Jenifer Lang Cooks For Kids: 153 Recipes and Ideas for Good Food That Kids Love to Eat - Hardcover

"Jenifer Lang Cooks for Kids is informative and imaginative -- a real inspiration for today's parents."

Laurie Goldrich-Wolf, Child magazine

"As a working room who has to cater to three finicky females, I was thrilled to find fun, fast, and easy recipes that wouldn't garner a 'yuck' from our dinner table."

Joan Lunden, Good Morning America

"I envy Simon because of this good book about him and the way he eats. I can only hope that other kids will have half as good food as he. Of course, I know that not all of his peers have Jenifer and George Lang for parents, but at least this book will help other kids be almost as lucky."

M. F. K. Fisher, author of The Art of Eating

"After raising two daughters and preparing most of their food myself reading Jenifer's book was a delightfully nostalgic journey. She captures the very essence of feeding children well and happily, while answering so many of the questions we've all had along the way. The recipes are delicious and practical and should send new moms and seasoned moms right back to the stove."

In the midst of the expanding selection of cookbooks for children, culinarian Lang ( Larousse Gastronomique ) carves out an important niche. Not just a healthful treatise nor a compilation of recipes sweetly named, her compact book recognizes and addresses the everyday clash of wills between modern, health-conscious parents and their typically finicky, quirky kids. Accordingly, the book is full of infinitely practical food tips and feeding suggestions, from how to offer new foods to a baby ("at the beginning of a meal, when he is hungriest and more likely to accept a new taste") to how to sneak vegetables into children's dishes. Most impressive are recipes devised by Lang to build variety into her own child's diet. These include variations on what she calls "jelly building blocks" (a sort of gourmet version of gelatin squares): avocado blocks, carrot blocks and chicken blocks. Also intriguing is Lang's concept of "muffin meals" (salmon; ham-on-rye), expanding children's food repertoire. Equally special are recipe variations that recognize the tastes of "grownup kids." Further, the volume is dotted with suggestions and recipes from celebrity chefs--for one, Wolfgang Puck's Mousketeer's Pizza.
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