The topic around food and children comes up very often. For example, I know many parents who feel very hopeless and start arranging their lives around food. While I totally understand this, because I was one of them too, I now see that my own attachments and beliefs about food determined my relationship with my [...]
As promised, I would like to talk more about the Achuars, an Amazonian tribe in Ecuador, which I met on a trip I took with my family this summer. We travelled in a nine-seater airplane about an hour into the Rainforest until we landed in a hand carved airstrip. Ten families lived in that specific [...]
Take a second to reflect with me… What’s your family like? What’s great about your family? What’s unique and special about them? Family can mean many different things. For some it includes cousins, aunts, uncles, second cousins and great grandmothers. For others it is a tight nuclear group of 3-4 people. What is family for [...]
“I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity”. Jamie Oliver TED 2010 A few weeks ago while having breakfast, I read the transcript of Larry King’s CNN interview with Michelle Obama about healthcare. During [...]