FEATURE/Family Cooking Expert Joins Family.com; Lynn Fredericks' New Column Serves Up Mealtime Answers for the Modern Family.Lifestyle Editors FEATURE... NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)--Nov. 17, 2000 Family.com (www.family.com), a part of the Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DIG), welcomes family cooking expert and renowned author Lynn Fredericks to the site's newly expanded Food Section. Beginning today, Fredericks will deliver a weekly Q&A column addressing the many challenges that parents face surrounding one of the hardest times of day - dinnertime. Kids expect a new and exciting answer to their daily question "What's for dinner?" Yet a recent study revealed that seventy percent of women don't know what they're making for dinner by 4 p.m. that day. In Fredericks' new column, parents will learn a different approach to making meals and find creative recipe ideas to spice up tired and predictable menus. Fredericks will give realistic ways for parents to involve kids in the meal's preparation, making it a valued family activity, rather than a daily chore. Parents can submit questions directly on the Family.com site for Fredericks to answer in her column, where she will also provide helpful advice and inspiring tips for common issues, such as dealing with picky pick·y adj. pick·i·er, pick·i·est Informal Excessively meticulous; fussy. picky Adjective [pickier, pickiest] Brit, Austral & NZ eaters and getting kids away from the TV and to the dinner table. Fredericks is an "expert" in both parenting and cooking. She is a single mom, a critically acclaimed author and an educator in the food industry. Her cookbook, "Cooking Time is Family Time," has been praised by such prominent chefs as Daniel Boulud and Alice Waters, as well as Food Columnist John Mariani and celebrity and mother Susan Sarandon. A parent reviewing Fredericks' cookbook on Amazon.com even heralded her as the "Dr. Spock of the Kitchen." Fredericks is also deputy director of the Food Studies Institute, an organization dedicated to improving the education and health of elementary-school children, and she teaches classes for parents and kids at a variety of cooking schools. She lives with her two sons in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Fredericks' column can be found in Family.com's Food Section (www.family.com) beginning today. Family.com is part of the Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG), which manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, ESPN.com, Family.com, GO.com, Movies.com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Online, NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= .com, NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga .com, Soccernet and VacationTogether. The Internet Group also includes The Walt Disney Company's direct marketing business. Steve Bornstein is chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Seattle; New York; Bristol, Conn.; and London. For more information, visit our web site at www.dig.com. |
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