Category: Food for Thought
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#FridayFavorites: Mustard Greens Are So Meltingpot and So Good
Every Friday, I try to highlight some of my favorite things here on the Meltingpot and being that I’m an Aquarius and a little bit quirky, my favorite things can range from a good book to a new hair product. But this week, my current crush is on mustard greens. That’s right, a very underappreciated…
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Breakfast, Kids and International Flavors
Hi Meltingpot Readers, If you could sum up Ms. Meltingpot’s favorite things in the world, children, breakfast foods and international travel would probably make the top-ten list. Well, the New York Times combined these three things in stupendous photo essay this week called, “What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast” in their Sunday magazine.…
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Soul Food: Deconstructed & Delicious
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Sometimes I really love my job as a writer and cultural thinker. It sounds very nebulous to describe myself that way and granted, there’s not a lot of money in the business of thinking and talking, but it does provide some wonderful opportunities. Like last night. I had the honor of playing…
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Look What I Bought!
Hi Meltingpot Readers, All summer long, I was trying to teach my kids the value of money. So, we literally saved every penny we found on the street with the goal of purchasing something we all really wanted. Once you start looking, it’s amazing how many people walk over money in the street…if it’s a…
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My Kids are Food Snobs. Hooray!
Hi Meltingpot Readers, This past weekend el esposo and I drove the boys down to North Carolina to stay with my parents for spring break. Granted it snowed there yesterday so they won’t be coming home with a tan and sand in their shoes, but hey, at least they’re down South. El esposo and I…
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Wednesday Round-Up: Finding Zion, Fried Chicken and Black Women in Britain.
Hi Meltingpot Readers, It’s Wednesday, I’ve searched the web, so you don’t have to. Let’s get to those tasty, new links. 1. Check out this quickie but quirky interview with novelist turned memoir writer, Emily Raboteau. Her new book, Searching for Zion is travelogue, crossed with journalism, mixed with memoir. In the book, Raboteau travels…
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Kimchi and Cheddar: Korean Food Gets Cheesy
Hi Meltingpot Readers, Here’s something for my fusion foodie friends. Yesterday I was working hard at my office at Temple University and I didn’t want to venture far to grab a bite for lunch. As luck would have it, there’s a brand new food truck parked right outside my building called Wingo Taco. I guessed…
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Happy Holidays from Ms. Meltingpot
Hi Meltingpot Readers, I hope all of you who celebrate Christmas had a joyful and peace filled holiday. Ms. Meltingpot and her Kinky Gazpacho family certainly did. We ate, drank and made merry. I think we actually ate too much. I had plans to cook a fabulous Christmas Eve dinner, but by the time Monday…
