Purple Pancakes! 

get the recipe here now quick fast go! 

to the wonderful work of CookingMatters xx

“A little food for thought: Food can empower children. Food can inspire change. Food can create community. Food and family are the keys to a simpler healthier world.”

Marc Vetri, “Setting the Table for Better Minds, Better Bodies and Better People”

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“…Food is more than fodder. It is an act of giving and receiving because the experience at table is a communal sharing; talk begins to flow, feelings are expressed, and a sense of well-being takes over.” - Marion Cunningham

Kim Severson, “Marion Cunningham, Home Cooking Advocate, Dies at 90”

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“Even if it’s only once a week…”

Bettina Elias Siegel, “New Study Says Family Dinners Are Overrated: Why I Disagree”

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Marion Cunningham’s obituary is sandwiched between these two other articles for some sort of clever-but-serious reason. I hope her message stays afloat. I think the fate of kids, our bodies, our heads, our days, depends on it floating.

to swimming xx 

what does it look like when we eat together

to doing it, to finding out xx

I think an old, creased, syrup-spotted, melted butter-stained, soft from age and use recipe is a piece of art. Something that lays flat on the counter quietly holding the power to do all these things: be multiplied and halved, be talked about and asked about, nourish us and warm us, introduce us and tighten us, sit us down and put us to bed, connect us to our grandmother’s mother to whom we owe more than our heads can ever fathom.  

This is a recipe for Finnish Pancakes. It is a delightful recipe! Make it for some bodies you love, and/or some bodies you want to nourish, to warm, to tighten to yours.  

Then write the recipe down for yourself and get to staining & creasing it up. 

xx

              Martha: You go, girl.

                     NeverSeconds 

If you don’t know about Martha Payne, aka: “The unsquashable school meal crusader, aged nine,” read up. She is a schoolgirl we can learn from (read: need to learn from). Her simple reports from the cafeteria translate to smart, matter-of-fact wake up calls for the rest of us - for decision makers. I admire her backbone and her persistence.  

to powerful primary schoolers xx 

[winter memory] 

eating with family:

we left slurping chocolate shakes, holding a ribbon-tied box of chocolate dipped baklava, black & white cookies, three pretty meringues, and a lemon square. 

to Astoria Pastry Shop and greektown, xx

a time-warped week ago, i flew home to visit family. michigan was hot & heavy in the first days of july. record temps, dry grasses, a sun that made you squint. the heat storms were exciting, the 4th of july sky in traverse city was alight with fireworks and lightning, and we [michiganders] coped in the ways we know best: large pitchers of cold, sweating lemonade. ice cream stops, daily. if you’re north, great lake dips every 20 minutes. bare feet in the backyard. less clothing, less fabric, less fuss, less, less, less. late meals outside, windows open at night, crickets loud. 

dinner is outside, barefoot, and stripped down to its purest base: vegetables, mostly raw. fruit rinsed, served in a bowl. bean salads. pies & crumbles & another stop for ice cream. 

3 glorious days were spent in traverse city with family and friends. we pulled a few peppermint pink & white radishes from the backyard each day. we ate them raw, with s&p, but! these sound fun:

a zucchini-radish slaw

mint roasted radishes … woowwhoa.  

radishes + pineapples, curious?  there’s avocado in this recipe, too. 

almost time

xx

“Of the many interlocking forms of deprivation experienced by poor and
near-poor children in the United States, food insecurity is one of the
most

readily measured

as well as one of the most

rapidly remediable

through policy changes. Our country, unlike many others in the world,
is clearly capable of producing and distributing sufficient healthful
food to all its inhabitants, constrained only by

political will.”

- Feeding America, Child Food Insecurity: The Economic Impact on our Nation

go be outside. here’s why ^

kidswishh:

#vermont (Taken with Instagram)

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