Kids Can Cook Anything!: The Complete How-To Cookbook for Young Chefs, with 75 Kid-Tested, Kid-Approved Recipes

by America's Test Kitchen Kids

Overview

With the fifth book in the #1 New York Times Best Selling Young Chef Series, America's Test Kitchen is bringing its scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to KIDS in the kitchen!

Have you ever wondered about the best way to chop an onion or separate an egg? Or even how to make fancy-looking Chocolate Pastry Puffs for breakfast and Oven-Baked Chicken with Teriyaki Sauce for dinner? This book answers all those questions and more. Learn to cook like a pro—it's easier than you think, especially with all the video resources included in the book!

Using kid-tested and kid-approved recipes, America's Test Kitchen Kids has created ANOTHER GREAT cookbook every kid chef needs on their shelf. Whether you're cooking for yourself, your friends, or your family, Kids Can Cook Anything! has delicious recipes that will wow.

Recipes were thoroughly tested by America’s Test Kitchen test cooks AND more than 15k ATK kid testers to get them just right for cooks of all skill levels.

Step-by-step photos of tips and techniques will help young chefs feel like pros in their own kitchen.

QR codes throughout the book link to video examples of relevant techniques and skills to help kids visualize concepts.

Testimonials from kid testers will empower young chefs to enter the kitchen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954210240
Publisher:	America's Test Kitchen
Publication date:	09/20/2022
Series:	Young Chefs Series
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	135,344
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

America’s Test Kitchen has been teaching home cooks how to be successful in the kitchen for 25 years. The mission of America’s Test Kitchen Kids is to build a new generation of empowered cooks, engaged eaters, and curious experimenters. Through cookbooks, picture books, board books, podcast, website, and a subscription box program, America’s Test Kitchen Kids’ kid-tested, kid-approved recipes and hands-on STEAM activities inspire families to spend quality time together in the kitchen, and a lifetime of tasty cooking. To learn more visit www.americastestkitchen.com/kids.

Editorial Reviews

"This is the fifth cookbook in the America’s Test Kitchen Young Chef Series, and it’s another winner. For kids 8 to 12, this cookbook has been rigorously tested by those 15,000 kid volunteers (and the professional ATK cooks) and is filled with color photographs. I think kids will particularly love the QR codes that lead them to helpful videos along the way." (September 6) —Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor

From the Publisher

12/01/2022

Gr 2–8—America's Test Kitchen has provided everything young chefs need to get cooking. This volume sets itself apart from many other kids' cookbooks by providing QR codes to instructional videos taught by kids themselves. These videos serve as effective introductions to essential cooking skills, like "zesting and juicing citrus." Included recipes, rated on a scale of beginner-intermediate-advanced, combine usual kid-friendly favorites with some unexpectedly complex additions: dishes like cheesy breadsticks appear alongside kale-basil pesto and avgolemono soup. The cookbook encourages effective mise en place by dividing instructions into three sections: Prepare Ingredients, Gather Cooking Equipment, and Start Cooking. Recipes include at least one photograph of the finished product, and usually incorporate fun facts about the food, a helpful tip, and testimony from a kid chef. While the book begins with a few pages of instructional materials, most tips are interspersed throughout the recipes, which may be confusing for readers. For instance, the instructional section about "Measuring Ingredients'' doesn't come until p. 188. Since most users aren't reading a cookbook front to back, they may miss some of these essential instructional sections till later. VERDICT Encouraging best cooking practices and providing audiovisual supplements to the written material ensures that kid chefs can find success. An excellent juvenile cookbook addition.

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