Tikkun Olam

The Kosher Cooking Carnival (KCC) #44, Pictorial Edition, is up and running at Leora's blog. This edition is replete with pictures, pictures, pictures (and also the thousand words to go with it.) Among others, I personally recommend (ahem) Yours Truly's post about meatballs and pusghetti, and also The Kosher Kook. I am also interested in Batya's ministrone soup ( but I want it to sparkle for me, too ) and might make it to break the fast next week... Happy eating! (Batya, hope you don't mind; I borrowed your picture...) *Copyright alert: No infringement of any text or graphic copyright is ever intended on this blog. If you own the copyright to any original image or document used for the creation of the graphics or information on this site, please contact the blog administrator with all pertinent info so that proper credit can be given. If you wish to have it removed from the site, just say the word; it shall be, ASAP.

My grandchildren love to EAT. But for my grandson (the one with Down Syndrome), one of the most looked-forward-to activity of his day is eating meals. Don't get me wrong: he loves camp, and friends, and has "play dates" all the time. So let's talk about play dates for a moment. When I was a kid, we didn't have play dates; it's a modern invention. What we did was just go outside, and if our friends weren't 'out there,' we'd yell up to the window 'can Chayaleh come out to play?') Today, kids have 'play dates.' You make arrangements a week in advance by calling up the kid's mother and arrange to have your kid go over to their house for a specific amount of time, say, five hours-to play; then the next week or so, that kid comes over to YOUR house for five hours or so. It's like a business appointment. You formally plan it and put it on your calendar. I believe it is a result of living in the suburbs: everyone is in their o...