Review by Booklist Review
The You're the Chef series invites readers to get behind the stove and start whipping up recipes they and their family will enjoy. Each trim volume begins with a detailed list of exclamation-pointed safety tips ranging from Reserve your space! to Wash it! As for grown-up involvement, the book advises kids to talk with their adult helper about which tasks will require assistance. The introductory spread also includes a helpfully illustrated page of cooking tools and a glossary of technique terms: bake, drain, knead, whisk, etc. Then it's time for the recipes. Delicious Vegetarian Main Dishes offers a simple black-bean salad, a tortilla tower, and crispy tofu sticks that might look better than they taste. Each title ends with notes about special ingredients and a website link. A colorful, easy-to-read design and illustrations of the process combined with a photo of the finished dish top off these tasty treatments.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Gr 1-4-These recipes manage to hit a sweet spot in kid cookery: they require little in the way of expertise, yet are complex enough to be interesting. None of your "Ants on a Log" nonsense here. Young chefs will be taking a stab at "Tasty Pad Thai Noodles," "Chicken Wonton Soup," and "Terrific Turkey Burgers." The instructions are detailed and thoroughly illustrated with clear color drawings; photos show the enticing final products. The ingredients are readily available and include very few processed foods and only one or two convenience items-after all who could blame cooks for buying a bag of shredded carrots instead of julienning two cups of carrots themselves? The 9 or 10 recipes in each book focus on nutritious ingredients but aren't stingy with the cheese. Most of them have a suggested "Try This!" variation that gently encourages kids to get creative with their cooking. (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Child-friendly recipes containing familiar ingredients in six food categories--with the occasional addition of more exotic, potentially horizon-expanding ingredients (e.g., curry, cilantro)--involve cautious vegetable chopping and can opening, stir-frying, mixing, assembling, etc.; the repetitive backbone of the how-to stepped directions aids clarity. Each useful, attractive book begins with safety tips, tools, and techniques. Reading list, websites. Glos. [Review covers these You're the Chef titles: Delicious Vegetarian Main Dishes, Meaty Main Dishes, Perfect Pizza Recipes, Super Pasta and Rice Dishes, Tasty Sandwiches, and Yummy Soup and Salad Recipes.] (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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