Having teens interested in cooking and being in the kitchen is a good thing… and having a cookbook aimed at them is even better. Cooking Up a Storm: The Teen Survival Cookbook
is brought to us by a 15-year-old chef, and it’s packed with easy to prepare items from snacks to full-course meals. Better still, author Sam Stern keeps his focus on “normal” food that kids will instantly recognize and want to make, dishes like lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, roast chicken, and pancakes. With a little help from his mom, Susan, Sam has delivered a book that popular British chef Jamie Oliver calls “a cracking book.” And with that kind of endorsement, you know you can’t go wrong.
Having teens interested in cooking and being in the kitchen is a good thing… and having a cookbook aimed at them is even better. Cooking Up a Storm: The Teen Survival Cookbook
This week I spent an afternoon with some 15 year olds Australian kids in the kitchen whose task it was to design, make and pack a healthy lunchbox. I was blown away with the work that the kids did - for an hour and a half they had heads down and tails up and the finished product rivalled the best that I have seen on the net. It really was wonderful to see teens so engaged in food preparation and so creative. If you’re interested in taking a look at their work this is the link to the photo site that I have created for them. It would be great for them, if people stopping by to take a look would post some comments - I think that they’d get a real buzz if that happened.
Here’s the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38384293@N00/