A Conversation with Louisa Kasdon of Let’s Talk About Food

Posted by Tracy Ilene Miller on September 22, 2011 under Balanced Eating, Healthy Living, Lifestyle

Louisa Kasdon talks to iBeamforLifeLouisa Kasdon, a former economist, is also a former restaurant operator turned food writer and editor, most recently of Stuff magazine. And that’s only the short list. Kasdon is always busy, recrafting and reshaping her relationship with the topics she writes about and food — as much as it is changing in our culture.

A member of the Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table and founder and CEO of Boston’s Let’s Talk About Food Festival (in partnership with the Boston Museum of Science) , Kasdon has become a staunch advocate for public education around food and health. In conversation with iBeamforLife blogger Tracy Ilene Miller, Kasdon reveals how shifts in our culture are galvanizing forces in the restaurant world, departments of public health, the educational system and beyond, creating a movement worth watching — and joining.

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Meal deals? Are raw deals for kids, but they do still offer teaching opportunities

Posted by Tracy Ilene Miller on September 9, 2011 under Lifestyle, Making choices, Parenting

This summer, my daughter proudly crowed a phrase she picked up in first grade: “I’m a scientist, Mama!”

Scientists, she learned, observe, gather information (and specimens, which could account for the 20 different bugs she’s collected in her outside “workshop”), ask questions and then make decisions or come to conclusions.

For a mother continuously gearing up to shield her daughter from those forces that beckon her to develop poor eating habits, this proclamation was one key to my summer strategy for continuing to develop my daughter’s internal compass about food.

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