Five Great Kids' Cook Books

Sometimes it really is helpful to have a guide of sorts, especially when you're dealing with your kids. These books should help you jump into cooking with your child (or children).

1. How to Cook the Perfect Day is a perfect, mini-cookbook - just the right size for a child. With about a dozen, earthy recipes and beautiful paper-cut illustrations by  the wildly talented Nikki McClure who we discovered through her lovely alphabet book, Awake to Nap, shortly after our older son was born.


2. Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes is a charming (and charmingly illustrated) book that gives recipes and lessons about food from the perspective of a little girl named Fanny, who happens to be Alice Waters' daughter.


3. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up by Mollie Katzen of the Moosewood restaurant cookbooks - several people recommended this series for its accessible recipes and pictorial instructions.


4. The River Cottage Family Cookbook by famed head-to-tail eater and real foods advocate, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. A good friend gave me this wonderful tome of recipes and projects to try with kids at various ages as a gift when our first son was born. Wonderful pictures, too.


5. Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up also by Mollie Katzen - see above. More fun, pictorial recipes!


A few other resources you might find useful:

3 comments:

Louisa Foto said...

These look like great books! The only one I've heard of, and have and use pretty often, is the River Cottage Kids book

linda @spiceboxtravels said...

Great list-- there is also Silver Spoon for Children, the kids' version of the Italian version of the Joy of Cooking.

Deik Personal Blender said...

Thanks for sharing in detail.

Five Great Kids' Cook Books

Sometimes it really is helpful to have a guide of sorts, especially when you're dealing with your kids. These books should help you jump into cooking with your child (or children).

1. How to Cook the Perfect Day is a perfect, mini-cookbook - just the right size for a child. With about a dozen, earthy recipes and beautiful paper-cut illustrations by  the wildly talented Nikki McClure who we discovered through her lovely alphabet book, Awake to Nap, shortly after our older son was born.


2. Fanny at Chez Panisse: A Child's Restaurant Adventures with 46 Recipes is a charming (and charmingly illustrated) book that gives recipes and lessons about food from the perspective of a little girl named Fanny, who happens to be Alice Waters' daughter.


3. Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up by Mollie Katzen of the Moosewood restaurant cookbooks - several people recommended this series for its accessible recipes and pictorial instructions.


4. The River Cottage Family Cookbook by famed head-to-tail eater and real foods advocate, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. A good friend gave me this wonderful tome of recipes and projects to try with kids at various ages as a gift when our first son was born. Wonderful pictures, too.


5. Salad People and More Real Recipes: A New Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up also by Mollie Katzen - see above. More fun, pictorial recipes!


A few other resources you might find useful:

3 comments:

Louisa Foto said...

These look like great books! The only one I've heard of, and have and use pretty often, is the River Cottage Kids book

linda @spiceboxtravels said...

Great list-- there is also Silver Spoon for Children, the kids' version of the Italian version of the Joy of Cooking.

Deik Personal Blender said...

Thanks for sharing in detail.