.

Stacey Antine, also knows how to get kids in the kitchen. She started Health Barn USA (page 14), which teaches kids how to grow their own fruits and vegetables and how to cook with them too.

Speaking of fun, when my kids tore into their own little packets of Pesto Shrimp with Couscous (our cover recipe), they were thrilled. The French technique of steaming food inside parchment paper is called en papillote. And it provides everyone with his or her own individual personal packet, and who doesn’t love that. No sharing, or worrying about your spouse’s fork drifting over to your plate.

Speaking of sharing (or not), are you one of those who always has to have a taste? Personally, I have a severe case of “plate envy,” where my husband’s meal always looks better than mine. What are your stories or pet peeves about dinner etiquette? Share them at our blog. Locavore
Do you buy and use locally grown ingredients and seasonally available foods? If so, you’re a “locavore.” Combining the Latin words locus (place) and voro (eat), the word was recently selected by the Oxford University Press as the word of the year.

One of our favorite locavores is author Barbara Kingsolver who with her family, lived, worked and ate off the family farm for an entire year. She and her daughter Camille document the experience beautifully in their book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (HarperCollins Publishers, 2007).

Don’t have buttermilk the cake recipe calls for? No worries. In baked goods, you can substitute an equal amount of yogurt or sour cream.

Don’t know? You’re not alone. All of us are occasionally stumped as to how to pronounce a dish or food (that’s why we love ordering the #7 at the Chinese restaurant). Say no more. Just go to relishmag.com/cookabulary for a politically correct, phonetically correct and internationally correct way to say what you eat.

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