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by Boomert - Little Kitchen by Sabrina Parrini 12 Jan 2010
Another example of ballooning opportunities offered by the problem of children and nutrition in developed countries, Little Kitchen is a cookbook for kids. This is not a new concept, but it’s a beautiful version of the concept with feel-good photographs that emphasise a lolly-coloured palate, such as mixing bowls in pinks and blues, and cute kids with floury hands. Author Sabrina Parrini owns and runs a children’s cooking school of the same name as the book--the recipes and techniques have come from this experience. There are 40 recipes on 128 pages so there’s a lot of space for the utopian photography, and quite a few tips about ingredients, equipment and safety. In short, the cookbook contains sound and sane recipes, useful tips for kids and the perils of kitchens, alongside lovely pictures. But don’t think that this is a book to occupy the kids while you get other things done. It demands serious adult participation. Almost every activity has ‘ask a grownup’ as part of the method. As you can do this with any cookbook (that is, work collaboratively with your children), Little Kitchen’s appeal is in its production values--children may be beguiled enough by the images to ask to cook the dishes.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

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Little Kitchen, Hardback (September 2009)