Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Baby Gourmet
• VHS Release Date: December 4, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005RFCQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,404 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Satisfy baby's right- and left-brain appetites with Baby Gourmet, Fall/Winter. Catered to infants and toddlers, this 40-minute program showcases traditional American foods and beverages associated with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. Chef Beary-Good presents about 10 different fruits, vegetables, and cheeses to her "students" (the audience). Each food's name is spelled and spoken by an off-camera grownup. Then, presto! It's magically transformed into glorious party fare, like Sweet Potato Flan, or Roasted Salmon with Orange Sauce. Tossed in among these vocabulary and word/picture association lessons are scenes of happy family celebrations and shimmering holiday décor. It's all underscored by music-box versions of Mozart and Beethoven to create a stylish, high-gloss food encounter of the Baby Mozart kind. --Liane Thomas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars soothing simple colors and music for very young, January 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Gourmet - Fall/Winter Harvest [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is not a video for a child older than 3, I cannot imagine it holding their attention. My 2 yr old loved it. It is full of music and bright colors, not fast paced. This video is full of fresh fruit and vegetables, it would be a good to counter media images of cookies and candy- very visually appealing. It is also not a mommy and me cooking video- just something pretty and mellow to watch.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Teaches the WRONG things about food, January 20, 2005

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Sutton Faller "MamaLlama" (West Chester, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Baby Gourmet - Fall/Winter Harvest [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video starts with a tower of chocolate truffles. Then once you think they might be moving on to something healthy (apples), they cover them in chocolate and M&Ms. They try to pass it off as teaching good health (they go through the food pyramid), but most of the food they show is candy and desserts. Chocolate covered pretzels, jordan almonds, gum drops. Even for the veggies, they choose cheese-laden onion soup, chicken pot pie with a couple of green beans sticking out, and sweet potato flan. They move on to cheese (macaroni & cheese). They feed their dogs what looks like chocolate cookies (which can kill a dog). None of this makes sense to be showing to kids.

Admittedly, it isn't ALL bad food. They squeeze oranges and pomegranates to make juice, and a couple of other healthy things. But overall, this video is worse than a McDonald's advertisement. At least McDonald's has good production values.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible, December 20, 2005

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KGB "KGB" (Tuscaloosa, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Gourmet - Fall/Winter Harvest [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The only reason this video gets 1 star from me is because 0 stars is not an option. This was absolutely the worst video my now 14 month old has ever seen and very possibly the cheesiest and stupidest thing I have ever witnessed in my 27 years. A terrible imitation of the very clever Baby Einstein series. Don't waste your money (or more imporantly, TIME) on this product.