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Title: Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids
ISBN: 1891105159
Author:
Rachael Ray
Publicate Date: 2004-10-25
Publish: 2004-10-25
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Spiral-bound
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1: Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids
The kids love to make recipes from this cookbook.
It is great that the recipes are separated by age groups (for difficulty). The recipes are pretty good, too.
I like that it has a spiral binding inside the hard cover.
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2: Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?
"Cooking Rocks!" was Rachael Ray's first venture into kid-friendly cooking. It's a cut above "Yum-O!" in its simplicity,and it's clearly made for kids. "Cooking Rocks!" translated her half-hour hits into family accessible recipes.
"Cooking Rocks!" is colorful, easy-to-use,and the division of labor between adults&kids is reasoned out. There are recipes clearly aimed at kids-like Fruit "Sushi",Worms&Eyeballs, and Ray's ubiquitous "Pasta,Cheese,and Trees." It's whimsical without being overly cute. There are also meals adults&kids can enjoy alike,such as Tomato,Basil,and Cheese Baked Pasta,as well as Cinnamon-Apple Nachos with Peanut Butter Sauce. On the other hand, as befits a Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman,the recipes contain a lot of fat and sugar. This is from a woman who started her Yum-O! charity to combat childhood obesity. There are also Ray's usual unholy food combinations. The Chicken Catch-a-tory Ravioli Stew is a sure recipe for constipation. The Hot Dog Pizza with sugared cucumber slices (pickles?) sounds indigestion-inducing. The pizza cheeseburgers are from Ray's "throw it together" philosophy. Yuck-O!
"Cooking Rocks!" is a mixed bag. Not great, not awful as its follow-up. It's mediocre.
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3: Ray's Kid Cookbook
I enjoy cooking. The Kitchen is like my science lab, it is great to taste and try new things in the kitchen.
A cookbook written with children in mind can either talk down to kids or can treat them like equals. most of this book treats children like equals. However it is cutely illustrated with cartoony images of Rachel Ray, which to me, belittles the kids.
The recipes are family oriented cooking tasks that kids and adults can make together. It has plastic slicked stock is the kind I think most cook books can use
This book is good cook book for family and people that want to teach children to eat well. I like what is here..if you have kids and want to have your children to learn to cook, this is your book
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
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4: Rachael Ray
A friend of mine has this book, she is a school teacher. I figured that since I don't know how to cook, I could learn from this book... I didn't but it was a cool book..
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5: Everything that's wrong with America
You are not selling kids on healthy eating if you shill for Dunkin' Donuts at the same time. There are literally thousands of better food role models to have your children follow. Rachel Ray and her slimy, hyper-sanitized ilk are little better formers of youthful opinion than are the folks at McDonald's (and dear god I hope that we all are trying to aspire beyond McDonald's).
If you and your child go ahead and make Mark Bittman's simple Minimalist recipe from the NY Times, you will develop in both yourself and in the child the ability to eat with a varied palate and to try new things that don't come from cardboard boxes or wherever Ray gets her pre-packaged goodies. Bonus: If time is of the essence, Bittman can provide you with 101 meals in 10 minutes each (plus time to boil pasta).
How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
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