Meet Your Neighbor: Julia Robarts
Julia is a registered dietitian whose grandmother started the first school lunch program in North Reading.
Name: Julie Robarts
Family: Married with three kids (12, 10 and six)
Hometown: North Reading
College/ Major: - (BS) University of Maine - Nutrition major; (MS/MPH) Tufts University -- Nutrition Communications and Public Health
Occupation: Registered Dietitian and Dietetic Internship Coordinator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Hobbies: Volleyball, food blogging, scrapbooking, playing with my kids, reading great fiction and word games
Favorite Movies: Elf, Clueless, Titanic, Legally Blonde, The Goofy Movie, Remember the Titans
Favorite books: Harry Potter series, Twilight series, The Help, The Secret Garden
Favorite restaurants: I love to cook and prefer to dine at home, but if I was going to spend big money on good food, I would go to Henrietta's Table in Cambridge --great food, with a local menu based largely on New England grown/raised food.
Fun fact about yourself: I love to be outside, and try to walk as much as I can when doing errands around North Reading.
Why North Reading?: My dad was a selectman for about 10 years and my grandmother (also a dietitian) started the first school lunch program in North Reading.
Mary B
7:25 am on Sunday, February 19, 2012
I look forward to Julia's recipes on the Patch. I have made a few of them and they are easy and nutritious.
What a wonderful neighbor. Two thumbs up for Julia!!!
Julia Whitney Robarts
4:37 pm on Sunday, February 19, 2012
So nice! Thank you so much, Mary.