by Anne Wolfe Postic | Jan 30, 2019 | Columns, Tips + Tricks
There you sit, afraid to order because you really want that tasty slaw made from that crispy root vegetable. It’s right there on the menu, you know how to spell it, but… jicama? So you point, which works, but it would have been nice to say it out loud. We...
by Kate Etue | Jan 17, 2019 | Columns, Tips + Tricks
Ever since last year, the story has stayed with me about English 13-year-old, Karanbir Cheema, who died when another student threw a piece of cheese down his shirt. He was so highly allergic, that he went into cardiac arrest before he even arrived at the hospital. He...
by Liz Gumbinner | Jan 15, 2019 | Columns
There’s both something tear-jerkingly beautiful and terribly sad about the thousands of crowdfunding campaigns that have popped up to support furloughed federal workers people during what’s now the longest government shutdown in US history. Hard-working...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 21, 2018 | Columns, Tips + Tricks
This week on Spawned with Kristen + Liz, our weekly podcast about parenting and parenting culture (you are listeners, right? RIGHT? ), we covered a topic that should be right up your alley, Cool Mom Eats readers — kids and nutrition. We were really lucky to get...
by Marsha Takeda-Morrison | Sep 6, 2018 | Columns
When my kids were in elementary school, I remember coming home from a grocery shopping trip and rearranging an entire cupboard to accommodate all of the juice boxes I had bought. I had to shove aside my pastas, rices and fancy olive oils to make way for endless rows...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 1, 2018 | Columns
Yesterday I caught this uber-viral tweet from Amna @AGlasgowGirl on Twitter that made me laugh. She wanted to remind us all that when we order “naan bread” in an Indian restaurant, we’re actually ordering “bread bread.” naan bread means...
