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• Let Them Eat Seaweed

  New York Times food writer Mark Bittman finally puts his finger on what's so disturbing about the dust-up between "The Sneaky Chef" and Jessica Seinfeld. The unsettling part isn't the concept of hiding veggies in your kids' food nor is it the fact that they're fighting about who came up with the silly idea first.   Read More... Posted Feb 17 2008, 04:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: hiding vegetables, jessica seinfeld, sneaky chef, Mark Bittman

• Jessica Seinfeld Woes Keep Getting More Woeful

  Soooo, what happens when a celebrity-by-association puts out a book on hiding veggies in otherwise innocuous foods? Well, at first it's all Oprah love (sez FameCrawler) and interviews, and then...the backlash. Critics of the covert food strategy pointed out that camoflaguing foods could keep your kids from developing good eating habits that include appreciating stuff with seeds, and leafy greens, and so on. (And by the way, my child will be eating all her meals at CityMama's house from now on.) And then on Friday the NY Times and other places reported that Ms. Seinfeld's book bears an uncanny resemblance to another book on the market, The Sneaky Chef, written by Missy Chase Lapine and published in April. Ooops. Now here's where it gets extra bad... Read More... Posted Oct 22 2007, 04:29 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: picky eaters, cooking for kids, scandal, plagarism, hiding vegetables, jessica seinfeld