Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and UpHardcover (2024)

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Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called "the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks" by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food.

Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Just consider all that can be explored in the kitchen: counting, reading readiness, science awareness, self-confidence, patience, and, importantly, food literacy. Pizza, after all, does not come "from a telephone."

You and your child can have great fun finding this out!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781883672065

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Random House Children's Books

Publication Date: 04-01-1994

Pages: 96

Product Dimensions: 8.31(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.48(d)

Age Range: 3 - 7 Years

About the Author

ANN HENDERSON is a credentialed early childhood education specialist and is co-director of the Child Education Center in Berkeley, California. MOLLIE KATZEN is a cookbook author and artist who has profoundly shaped the way America eats. Mollie is a consultant and cocreator of Harvard's groundbreaking Food Literacy Project. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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SALAD PEOPLE

The Critics Rave:
We’re gonna make people out of food! —jack
I’m gonna make my sister. —theo
Maybe I should make a carrot zipper. —simone
Strawberry hair! —serafina

To the Grown-ups:
Children will get deeply involved with this concept, which is all about creating a miniature person out of cheese, fruit, vegetables, and perhaps even pasta. In addition to being a cross between an art project and a great snack or lunch, this recipe presents a wonderful opportunity to introduce new foods—or at least new food combinations—to young children.
There is no right or wrong way to make a Salad Person. In fact, if your child doesn’t feel like making something representational, it’s fine to make a food design instead. In either case, let your youngster guide the experience as inspiration occurs.

Cooking Hints and Safety Tips

Children can help with some of the preparations, such as slicing strawberries and bananas, grating carrots, or spreading peanut butter into celery. They also enjoy helping place all the various components in small bowls and setting everything up.

The Salad Person’s face can be made with cottage cheese or yogurt. Children of color might prefer to use coffee or chocolate yogurt so the Salad Person can look like family.

You can firm up any flavor of yogurt by placing it in a paper-lined cone coffee filter over a bowl for a few hours—or even overnight. The whey will drip out of the yogurt, leaving behind a firmer curd, often referred to as “yogurt cheese.” Keep in mind that you’ll end up with only about 60 percent of the original volume.

The amounts are quite flexible, so just estimate the quantities.
Children’s Tools: Cutting boards and child-appropriate knives (if the children are going to help with the cutting); spoons for scooping; a plate and fork for each person

Salad People Recipe
Cored pear halves, peel optional (fresh and ripe, or canned and drained)
Cottage cheese or very firm yogurt
Strips of cheese (cut wide and thin, to be limbs)
Sliced bananas (cut into vertical spears as well as rounds)
Cantaloupe or honeydew
(cut into 4-inch slices)
Celery sticks (plain or stuffed with nut butter)
Shredded carrots
(in long strands, if possible)
Sliced strawberries

1) Place a pear half in the center of each plate, flat side down.

2) Arrange a round scoop of cottage cheese or very firm yogurt above the narrow top of the pear, so that the cheese or yogurt looks like a head and the pear looks like a torso.

3) Create arms and legs from strips of cheese, banana spears, melon slices, or celery sticks (stuffed or plain).

4) Create hair, facial features, hands, feet, buttons, zippers, hats, and so forth from any combination of the remaining ingredients.

5) Name it and eat!

yield: Flexible! Just put out a lot of food. Store the leftovers for next time, which will likely be soon.

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FAQs

What is a book containing recipes and other information about the preparation and cooking of food? ›

cookbook, collection of recipes, instructions, and information about the preparation and serving of foods.

How many recipes are in the first cookbook? ›

The first recorded cookbook that is still in print today is Of Culinary Matters (originally, De Re Coquinaria), written by Apicius, in fourth century AD Rome. It contains more than 500 recipes, including many with Indian spices.

What makes a cookbook special? ›

There are several good qualities a cookbook should have, in order to be useful to a home cook. It should be easy to read. It should not be full of industry jargon or terms that are exclusive to a commercial kitchen environment. It should have ingredients listed first, and in order of appearance.

Why is cooking the books illegal? ›

Cooking the books is also known as corporate fraud or accounting fraud. Elements of this white collar crime involve manipulation of financial records or accounting for some benefit or gain. Prosecuted by the federal government, accounting fraud may fall under different offenses.

How cookbooks can be a source of information? ›

Explanation: Cookbooks can be a source of information about trade and network by revealing the ingredients, spices, and cooking techniques used in a particular region or time period.

Can you make a cookbook with other people's recipes? ›

Instead, an author wishing to use another person's cookbook recipes in their cookbook has four options: securing written permission from the original author, adapting the recipe, creating a similar recipe using the recipe as inspiration, and completely reworking the dish into a new recipe.

How do I become a recipe tester for my cookbook? ›

To become a recipe tester, you need to have several qualifications, including previous experience in the food industry, an excellent eye for detail, and a wide range of analytical and culinary skills. Some recipe testers begin their careers by working in a commercial kitchen, a restaurant, or a food cart.

Is it legal to post a recipe from a cookbook? ›

Similar to ideas, facts and history, there isn't copyright protection in recipes as mere lists of ingredients. This is clearly stated by the U.S. Copyright Office.

What should the first page of a cookbook be? ›

The only required front matter is really a simple title page and a copyright page. We give descriptions of the various pieces and provide basic examples below, but we highly recommend pulling a few of your favorite cookbooks off the shelf and looking at how they handle the front matter.

How many recipes are normally in a cookbook? ›

Keep in mind that the average size of a cookbook is about 75 to 200 pages. On average, a typical cookbook will have around 150 recipes, but that varies as well, from small cookbooks with just 15 recipes to more than 300.

Is 50 recipes enough for a cookbook? ›

As the author, you need to: Create (ideate, test, and document) 50-60 recipes. Write 100-400 words about each recipe for the headnote. Photograph each recipe (so cook, food/prop style, and shoot)

What is a cookbook definition for kids? ›

: a book of cooking directions and recipes. broadly : a book of detailed instructions.

What makes the best cookbook? ›

Focus on a specific theme instead of a general cookbook with many recipes covering an array of topics. True, there are a lot of niched cookbooks out there, but there are still many other areas for you to explore and present. By writing a specialized cookbook, you establish yourself as an expert in your field.

What is one word for a book of recipes? ›

Meaning of cookbook in English. a book that explains how to prepare particular dishes: She has written several award-winning cookbooks.

What is considered cooking the books? ›

Cook the books is a slang term for using accounting tricks to make a company's financial results look better than they really are. Typically, cooking the books involves manipulating financial data to inflate a company's revenue and deflate its expenses in order to pump up its earnings or profit.

What is the legal term for cooking the books? ›

Cooking the books is a slang term for committing financial fraud. It this will follow you through your whole career if you're involved in it and, although this may seem obvious, remember: Integrity first – do not commit financial fraud!

What is the book of food? ›

Offering an Americanized resource for an international scope of possibilities to serious cooks and professionals, a strong proponent of fresh, wholesome ingredients tells how to choose, store, and prepare everyday and exotic foods.

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