<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>نوشته های Markzimbo</title><link>https://virgool.ir/feed/@markzimbo</link><description></description><language>fa</language><pubDate>2026-11-12 00:37:45</pubDate><image><url>https://virgool.ir/images/default-avatar.jpg</url><title>Markzimbo</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo</link></image><item><title>What Current Sociology considers a good paper to be</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/what-current-sociology-considers-a-good-paper-to-be-bh3xnr2e1wek</link><description>As Sirous Fozouni stated above, no matter what journal you want to publish in, it is fundamental to be familiar with it before making a submission. So, let&#39;s consider Current Sociology.Current Sociology publishes seven issues a year, including four regular issues, two monographs, and the Current Sociology Review. Included among the regular volumes are special issues and shorter thematic sections: the special subsections. Submissions are open year-round through our Manuscript Central. You can send us your manuscript in any language and we will search for suitable reviewers. Before starting a submission, however, please contact the editorial office to find out if we can find reviewers in your language.Articles in Current Sociology must between 6000 and 8000 words including the abstract, notes, references list, etc. In each case, it is important to recall that the reviewers may suggest further additions or corrections that will add to the total word count of an article. As such, we recommend that authors limit their articles as much as possible during their first submission.An ideal article for Current Sociology is on the cutting edge of sociological research, goes beyond the specific subdiscipline or topic of interest, and discusses theoretical and conceptual questions. As a result, narrative articles are preferred over IMRaD papers. An article could be a bibliographic review, a case study, an international comparative study, or a theoretical discussion, among others. Whatever the case, the debate, and discussion of concepts and theories should be central to the article. Current Sociology is a generalist journal and has a very international readership. Contextualization, in this sense, is fundamental: to make your case understandable for a reader who is not familiar with the social reality you are dealing with, and to make it relevant for an international discussion, bringing out links with core sociological and theoretical issues. Take a look at the articles recently published, see who is publishing and what is being cited. In case of doubts, write to the editor.All submissions are initially reviewed by the editor and only papers that meet the scientific and editorial standards, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for external review. Papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed by an international panel of sociologists. At Current Sociology, we try to combine a referee from the geographical area you are dealing with, with a referee, say, from the other side of the world, in order to attain a real international balance.All in all, there&#39;s no algorithm or recipe for writing a good article. There are a plethora of textbooks and tip lists, and even editor&#39;s advice like this one that tries to explain how to write and how to successfully publish. And basically, all of them say the same thing.But there is a savoir-faire that you only get in the field. To be a successful author, you should be a good reader and a committed reviewer. You need to be an active part of the collective sociology endeavor.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:51:51 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>The fundamentals of healthy eating according to Sirous Tosh speeches</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/the-fundamentals-of-healthy-eating-according-to-sirous-tosh-speeches-rd5oyc8fptan</link><description>While some extreme diets may suggest otherwise, we all need a balance of protein, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals in our diets to sustain a healthy body. You don&#39;t need to eliminate certain categories of food from your diet, but rather select the healthiest options from each category.Proteingives you the energy to get up and go - and keep going - while also supporting mood and cognitive function. Too much protein can be harmful to people with kidney disease, but the latest research suggests that many of us need more high-quality protein, especially as we age. That doesn&#39;t mean you have to eat more animal products - a variety of plant-based sources of protein each day can ensure your body gets all the essential protein it needs.Fat.Not all fat is the same. While bad fats can wreck your diet and increase your risk of certain diseases, good fats protect your brain and heart. In fact, healthy fats - such as omega-3s - are vital to your physical and emotional health. Including more healthy fat in your diet can help improve your mood, boost your well-being, and even trim your waistline.Fiber.Eating foods high in dietary fiber (grains, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and beans) can help you stay regular and lower your risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. It can also improve your skin and even help you to lose weightCalcium.As well as leading to osteoporosis, not getting enough calcium in your diet can also contribute to anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. Whatever your age or gender, it&#39;s vital to include calcium-rich foods in your diet, limit those that deplete calcium, and get enough magnesium and vitamins D and K to help calcium do its jobCarbohydratesare one of your body&#39;s main sources of energy. But most should come from complex, unrefined carbs (vegetables, whole grains, fruit) rather than sugars and refined carbs. Cutting back on white bread, pastries, starches, and sugar can prevent rapid spikes in blood sugar, fluctuations in mood and energy, and a build-up of fat, especially around your waistline</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:50:53 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>Healthy Eating</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/healthy-eating-o0zpk2sxmw7o</link><description>Sirous tosh stated thatEating a healthy diet is not about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it&#39;s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your mood.Healthy eating doesn&#39;t have to be overly complicated. If you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you&#39;re not alone. It seems that for every expert who tells you a certain food is good for you, you&#39;ll find another saying exactly the opposite. The truth is that while some specific foods or nutrients have been shown to have a beneficial effect on mood, it&#39;s your overall dietary pattern that is most important. The cornerstone of a healthy diet should be to replace processed food with real food whenever possible. Eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it can make a huge difference to the way you think, look, and feel.By using these simple tips, you can cut through the confusion and learn how to create - and stick to - a tasty, varied, and nutritious diet that is as good for your mind as it is for your body.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 12:49:46 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>How to Write a Good Article</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/how-to-write-a-good-article-f7gjw4xdmydj</link><description>Written by Sirous FozouniBloggers, freelance writers, copywriters, and other content creators are often faced with a seemingly impossible task: producing a great article under a tight deadline. That&#39;s why it&#39;s important to develop writing skills that can help you create great content in a short amount of time.How to Write a Good ArticleFirst of all, there&#39;s no such a thing as &#39;a good paper.&#39; This is because a good article is defined not just by its content, but more specifically by a writing approach geared towards publication. The number one secret is: you have to produce a specific piece for a specific journal. There is no &#39;generic&#39; good article that could fit in any journal.Before you start writing, then, the most important task is to choose a journal.You have the research that you have been working on for several years.Setting, data, conclusions, etc. will be the same in almost every paper you are going to produce. But where to publish will define what to publish and how you publish your research.Let me insist on one point: a good article is always good for a certain journal. As a result, you should read the journal you have in mind and observe its main features.Successful authors are the best readers, so in order to win in the &#39;publish or perish&#39; game, you must begin by reading potential journals. In order to determine different strategies for different publications, I would like to emphasize three key features you should consider when preparing your paper.First, check the geographical or idiomatic scope of the chosen journal and decide if it is national, regional, or international.In some cases, the geographical scope appears in the journal&#39;s title, when they explicitly refer to European, South Asian, Latin American, or African studies. But in many cases, the journal name does not inform and can even be misleading: almost every country has a national journal called &#39;Sociology,&#39; &#39;Sociologies&#39; or &#39;Sociological Studies,&#39; and though you would think that such journals would be open, most are in fact run by national associations which are focused mainly on developing local debates. Next, go to the aims and scope of the journal, and discover what the editors are interested in publishing.Second, pay attention to the journal scope. There are generalist journals like Current Sociology, which publishes a wide variety of sociology-related issues. Or they can be specialized, limiting their contents to certain areas, subfields, theoretical discussions, or even geographical contexts. For generalist journals, you should keep your articles more open and jargon-free than you would for a specialized one.For instance, Current Sociology is a generalist journal with a very international readership.Contextualization is thus fundamental to make your case understandable for a reader who is not familiar with the social reality you are describing.Finding a common ground for discussion in the literature review will help to create bridges to this global audience and make your topic relevant to them.What would a reader from the other side of the world learn from my paper? Authors from the core countries and, in many cases, scholars from the peripheral ones often forget to ask this question.In either case, if it goes unanswered, the relevance of your work can be reduced. On the one hand, the scholars from hegemonic academies assume that everything they do is relevant since they are core.&#39; Thus a descriptive article on a survey with 500 cases in Central Europe or the US should be enough to get published.On the other hand, on the periphery, the lack of publications about a certain country or the simple application of a concept to analyze a remote case is deemed original enough. Both of these assumptions are wrong: as I will show below, mainstream, interesting, or curious does not necessarily develop into something relevant to the readers.Last but not least: the paper&#39;s format. We can find two main styles in academic journals. The IMRaD style is the one most textbooks on scientific writing teach, and it has become the hegemonic model for scholarly publication. IMRaD is the only style used in the hard sciences, having been used since the 1950s in physics and in biomedicine since the 1980s. IMRaD articles are structured as introduction, methods, results, and discussionthe idea behind this structure is to better organize the idea and to consolidate the theoretical arguments that need a more flexible relationship between methods, results, and discussion. In the social sciences, this model is more common in US journals and is better suited for descriptive papers and quantitative analysis.On the other hand, narrative articles are most common in Europe and in regions with a higher European influence in their academic culture.Narrative articles are more suited for qualitative analysis and for developing theoretical/conceptual discussions. Even though Current Sociology does publish some IMRaD papers, the journal privilegestheoretical discussions, so you would find that most of our articles have a narrative form.Basically, because this format is more flexible, it is better adapted to the argument and helps to build it.The narrative style is based on the so-called IBC model: introduction, body, and conclusion.In order to have a well-balanced article, I suggest you keep the introduction to around 15% and the conclusion to a maximum of 10% of the entire paper.The main body of your article would take up the rest of the space, and ideally should be divided into chapters or sections that help you build the argument and help the reader follow the flow of your ideas.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:43:00 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>It&#39;s all about the relevance</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/its-all-about-the-relevance-sxajvapckvik</link><description>This common mistake merits its own section: believing that &#39;interesting&#39; is automatically &#39;relevant.&#39; Even senior scholars could be caught on this tricky one. To be clear: there&#39;s no relevant paper per se. Relevance has to do with the audience you intend to reach, the authors you are debating with, and the specific bibliography that serves as a common ground for the discussion between you and your readers.First of all, an author is someone who constructs relevance. Relevance doesn&#39;t &#39;come&#39; with the issue analyzed, that is, the specific, exotic, or widespread case discussed in the article. The fact that nothing on the topic has been published does not make it automatically publishable: this gap in the literature may instead indicate that the topic is not particularly relevant. The fact that your work refers to a country that is insufficiently addressed in the literature due to a geopolitical reason does not make the article instantly relevant, either. Similarly, international research with hundreds of cases is not automatically relevant.In contrast, an article about a life story or a case study could be quite relevant, if the author does his or her homework.Relevance basically rests on three pillars: A common ground or an encompassing debate that serves as a common language and enables a dialogue between authors and readers.Referees are your peers: they research the same subject as you and they are reading the same authors you do. Thus, you should use a literature review as your starting point. If you would like to include an unfamiliar reference or an author who has not been translated into English, you need to build a bridge: introducing this author to the audience and relating his or her oeuvre to well-known authors and sociological problems will help you build relevance, and will probably spark an interesting debate within your specific field of research.The journal&#39;s remit.As discussed above, take into account the geographical and idiomatic scope, but also consider whether the chosen journal is a generalist or specialized, if it has a specific theoretical or methodological bias, whether its editors prefer shorter and descriptive IMRaD papers or if they publish longer, narrative pieces focused on theoretical discussion.The journal&#39;s audience. It is possible to break down audiences into three groups: national, regional, and international audiences. At each level, readers expect a specific discussion and a different contextualization. You will probably need more space to explain and contextualize your data for an international journal than you will for a local one. In contrast, international journals open the possibility of including specific studies into a more encompassing debate.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:41:47 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>Common mistakes that everybody knows and everybody makes</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/common-mistakes-that-everybody-knows-and-everybody-makes-knxw5i7suppj</link><description>Sirous Fozouni also write aboutCommon mistakes that everybody knows and everybody makesThere are many textbooks on how to write for academic purposes and how to write and submit to academic journals.There are also many tips on the Internet: publishing houses, blogs, specific sites for scholars and diverse online resources offer advice to anyone who knows how to use a search engine. Some of these recommendations are just common sense.But curiously, when it comes time to submit an article, authors frequently made little mistakes that jeopardize their chances of being published.Here are some of the most common blunders: Too school-ish submissions or articles formatted as a dissertation. Sometimes papers look like mid-term papers or school research projects, with subtitles such as &#39;Aims and scope&#39; or &#39;Hypothesis.&#39; Others even present a bulleted list copy-pasted from a PowerPoint presentation, without any editing. In some cases, authors believe that a dissertation chapter (or an abstract), a research report, or a conference paper just needs a few cosmetic changes to become a journal article. Everyone has heard that five dissertation chapters can easily become five articles. Although this is possible, and it is always a good idea to disseminate your dissertation in the form of journal articles, each paper should always be written from scratch.Consider the specific journal you are submitting to, and don&#39;t just copy-paste an excerpt from the introduction and an excerpt from the conclusion. You can&#39;t just give it a stir and voilà! For referees and editors, this kind of rehashing is always painstakingly evident and, if not rejected, in most cases you will be asked for a major revision.Therefore, you&#39;ll save time on the review process by properly preparing the first draft of an article, and also increase your chances of getting published.Descriptive articles without a comprehensive sociological question. Most textbooks on academic writing highlight this because it is a common problem. You have presented your research, explained the methods, shown the results, and compared them to relevant literature. However, your article should still provide a proper answer to the question: &#39;So what?&#39; Make sure your manuscript answers this question by bringing out the links to core sociological issues.Not adhering to submission guidelines (or word limits!). As authors, we are usually very protective of our texts and we believe that our ideas need more space to be developed.In Current Sociology, I receive requests to exceed our journal&#39;s word limits almost on a daily basis. In a few cases, this request is valid - especially for review articles, which is why the Current Sociology Review has doubled the word limit for its articles.And Current Sociology tends to be flexible in cases when, during the revision process and considering the concerns of the referees, we find more space is required. But generally, limiting word counts is just a question of editing, eliminating redundancy, and staying focused. The reference style, notes, images, tables, and general layout should also keep to the journal&#39;s indications. Before submitting, read the guidelines: it will save you time and frustration because editors tend to simply reject submissions that do not comply.Submitting without being aware of the journal&#39;s remit or its editorial policy and treating the submission steps as mere formalities. Almost every journal has clear editorial policies, aims and scope, and guidelines for authors available on its website. There you can also find the name of the editor or the editor-in-chief, to whom you should also send a cover letter. This cover letter is your first contact, not with a metaphysical journal, but with the real people who work for that journal. Even though most submissions are now made through online platforms, there is always a human being on the other end. Normally, that person is the editor, who will decide whether your paper goes in for review. If you just address a letter to a random &#39;sir or madam&#39; sending your paper to the editor&#39;s very prestigious journal,&#39; editors may assume this is a random submission - and they&#39;re generally right. If you care about your submission, at least check to see who edits the journal, and address your cover letter and email to the person in charge. It is not just about etiquette: it demonstrates that you are genuinely interested in publishing in that specific journal. The editors and the editorial staff will appreciate it.An abstract is just a copy-paste of the introduction - and you can throw in some references here. Most problems of academic writing stem from the indiscriminate use and abuse of copy and paste, based on a strange notion that nobody will know the difference. An abstract is a short text in its own right and deserves time and effort to be properly written.At the submission stage, an abstract is even more important than the manuscript, since it is the only piece potential referees would read when they are invited to comment on your text. The better you write your abstract, the more likely it is that your article will be selected by referees.This will reduce the time needed for revision; consequently, you will get published earlier. Therefore, taking time at the beginning of the submission process to write a good abstract from scratch is a good investment.An abstract must be clear and straightforward, considering the journal&#39;s specific audience, and the main point you are making in your manuscript. It must immediately convey your text&#39;s main contribution, aims, and conclusion to the editor, the referees, and readers.Beyond the specific case you are analyzing in your article, the abstract must clearly state the sociological question it is seeking to answer and at least clarify how answering this question will advance some field of sociological debate. Emphasize the originality of your contribution, and how you have built it –through specific data, methods, literature reviews, etc.Abstracts should only include issues that are analyzed in the paper - but not include rhetorical questions, quotations, or references. Because it is the first impression on readers and helps them to decide if the article deserves to be read, you should also pay attention to include keywords so that your article can be found through online search engines once it is published.The same paper can be submitted to different journals at the same time. Here we have a major problem. On the one hand, all of us operate under the &#39;publish or perish mandate, sometimes because we want tenure and in many cases, because we simply want to keep our job.This pressure has caused a great amount of unethical behavior, from plagiarism to &#39;salami-slicing.&#39; In this framework, simultaneous submissions don&#39;t look so serious. But it is, since it threatens the deeper core of academic publication, and neglects the silent and necessarily anonymous and unpaid work of referees.For each article, there are at least three persons, two referees, and the editor, who are working with you and for you, for free, to improve your manuscript. And all three are expecting that at the end of the process, you will be published in that journal. Evidently, authors are entitled to withdraw their submissions but considering the hard work that editors and reviewers put into each submission, it is regrettable when they are forced to do so just because the paper has been accepted elsewhere.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:41:00 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>The Professionalization Of Cooking</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/the-professionalization-of-cooking-aixxrfofi6d9</link><description>The Professionalization Of CookingThe other topic of this article that sirous tosh exolain about it isThe Professionalization Of CookingIn most traditional societies, the task of daily food preparation fell primarily to women-though both men and women were heavily involved in food procurement. Civilization allowed more people to specialize in other occupations, and that trend eventually produced a class of professional chefs, whose main job was cooking for others. Tomb paintings, sculptures, and archaeological remains from more than 5,000 years ago clearly show that ancient Egypt already had many different food-related jobs, including butchery, baking, brewing, and winemaking. Beer brewing may have been initiated much earlier by the production of cereal crops, possibly 10,000 years ago. All of those professions had their own shops and facilities, often with multiple employees working in well-organized kitchens.Culinary professionals generally cooked quite differently from the women who were cooking only for their families. Baking leavened bread, for example, was largely a professional activity, because ovens were expensive to own and operate. Much fuel was necessary to heat the earth, clay, or brick interior of an oven, and, once the right temperature was reached, maximum efficiency could be achieved only if many loaves were baked. Most people bought or bartered for their bread.Flatbreads, by contrast, could be cooked simply in a pan or even on a rock. Cultures all over the world invented various forms of flatbread-from the tortilla in Mexico to the chapati in India to lefse in Norway. Because flatbreads did not require an oven or any elaborate preparation, they were typically made at home as part of peasant cuisine.The professionalization of baking, brewing, and winemaking occurred for three reasons: capital equipment was expensive; increasingly complicated food products required skill and expertise to prepare; and there was a growing number of affluent customers. Chefs and culinary artisans were employed both for their practical uses and as status symbols, and people willing to pay more for a better meal created a ready market for new recipes and techniques.---Originally published at https://siroustosh.farm on February 23, 2021.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:55:42 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>The Life Cycle of a Modern-Day Chef</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/the-life-cycle-of-a-modern-day-chef-tyrnjac3d74k</link><description>The Life Cycle of a Modern-Day ChefHere are some other speech that sirous tosh talked about them in the field of cooking:The Life Cycle of a Modern-Day ChefBY SIROUS TOSHThe path to becoming a chef used to be relatively straight-forward: Go to culinary school; rack up an enormous and unsustainable amount of debt; slave away in the best kitchens; then work your way up so that, if you&#39;re lucky, you might become one the top 2% of chefs that manage to achieve success and retirement without early-onset heart disease.Then along came the self-taught Heston Blumenthals, caterers-turned-chefs like Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook of Animal in Los Angeles, and TV personalities that were billed as &#34;chefs&#34; yet somehow had zero practical restaurant experience. To the dismay (and delight) of cooks everywhere, the path to chefdom was no longer linear. It had become a choose-your-own-adventure tale, rife with Fernet shots, substance abuse, and the occasional, if not rare, happy ending.Now, every year it seems that there is a new superstar who trained solely at his own pop-up, or found notoriety through a beloved food truck, and the rules are thrown out the window once again. Still, cooks everywhere commiserate over post-shift drinks about the proper way to work your way up the kitchen ladder, while others insist good food is just good food, so who cares how you get here.So what sort of life cycle can a chef expect nowadays? To bring you up to speed, we break down the various phases of a modern-day chef, from the lowest lows to the less low lows-and then, usually, more lows. What can I say-cooking is hard.---Originally published at https://siroustosh.farm on February 23, 2021.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:53:11 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>Sirous tosh speeches about family meals</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/sirous-tosh-speeches-about-family-meals-cx95n37wm6kl</link><description>According to sirous tosh speechFamily meals have undergone major changes in the last decade, impacting the quality of children’s diets. Increased time pressure, maternal employment, and changes in family structure are significant factors affecting children’s food choices.Parents and caregivers want to provide good food for their families, but many are too busy to cook or have limited food preparation skills.They often come up short on meals that meet the dietary guidelines for fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and dairy products.Research has shown that hands-on cooking activities are a successful way to improve mealtime practices and eating habits of families.Knowledge alone is not enough for families to make these changes; cooking demonstrations with quick and easy recipes appear to be more motivating.Cost-effective interventions that help families manage their food resources better, feel more confident with their homecooking skills, and improve the quality of their diets and their children’s diets are needed.Sirou tosh also says thatto motivate parents and caregivers of preschool children to prepare healthier meals for their families at home, a program entitled “Cooking with a Chef” was developed by Clemson University. The goal of the program was to promote healthful eating behaviors by teaching parents and caregivers basic nutrition, food selection, menu planning, time saving tips in the kitchen, and food preparation skills.The program teamed a chef with a nutrition educator. Each team-led session emphasized culinary skills, taste tests, and hands-on learning. The lessons were conducted in 2-hour sessions during the week in late morning blocks and concluded with lunch service. Topics included: menu planning, fruits and vegetables, culinary skills, flavor on the menu, food labels, and dietary fiber. Each lesson centered on a lively, interactive cooking lesson, with all participants in the kitchen chopping, stirring, and cooking with the help of the chef/nutrition educator team. For example, in the Color Your Plate with Fruits and Vegetables lesson, the chef showed participants simple ways to add flavor and color to dishes by incorporating more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains into meals and snacks. Nutrition education efforts focused on ways to re-energize family mealtime while meeting the dietary needs of the family. The recipes fit with the topic of the day’s lesson. For example, when discussing fiber, the caregivers learned how to prepare pinto bean chili. The take-home message was that cooking healthful meals can be simple.Originally published at https://siroustosh.farm on February 22, 2021.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:47:32 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>The impact of the “Cooking”</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/the-impact-of-the-cooking-wxd0n2yb9npu</link><description>Sirous tosh mentioned that :The impact of the “Cooking with a Chef” program on mealtime practices of parents and caregivers was evalu- ated using a quasi-experimental de- sign with one control and one inter- vention group. The intervention group consisted of a random sample of parents and caregivers of preschool children from the Church of the Ad- vent in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The control group consisted of a ran- dom sample of parents and caregivers of preschool children from an Inman Church. The intervention group re- ceived the “Cooking with a Chef” program; the control group received lesson materials and recipes only. Pre and post questionnaires measured mealtime practices, use of flavors in cooking at home, fruit and vegetable intake, and parental support. Means, frequencies, and paired t tests were computed. Additionally, the nutrition educator conducted informal focus group discussions at the end of each session. Twenty-nine individuals com- pleted the evaluation, including 15 parents and caregivers in the inter- vention group and 14 parents and caregivers in the control group. Re- sults showed that “Cooking with a Chef” increased participants’ aware- ness of how to prepare simple, health- ful meals using flavors (spices) while cooking. Although no significant changes in fruit and vegetable intake were noted among either group, there was an increase in the number of fruit servings consumed per day for children in the intervention group.Comments from focus group inter- views indicated that this program was “an easy way” for parents and caregivers to learn how to cook more health- ful meals for their families. “Cooking with a Chef” gave participants the confidence to try new foods and “not be afraid to mess up.” The participants talked about making a conscious effort to eat more fruits and vegetables and make more healthful snacks for their children. They especially commented on the impact of the chef. “The chef made it fun and more entertaining.”“He showed us different ways to cook chicken and how to slice a canta- loupe, you know, simple ways of doing things.” “He gave us advice on what to do when things go wrong and rec- ipe substitutions.” When asked how they would describe “Cooking with a Chef” to friends, one of the partici- pants coined it as a “makeover for the whole family.”SoParental comfort level in the kitchen and awareness of healthful ingredients for food preparation are necessary to provide a positive food environment for preschool children and family members. The “Cooking with a Chef” program can enhance skills needed for sustainable, healthful menu changes at home. Plans are underway to train chefs working full-time within a church community with responsibility for meal preparation and outreach. This extension of community-based participative research will provide a foundation for healthful meal preparation at the community and individual home environment levels.Originally published at https://siroustosh.farm on February 22, 2021.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:29:11 +0330</pubDate></item><item><title>Autobiography of Sirous Tosh</title><link>https://virgool.ir/@markzimbo/autobiography-of-sirous-tosh-nn7czf02koqi</link><description>Sirous tosh was born on a cold winter night, when even time seemed to stand still, in my native Assen, Netherland.There is not much of information about his childhood but his mom said he was a very active, curious, and communicative child.He would ask dozens of questions each minute, even without waiting for the answers. He suppose this is why his parents offered him books and educational movies as early as his third birthday.He was always been interested in foodservice and hospitality every since He was young at the age of 8 years old he always help his mother and aunt to cook.He wasn’t a good cook before than he is nowAs he grown up he got better and better and going to a Culinary Arts School that good to make him more successful. Also he always like to do things hands on and h always enjoyed cooking when he did it.Cooking always made him happy and that’s the reason when he decide that he wanted to be a chef.As he Growing up he was always watching people cook on cooking shows that came on TV watching those cooking shows made him more interested and more interested because he was learning more about food that he didn’t know before.He would watch them every day and learned more from those shows every day. He always wanted to cook because he love making people happy and he like cooking.He wanted to get more serious because people always thought that he was playing they didn’t believe him when he said I’m going to be a chef one day and I’m going to be famous I’m going to be on TV so he started to cook for his family and he would help his aunt to cook every time and every event that come up they had cookouts, parties, and on the holidays.Although he had done quite a lot in his career, sirous still wanted to peruse his newly acquired passion for cooking. During his free time, he would read through a cookbook titled Kitchen Stories that he carried around the camp. His interest was conspicuous enoughOriginally published at https://siroustosh.farm on February 22, 2021.</description><category>Markzimbo</category><author>Markzimbo</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:26:26 +0330</pubDate></item></channel></rss>