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Between speeches, the group of picketers marched in a circle and alternately chanted, “Lay off, Larry!” and “Hey, Harvard: What’d you know? No more layoffs, you’ve got the dough!” Many people carried signs, sporting slogans like “Layoffs Wreck Lives...
MICHAEL PHALEN Dough...
Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, Calif., Sunita Williams, 8, and her sister Anita, 7, will be kneading the dough for vasilopita, a sweet yeast bread that belongs to their mom's Greek holiday tradition. Cooking and baking with their parents are part of the sisters' daily routine. "We chop up dates and strawberries and fruits from the garden," explains their mother Theo. "It's like they're the artists. We make a game...
...these parents do it? Generally, they start early, and "we make it fun," says Bridget's mother Gina Martinez. A supervisor at Sam's Club, she started letting Bridget and her sister Brittany, 16, roll dough and press cookies onto cookie sheets when they were 4 and 5. Because she believes that kids too often see cooking as a punishment, she keeps the mood light and inviting: "I have a lot of recipe books, and I'll say, 'Let's try this one.'" She also looks for ways to make her kitchen teen-friendly. Both girls love listening to music...
...girls' father, computer consultant Charles Martinez, is equally encouraging. He began cooking with his parents at age 7 and learned to accentuate the positive. "Smell it, taste it, move the dough around--if it tastes good to you, it'll taste good to everyone," he says. But equally important is to eliminate the negative. If a child makes a mistake, he follows his mother's example. "She's not the type of person who says, 'Oh, no, you messed up,'" he explains. "It's more of a 'Don't worry about it, we'll just throw that batch away...