by Deborah Quinn | Aug 20, 2013 | Children, food, Kids, Politics
I’m running a series of posts from the past while I’m traveling this week. Have you seen “Food, Inc.?” It will change the way you think about what we think is food… Liam stayed home from soccer camp for two days this week. He came home...
by Deborah Quinn | Mar 3, 2013 | Books, family, food, growing up, Kids, Parenting
Yesterday around dinner time, I asked Liam if he wanted chicken in a tortilla or just plain chicken with rice (I know, what a dazzling array of options. Don’t tell Ina Garten; she’d just feel threatened). Liam, sprawled on his bed in his fuzzy bathrobe,...
by Deborah Quinn | Dec 12, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, food, Monday Listicle, UAE
Mid-December and the madness is upon us: students trapped in end-of-semester zombie-state, with circles under their eyes down to their jawlines; piles of (as yet ungraded) papers; emails from Grandma asking what the boys want for Christmas presents; a round of holiday...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 25, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, family, food, lost in translation, NaBloPoMo, UAE
I left most of my cookbooks in New York when we moved out here. With epicurious and all the other food websites (dinnerdujour, anyone? or the fantastically named ezrapoundcake?) I figured I could use that space to pack more of Caleb’s important Sticks and...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 15, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, expat, food
The other night, schedules finally meshed, and a friend and I arranged to meet for a drink at a hotel near the soccer field where our kids were having practice together. It’s been one of those ridiculous logistics things – the night that I could have a...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 2, 2012 | Abu Dhabi, food, NaBloPoMo
I cook at lot in the fall. Something about that first chill in the air that makes me want to get all Ma Ingalls and make big pots of rib-sticking food, much of which I freeze for the winter months. Of course Ma Ingalls didn’t have a freezer but you take my...
