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1 week ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Fanny Singer |Greta Caruso |Julia Sherman
Hi friends,We are proud to bring you our NINETEENTH! installment of The Cub Street Diet, our monthly column devoted to what other people are feeding their kids. Here to tell us the tale of three days in her family kitchen is a.k.a Salad for President. Julia is, besides being one of salad’s foremost advocates, a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and chef who, among other notable accomplishments, has recently launched her own Substack.
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2 weeks ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Fanny Singer |Greta Caruso
Hi Friends,One of the paradoxes of summer is that it’s possible to both experience a persistent shortage of fruit (are your kids also capable of devouring $37 worth of berries in under 2 minutes?) while simultaneously always seeming to have some that’s threatening to go off. It’s important, then, to have some recipes up your sleeve that turn on-its-way-out fruit into culinary gold. And now, with stone fruit beginning to appear in the markets, it’s a great time to make fruit-forward desserts.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Greta Caruso |Fanny Singer
Hi friends,Yep. You read that right. *Breakfast Cookies* With a subject line like that, how much can we really say before delving into the recipe? We feel pretty confident that you have an intrinsic understanding of the primary use cases for these cookies:Your morning is frantic and you need to get out the door pronto, but your kid is unbreakfasted and teetering on the edge of a hanger-induced meltdown.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Fanny Singer |Greta Caruso
Hi friends,It’s no secret that we’re both dyed-in-the-wool seasonal eaters, cooks and shoppers.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Greta Caruso |Fanny Singer
Hi friends,Coming in hot with a wonderful Cub Street Diet from the equally wonderful Sierra Tishgart! Sierra is the New York-based founder of the cult cookware line Great Jones, whose beautiful and functional goods we featured in last year’s Easy Tomato Confit post. Before she started a career in kitchenware, Sierra was a food writer and editor who spent her time interviewing cooks, tasting the best of the city, and editing the Grub Street Diet for many years, if you can believe it.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Fanny Singer |Greta Caruso
Hi friends,When it comes to feeding our kids, one of the things we wrestle with most is sugar. There is so much conflicting guidance when it comes to sweet treats with kids, that every decision can feel like the wrong one. Sugar will kill them. No sugar will make them into a social pariah. Bribing your kid with sweet treats is wrong but also it’s the only thing that works sometimes. You know the drill: a classic lose-lose parenting situation.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Greta Caruso |Fanny Singer
Hi friends,With Mother’s Day around the corner, we’ve been reflecting on the enormity and insanity of this journey that began for both of us (within a month of each other!) in 2022. And though the Green Spoon mostly exists in the weeds of being a parent—the brass tacks of surviving the morning, filling lunch boxes and providing dinner to a fickle constituency—we wanted to spend today’s post honoring what has nourished us most as moms. The answer? Other moms. Ourmoms.
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1 month ago | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Fanny Singer |Greta Caruso
Hi Friends,One of the requests we get most often is for dinner recipes that are actually doable when you’re strapped for time, energy and ingredients. In the past, we’ve shared 10-minute dinners for those nights when it’s a race against the clock (check out this post). And while time is often the biggest factor, sometimes it’s just a question of technique, i.e., how to make something taste really good with just one or two ingredients and a minimum of fuss.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Greta Caruso
Hi friends,If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that we possess a nearly religious devotion to the humble, glorious chickpea (and this truly perfect method for cooking them), so it should come as no surprise that we also love to cook with chickpea flour whenever possible: it’s rich in fiber, protein, and flavor. And, needless to say, this is no fringe theory: chickpeas and chickpea flour are cornerstones of many of the world’s greatest cuisines.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
thegreenspoon.substack.com | Greta Caruso |Yossy Arefi
Hi Friends,This week, we are so excited to share the Cub Street Diet of , bestselling cookbook (and Substack!) author, food stylist and food photographer. We’ve been fans of Yossy’s work since she started her blog Apt. 2B Baking Co. in 2010 (were we ever so young?!) and immediately fell for her delicious, fruit-forward recipes and gorgeous photography.