Can a food writer with two young children and a husband - picky eaters, all three - revamp her family's eating habits to include more local, organic, and sustainable meals that also involve less meat for the sake of her family's health as well as that of the environment? Author Betsy Block shares her experiences in her first book, The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World. Readers of Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) and Marion Nestle (What to Eat) will find themselves in familiar (and usually repetitive) territory reading about Block's research about food and conversations with the experts. In fact, Block quotes frequently from the three aforementioned books. But what makes this book unique and down-to-earth is the "diary" aspect - the feedback (which is often negative) that Block receives from her family, how she counteracts their resistance (not always successfully, she admits), what she finds worth persevering and what she decides not to fight about, and, ultimately, to what degree she found the whole experiment realistic and practical. Readers also will find helpful an appendix that includes recipes, Web sites, and other food-related resources.