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So apparently, Ms. Waldman's idea of the perfect gift during the hoiday season is....a better genetic roll of the dice for her kids?
Food, and in particular, holiday food traditions, are about the love, warmth, and generosity of the season. So, your holiday host and hostess used four pounds of butter? Do they eat like that every day? I doubt it. Ms. Waldman might want to focus on other things than her weight: like teaching her kids the value of daily good nutrition vs. the enjoyment of long-standing holiday traditional foods, and how and when each has its place.
In addition to the beat-to-death conversations about weight, body image, patriarchy, and post-feminism, the conversation that's really gone missing is about our ability to cook, to share, to feed ourselves effectively and what that means for our traditions and for our future.
Get over it...stop the self-loathing and start loving your life, your kids, and your world. Teach your kids how to cook, choose sustainably farmed or organic foods over mass agriculture, and revel in your history as evidenced in your holiday foods—then you'll not only do the world and the starving a favor, but you'll do yourself one, too.
