Food + Fun

The Soda Shop

Holly Becker,

Step into The Soda Shop, and you’ll feel like you’re stepping back in time to an old-fashioned diner. Nestled in historic downtown Davidson, The Soda Shop offers a picture book of town history with walls adored with old photos and newspaper clippings.

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Sleepovers

Kelly Yale,

Slumber parties are an important rite of passage in a child's life. How do you make the first experience a positive one?

Delicious Ham and Potato Soup

allrecipes.com,

Teach the kids how to chop, mix and stir one cold Saturday afternoon, and the family can enjoy time together in the kitchen followed by a yummy dinner of warm soup. This simple recipe uses ingredients found in most households (hint: use a ham roast or steak instead of thinly sliced deli meat), is easy to assemble and takes about 30 minutes to make — perfect for young attention spans and hungry tummies! (Courtesy of Allrecipes.com)

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Whole Food Cooking with the Family

Molly Thompson,

"I am not a cook," says Christi Coverston. As the mother of two growing boys, Coverston sometimes finds herself, like many moms, in a rut when it comes to preparing family meals, snacks and school lunches. But she recently found help in an unusual place — a new teaching kitchen at the Morrison Family YMCA in Ballantyne.