Kids' Kitchen: Good Food Made Easy Review

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(More customer reviews)I, too, checked this book out of the library, but to use with my third-grade students (8-9 years old). The text is very small and crowded on the page, with lots of little notes stuck here and there, and everything is VERY wordy. These things conspire to make it all very hard for an adult to read in the midst of cooking, so you can imagine the overwhelming difficulty for kids. The pictures are beautiful, but truthfully, many of these dishes look like things the kids are not interested in eating. Part of it, I'm sure, is a cultural thing, as this book is for the UK, but "Smoked Haddock Kedgeree"? Many pictures are extreme close-ups, too, so you don't see kids actually eating and enjoying the food. The parts of the book that take the reader on field trips to learn about food production are a good idea, but the pictures (of idyllic country environs) seem targeted at much younger children than all the text of the book; so if a child is old enough to read the book and get anything out of it, the pictures and content make it seem babyish. Finally, SPHERICAL hamburgers?? I never eat anything like that when I'm in England, so I don't know where this woman hangs out.

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This is not the recipe book your mother had when she was a child. Recipes that encourage healthy eating and stunning photography by a top food photographer make this a truly modern children's cookbook. To help kids understand the origins of food at an early age, the recipes and advice are divided up into sections based on production: From the Sea, From the Garden, From Afar, and so on. Each of the 50 recipes teaches an important culinary or technique, so whisking up meringues, mixing the batter for pancakes, and dry-frying curry spices become delightfully informative experiences. All the classic skills are here, too—from blending and grating to making sauces and rolling pastry—plus kitchen safety and hygiene tips.

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