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

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Description

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. At its best, a cookbook is also a chronicle and treasury of the fine art of cooking, an art whose masterpieces—created only to be consumed—would otherwise be lost.

What is a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking? ›

a book containing recipes and instructions for cooking.

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.

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.

Why are recipes cookbooks so important to understanding other cultures? ›

Food is a great unifier; it can connect people from different backgrounds and experiences. Food tells a story about who people are and where they come from. It bridges nationalities, geographies, and generations.

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? ›

If you have a collection of recipes, for example in a cookbook, the collection as a whole is protected by copyright. Collections are protected even if the individual recipes themselves are in the public domain.

What are the 8 recipe categories? ›

Recipe Categories
  • Breakfast recipes.
  • Lunch recipes.
  • Dinner recipes.
  • Appetizer recipes.
  • Salad recipes.
  • Main-course recipes.
  • Side-dish recipes.
  • Baked-goods recipes.

How do you categorize recipes in a cookbook? ›

Start by creating broad categories such as “Breakfast,” “Appetizers,” “Main Courses,” “Desserts,” and “Beverages.” These overarching categories will serve as the foundation for organizing your recipes. Subdivide into subcategories. Within each broad category, further divide your recipes into specific subcategories.

What are hidden instructions in cooking? ›

For example, “¼ cup toasted nuts” means the nuts should be toasted before adding them to the recipe, but the toasting step is probably not in the instructions. Hidden ingredients such as water and salt may pop up in the instructions without a mention in the ingredients list.

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 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.

What is the oldest known cookbook? ›

The first recorded cookbook is said to be four clay tablets from 1700 BC in Ancient Mesopotamia, but by the 1300s, cookbooks were a norm for kings and nobles. In 1390, Forme of Cury (The Rules of Cookery) was published for–but not by–King Richard II.

What type of book is a recipe book? ›

Recipe books belong to the non-fiction genre but it's not that simple. There are many types of cookbooks out there. So the first thing you need to do is decide how you want to publish your book.

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's another word for cooking the books? ›

What is another word for cooking the books?
cheatingembezzling
misappropriatingpeculating

What is the meaning of book cooking? ›

informal. : to alter official accounting records in order to deceive or mislead. Congress cooked the books with phony spending cuts and accounting gimmickry to appear to reduce the federal deficit. Colleen O'Connor.

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