Good afternoon. How are you? Are you busy preparing for Thanksgiving this week? Were having two dinners a early one today and a real one on Thanksgiving. Which is why I wanted to share Eating Together, Being Together: Recipes, Activities, and Advice from a Chef Dad and Psychologist Mom with you.
Charlie isn’t one to eat traditional foods prepared for Christmas or Thanksgiving. I have to think outside the box one what to fix that Charlie will actually eat. Which is why I couldn’t wait to look at the recipes inside here.
Before we begin cooking the book teaches us how to organize our kitchen which is a lesson for Charlie in his Homeschool Cooking Class. I love how they tell us to get a friend to set the kitchen table with us which would allow us to create memories that will last a lifetime.
For Christmas I plan on purchasing the ingredients for Liquid Decadence Hot Chocolate to go inside Charlie’s Christmas Stocking with his favorite movie for #FamilyMovieNight on Christmas Eve. Once all your gifts have been opened and the house picked up would you like to join us for movies and snacks in our PJ’s and our favorite Christmas Socks?
Whether it’s kids sharing their feelings while they mix batter, or adults telling stories of their childhood while enjoying a favorite recipe, a special kind of bonding happens around food. Eating Together, Being Together gives you the recipes and activities for that bonding experience and helps set the table for connection.
Grow closer as a family through mealtime bonding. Explore more than 80 recipes plus essays, tips, and activities for the whole family that show how cooking together and sharing family meals can help build healthy relationships with food and with each other.
With unique insights from a New York Times–starred chef dad and an award-winning psychologist mom, Eating Together, Being Together is much more than a cookbook. It teaches parents and children from toddlerhood through the teen years how to engage around cooking and mealtime. Each chapter offers easy-to-make recipes using fresh ingredients accompanied by thoughts and tips on using mindfulness to deal with picky eating, listening skills, academic stress, and more. This structure allows preparing and eating meals together to be meaningful, where kids and their parents, guardians, and caregivers can learn from one another and grow closer.
Recipes include a range of food options to accommodate varying tastes with accessible step-by-step instructions for parents and kids. Activities for each chapter tie in key themes for cooking and for life and are presented in a developmentally thoughtful way for young children, preteens, teens, and grown-ups. From eating mindfulness and having honest food conversations to building rituals that support togetherness, this book explores how the family meal, whether cooking or eating, can bring families closer together.
Whether it’s kids sharing their feelings while they mix batter, or adults telling stories of their childhood while enjoying a favorite recipe, a special kind of bonding happens around food. Eating Together, Being Together gives you the recipes and activities for that bonding experience and helps set the table for connection.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
