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Michelle Obama’s Netflix cooking show can help teach our kids a valuable lesson that has nothing to do with food.

by Liz Gumbinner | Feb 11, 2021 | Columns

Parents are buzzing about Michelle Obama’s new Netflix children’s cooking show, Waffles + Mochi, just announced this week. And yes, I’m excited too! There’s going to be a lot written about it when it starts streaming March 16, no doubt. But...

Netflix’s “Nailed It” is a baking show for the rest of us. And our kids, too.

by Marsha Takeda-Morrison | Apr 1, 2018 | Columns

For those of us who have ever struggled to make a simple batch of edible cupcakes, or bake a cake we saw on Pinterest that might actually look like the one on Pinterest – Netflix’s Nailed It is the show we’ve been waiting for. Inspired by all of the baking-fail memes...

Jennifer Garner’s Pretend Cooking Show will make you love cooking. And Jennifer.

by Marsha Takeda-Morrison | Mar 22, 2018 | Recipes

I just watched all three episodes of Jennifer Garner’s Pretend Cooking Show and I think I’m hooked. And actually, I’m surprised. Let’s face it – we’ve all grown a little weary of most cooking shows, right? You can’t change the channel without seeing someone...

13 outrageously cool Instagram food art accounts with photos you can replicate never.

by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 17, 2015 | Columns

I have this growing obsession with Instagram food art accounts. It kind of blows my mind to see plates as canvases, only instead of watercolors or pastels, the media of choice include fruits and veggies, candies and cookies. Not that I’d ever present these as...

Web coolness: Emoji treats, the Mindy Kaling burger, and an ice cream sandwich recipe that’s calling our name

by Cool Mom Staff | Sep 7, 2015 | Columns

Here are some of our favorite food links from around the web this week. Hope you like them too. S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches from What’s Gaby Cooking let you squeeze a little more summer out of summer. (You know how we like S’mores!) We loooove...