{"id":10,"date":"2011-01-13T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2011-01-15T05:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T05:21:57","slug":"feeding-andrew-a-love-letter-from-father-to-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Andrew: A Love Letter from Father to Son"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Writing your first blog is a daunting, nerve-racking kind of business.\u00a0 First, just the technical hurtles of the blogosphere are enough to stop anyone over 40 and I definitely fall in that category.\u00a0 Next, the strange nature of my blog, a mixture of slow cooking and single parenting, has kept me at odds over how to introduce this odd pairing. \u00a0 The \u201cwhat comes first\u201d paradox of jumping in with a recipe or Andrew\u2019s story has kept me at bay for sometime.\u00a0 Not to mention photography, design, etc. \u00a0 Nevertheless, I have decided that, ready or not, I am jumping in feet first\u2026 \u00a0all eight of them, but more on that in my next post.<\/p>\n

You may ask the question of why cooking and parenting?\u00a0 The truth is that I love both and in my humble opinion, they are inextricably connected.\u00a0 Primarily, this is about food (slow food, to be exact) and the power it has to transform the mundane into the sublime.<\/p>\n

Yet, it wouldn\u2019t exist without Andrew and his crazy need to eat\u2026every day!<\/p>\n

The short version of our story started five years ago on March 15th<\/sup>, 2006, when I brought my former second-grade student, then nine- year-old Andrew, to my house for the first time to be my son.\u00a0 The longer version started a few years before and can be found at the Andrew\u2019s story tab on the home page.\u00a0 Up until that day, I had been an avid and passionate cook, but nothing had prepared me for the daily act of cooking for someone who depends on you for their every meal.\u00a0 Suddenly I was cooking two meals a day during the week and three on the weekend.\u00a0 No longer a weekend warrior with the occasional inspiration for soulful slow cooking among friends, I was now a fully enlisted recruit in the battle for taking back America from Mc Donald\u2019s and its allies.<\/p>\n

Initially, my photos and recipes were being collected for a cookbook that I would give to Andrew when he went to college.\u00a0 However, after seeing Andrew\u2019s miraculous changes and speaking with hundreds of parents who share the same worries, I decided to move into the 21st<\/sup> century and house the records of our most memorable meals in cyberspace.\u00a0 In education, we often beat the blues by saying, \u201cif we help just one child, we have succeeded.\u201d\u00a0 I give our story up as a public offering, in that same spirit, and hope that a few more families will gather around the table and embark on a culinary adventure that will become a genealogy of memories, traditions and occasionally a transformative, life-changing experience.<\/p>\n

I believe with my whole heart that the table has the power to heal many of this world’s maladies and that the act of sitting together, in communion, night after night, sharing food and conversation is the most potent recipe for our children\u2019s well being and their present and future happiness. \u00a0 Andrew is living proof that there is healing power in the table.\u00a0 The table will teach you and your family to stay and linger, to savor and smell, and to learn of the subtleties and beauty of human interaction.\u00a0 I invite you to jump in, trust the process, and start your own journey to the heart and soul of a truly humanizing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing your first blog is a daunting, nerve-racking kind of business.\u00a0 First, just the technical hurtles of the blogosphere are enough to stop anyone over 40 and I definitely fall in that category.\u00a0 Next, the strange nature of my blog, a mixture of slow cooking and single parenting, has kept me at odds over how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feedingandrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}