AUTHOR: Kevin
DATE: 11/14/2007
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>Tonight I learned that the boy has been discarding the sandwich I lovingly pack in his sack lunch. Julie attempted to console me. "I'm sorry hon, it's hard work making those lunches every day." I reassured her that I was fine and that I think it's hard work eating the same thing for lunch every day. I remember what it was like eating the same ham sandwich and red delicious (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080402194_pf.html">Why the Red Delicious No Longer Is</a>) apple every single school day for years. For whatever reason, as a kid it made complete sense to me that there was no point in trying to change the contents of my lunch. Eventually I stopped eating at school altogether and had lunch when I got home around 3:30. "No," I told her, "this is just one of many conversations I'll have with him about his lunch. He's really excited about trying a Zone bar tomorrow."<br /><br />These days I alternate between wanting to try new restaurants or recipes and wanting the same thing over and over. Nobody could be happier than me that Julie has gone into nesting mode with a vengeance. She has been making the most amazing food every weekend in quantities that increase every time. Her beef with daikon soup has surpassed both miso and spicy beef tendon noodle to rest securely at the top of my personal pantheon of soups. I can't get enough of her Taiwanese sausage fried rice. I'm not the only one. Tonight after karate the boy was ravenous and was nearly giddy with delight when he got to feast on mama's fried rice when he got home. Sometimes we get so busy that there's no time to reflect on how outsourced our diet has become. Losing touch with the way food connects a family is a big loss for our emotional well-being.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/food.shtml">food</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/nablopomo.shtml">nablopomo</a>, <a rel='tag' href="http://juvin.com/labels/parenting.shtml">parenting</a></p>
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COMMENT-AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/08306653533749857335" rel="nofollow">yam</a>
COMMENT-DATE:8:49 AM
COMMENT-BODY:That was a nice entry!  I enjoy reading your thoughts, Kevin!
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COMMENT-AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<span class="anon-comment-author">AiAi</span>
COMMENT-DATE:1:47 PM
COMMENT-BODY:hahaha. my husband and i just finished off a huge pot of beef with daikon soup that my mom made us. i never knew whether it was a filipino dish or a chinese dish. but given that julie makes it, i guess it's a chinese dish.
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COMMENT-AUTHOR:<span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03823648489427679440" rel="nofollow">Rita</a>
COMMENT-DATE:5:13 AM
COMMENT-BODY:ditto what yam said. I really liked reading this entry!<BR/><BR/>I recently realized that "Stone Soup" was always one of my favorite stories...not just because of the "trick" involved, but because of all the lovely, mouthwatering descriptions throughout of how everyone will enjoy the food. :D
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