Books About Food and Cooking
Estabrook's Books of the Month for December 2008 are mostly simple cookbooks and books about recipes and foods from around the world.
Keep on Rollin' Meatballs and Other Delicious Dinners by NIck Fauchald, illustrated by Rick Peterson, Picture Window Books, Minneapolis, MN, 2008
A cookbook for children with recipes that start at very easy, requiring mainly mixing simple ingedients and then cooking them and increase to more advanced, but still simple recipes, like the title's meatballs and chicken tenders with a cornflake crust. It assumes an adult will use the sharp knives and do any actual cooking using the stove or microwave.
What the World Eats by Faith D'Aluisio, photographs by Peter Menzel, Tricycle Press an imprint of Ten Speed Press Berkeley, CA, 2008.
This exploration of what 25 families from 21 different countries eat in a week shows each of the families with all of their food for the week, what it costs them for each item, and a favorite recipe as well as many other facts about the country and its foods. This is a wonderful book but not for beginning readers.
Kids Cook 1-2-3: Recipes for young chefs using only 3 ingredients by Rozanne Gold, illustrated by Sara Pinto Bloomsbury Children's Books, New York, NY, 2006
A cookbook for children that has very simple individual recipes, but it has a wide variety of recipes and uses a wide variety of ingredients.
Cooking for Beginners by Roz Denny and Fiona Watt, illustrated by Kim Lane, photography by Howard Allman, Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1998
A simple cookbook that introduces any technical cooking terms in simple language before using them in a recipe. Each step has an illustration and shows what you should expect to see at that stage in the recipe.
The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook by Angela Wilkes and Fiona Watt, Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, England, 2000
Lots of easy recipes from all around the world with background information on each country's ethnic foods and other food related facts.
Flower to Honey by Julie Murray, ABDO Publishing Company, Edina, MN 2007
An easy-to-read, large print, introduction to honey with facts about bees and the production, processing, and consumption of honey.
Maple Syrup: Harvest to Home by Lynn M. Stone, Rourke publishing LLC, Vero Beach,FL 2002
An easy-to-read introduction to the production, processing, maple syrup with photographs of each stage in the sugaring process.
Pasta & Pizza for Beginners by Fiona Watt, illustrated by Kim Lane, photography by Howard Allman, Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1997
Beyond the expected inclusions of meatballs in tomato sauce or macaroni and cheese, this cookbook covers 20 varied, easy recipes like spinach and ricotta pasta shells, tuna and tomato pasta salad, hot apple pizza, and calzones.
Cakes & Cookies for Beginners by Fiona Watt, illustrated by Kim Lane, photography by Howard Allman, Usborne Publishing Ltd., London, England, 1998
This cookbook shows exactly what to do to make delicious cakes and mouth-watering cookies, with mouth-watering photographs of the anticipated results to motivate the cook.
Emeril's There's a Chef in My World! Recipes that take you places by Emeril Lagasse, illustrated by Charles Yuen, photographs by Quentin Bacon, HarperCollinsPublishers,NewYork, NY 2006
This is a cookbook with 75 fine recipes from around the world, that is oriented towards use by both children and adults, but it is not really an easy book for elementary age readers to use without the aid of an adult.
Walk-Around Tacos and Other Likeable Lunches by NIck Fauchald, illustrated by Rick Peterson, Picture Window Books, Minneapolis, MN, 2008
A cookbook for children with recipes that start at very easy ones like Super Hero Subs and Bannana Smothies, requiring mainly mixing and assembling simple ingedients and increase to more advanced, but still simple recipes like Easy Bean Burritos that require a bit of microwaving. It assumes an adult will use the sharp knives and do any actual cooking required.
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