The Everything Kids' Gross Cookbook

By JULIETTE ROSSANT The New York Times reported that finicky eaters might be more a matter of genes than cooking. We try to steer kids towards healthy, fresh and tasty foods that will appeal to their sense of smell, sight and taste. Nah. Kids want gross out, sick-o, bogger and barf chock-o-block food that makes them giggle and probably makes a mess. Colleen Sell and Melinda Sell Frank's The Everything Kids Gross Cookbook (Adams Media 2007) is just the thing to hand them when they turn up their noses at beautifully plated food. The book is full of mostly healthy, mostly good for you, recipes with fun names and goofy recipe notes that will get your kids reading, cooking and hopefully, eating right. The book starts with an Icky Introduction to Cookery, that's full of important safety tips, gears and gadgets and cooking lingo. There are Freaky Food Facts sprinkled throughout the book, like the fact that if you eat a Vitamin C packed food together with a protein, your body will use the iron in the protein more efficiently (p. 15). There are games sprinkled throughout each chapter, such as mazes, spelling game or crossword plus jokes, definitions, and cooking tips. Bizarre Breakfast starts Squashed Gremlin Heads (p. 18) or pancakes with green food coloring. Then there is Flies Floating in Bee Spit and Goatmeal (p. 19) – can you guess what that is? Raisins and honey over oatmeal. How about Rolled Boogers and Snot (p. 25)? That's just vanilla pudding, yogurt, raisins and bananas. Maybe you don't want your kids using those words any more than they already do… but this is innocent fun and a silly book that might just get them to eat. Fishtails and Ear Wax Fondue anyone? Previous articles: [Kids' Cookbook Reviews - complete] Technorati Tags: superchefblog, Juliette Rossant, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, blogging, food blogging --> back to Super Chef