Posted on 07/03/2023 2:53:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While most parents may stick to basics when feeding their toddlers, professional chef Jack Zhang, 31, was determined to make sure his son Levi was going to be an adventurous eater.
To ensure the now 2-year-old was not going to grow up fussy, Zhang started feeding the baby dishes fit for the most refined palate as soon as he could eat solid foods — and now has an appetite that could rival a grown adult’s.
Little Levi’s expansive menu already includes lobster, scallops, ratatouille, pork dumplings, cauliflower puree, quick-pickled cucumbers, radishes, microgreens and flying fish roe (tobiko), his proud dad said. “The mindset is for him to not be always picky and to try a bunch of different foods,” said the New York-based cook, who is married to 28-year-old Emily, an English professor.
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Cook d properly frog legs are yummy.
Bologna topped with potato chips on Wonder Bread. Yum. Still will get a sudden yen. But it HAS to be wonder bread.
East Coast is more into raw onions than the midwest was when I was growing up. When Uno’s came to MA, I was surprised that the same named pizza tasted differently. The manager explained that they had to change the recipe from Chicago’s dried onion to MA’s fresh onion. I still take it off salads.
Cooking onion seems to turn it into a completely different vegetable. I’ve bought into all sorts of sauteed onion dishes but still can’t bear the smell of raw. Dairy Queen onion rings are especially yummy.
Amen! Far too many parents today make second “kid friendly meals” consisting of chicken nuggets and kraft dinner.
Yep. Eat what’s in front of you or go hungry. And if you’re hungry you’ll eat anything.
My parents made us eat whatever they were having. Except bologna. I always threw up when I ate bologna.
Ham,cheese, raw onions, pickles, and horseradish sauce on toasted multi grain or rye . I’m weird.
Not a bad idea, if you can get your kid to eat different foods.
I read somewhere that back in the early 20th century, prisoners on the coasts were fed lobster because it was considered a throw away food. Guessing it didn’t come with drawn butter though.
Ham,cheese, raw onions, pickles, and horseradish sauce on toasted multi grain or rye . I’m weird
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No you’re not. Not as far as I’m concerned.
😋 yum.
Sounds delicious. 😋
Gross. Who TF feeds their kid a trash-eating bug? New Englanders used to crush them and throw them in their gardens as fertilizer.
Real people eat fish. We have refrigeration and flash freezing now. So we can do that.
Bugs were shipped inland alive cuz that was the only inland peoples could get fresh marine life.
Yea. Let me know when you become my boss.
One-we didn’t know he was sick. It took over a year to diagnose.
Two-He made his choice.
Three-It takes a real jerk to judge someone you don’t know.
“When I was a child I ate what was put in front of me or I didn’t eat. If I ate at someone else’s house I ate what they ate or didn’t eat.”
But today it’s all about what the littl critters WANT to eat. Like how are they supposed to know? Do they ‘want’ to get out of bed, an education, a job?
Yeah, raise a kid to follow their wants and eventually they’ll OD on drugs. The stronger the drug, the more its ‘wanted’.
I always encouraged our kids to try everything.
If you don’t try new things, you could be missing out on your future “favorite” foods. The upside is huge compared to the risk of not liking something in one meal.
Not to mention that your tastes change throughout your life.
I think the chef is on to something.
He’ll never have any friends if he’s not well versed in mac ‘n cheese, spaghetti o’s and pbj. Doctors say to introduce peanut butter at that age so he doesn’t develop an allergy.
Sure, lobster dripping in butter (ok, it’s more the butter that’s tasty) is good but I learned a long time ago it’s better to be able to pay the rent.
I absolutely loved lobster from the time I had teeth. My dad brought home live lobsters from a store on Long Island and let them crawl around on the floor for a minute before he popped them into the big pot filled with boiling water.
Recently, I had a friend from Maine who had lobsters shipped in a couple of times. We took them to my daughter and son-in-law’s house. SIL had never had a lobster and now he’s a fan too. But OMG, the price for shipping.
My mother said I ate my brother’s spinach after he threw it up. Just saying...
Teach kids early how to cook. If they help you cook, they’ll eat what’s in front of them. I’m not worried about them because they learned life skills to help them through.
Our daughter, at 3, sliced with a real knife, garden cucumbers for canning pickles. Never cut herself. In 4th grade she cooked Thanksgiving dinner from scratch all by herself. Pies, dressing, giblet gravy, the whole shebang. I was sick as a dog and in bed that year. She woke me once to ask how much sage to put in the dressing and I mumbled, “more than you think.” The 20+ lb turkey was ready and on the table at noon just like tradition.
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