The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time [Hardcover]

The producer ofAn Inconvenient Truth, Laurie David's new mission is to help America's overwhelmed families sit down to a Family Dinner, and she provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so.

Laurie David speaks from her own experience confronting the challenges of raising two teenage girls. Today's parents have lots to deal with and technology is making their job harder than ever. Research has proven that everything we worry about as parents--from drugs to alcohol, promiscuity, to obesity, academic achievement and just good old nutrition--can all be improved by the simple act of eating and talking together around the table.

Laurie has written a practical, inspirational, fun (and, of course, green) guide to the most important hour in any parent's day. Chock-full chapters include: Over seventy-five kid approved fantastic recipes; tips on teaching green values; conversation starters; games to play to help even the shyest family member become engaged; ways to express gratitude; the family dinner after divorce (hint: keep eating together) and much more. Filled with moving memories and advice from the country's experts and teachers, this book will get everyone away from electronic screens and back to the dinner table.

Laurie David, ex-wife of Larry David, is a media savvy powerhouse. She founded the Stop Global Warming Virtual March, produced the Academy Award winning documentaryAn Inconvenient Truth,and launched theStop Global Warming College Tourwith Sheryl Crow. She's been featured on theOprah Winfrey Show,Today,andGood Morning America; is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, and is author ofThe Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming(Scholastic, 9/07). The Family Dinneris a great, fun cookbook, but it's so much more than that-- it's an empowering recipe for joy, health and healing. Dr. Dean Ornish If you can muster the energy for only one tool to raising a ls~