Larissa Phillips, author of Parenthood's Feeding Your Family newsletter, is a food editor and writer, cooking teacher, food activist and a student at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
Raised by back-to-the-land suburbanites, she grew up gardening and composting within 50 miles of New York City. Geography be damned, her parents tended bees, chickens and a quarter-acre organic garden in the same Connecticut suburb where Martha Stewart would later make such eccentricities seem enviable - but about a decade earlier.
Larissa has a blog, Mothership Meals & Satellite Saucers, otherwise know as how to sit down for dinner with your family without completely losing your mind.
Larissa is currently working on a cookbook with a group of Brooklyn chefs, which will raise money for a rooftop garden in a Brooklyn public school. She welcomes comments and requests from readers. More about Larissa
Write to her at FeedingYourFamily@parenthood.com.
