Food as love…but not for some

A recent article I wrote in The Bee went viral on social media. (you can read the full article here.) The Power of a Happy Meal While many of the comments were supportive, people sharing the same experiences either as parents or kids, some of the more, shall we say, predictable comments got me thinking.…

What’s on the menu?

I am sorting through the kitchen drawer, you know the one where you shove all the bits and pieces, - the takeaway menus and the washing machine manual, lolly-sticks from that time you were gonna make your own, broken bamboo skewers that you are saving in case there is a bamboo shortage. So, I was…

The one where we get the lurgy.

Seasonal Illness Stickers by Michele Bruttomesso is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 I came home from London with covid.  It has not been the one where people say it was just like a bad cold and didn’t stop them doing much – a weird combination of bragging about the strength of their immune system, combined with…