For many families, the kitchen serves as a central location for catching up with loved ones and building lasting bonds between parents and their kids. If your kids show a keen interest in food (or, at least, in enjoying their favorite meals and snacks), getting them involved in the cooking process from an early age can create culinary habits that serve them for the rest of their lives. If you’re wondering how to put your kids to work in the kitchen at any age, we have a comprehensive guide to cooking tasks that best suit children at different phases of development, from aged two right up to aged 17. Ages 2-4: Putting ingredients in bowls and mixing The toddler years...
The dinner was exquisite. Every preparation completed. Pressed, linen tablecloth. Pristine, individual napkins. The finest china and crystal. Polished silverware. And that’s where everything came to grief. But I am getting ahead of myself . . . My Dad’s eldest sister, Emily was hostess-ing a dinner party. For her good friend and fellow teacher, Miss Duff. It was to be a fairly formal affair, designed to impress her friend with the fact that Emily belonged to an excellent family of good breeding and proper deportment. For a woman who taught proper deportment every day in her Home Economics classes, this was of vital importance. Unfortunately, she made one mistake. She invited said family. All was ready. Everything laid out in faultless order. Emily...
— Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission.Backyard barbecues have been filling up the social calendar, but sometimes you just want to blow the same ol’ popsicle stand. It’s time to find a new site for your outdoor gathering. We’ve got some ideas on what to bring to a picnic. Beyond stretching out a blanket at a park or on the lawn and covering it with snacks on paper plates, turn your picnic into more of a fancy feast with all the accouterments you might find inside your home. With picnic ideas like gorgeous, eco-friendly place settings, comfy surroundings (read: blaring sun and biting nuisances don’t stand a chance)...
Tantrums are a normal, if distressing, part of being and raising a toddler – more than half of young children will have one or more tantrums per week, according to the National Association of School Psychologists. But knowing that doesn’t make these meltdowns any easier to deal with in the moment. Your kid is lying on the floor scream-crying, and you feel like you might start scream-crying at any second, too. Tantrums are commonly triggered by hunger, tiredness, discomfort and frustration. They often show up in the second year of life, when kids’ language skills are beginning to develop but expressing their feelings – and managing them – is a struggle. “Young children lack the physical, motor and language skills...
The competition doesn’t stop for Leia Gaccione. Owner of South + Pine in Morristown, Gaccione has become comfortable with being on camera in the kitchen, previously competing on Beat Bobby Flay and even winning an episode of Chopped last summer. Starting March 3, Gaccione can be seen competing on Bravo’s 19th season of Top Chef, which she calls the “créme de la créme” of cooking shows. “It was like an out-of-body experience,” says Gaccione, who has been a fan of Top Chef since season one. “It’s strange to be a fan of the show and then be on it.” This season, 15 talented chefs from around the country are competing for $250,000 in Houston, a city known for diversity in population and...
