I found your blog through the Tumblr directory and immediately spent about an hour and half going through your posts. You remind me of my mother … but only in the best way possible!

She’s always been incredibly health- and food-conscious — vegetables and a salad at every dinner, buying organic whenever possible and making sure my sister and I understood that dinner together at the table was non-negotiable.

I remember going grocery shopping on the weekends with her and my grandmother at the only natural grocery store in town. To her credit, my grandmother especially was ahead of her time (for Milwaukee, Wisconsin anyway), buying organic decades before it became a marketing buzzword.

I’m 23 now and embarking on my own revitalization of eating habits that sadly took a turn for the lazy and generally unhealthy during my college years. With twenty extra pounds I’d rather do without, a scary bout with shingles behind me, and a like-minded boyfriend (with a veritable library of Mark Bittman books), I’m feeling motivated about food and my body for the first time in my life. Thank you for all the stories about your family and the recipes you share — I can’t wait to try every one of them. If children are in my future, I’ll be constantly looking to the awesome moms I’ve known — or read — as positive examples.