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Of This Fantastic Peach

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

Bones

It would be easy to forget the bones of last year, to search for new recipes and fresh ingredients. But toward the end of each January, my mother would haul…

Of This Fantastic Peach | January 2015 | By Katherine J. Barrett


All Together Now

Pickiness is why “What’s for dinner, Mom?” drives me crazy. It’s the expectation that not only will a meal magically appear on the dinner table every night, the meal will…

Of This Fantastic Peach | November 2014 | By Katherine J. Barrett


In the Skin of a Marshmallow

It’s a timeless tradition here in the northern woods. When the sun slips behind the ranks of spruce and birch and the swarms of mosquitoes take flight, we scour the…

Of This Fantastic Peach | August 2014 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Dangerous Cooking for Boys

So where are the popular role models for kids like Jon who crave adventure as well as fantastic do-it-myself meals? Where’s the inspiration for kids—boys and girls—who eat danger for…

Of This Fantastic Peach | May 2014 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Tube or Not Tube?

We have our share of mealtime battles, but yogurt-wise, we’d enjoyed a quiet innocence, a simplicity of pure, unadulterated yogurt. So why, why, did I pick that first box of…

Of This Fantastic Peach | February 2013 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Winter Greens

The shift I seek during long, cold January will eventually arrive. The kids will grow. The earth will tilt. Green will sprout from garden beds and flourish into bitter-sweet salads…

Of This Fantastic Peach | January 2013 | By Katherine J. Barrett


What’s Your Ravioli?

Can tradition be transplanted across oceans, seasons, and generations? Can immigrant and expat families uphold tradition when surrounded by vastly different foods and cultures? What, in the end, makes tradition…

Of This Fantastic Peach | December 2012 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Whacked, Whipped, and Wicked

As summer falls into darkness, the Celts believed spirits could pass into our world. They etched faces into vegetables – usually turnips – to welcome deceased relatives and ward off…

Columns, Of This Fantastic Peach | October 2012 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Molasses: The Sweet, the Sticky, the Downright Fishy

My kids are not stew fans — too many foods touching each other. All three boys, however, chopped the vegetables with swash-buckling vengeance. Once bubbling on the stove, our stew…

Of This Fantastic Peach | September 2012 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Blueberry Grunts

Yes, your food columnist christened her new kitchen with that old Kraft standby — and ketchup. In retrospect, I think this humble meal an appropriate launch to my new culinary…

Of This Fantastic Peach | August 2012 | By Katherine J. Barrett


Of This Fantastic Peach

Nourishing our children is a mother’s most primal instinct. The urge to provide begins at conception with the awareness that what feeds our body also builds our child, and continues…

Of This Fantastic Peach | July 2012 | By Katherine J. Barrett


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