![]() ![]() We do a good catch-up while I purée the night away … and when I’m done I feel so virtuous.” ![]() Seinfeld on her puréeing process: “I have a standing date with my husband in the kitchen every Sunday night after the kids have gone to bed. I decide to give Deceptively Delicious a shot. ![]() I’m a perfect patsy for this book’s promises. On the other hand, who doesn’t have fantasies about being that sort of wife-that is, when one is screaming at a baffled spouse: “Why do I feel like I should thank you right now? I do this every day and you don’t thank me!” Moreoever, I, like all privileged upper-middle-class Western world mothers, am a control freak who knows for sure I have failed if my 2-year-old, Woolfie, is not eating vegetables or whole grains in each of the eight small meals he’s supposed to be ingesting daily. Without apology, Deceptively Delicious fully indulges in that retrograde 1950’s version of domestic life where the woman controls everything and does all the work happily from the back seat, and so cunningly that the husband almost thinks he’s the one with all the ideas and the map, driving the car. I’m equally repelled by and attracted to her program. No one will actually follow the rigorous mixing and freezing and scheming Ms. I describe the book as having a conceit because it’s a work of fiction. So the smart parent tricks them by puréeing the vegetables and hiding them in palatable, nonchallenging meals: lasagne, pancakes, meatloaf or chicken soup. Trying to force-feed them nutrition leads to endless frustration. The conceit of the new book Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, by Jessica Seinfeld (wife of comedian Jerry), is that children are priggish eaters who, when left to their own devices, will eat only white or fried food. ![]()
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