Science tells us that our emotions and our GI systems are intricately connected.  In other words, it’s not just what we eat that affects us. Our frame of mind before, during, and after dinner also influences our health in positive or negative ways. That’s why our family eats dinner on Happy Plates. A few years […]

We don’t have any salad dressings designed to go on hats.  But our Strawberry Poppyseed goes very nicely with spring mix, Italian blend cheese, and fresh strawberries.  Top it with candied pecans for a salty sweet crunch. If there were salad dressings for hats, this would be the one.

In the film Babette’s Feast, the sumptuous meal Babette prepares includes turtle soup and quail in puff pastry. Although only one guest is sophisticated enough to recognize the fine spread, the meal serves to nourish everyone present and even to somehow restore relationships and redeem broken lives. In 1962, Andy Warhol succeeded in turning Campbell’s Soup […]

Many studies have shown that eating dinner as a family improves not only physical and mental health, but also academic performance in kids. In an increasingly distracted and harried world, dinner with the family becomes a time to restore our bodies and minds in a place of calm.  So turn off those screens, look your […]