When did we start “trying to eat healthy?”  When did we start realizing that the American diet wasn’t so healthy after-all (despite the all the low-fat, low-carb, no hydrogenated oils, processed foods)?  When did families start wanting to make dinner easy and convenient and effortless?  How did food take on a different identity other than nutrition for the body, and pleasure for the pallet?

Why do children have “their own special diet” as they graduate from month to month or year to year?  How and when did chicken nuggets contain the highly needed nutrition of a toddler or child?    It appears as time goes on that our high-paced society is continuously looking for the fast and easy answer for dinner time.

Endless recipes, cookbooks and cooking shows may have the answer, but why do we still default to our learned rituals of fast foods or packaged, boxed or frozen substitutes for feeding our families.  Are food labels, advertisers and processed food companies become our bible for dinner time?

Are we chasing our tails seeking and searching for the perfect answer to such a basic and fundamental need of feeding ourselves?

I guess the bottom line is asking ourselves, “what do I want?”  Do I want to invest in myself and family by eating healthy, great tasting food or am I looking for the convenient substitute from processed, already prepared so called food?

You can have your cake and eat it too.  The food revolution does demand a change of thinking, a different approach and respect to real  whole food, its preparation and integration into our hectic, crazy paced lives. We can’t afford not to adopt this change. What are we afraid of?  The pendulum is moving slowly to a more simpler time ironically when things appear to become more complex with and overload of the high-tech world.  Whey are we trying to migrate to a more simpler way?  Are we aiming towards ” the more simpler times” of our ancestors.  Is there a dissonance between the basic needs of us humans vs the complexity and huge variety of today’s progressive and confusing times.

I would like to share my experiences and knowledge of how to feed our families with healthy food and yet make it a doable process even for the busiest families.  We had a family restaurant for over 30 years.  I am first generation Armenian.  These two facts combined have provided me a library of recipes with such diversity and richness of culture.  Old style cooking lends its self to ingredients that are simple, rich in flavor and easy on the budget.  What a generational gift to pass on to the next generation.  It is all very possible!

I will share my kitchen, my cooking and shopping and ideas from years of experience and gained wisdom.

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