Pressure Cooker

If you don’t know Melissa Clark, have we got a treat for you. She’s a food columnist for the New York Times and the author of 48 (!!) cookbooks, including one made for this show: “Kid in the Kitchen.” On this episode, Melissa joins Jane and Liz to talk about respecting kids’ tastes, when to give up control, and the secret to her viral lentil soup recipe.

Books featured in this episode:

Kid In The Kitchen by Melissa Clark

Dinner in an Instant by Melissa Clark

Recipes featured in this episode:

Easy Red Lentil Soup

Fudgy Bourbon Balls

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What can any one person do to fight climate change? Paul Greenberg, author of The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways To Trim Your Carbon Footprint, joins Liz and Jane to home in on achievable ways that you can make a difference in your kitchen.

Further Reading:

• Rowan Jacobsen’s great piece on the fantasy of plastic recycling
• Liz’s Wall Street Journal GREAT piece on reducing food waste
• Jane’s Washington Post interview with Dana Gunders, author of the Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook
• Bill McKibben: The UN Announces its Hottest Year: The Climate Heated Up But Clean Energy Did Too

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Intuitive eating, the popular new anti-diet philosophy, recommends serving candy with dinner and letting kids eat whenever and whatever they want. Is this hands-off approach the best way to escape toxic diet culture? Or ... is intuitive eating just another food fad?

Guests:

Dr. Janet Lydecker, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She’s a researcher but also works directly with adolescents suffering from eating disorders.

Emily Hohman, an assistant research professor at the Center for Childhood Obesity Research at Penn State University.

Elyse Resch, one of the two American nutritionists who coined the phrase "intuitive eating."

Mentioned in this episode:

Virginia Sole Smith and her book Fat Talk

Amee Seversen and Sumner Brooks, authors of a book called How to Raise an Intuitive Eater.

The report from the National Health Examination Survey that shows children ages 2 to 19 get 67% of their daily calories from ultra-processed foods.

The infamous Clara Davis study that we've talked about several times on this podcast.

The extraordinary science of addictive junk food, including the story behind Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper.

The Dunkin Donuts Pumpkin Swirl Frozen Coffee which has 930 calories and 167 grams of added sugars.

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Kathryn Jezer-Morton is a pHd sociologist and the brains behind The Cut’s popular parenting newsletter, Brooding: Deep Thoughts on Modern Family Life. Brooding is not an advice column; it’s a collection of smart, funny, topical essays that interrogate what it means to be a parent today, and how we got this way. In this episode of Pressure Cooker, Jane and Liz chat with Jezer-Morton about some of their favorite Brooding essays, hitting on topics like vacation food rules, snack drawers, and “pouch culture” (IYKYK) along the way.

Brooding columns discussed in this episode:

Are Helicopter Parents Actually Lazy?

Why Are We Always On Call For Our Kids?

Is Going Camel Mode Inevitable For Parents?

Now Is the Time For Treats

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We’re dropping in your feed to let you know that Julia Louis-Dreyfus has returned for Season 2 of her award-winning podcast, Wiser Than MeTM! Each week, she has funny, touching, personal conversations with iconic older women who are brimming with the kind of unapologetic attitude and wisdom that only comes with age. Julia sits at the feet of some extraordinary teachers this season and of course her 90-year-old mom, Judy. Tune in to laugh, cry and get wise. All Hail Old Women!

You’re about to hear one of our favorite interviews from Season One. On this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia gets enlightened by 75-year-old food writer, magazine editor, and author Ruth Reichl. From her infamous New York Times review of Le Cirque to greenlighting a controversial David Foster Wallace article in Gourmet, Ruth is as gutsy as they come. Ruth talks to Julia about living with a mom who has bipolar disorder, processing grief through food, and why you should always do things that scare you. Plus, Julia asks her mom Judith what to cook when Ruth accepts an invitation for dinner.

To hear more of Wiser Than Me, head to: https://lemonada.lnk.to/wiserthanmefd

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