SPONSORED POST: This is a paid post. The Road to The Good Life chose to work with Farm Fresh to You because of their commitment to encouraging strong roots for a better food and agriculture system for all. All opinions presented are my own.   My great grandparents were farmers. They churned their own butter. My mom and her siblings and cousins played in their apple orchard. Before Alice Waters pioneered California cuisine, my great grandmother, my grandmother, and my mother all used local, seasonal produce with Mediterranean and asian cooking techniques to nourish their families.   Carrying on their tradition is important to me. But living in an urban environment doesn't make it easy. If I want Gates to grow up with an appreciation for fresh, seasonal ingredients, I need to know what's in season when and I need to plan ahead. If I get too busy, we can miss out for the year (for example, Gaia melon this year). Luckily, Farm Fresh to You makes planning and eating right easy. ...

Social media is today’s media. It’s where the masses turn for entertainment.   Radio had serials. Television had sitcoms and then reality shows. The Internet has social media.     Social media isn’t meant to reflect reality. It’s never been “real.” And it never will be. We’d get bored.   Our attention span demands highlights. We gravitate towards soundbytes. We want our problems to neatly resolve themselves in 30 minutes or 140 characters.   Too much detail. The routine is boring. We tune it out.   And here’s the problem. We’re raising a generation with unrealistic expectations.   So, this is and isn’t a post about pancakes. About images that are styled and well lit. About what we do and don’t share. And about how we share real life.     How do you decide what to share publicly?  

Diversity is a topic near and dear to my heart, especially as my ancestors upon immigrating to the United States from Italy and Poland shed their differences, their cultures, and attempted to disappear into America's melting pot. But as a person of primarily European ethnicity, starting a conversation about our differences can be tricky especially if you don't want to offend. So I'm super excited about an upcoming collaboration with Sonia Kang of Mixed Up Clothing.     Over the next few weeks, Sonia and I will be swapping meals that represent our cultures and explaining the significance of the food we choose to share with one another. I'll kick off our project with a Meet the Maker Profile and continue this coming Friday by sharing our typical Shabbat celebration. Then you'll hop over to Sonia's blog for an Asian/Latino inspired fusion dish.   How do you start a conversation about differences?