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The San Antonio native started all 40 games for the Cowboys and hit .348 with two home runs and 34 runs driven in. He also led the American Southwest Conference with 15 doubles and led the team in runs scored with 34 and slugging percentage at .519. He also added 11 stolen bases.
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Trayvon Martin Case: Is Media Biased Against George Zimmerman?by Free Britney at . Comments
The leak of George Zimmerman's statement to police have shed new light on the Trayvon Martin case, along with accusations of bias against the media and public.
Until Tuesday, the case had been framed from Martin's standpoint, which is certainly understandable to a point, as he was unarmed when he was shot and killed.
However, Zimmerman's defense depicts Trayvon not as an unsuspecting youngster chased by an armed vigilante, but as a violent aggressor who left him no choice.
Some commentators point to Zimmerman's story as evidence that the media and public have been too quick to lay blame in a case that has gripped the nation.
Zimmerman's claim that he was jumped and beaten to the point where he shot Martin in self-defense seems dubious, especially if a dispatcher told him not to pursue the boy.
Nevertheless, he hasn't been charged with a crime.
You wouldn't know it by the mug shot, taken after a previous arrest, circulated by the media for the last month - most times, next to a five-year-old photo of Martin.
The contrast of the above images has indirectly but significantly shaped the way the sensationalized case is framed, turning the 17-year-old into an innocent martyr.
Martin's tragic death has sparked important public debate over racial profiling, gun laws and other broad social issues. Yet the media tends to sell a single narrative.
Consider how the following photos might portray the case instead:
Do a smiling Zimmerman in a suit and tie, or a current photo of Martin looking more like an adult, change your perception of either party? Probably at least a little.
NOTE: The authenticity of the Martin photo above, as well as others on the web (in which he sports fake good teeth), is disputed, but the point remains the same.
Stories such as President Obama's remarks or the "Million Hoodie March" get enormous attention and make the public fall in love with the idealized version of Martin.
The fact of the matter is, though, they have little to do with the case.
Police in Sanford, Fla., deserve to be under scrutiny for their decision not to arrest Zimmerman, but the April 10 grand jury investigation also needs to play itself out.
The truth, as is so often the case, won't be found easily. It almost unavoidably lies among a thousand shades of grey in a case of great complexity and magnitude.
By oversimplifying it and/or turning into an entertainment form, the media and public fail to honor both the deceased's memory and the accused's right to due process.
You tell us: Is there media bias in the Trayvon Martin case?
four photographs to choose from. Are you suggesting the media wants us to ignore the WORDS behind the tragedy? Does it matter what they look like...one is walking, the other is driving and has a gun. How in the world could this possibly result in death without one of them changing the situation, i.e. Zimmerman getting out of the vehicle, or Martin getting in front of the vehicle. One of these things ACTUALLY happened. Photographs or no...how could they possibly change those facts in any way?
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I think it is so wrong to continue to show Martin as a very young child when he was much older and bigger when the shooting took place. Also why did the news media say this am. that Zimmerman is the most hated man in America today. SHAME on them. What has happened to reporting the TRUTH? Where are the pictures of Zimmermans injuries? Than God for the neighbor who took pictures !!!
The media is in a no lose situation in this case. If Zimmerman gets convicted then they would have succeeded in making sure he was railroaded and ruined his life. If GZ is not guilty the riots will breakout and the media gets a lot of work and all sorts of stories of interest.
A better qeostiun is: are you for real? So you think Zimmerman just shot the guy in the chest for no reason other than he was black? You live in an alternate universe.If you were really interested in truth rather than leftist propaganda, you might have seen the photo of Zimmerman with a big gash in the back of his head.
Poor Young Kid.. Yep..
But He Be Doing Prison Time Anyway.. Most Black Thug Youths Wind-Up In Prison Anyway.. For What Ever Reason, Blacks Seem To love Loitering in the Street and Attract Trouble..
It's In Their Nature To Rob-Steal-Scam-Commit Acts of Violence.
Blacks Are They're Own Worst Enemy..(for the most part)
They Just Aren't Smart Enough To Get Away With It.. and They Can't Help It.
( it is what it is).. Zimmerman Won't Do Much Time.. He Cleaned Up The Streets Just a Bit..
What a bunch of racists! No, not Zimmerman. He may be, we don't know anything other than the caricature that the racists who have decided to lie and spread hate rather than even try to know the truth. They never wanted a trial, it was the hanging they are after. They the racists... Al Sharpton the exploiter, Spike Lee for texting the address to incite violence, Rosanne same thing. What will end up happening is that if we don't reality check all of the above and the only thing we spread that comes from them is more proof that they are incapable of telling the truth, things will eventually erupt into real violence. If everyone is still by then so used to being lied to the unfortunate ending will be horrific, and you can blame the anti-white haters and racists fanning the fires right now.
@Julie And by saying-- "apparently" because we don't know for sure"--you can hardly make any judgements of this situation. In other words if you don't know for sure? Then you can't declare what this case is about. There's really no evidence of pro-filing. The profiling issue was interjected by those who wanted to further taint this incident with innuendo. And thus, putting a spin on it that is not justified at this point. We don't know yet if the case was mishandled by the criminal justice system because legal due process hasn't been completed as yet. I'm sure it's hard for you to wait, but wait we must to say we have any real credibility within our justice system.
@whatifitwasyou: You are missing the point just as far off the mark as the media outlets you are deriding. This is not a case about a white man shooting a black boy. Rather, its about a white man apparently and erroneously profiling a black boy and more importantly a criminal justice system that apparently mishandled the case because the corpse was black. I say "apparently" because we dont know for sure. The only way we can know is if there is a trial and an acquital or conviction.
@Texas: I saw your comments under the Spike Lee news item where you threatened to find and beat up a 60 year old woman. You scared her so badly shes quite the internet and had to get her son involved. Now even for you, thats scraping the barrel of douchiness! Cowardly troll! I hope her son does get your IP address.


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Progressive Lawyers Have Blocked Most Obstacles to Voting Set Up by GOP This Election
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The Republican Party's effort to roll back voting rights in the past two years has been a historic assault on American civil rights. But the good news is that voting rights advocates have "blocked or blunted" restrictive laws in more than a dozen states, including presidential battlegrounds, to clear a path for next week's vote.
"The states that saw restrictive laws blocked or blunted by courts produce half the electoral votes needed to win the presidency," said a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. "Without the courts, millions of citizens would have found it far harder to vote. This dramatically underscores the importance of the courts in protecting Americans' fundamental right to vote."
But it hasn't just been court victories that have made the close of the 2012 election far more inclusive from a voting rights perspective than it was 20 months ago. Last year, six governors have vetoed harsh voter ID laws and other barriers while Citizen-led efforts restored voting options in Maine and Ohio. State legislators blocked scores of bills in other states. This year, U.S. Department of Justice blocked bad new laws in Texas, South Carolina, Florida and Mississippi. And county election officials in key states, such as Florida, have rejected GOP efforts to tilt the scales toward Mitt Romney.
"The dramatic national effort to restrict Americans' voting rights was met with an equally dramatic pushback by citizens, voting rights groups (including the Brennan Center), courts, the Department of Justice and farsighted public officials," the report said. "This pushback has been largely successful. As of the date of this report, restrictive voting measures have been blocked or blunted in 14 states."
The tally of progressive victories is impressive, considering how well coordinated and widespread the challenge. Since January 2011, more than 180 bills restricting voting rights were introduced in 41 states, according to the Brennan Center . The best-known of these imposed stricter voter ID requirements, cut back on early voting and made it harder to organize voter registration drives.
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This year, restrictive photo ID requirements were blocked in Pennsylvania (in court), South Carolina (by the DOJ), Texas (DOJ), and in Wisconsin (DOJ). In Mississippi, the DOJ has delayed implementation of that state's new voter ID law. Last year, governors in five states—Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire and North Carolina—vetoed voter ID laws. In Wisconsin, where people can register and vote on Election Day, regulators recently expanded the forms of ID accepted to register—allowing, for the first time in the country, electronic documents on portable digital devices to be used.
In Virginia, the Republican governor surprised many by this past spring rejecting GOP legislator's efforts to tighten voter ID requirements, as well as making other changes that will result in more ballots being counted. The Justice Department's Voting Section did not oppose what eventually was passed into law.
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Punitive measures to curtail voter registration drives were permanently blocked in Florida (in court) and vetoed in Michigan (notably by a Republican governor). A federal court also blocked an Arizona law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote (instead of signing one's name under penalty of perjury). In Michigan, a court ordered the GOP Secretary of State to remove a citizenship box from 2012 ballots that she wanted to include so voters would reaffirm their citizenship.
In Maine, citizen action restored the state's Election Day registration option. Similarly, a citizen effort in Ohio suspended a series of GOP laws to thwart 2012's voters, which then prompted the state's GOP-controlled Legislature to repeal the offending package of laws. Montana's governor also vetoed a law that would have ended Election Day registration.
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- Summary: Mr. Vig is an elderly, deeply eccentric, never-married Dane, living alone in a ramshackle castle; he dreams of donating his homestead to the Russian Orthodox Church to become a monastery. In a long, black overcoat, with a shock of unruly white hair, and glasses perched on the tip of his nose, he looks like a character straight out of Dickens. Enter Sister Ambrosija, a remarkably attractive young Russian nun, who arrives with a small entourage and plans to whip the place into shape. A whirlwind of activity (days begin at 5:30 am), she insists upon extensive repairs; Mr. Vig wants Band-Aids, whereas she suggests surgery. Their contest of wills plays out in humorous, offbeat encounters that take unexpected turns as two unlikely people find companionship and common ground. Hauntingly shot, The Monastery is a modern fairytale with timeless roots. (Film Forum)… Expand
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Against all odds, you'll leave this remarkable film caring quite a bit for the old coot -- surely a sign of a very good documentary.
Gronkjaer's cinematography is pleasing, with beautiful sunsets and tranquil snowscapes. I won't give away the ending, but it might bring a tear to your eye.
Using material shot sporadically over six years, TV-experienced helmer Pernille Rose Gronkjaer builds an affectionate but admirably unsentimental portrait of her eccentric, headstrong protagonists.
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Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back. Among them are Saigo, a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi, an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor; Shimizu, a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war; and Lieutenant Ito, a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, whose travels in America have revealed to him the hopeless nature of the war but also given him strategic insight into how to take on the vast American armada streaming in from across the Pacific.
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In the kitchen: My first trifle.Friday, November 26, 2010
First there's a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas & onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top. - Friends
Here's what went in to my not so traditional English trifle. A layer of spice cake, then pudding & a layer of cool whip. A little more cake, pudding & some more cool whip with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. So simple and so good! I wasn't sure I was going to like it and ended up loving it.
pudding: 1 pack vanilla pudding + 1 can pumpkin + brown sugar.
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Looks good Danielle! Hope you have a great weekend!
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actually Great Lakes where my boyfriend is at Naval Training! I went to see him graduate in September and we went to Chicago and it's so amazing. I love it! I wish we could have spent more time there.ReplyDelete
I made this last year and AGAIN this year....it is so pretty AND delicous!ReplyDelete
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I can still remember that episode! So hilarious the way the boys went on to eat it and pretend nothing was wrong :)ReplyDelete
I don't think we've ever had trifle here, I'd love to try one too
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So today march 21st I purchased a $25 WoT roll out prepaid card from GameStop. I followed the instructions on the web site. I hit redeem and the it took me back to the main gold page. Not getting any confirmation on if it was successful I tried again and it said invalid code. So I made a new account and it did the same exact thing. Hope wargaming can help, hope I didn't waist $25.
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Go to their customer service, or send a ticket.
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The WoT PC and WoT 360 cards look rather similar. Are you sure that you got the correct one? If you did, I would contact support.
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Did you actually log into the game and see if the gold was applied to your account?
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Yea I did send a ticket no reply yet. I also have checked yesterday and today with no luck.


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Good Brunch in mid-town/3rd st & La Brea area?
Or anywhere within 15 minutes away?
re: michellemabelle
Campanile does a fantastic brunch -- best in the area!
re: hungrygirl106
Agree that it's very good (although I don't like their roast beef hash; it's too soupy). I think they serve brunch on weekends only, however.
So many choices in this area -- excluding what was already noted, there's also Toast, Urth Cafe, King's Road Cafe, MILK.
Hesitant to give away my little brunch secret in that hood, but Luna Park, at La Brea and Wilshire has a good brunch, with no line ever. And you can even get OpenTable points if you reserve 15 minutes ahead of time online.
Also, Campanile does do brunch, but reservations are definitely necessary. It's a very nice brunch.
Loads of places in the Farmer's Market do tasty brunch as well (though Dupar's is not my favorite... you have to be into pork products in everything in order to enjoy it).
My boyfriend and I have been eating breakfast out almost every weekend for the past five years. In our rotation:
Cayenne Cafe (Beverly just West of La Brea): We found this place after trying to get into too-crowded Lulu's next door (which is good if you don't mind waiting). I always get the French omelet with the awesome fruit side.
Eat Well (Beverly, East of Fairfax): Healthy and not so healthy choices are available. I like the spinach/cheese omelette.
Doughboys (when we don't mind waiting for a good breakfast, this is where we go first)
The sit-down restaurant in the Farmer's Market near Dupar's (sorry, can't think of the name) has some unusual selections and pitchers of mimosas.
Jan's on Beverly, east of La Cienega (sometimes you just want an old-fashioned coffee shop breakfast)
Cafe Latte (Wilshire/Crescent Heights): We used to go here every weekend after we moved into the neighborhood but haven't been for months after they changed ownership and food sort of went downhill. However, we stopped in for take-out coffee yesterday and some of the dishes looked back to their normal selves.
The Griddle (Sunset/Fairfax): We went once to experience it, but the wait is too long and the food too big to go back anytime soon.
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Wow, sounds like you've made the rounds! The place on Beverly is Cayenne Cafe, just to be specific, and the one in Farmer's Market is Kokomo. Loteria next door also has some good Mexican brunch items.
Do you ever go to Fiddler's Bistro? It's been a few years, but I used to enjoy their omelets with spinach and feta cheese, and it doesn't seem like it would be crowded.
re: Chowpatty
I meant to include Fiddler's Bistro. We've eaten there (on your long-ago recommendation, in fact), and have always been happy with our breakfasts and lack of wait. I don't know why we keep forgetting about it.
P.S. I corrected the Cayenne Cafe spelling a bit after I wrote it. Consider it a pre-lunch brain-lapse.
I love BLD but HATE Doughboys - I would definitely not recommend going there. Here's my previous rant, if you're interested: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/336386
King's Road Cafe on Beverly also has very good breakfast/brunch food - it's more casual than BLD but has just as yummy food.
I've never been to Toast, but every time I drive by on a weekend morning, I note with horror the enormous crowds milling around outside (presumably waiting for a table).
My votes are for Doughboys and BLD, though I bet brunch at Little Next Door would be fun, too (never tried it).
For a while, I was just having savory crepes from the French Crepe place next to Kokomo's.
re: msmd310
I've been to both Toast and Doughboys and I don't understand why people wait at either place! Toast was ok but not worth the 20 minute wait. And the last time I ate at Doughboys there was about 20 flies buzzing around. I won't go back to Doughboys ever it was so gross!
re: jacinthe
Agree that Jar does a very good brunch, but only on Sunday.
As you can see, there are lots of choices in this area, and you've already gotten many great suggestions. I'd add two places to the list:
Ammo Cafe (1155 North Highland Ave., (323) 871-2666). Good food, excellent baked goods, nice, quiet atmosphere. Weekends only, I think.
Grub (http://www.grub-la.com/index.html ). Nice breakfast/brunch fare, in a cute space, with a nice outdoor patio. Plus, free fruit-loops to snack on while waiting for your order.


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This is the only fudge I can make. I simply love it. I don't make it too often for obvious reasons. It is just so creamy. I like to pour this in a buttered 13" pan. Makes them thinner but much more of them. Otherwise you can use the regular buttered 9" pan. I have been using this recipe for over 30 years now. Quantity of squares depends on pan size and how big you cut them.
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Nicolet had fallen prey to the Generals' trapping, pressing defense and trailed 38-21 with 3:09 remaining in the third. But from that point forward, the Knights took control of the Al forcing several turnovers out of King and going on a 13-0 run that was only ended when the horn sounded with Nicolet having closed the gap to 38-34.
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King (17-6) advanced to a sectional final for the right to go to the state tournament back at the McGuire Center on Saturday while the Knights ended their season at 17-8.
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How you ate as a child Vs. How you eat now
The NY Times article about parents who pressure their nannies to provide organic/healthy food to the kids contained a quote from a mother who was absolutely convinced that however her child ate determined the way he or she was going to eat forever. Sure, it could have some influence. But is it really that much? I'm curious how many Chowhounds out there grew up with would be considered the average American diet and came to be more conscious of what they eat on their own.
As for me, I certainly ate my fair share of fast food and then some. It definitely showed. But my parents came from a country and a culture where people often didn't have enough to eat, so they thought feeding me all the American food I wanted was a great thing. I always ate ethnic food at home, though, which set me up to be more receptive to "different" foods. When I left for college, my parents and I simultaneously went for healthier food. They worked more legumes and exotic grains into their food while I cut out sugars and started eating organic.
I grew up on predominantly Mexican food at home, with some basics like meatloaf and spaghetti thrown in for good measure.
My parents still eat like this today.
My brother and I have profoundly expanded our tastes, through travels and a mixed bag of friends and co-workers that we run around with.
"I always ate ethnic food at home, though, which set me up to be more receptive to "different" foods." - I would agree with this statement.
So, that mother is wrong to assume that what she feeds her children now determines how they will eat forever.
I certainly rarely ate fast food as a child (much of it did not exist back in those days) and I was completely food phobic. My mother - who was willing to try just about anything - encouraged us to eat all sorts of things but I was so afraid of food that I simply could not try it.
Many years later, encouraged by a truly patient husband and some good friends, I'll eat just about anything. But still, no okra.
My parents were really old world and grew and scavenged a lot of our food--and got a lot of local food from farmers, bakeries, etc.--and my mom made almost everything from scratch (even butter, cheese, yogurt, cereal, canned vegetables, etc....).
I don't do this. I just don't have the time or motivation. But I do love simple fresh, seasonal food, like what I grew up eating. And I'm raising my son to appreciate the same kinds of food (and luckily he gets to visit his grandparents' gardens every summer, which he loves). I really appreciate their philosophy and drive for self-sufficiency and try to strive to incorporate this into my life any way that I can.
I wouldn't compare the hard-core, committed (and insanely time-consuming and almost political) stance that my parents had to the case that you have cited (that is, having a nanny feed the kids organic foods)... But I can attest that my parents (and their parents'and ancestors) had a tremendous effect on my way of eating (among other things, of course) and that is filtering down to my son. No one has a bigger effect on children than their parents when it comes to learning to discriminate between good/bad/mediocre. But it takes commitment, consistency, and a fair amount of fervor.
I was very picky as a kid--picky meaning I hated most of the veggies my mom forcefed me. I despised frozen string beans, canned peas, canned beets, green bean casserole, sickly-sweet candied yams, and anything involving cream of mushroom soup. I did, however, love broccoli, potatoes, corn, zucchini, eggplant, and peppers. But trust me, there were no exotic foods in southwestern Pennsylvania.
I still hate all of the things I hated then; they still taste like rank mush. I love fresh green beans, though, and sweet potatoes and fresh peas; I still dislike beets, and I'm convinced it's because of a night when my parents played "Beat It" and laughed madly while I sobbed over my plate of candy purple nastiness.
What I DID learn growing up is to eat balanced meals, that I should make my own bread and my own sauce (like my mom and grandmother did), and that spending time making dinner is always preferable to processed crap.
I hated the processed then, hate it now--problem is, people rarely call a six-year-old a Chowhound.
I think I put this in one of the "how to raise a Chowhound posts" -- it's ridiculous to think that the only way someone will end up eating a variety of adventurous foods is to eat that way from early childhood. It couldn't hurt, but it's not essential by any means. My mother was pretty adventurous, but I grew up in the 60s and 70s, so I still pretty much ate plain American food, with the occasional dim sum excursion or Greek Food Festival. My ex-husband and best friend, on the other hand, grew up extremely picky, only eating a few plain foods, and yet both of them will eat nearly anything today.
I try to feed my kids healthy food, but I think these obsessed parents are taking it way too far.
re: Chowpatty
Oh this is a really tricky issue and I think that we're on the precipice of a real food/eating disaster for American children. I would like to see them all eat well, meaning that they enjoy a broad range of healthy foods along with some treats. I have a five year old who is a great eater and our technique was to expect him to eat what we eat and encourage him verbally plus get him very involved in food prep and even have him pick the food whever possible. It has worked very well. I also have him involved in several athletic activities including year round sports so that he has a high activity level. I took him on a special trip today to get some seckel pears because he was allowed to choose any treat he wanted and that's what he came up with!
That said, the growing panic over childhood obesity seems to be inspiring a level of hysteria and ineffective response that is going to make these kids gigantic!!!
I listened to a nutritionist explain that thus far all interference with obese children's diet has been shown not to help reduce their weight and is likely damaging their ability to overcome the problem as they grow older.
Sadly I can attest to this myself. I have a simple tendency to be heavy and this was of great concern to my mother. She was able to keep me underweight throughout my childhood and adolescence but I was so painfully hungry that I often had trouble sleeping. Through my own doing, but not surprisingly, I began gaining weight as soon as I was on my own. It was been a very difficult problem to overcome because reducing your weight as an adult when you have had such a negative weigh management experience as a child is not easy! When I first tackled it, I would feel myself actually begin to panic when I first reduced my calories.
It's been awhile and I was able to get back to my ideal weight but I can tell you that I would never ever restrict a child's calories in any way that made weight management anything bigger than a daily chore that we should keep in mind so that our bodies feel good and work well.
I often think of my husband's upbringing when childhood eating comes into question. He was permitted unlimited access to an unlimited supply of potato chips - his father worked in a factory and his mother was raising eight children so it was an anything goes kind of household. He went through a heavy phase as a boy that he managed his way out of independently when he grew older and was interested in girls. You couldn't pay him to eat a potato chip now, whereas it took me YEARS to be able to walk away from a potato chip bag!
I think it's in the approach to food as much as it is the food itself. If you have an "eat what you want" philosophy, then the kid will never try anything new. If you have a "clean your plate or else," that'll make her either obese or resentful or both. If, however, you generally ask her to try a bit of everything, then she'll be more receptive to trying everything.
However, laughing while waiting seven hours for the kid to eat beets is not going to make her want to eat beets again, ever.
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Wow, I hope that didn't happen to you! What if you ask her to try everything and from the time she is very small she categorically refuses?
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That is EXACTLY what happened to me. :)
Well, there was no categorical refusing in my house, I can tell you that. Plus my mom made a mean apple crisp, so there was plenty of reason to want to finish the gray-green pile of green beans. But I'm thinking, when I have kids, I'll go with "finish a tablespoon, at least," with some reward if they do.
Forcefeeding--or letting them get away with eating only bread and chicken nuggets, which is what my brother did--will NOT be on the menu.
re: MuppetGrrl
Oh, I remember evenings in my home that ended with me crying because I refused to eat horribly cooked liver drowned in A1 sauce, and my dad would yell at me until I choked down every last bite. To this day I cannot eat or smell A1 sauce. Or liver.
My family has no ethnicity. Technically, we're some anglo northern european mix, but we have NO traditions or family recipes. So, growing up, I ate 70s style American. Pretty horrible. Now, I cook a wide variety of foods. So,yes, kids can change. Thank goodness, since my own son eats about five foods. I don't think the clean plate club is a good idea at all. I used to stuff food into my sock so that I could leave the table.
re: Glencora
Like you, pretty basic food while growing up, although with my father's travels for business (independent film), he would bring home different ideas on new and interesting foods, so we'd often try out different food or spices he had eaten while traveling.
It wasn't until about 5 years after I moved out of the house that I began to really expand my food horizons. I'm nowhere near as adventurous as many of the 'hounds, but I'm the one that my sister or brother will turn to for recipes to "jazz things up a bit" and I'm the one who will experiment with recipes and flavors. I enjoy finding a new-to-me food or spice, learning about it, and trying it.
re: Glencora
When my son was young, he ate Cheerios, grapes, bacon, and pretzels. Period. For years. I would have loved it had he agreed to "just try one bite." He simply would not. I guess we could have force-fed him, but that was about the only was we could have gotten a bite of PB&J or pizza into him. His favorite food now (he's in his 20's) in anything Indian.
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I'm really glad to hear that. Maybe there is hope for my son. In theory the "just one bite" idea is great. In theory.
I was a picky eater as a kid. All I ever wanted was a hot dog or macaroni and cheese. Over time I became more adventurous - I eat burgers and pizza now too.
As an Air Force brat we moved quite a bit and my parents encouraged us to try many different things. While not Mexican my mother's family ranched on the Mexican border of Arizona and that is still comfort food to me. My father's family had a Germanic background and there is a lot of German food that is also comfort food. I'm pretty much open to varied cuisine. True fast food did not come onto my radar until high school and there was not much to choose from. We did have drive-ins and those were occasional treats but my parents would be on the look out for good regional cooking and would not discriminate on drive-in or sit down as long as the food was good.
i struggle to come up with a list of things I ate as a child that I eat now (except for the holidays). I compiled a list a few years ago and excep for the basics of hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. and i cringe when i look at it. Now I see my kids starting to be on their own and see my positive food influence on hem and I smile.
As with other things, I'm thinking that if one was forced to eat certain foods as a child, one might rebel and not like those foods as an adolescent and then adult. I would think that trying to groom a child to be a chowhound wouldn't work. Isn't a chowhound someone who eats all kinds of foods and decides which they like best, rather than someone who only eats certain prescribed "better" foods?
I don't recall being forced to eat any particular foods as a child, but we did often have home-style Chinese when I was young. But I have always loved Chinese food and I always had my mother fix my favorite home-style dishes (steamed pork cake with pickled vegetables, foo jook soup) for adult birthdays until she couldn't any longer.
For some reason many foods at which I turned my nose up as a child are particular favorites now: beets, cauliflower, brussel sprouts.
I eat pretty much the same as I did as a kid. Granted, I now like a few particular foods I didn't like before, but overall it's the same.
I became veg as a teen, but my parents say I disliked meat from an early age and often wouldn't eat it.
We always ate lots of ethnic foods, and tons of fruits and veggies. No fast food, sweets for special occasions only. Healthy, but not obsessive.
I think the way you eat as a kid, more so than specific foods, influence your taste later on. Parents raise their kids to either be adventurous or restricted eaters; to see food as pleasure or necessity; to be health-conscious or not. But they can't make them like or hate spinach.
I was an incredibly picky eater as a young child. I only ate McDonald's hamburgers (without pickles and onions), McD's french fries, pizza, White Castle sliders and thin noodles in anchovy broth. Now, I try to eat seasonally and organic. There are very few things I won't try. My diet is pretty diverse. However, I still refuse to eat cucumber pickles.
What's funny about my parents was that they were raised up on Korean food. In their twenties and thirties, they branched out and ate "American" food, Egyptian, Chinese, etc. But they eventually returned to their roots, eating predominantly Korean food. I hope that doesn't happen to me.
Ah, you can't win with kids. I think the best you can do is provide healthy food and try to expand their options and opinions of food...but w/o a mature palette, it's difficult. You can lead the horse to water but can't force it to drink.
Any way, I was a picky eater and am still to some degree...I just eat more of it that's all. (unfortunately true). Growing up in the '60s and 70s w/ typical parents that grew up during the depression meant nothing would go to waste, but my Mom was smart enough not to grind us into the ground about what to eat or being picky.
My Mom however did restrict our diet from sugar and junk food. Cookies, ice cream and all was very limited but that was on par with everyone I knew. I talked to a friend recently and we both remember sharing a 12 oz soda with 3-4 brothers and sisters at the age of 8-ish. Same with potato chips. The down side is the sugar restriction flipped around when people got older on and on their own.
I know when I went away to school I gorged all the time on pepperidge farm cookies because there wasnt' anyone to stop me and there weren't 4 sibling competing. I've heard this story a lot and have to think if Moms let us have that stuff earlier, might not have gorged on them later.
Suppy and demand mixed in with human psychology is a funny thing. Of course the HUGE portions today don't help.
I was a very picky eater as a child, and my family was very lax about letting me eat what I wanted. When it came to the dinner table, I only ate rice and the accompanying broth from the stews my grandma would make; no meat or veggies.
I had oatmeal and tea for breakfast almost everyday; 1 day of Mcdonalds breakfast.
There were times when all I would eat for the entire day would be a bag of doritos.
My grandmother was a caterer, so I was always exposed to all types of cuisine. but I didn't get into food until I became sick and hospitalized at age 7 and I couldn't take anything in through my mouth, but was kept on an IV for 2 months. After that I wanted to eat everything, try anything... the chowhound and culinarian was born. I baked my first cake by scratch 2 years later, and eventually was cooking for the family every other night.
That was the time I also knew I wanted to be in the industry as a professional.
Now I have neices, one of them being really picky and stubborn in what she eats. Her parents don't really enforce any rules about eating certain amounts of this or that. I've learned that a child will eventually be curious about what everyone else is eating at the table as long as they see the others being enthusiastic about eating it. My neice now isn't afraid to at least try something before making the judgement if she likes it or not. She loves beets and black olives, quite distinct for an 8 year old!
Hmmm - I don't think it's nearly that simple as 'how you eat as a child determines how you eat in life'. I think there's some merit to it, certainly, but I think people's tastes naturally change as they get older.
For instance, I hated cheese, raw tomatoes, and nuts when I was a child, but don't say no to them now (though I still don't like swiss cheese, or strong cheeses). And I really only learned to eat nuts later in life.
On the other hand, staples from my childhood still provide strong sense memories. Like Seabrook Farms frozen creamed spinach. I still love this. And salted raw vegetables - my blood pressure goes up when I even think about it, but I used to douse raw cucumbers, carrots, and green peppers with salt when I'd eat them, and sometimes do today. I'd eat them like apples - sprinkle salt on them after washing them and just eat away.
I still make roast chicken like my mother did, and prefer brown rice to white like she taught me.
Still I'm a lot more adventurous than my parents were when it comes to cuisine. That being said, I _was_ like that as a child. Not sure who I learned it from - I was the only person I knew who drank Dr. Brown's Celray soda.
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There are some habits I probably learned as a child. My mother made almost everything we ate. I didn't learn about processed food until I went away to college. It wasn't a happy discovery. I now make everything too, even if my tastes are a lot broader than my parents' were.
My mother cooked mostly Chinese which is still my comfort food. But I cook a lot of other foods which she wouldn't have eaten, let alone cooked. She had a typical Asian dislike of dairy products while I love cheese, the smellier the better. I think I'm still influenced by the Chinese way of cooking vegetables lightly, and the Asian way of balancing foods with many layers of taste and texture.
We were allowed some candy and soda but in limited amounts. All other sweets were home made. I never became addicted to junk food, perhaps because I never ate it in quantity. We drank water and not fruit juice, tea rather than milk. I think the parents in the NYTimes article are trying to get these habits into their young children. I can't fault them for trying, it's so hard to keep kids away from junk.
I think the biggest habit I learnt as a child was that food should be enjoyed at home. Every night we sat down to a homemade meal and I maintain that tradition.
Very varied foods because neither parent believed that meat-and-potatoes were what they wanted every day. I was extremely lucky in that I lived in an ethnically diverse neighborhood where Japanese, Hawaiian, Chinese, Irish, Italian, and Mexican cultures were simply part of my little suburb. My father-unit seemed to know every farmer on a first-name basis within a 200 mile radius. My Sainted Mother(tm) experimented with cooking techniques (and foods) to stretch the budget with two growing male human garbage disposals. I participated in Spring/Fall harvests and clan canning festivals. My friends' parents were always testing foods out on my Little Brother and me, hence my love of octopus (tako) and ika (squid), calamari, tripe, salted cod (ew-ew-ew!), and beef tongue (lengua?). My granddad was an accomplished cook, too, and had a willing recipient whenever we'd visit. These adventures in dining served me quite well going into high tech where multicultural groups were the norm...
I've continued experimenting with foods, passing that love on to all three daughter-units. I also still living by my parents' creed: Quality over quantity.
We didn't eat alot of ethnic food at home.My Hungarian mother tried to get her German mother-in-law to teach her dishes to serve my dad,but you know the old story,they didn't always get along.So no family recipes.momma made goulash sometimes.But most of our stuff was meatloaf,spahgetti,swiss steak,mashed potatoes,etc.We kids had to eat everything or at least try it.Though they never forced liver on us.Fast food was like if we had been out on a drive or mabye after church.It wasn't every day.It was kind of more of a treat.And we would go eat out some place special for birthdays so we were exposed to other foods.Also my dad was AirForce,so when on Okinawa we ate Japanese food.Our favorite restaurant in Anchorage was Nikko Gardens,a japanese place.We also would eat at home tacos,chalupas and enchildas momma would make.Didn't go to mexican restaurants very often.
But we as adults like trying different foods and new places.
I also know we didn't have computers and other stuff to keep us indoors as a kid in the 60s and 70s.And another thing which is not adressed is how much growth hormones and other things are feed to chicken and cattle,etc.this too could affect kids.
If you grew up after WW II, as I did, there wasn't much choice in the matter - there was no fast food (I remember when pizza was a novelty), and my parents' idea of exotic was to go to an Italian place for spaghetti. At home, we had no fish unless my father caught it himself on fishing trips, which were pretty infrequent. The only dish I really remember from my childhood was chicken and dumplings - a Sunday fixture, and still my idea of ideal comfort food. I'm pretty sure all vegetables were canned.
Today I eat all ethnic cuisines, and cook them at home, too. The spicier, the better. My tastes have really expanded since my childhood. Younger people may not have had as stark a contrast between what was standard when they were kids, and what they have available now - for me, the only way to go was in the direction of "more exciting."
Growing up in the depression, our family was fairly lucky to have a meat and potatoes dinner every night. Few vegetables besides peas and corn. I didn't discover ethnic cooking until I found an Italian restaurant near college, previously it was all Chef Boyardee. Breakfasts were usually something like farina or oatmeal, which I eschew nowadays, not because I can't stand them, but because I finally discovered people ate other breakfasts. Oh yes, besides milk we often had ovaltine, not for the taste--but for the Little Orphan Annie decoder rings you could get with a proof of purchase.
We ate what was put before us. It never occurred to any of us that there was such a thing as a choice in the matter, though we could occasionally register a severe dislike and get a pass granted, especially in a "more for the rest of us" situation - as when brother John discovered that he hated mushrooms, so we all very kindly helped him out there...but my hatred for most forms of soaked bread, as in the favorite family stewed-tomato recipe, got me exactly nowhere. I did get a pass on sweet custard, which is about the only childhood dislike I've carried with me.
The fact is that we were poor, and food was whatever we could afford. We had a garden, as did many other people in our little farming town, and my dad's skills at hunting and fishing meant that squirrels, rabbits and freshwater fish helped the food budget quite a bit, but there wasn't much room for such luxuries as "picky" eating. Luckily, Mom was a decent and resourceful cook, though rarely an adventurous one. The upside was that I grew up with a strong desire to eat above my station whenever possible, while retaining a still-vibrant love for such proletarian formulations as the tuna-noodle casserole.
Growing up on a farm in Western WA, most of what was put on the table for family and hired hands we grew ourselves, or got from neighbors, relatives, or nearby u-pick farms. When things were in season, mother canned the excess for the rest of the year. During the war when things were rationed, we kept eating well because we had our own.
raw milk, cheese, eggs, beef, chicken, pork, veal
apples, pears, peaches, cherries, apricots, prunes
strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries
walnuts, filberts
potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, corn, squash
beans, peas, various greens, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes
plus, from our smokehouse came bacon, ham and sausage
A fisherman friend would come by with a gorgeous salmon or sturgeon from time to time. Guys fishing on our lake would sometimes drop off catfish. Every spring, when they were running, we'd get smelt.
We almost never ate out.
As I read what people are writing, I'm realizing that what you ate as a kid is closely linked to the time and place in which you grew up. If you grew up in a rural area several decades ago, you may have been more likely to eat fresh food as a child, and less likely to eat food from a diverse selection of cultures/subcultures. If you grew up in the suburbs in the 80's (as I did), you were much more likely to have encountered McDonald's and Taco Bell at major intersections as well as the very processed foods people now love so much in supermarkets.
I think what the kids in this article are eating is also linked to the time and place in which they are growing up--a city or near a city in the early 21st century. The parents are feeding the kids what fits their lifestyle and beliefs just as our parents did for us, although the ones here are more outspoken.
re: mrsry
I grew up in the seventies and eighties split between the country and the city. But my parents' thinking was circa 1930, since both had grown up at the tail-end of the depression. It's definitely possible for people with strong personalities to convey an anachronistic or out-of-place attitude about food.
Other kids in my milieu ate mostly crap, but I knew we didn't and couldn't. Somehow my mom and dad managed to brainwash us successfully enough that we actually felt sorry for these kids, even though the made fun of the weird food we brought to school.
But it really extends far beyond the mere question of food. I think it has more to do with forming a strong, non-conformist person who constantly questions the status quo. Even though the three of us turned out to have radically different interests and tastes, we definitely share this quality.
My parents traveled a great deal and our house reflected their exposure to produce beyond the apples and oranges. I remember eating mangoes, pineapple, papaya at a very early age. My friends would come over after school and point to the fruit bowl, "what's thatttt."
When I produce shop I still get a giggle out of the "discovery" of new fruits/veggies for those still virgins to some of the best fresh flavors around.
WHAT I eat now is different and more varied. There was no sushi, latte, or speck around our house in 1970's suburban New Jersey.
HOW I eat, on the other hand, is the same now as then, and was determined early on mainly by my mother. I learned about food by watching and helping her cook. I learned a love for fresh produce by going to the local farmstands with her. I learned to be open to new tastes by her patient and gradual introduction of new foods. From my dad I learned that the grossest part of whatever food, when put on bread and doused with ketchup, was actually THE BEST PART. That's a quote.
Growing up in a Chinese household, my parents would always prepare at least one of the following for dinner: a vegetable dish, a fish dish, a meat dish, cold appetizers (e.g., jellyfish or fresh cucumbers picked from the backyard in soy sauce, wine sauce, salt--so simple and delicious) and always--regardless of the weather--soup and hot rice. Lunch (home made noodle soup, dumplings, rice cakes, etc.) and breakfast were less elaborate and bfast was usually Western style (e.g., bagles, which my parents love). Basically, I ate banquet style for dinner nearly every night for over two decades and never thought it was anything unique. It wasn't until I started working that I realized how fortunate I was to have this bountiful feast prepared for me every night. I remember the first time someone told me she had cereal for dinner at least once a week--I looked at her like she was an alien!
My parents also enjoy pasta and pizza and curry dishes and bagels and sandwiches, and my mother loved Western style soups. Junk food like cookies, chips, soda and ice cream were pretty much nonexistent in our household not because we were personally opposed to it but because it just never occurred to us to buy them!
This has definitely had a big impact on me in terms of eating well-balanced, nutritious meals at least once a day and a love for cooking and eating (but eating well). To this day, I eat a variety of food on a daily basis and having Coke in the house or ordering it out is, believe it or not, a real treat!