'Family Traditions'

Cooking Light magazine has added an interactive Mother’s Day special to its menu and is launching its first-ever Web competition called, Make Your Mom a Cooking Light Video Star.
The video will celebrate family, food, and old-fashioned home cooking. It’s the kind of thing that when you get together with your adult cousins, everyone remembers their childhood [more...]

Hanukkah starts on December 4 eve and lasts eight days. No, it’s not the Jewish Christmas but I can see how people think so because it happens in December and there’s an exchange of presents.
When I was a kid, we would get a present every night of the week. They weren’t big presents but things [more...]

I love Thanksgiving leftovers.
When I was a kid and all the family would gather and there was always room for one more. Most of the time I ate at the “kids table” but once I graduated to the adult table, I felt much wiser.
We would eat early around 2 p.m. and then clean up. The women did [more...]

Thanksgiving will be here before you know it and we at Circle of Food blog are wondering what family traditions have you passed down through the years and decades on this special turkey day?
Or what new Thanksgiving traditions do you plan to start?
When I was younger and my parents were still alive and well, my [more...]

I think that those of us who are old enough to remember and appreciate retro embrace it so much is because it was time in our lives that was safer and simpler.
You could go trick or treating without the fear that someone would poison us or stick a razor in the Mallow Bar.
Tell your kids not [more...]