But My Kids Won't Eat It Cookbook Reviews

Cookbooks

	50 Chowders : One Pot Meals - Clam, Corn, & Beyond Jaspar White I think one mark of a good book is that it can make you interested in something you've never considered or cared much about before. Chowders for example. (read more)
	A New Way to Cook Sally Schneider The author claims this cookbook is the result of ten years of research, and it shows. This is an inspiring work that will no doubt be seen as one of the major cookbooks of the decade. (read more)
	Crossroads Cooking: The Meeting and Mating of Ethnic Cuisines-From Burma to Texas in 200 Recipes Elisabeth Rozin This is an interesting book that slips a little food history in with the recipes. (read more)
	Home Cooking Around the World David Ricketts The author does a great job of creating simple recipes that still capture the essence of the native cuisine. (read more)
	Honga's Lotus Petal: Pan Asian Cuisine Honga Im Hopgood I love Asian food, especially Southeast Asian and Asian fusion dishes. But I own very few Asian cookbooks... (read more)
	New World Kitchen : Latin American and Caribbean Cuisine Norman Van Aken This is a great book if you're looking for good Nuevo Latino fusion cooking. (read more)
	Recipes: a collection for the modern cook Susan Spungen Spungen covers all the basics, dishes for weeknight dinners, casual entertaining, summer barbecues, etc., but with a modern twist. (read more)
	Salad People Molly Katzen As one of the pieces of advice most often given to parents of picky kids is to involve them in the kitchen, here's a book set up to do just that. There are only about twenty or so recipes included and they're laid out with 2 pages describing the recipe to the parents and 2 pages of numbered steps with pictures for the kids, so even non-readers will have something to follow. Whether your picky kids will like these recipes depends on what kind of picky kid you've got. As mine are of the 'food must be plain and not touch other food unless that other food is ketchup' variety, many of these recipes would not appeal to them. My three year old did like the Mango Lassi however, and I'm going to try the granola on my six year old. Recipes are healthy, quirky, and meatless. (added 5/4/06) - I finally got around to showing the cookbook to my six year old. He was interested and liked the pages for kids where he could 'read' through the steps. He got bored about a third of the way through and we put it away. But that weekend he brought it up again and asked if we could cook something from the book. So we made the Sunrise Lemonade, Sweet Potato Surprise, and the Crunchy Fruity Granola. He loved the lemonade, surprise, surprise, but he wouldn't even touch the sweet potato once it was cooked even though he picked it out. The granola was a hit though, and fun to make. The recipe is included on my Kid Friendly Recipes page. So overall it was a success I think, and he really liked the fact that he could read out the steps to me and tell me what to do for a change! (collapse)
	The Family Kitchen : Easy and Delicious Recipes for Parents and Kids to Make and Enjoy Together Debra Ponzek I really like the concept behind this recently published, gorgeously laid out cookbook. (read more)
	The Healthy Hedonist: More Than 200 Delectable Flexitarian Recipes for Relaxed Daily Feasts Myra Kornfeld Kornfeld's recipes are immensely appealing and fairly straightforward - she includes many that are Mediterranean, Mexican, Indian, or Asian inspired - and healthy without adhering to any particular dietary doctrine. (read more)
	The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups: Recipes And Reveries David Ansel You need to be able to look beyond the bits of stories that seem to be heading somewhere and then just don't in order to appreciate the sweetness and laid-back goofiness of this tale of a man who chucks a software development job in Austin, Texas to deliver homemade soup from a bicycle nicknamed Old Yellow. (read more)
	The Urban Picnic John Burns & Elisabeth Caton Given the Slow Food manifesto reproduced towards the front of the book, don't expect to find any 'Fun with American cheese-food product!' type recipes here, just tasty picnic-appropriate food with some really killer sounding desserts. (read more)
	The Vegetarian Family Cookbook Nava Atlas This is the kind of book that you leaf through and immediately resolve to eat better... (read more)
	The Working Parents Cookbook: More than 200 Recipes for Great Family Meals Jeff and Jodie Morgan The book really shines as a collection of fairly simple, quick, and nutritious recipes good for weekday dinners and weekend picnics. (read more)
	Winter harvest cookbook: How to select and prepare fresh seasonal produce all winter long Lane Morgan Celeriac, kale, parsnips, leeks, squash, potatoes, yams, swiss chard, beets... (read more)