Feeding Baby: Simple, Healthy Recipes for Babies and Their Families [Hardcover]

Joachim Splichal (Author), Christine Splichal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2004

For parents who want to start their babies off eating fresh, nutritious foods, FEEDING BABY offers easy-to-prepare tastes, nibbles, bites, and meals that retain the vitamins and minerals missing from conventional bottled and heat-treated baby food. Delightfully simple yet nuanced flavors of recipes like Roasted Acorn Squash Pur?©e and Banana Peach Compote introduce children's impressionable palates to the myriad tastes and pleasures of food, setting them on a path of healthy eating for a lifetime. Simple recipes for preparing healthy baby food at home, from the founders of the Patina Restaurant Group and parents of twin boys. Recipes are organized by age, from six months to three years. Ideal gift for baby showers and new parents. Reviews"Restaurateur Joachim and Christine Splichal have created taste-tempting, natural choices for you and your baby. One flip through FEEDING BABY will leave you with dozens of recipe ideas."-Taste For Life MagazineArticle on cookbooks that address meals for kids will feature FEEDING BABY on the cover of the food section.-Minneapolis Star Tribune


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About the Author

CHRISTINE SPLICHAL is founder and proprietor of the Kinara Skin Care Clinic and Spa, and recipient of the Hollywood Women of Distinction Award. She and Joachim live with their twin boys, Nicolas and Stephane, in Los Angeles, California.


JOACHIM SPLICHAL built an empire of restaurants nationwide based on the success of his first Los Angeles restaurant, Patina. A world-renowned chef, he was named Best Restaurateur 2002 by Bon App?©tit and the Food Network, and one of the top 50 culinarians in the United States by Nation's Restaurant News.


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Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580085008
• ISBN-13: 978-1580085007
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,171,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy recipes in an age-appropriate progression, November 10, 2003

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This review is from: Feeding Baby: Simple, Healthy Recipes for Babies and Their Families (Hardcover)

Joachim and Christine Splichal invite us into their home as they raise their twin boys, giving us a taste of good food in a family setting. I like their emphasis on easy preparation, and simple ingredients, presented in an age-appropriate progression. Each chapter helps focus on different stages in a baby's eating development, from the first solid foods on. Although tips are scattered throughout the book, I wish there was a chart in an appendix that outlines suggestions for which foods to start at which age.

I agree with Joachim and Christine that children should enjoy meals with their parents, eating age-appropriate versions of what is prepared for the whole family. I have fixed the Splichals' meals for my husband and myself, eagerly anticipating sharing them with our daughter (now 6-months old).

The bibliography of recommended readings is especially helpful to learn more about healthy nutrition for babies -- and their families, too!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It depends on your P.O.V. ..., March 11, 2007

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S. E. Lockman (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeding Baby: Simple, Healthy Recipes for Babies and Their Families (Hardcover)

Our goal was to raise our daughter to be a willing and adventurous eater, and to steer her clear of the usual all-American pitfalls of corn syrup, sugars, salts, etc that come with jarred baby food and formula (she never had any of that...perhaps a spoonful of rice cereal before we tossed it all out). This cookbook is very much about raising children in a foodie family, where the adults aren't eating processed foods, and are more likely to be getting fresh and rare items for the kitchen. The recipes themselves are almost immaterial - I think the real asset in this book is how beautifully it promotes a very European ethic in feeding your children properly, not bringing up picky eaters and spending too much money on "for kids" branded foods loaded with yech. The proof of its value to me (we got it as a gift) is that my daughter loved the dishes we prepared for her, without fail, and now, at 3 and a half, we get shocked looks from friends when we bring her to restaurants and others' houses for meals and she is happy to eat what the grown-ups are eating. LOVE IT!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Working my way through the book..., June 15, 2007

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M. Hohertz (Minnesota, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feeding Baby: Simple, Healthy Recipes for Babies and Their Families (Hardcover)

Enjoying the book very much after receiving it as a present from my mother-in-law. My soon to be 11-month-old loves the recipes for carrots, broccoli, spinach... and I like the recipes, too-- so we share some of her veggies and add some of mom and dad's salmon or chicken, and everyone's at the table and happy. I'm also amazed at how much less expensive it is to prepare organic, healthy baby food.