Welcome to the Menu!

This is the cooking log of the Platter family,  located in Athens, Georgia and Princeton, New Jersey. Daughter Clara (Princeton) suggested starting a family poetry blog, but we cook more than we write poetry.   Daughter Mary Louise (Athens) came up with the name. Our subject is what's for dinner in our widely-separated households, with dining reviews and food observations by our crack panel of testers/family members: Alice, Mary Louise, and Mike.  

This is a blog about family cooking.  We are neither professional nor aspiring chefs. Our primary audience is friends and family, basically people who eat our food at one time or another.  We would be happy to hear from others as well.  We read with alarm news reports about the relatively small number of families who cook and eat together nowadays.  There are lots of reasons for this phenomenon that we can't control:  school schedules, two-career families, etc. We would like to see the trend reversed, however, and will be happy if this blog can provide some small encouragement to cooks and their families everywhere.