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Serving pre-prepared food doesn't mean you're a bad parent

By Katia Hetter
Posted November 29, 2011

(CNN)–In this age of farm-to-table dinner adoration and making one’s own butter and baking powder from scratch, I rise up in defense of the drive-thru, the TV dinner and the semi and fully-prepared dinners from the grocery store. That includes bags o’ salad, minced garlic and frozen pizza.

As I return [...]

Girl Scouts accepts transgender kid, provokes cookie boycott

By Katia Hetter, Special to CNN
Updated 7:23 PM EST, Fri January 13, 2012

(CNN) — The Girl Scout cookie can’t seem to catch a break.

Under fire in years past for including trans fats, high fructose corn syrup and palm oil in its cookies, the Girl Scouts’ current cookie selling season is under fire because of policies [...]

Change could be brewing over on Mariposa Street: Beermaker says zoning plan may force him to hoist anchor

By Katia Hetter, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer

Though San Francisco’s days as an industrial center are gone, at least one product made here still has an international reputation — Anchor Steam Beer.

But now top city planners want to allow housing to be built directly alongside Anchor Brewing Co.’s small manufacturing complex on the slope of [...]

The trap of mindless eating

Think you got food under control? One scientist says, ‘No, you don’t.’

By Katia Hetter
Special to Newsday

People make about 200 food decisions every day, but they don’t actually think about most of them. To show just how mindless those decisions are, food psychologist Brian Wansink took to his laboratory.

Here’s what he found:

People whose chicken wing bones [...]

Fighting Against the Food Bullies

What happens when your relationship hinges on your taste in cheese?

Out Magazine

By Katia Hetter

I trace my insecurity about food to an ex-girlfriend who turned cheese shopping into a power struggle.

We hadn’t been together more than three months when she asked me to buy cheese for a party she was hosting. I didn’t grow up [...]