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(More customer reviews)Whatever Happened To Dinner
Recipes and Reflections for Family Mealtimes
Melodie M. Davis, with Jodi Nisly Hertzler and Carmen Wyse
Herald Press, Scottsdale, PA 15683
234 pp. plus recipe index, ppbk.
Research shows that teens in families who fail to eat together are twice as likely to do drugs, use tobacco or fail in school than youngsters who share family meal times. That's one reason Melodee Davis gently encourages families to eat together.
Davis is realistic about the pressures modern families face and knows frequent family meals together are not always practical. However, she points out advantages. Times together involve children and parents more fully in each others lives. Meals can be learning, comforting and bonding times.
This author calls eating together one of the simple, basic structures of civilized life. She says if we never eat together, why even live in families?
Throwing together a picnic meal can be an occasional fun solution on a fast-paced day, or even eating while driving on a trip. But we must avoid the poor nutrition of fast foods. Davis guides readers on ways to survive busy lives, save money and help our planet.
In her fifteen interesting chapters, Davis includes luscious, usually easy and kitchen-tested recipes for each situation she discusses.
She writes about teaching manners, getting kids to like new foods, cultural eating differences, gardening, food preservation, cooking disasters and other concepts. Each chapter begins with a story from someone's life and includes a relevant food-related event from the Bible.
Anyone who cooks and cares about their family will enjoy this book.
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