Christina Tosi is the chef and creative force behind Milk Bar: a dessert brand that she launched in 2008 in Manhattan’s East Village, and has grown to include almost a dozen shops, a brisk mail order business, and a line of cookies, ice creams, and other treats for sale at grocery stores nationwide. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, and the host of the Netflix show Bake Squad, Christina is also a mom of two. In this episode, Jane and Liz talk with Christina about all things Milk Bar, motherhood, and what it means to strike a healthy balance when it comes to sweets. 

Christina Tosi is the chef and creative force behind <a href="https://milkbarstore.com/">Milk Bar</a>: a dessert brand that she launched in 2008 in Manhattan’s East Village, and has grown to include almost a dozen shops, a brisk mail order business, and a line of cookies, ice creams, and other treats for sale at grocery stores nationwide. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, and the host of the Netflix show Bake Squad, Christina is also a mom of two. In this episode, Jane and Liz talk with Christina about all things Milk Bar, motherhood, and what it means to strike a healthy balance when it comes to sweets.

Feeding a family is among the most basic of human responsibilities. So why do we so often feel like we’re failing at it? On Pressure Cooker, veteran journalists Jane Black and Liz Dunn dish out empathy and common-sense strategies for busy parents navigating manipulative marketing messages, impossible cultural expectations, and little people with big personalities as they try to set their children on a healthy path for life.

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Feeding a family is among the most basic of human responsibilities. So why do we so often feel like we’re failing at it? On Pressure Cooker, veteran journalists Jane Black and Liz Dunn dish out empathy and common-sense strategies for busy parents navigating manipulative marketing messages, impossible cultural expectations, and little people with big personalities as they try to set their children on a healthy path for life.
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Christina Tosi on Sprinkling Tang on Toast, Avoiding Sugar Meltdowns, and Mastering the Art of Dining Out with Toddlers

Digital food marketing is ubiquitous. But what do teens and tweens see on their devices. And are the kids alright? In Part 2 of our deep-dive into food marketing, a Pressure Cooker investigation takes listeners deep inside some of the most closely guarded spaces in American life today– teenagers phones – and proposes strategies to stop the scroll. 

Further Resources: 
Food Marketing Literacy 1 (from University of Calgary) 
Food Marketing Literacy 2 (from University of Calgary)
FTC: Protecting Kids from Stealth Marketing 
Common Sense Media: How Teens Can Resist Advertising and Be Smart Consumers

National Association for Media Literacy Education: 
Equipping Kids with the Skills to Thrive Online
Guidelines for Tweens
Guidelines for Teens 

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Digital food marketing is ubiquitous. But what do teens and tweens see on their devices. And are the kids alright? In Part 2 of our deep-dive into food marketing, a Pressure Cooker investigation takes listeners deep inside some of the most closely guarded spaces in American life today– teenagers phones – and proposes strategies to stop the scroll. 
Further Resources: 
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ucalgary.ca/live-uc-ucalgary-site/sites/default/files/teams/216/media-literacy-food-marketing-1.0-teachers-background.pdf">Food Marketing Literacy</a> 1 (from University of Calgary) </li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ucalgary.ca/live-uc-ucalgary-site/sites/default/files/teams/216/media-literacy-food-marketing-teachers-background-2.0-final.pdf">Food Marketing Literacy </a>2 (from University of Calgary)</li>
<li aria-level="1">FTC: <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/p214505kidsadvertisingstaffperspective092023.pdf">Protecting Kids from Stealth Marketing </a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Common Sense Media: <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/how-kids-can-resist-advertising-and-be-smart-consumers">How Teens Can Resist Advertising and Be Smart Consumers</a></li>
</ul>
National Association for Media Literacy Education: 
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://namle.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/NAMLE-Building-Resilience.pdf">Equipping Kids with the Skills to Thrive Online</a> </li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://namle.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NAMLE-6Es-TWEENS.pdf">Guidelines for Tweens</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://namle.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NAMLE-6Es-TEENS.pdf">Guidelines for Teens </a></li>
</ul>
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The Wild Wild West of Food Marketing to Kids: What the Kids are Doing…And What You Can Do About It (Pt. 2)

A generation ago, food marketing to kids was found mostly in two places: Saturday morning cartoons and the cereal aisle. No more. Children are now targeted throughout the grocery store, on billboards, product placements and, most dangerously, on digital media. Jane and Liz talk to Jennifer Harris of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Charlene Elliott of the University of Calgary to understand how the problem has exploded, in particular for tweens and teens, who are now believed to be even more vulnerable to advertising messages than young children. 

Further Resources:
More than a Nuisance: Implications of Food Marketing for Public Health Efforts to Curb Childhood Obesity (Annual Review of Public Health)
Food marketing to teenagers: Examining the power and platforms of food and beverage marketing in Canada (Appetite)
Tracking teen food marketing: Participatory research to examine persuasive power and platforms of exposure (Appetite)

A generation ago, food marketing to kids was found mostly in two places: Saturday morning cartoons and the cereal aisle. No more. Children are now targeted throughout the grocery store, on billboards, product placements and, most dangerously, on digital media. Jane and Liz talk to Jennifer Harris of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Charlene Elliott of the University of Calgary to understand how the problem has exploded, in particular for tweens and teens, who are now believed to be even more vulnerable to advertising messages than young children. 
Further Resources:
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38109516/">More than a Nuisance: Implications of Food Marketing for Public Health Efforts to Curb Childhood Obesity </a>(Annual Review of Public Health)</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35292304/">Food marketing to teenagers: Examining the power and platforms of food and beverage marketing in Canada</a> (Appetite)</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37019155/">Tracking teen food marketing: Participatory research to examine persuasive power and platforms of exposure</a> (Appetite)</li>
</ul>

The Wild Wild West of Food Marketing to Kids: From Tony the Tiger to Tiktok  (Pt. 1)

Half of all parents of young children say they have at least one picky eater in their household: a state of affairs that strikes many moms and dads stuck serving up the same half dozen foods on repeat as highly unnatural. With the help of Jennifer Traig, the author of Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting, Jane and Liz explore when, and why, picky eating emerged as a common trait among children – and what you can do to stop it. 

#pickyeating #feedingkids #parenting 

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Half of all parents of young children say they have at least one picky eater in their household: a state of affairs that strikes many moms and dads stuck serving up the same half dozen foods on repeat as highly unnatural. With the help of Jennifer Traig, the author of Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting, Jane and Liz explore when, and why, picky eating emerged as a common trait among children – and what you can do to stop it. 
#pickyeating #feedingkids #parenting 
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