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What To Expect from Nina Planck When You’re Expecting
Nina Planck is the wife of Murray's Cheese proprietor Rob Kaufelt. Nina is a food writer and activist, who has written two books about the benefits of eating "real" or traditional food. Real Food for Mother and Baby focuses on the kinds of food that expecting or new mothers and their children should be eating. Join Nina for a special class at Murray's, on Sunday, May 19th, at 4pm. “The modern pregnant woman cannot be blissfully happy,” writes obstetrician, surgeon, and midwifery muse, Dr. Michel Odent. “All of them have a least one reason to be worried.” Blood pressure too high or too low, weight gain too rapid or slow, anemia, gestational diabetes, too old, too young, too active, too sedentary. Plus the long shopping lists for the new, unnecessary nursery, the bedding, the bouncy seats, the dishes, and most of all, the toys to “entertain.” The true message of the ad copy serving the Pregnancy Industry is two-fold: First, “What to Worry About When You’re Expecting” and second, “How to Spend All Your Time and Money Easing Your Brand New Worries.” The woman carrying a new life has some decisions to make, yes, and now is not the time to pick up a heroin ... Read More
Curd to your Mother!
Mother’s Day is just a few days away, and I have been thinking about all the things you can do with cheese to make Mom feel super special…. Read More
The Make Our Melt Finalists!
How has your grilled cheese month been? As the gooey goodness keeps coming, the thought of this blessed month ending brings tears to my eyes. With one more… Read More
Earthy Cheese
Like most industrialized food products, Cheese gets a bad rap for not being the most earth friendly. With Earth day imminently approaching, I find myself thinking about cheese,… Read More
Murray Greenberg (never met him; he died before I got here) was a Jewish Spanish civil war veteran and communist who opened a wholesale butter and egg shop a few doors up Cornelia street in 1940. The old timers tell me that even though he was an old leftie, he was still a street smart capitalist who used to buy cheese cheap and trim it and sell it. 
