I’m no food Nazi. I’m not going to force my son to eat if he’s not hungry. I think that can only instill a natural desire to overeat in adulthood – or even earlier. So I was absolutely mortified when my girlfriend told me the principal at her kids’ new school pours leftover scraps the kids leave behind after lunch into buckets marked for each grade. He then weighs the buckets and the grade with the lightest load at the end of the semester gets a prize. The ritual is to encourage kids to eat all the food prepared for …read more

You say tomato, I say embargo.
Or at least that’s what they say in Santa Fe. The New Mexico Environment Department and the New Mexico Department of Health is mandating that “no one buy, eat, sell or serve food containing raw red plum, raw red Roma, or raw red round tomatoes grown and harvested in Mexico or Florida unless cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.”
That’s a lot of qualifiers.
As I write, vigilant New Mexico officials are standing at the state’s border interviewing every last tomato that enters the Land of Enchantment asking where they’ve been, whose fecal matter they’ve …read more