Hmmmm….about me. I am a Registered Dietitian with formal culinary training from the Culinary Institute of America. More basically, despite the creds, I am a busy working wife and mother trying (struggling at times!) to keep my family healthy and active. Mostly I succeed with a few slip ups here and there, but that’s life right? From a food standpoint, I grew up somewhere between Hamburger Helper (my dad) and Foie Gras (my flaming Francophile mom). My goal in life is to somehow marry the convenience of the former with the quality of the latter. In short, I want good, healthy, simple food for my family. The name “Iceberg to Arugula” is literally my culinary pedigree. It’s meant to illustrate that more pedestrian foods (such as Iceberg lettuce) can and should comfortably coexist with the more “gourmet” ones (such as Arugula). On this journey, I’m finding the more important considerations are that foods should be simple, well chosen, prepared with good technique and largely free of extraneous unpronounceable, unidentifiable ingredients. Frankly, I am aware that these ideas are not new and have been written about endlessly by authors such as Alice Waters and Michael Pollan. This blog is simply meant to chronicle my thoughts on this way of eating and my attempts to make them work in the lives of an average working American family. I invite you to follow my scrawlings and if you take away a few, ideas, tips, strategies and recipes along the way…well, that would just make my day. Cheers!
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24Jun
