Rachael Ray is teaming with Michelle Obama in her campaign against childhood obesity. She “is helping create menus for 1,600 city public schools where students also are taught cooking and nutrition.” She has also said that she wants to empower kids to cook. I’m with her on that.

 

I rang in 2010 in a Theraflu haze with a box of Kleenex, sick as a dog.

 

The one thing that made me feel a bit better? A steaming, salutary bowl of chicken udon soup brought to my apartment in Brooklyn via a culinary courier (aka delivery man) within 30 minutes. All I had to do was shuffle to my door, hand over the cash, and then dig in. The one thing that made me feel a bit worse? Shoving the assorted takeout bags and containers accompanying my medicinal meal in the trash.