What's Cooking?: A Cookbook for Kids (Ratatouille) [Spiral-bound]

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Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Ratatouille

Kids can be the big cheese in the kitchen with this cookbook of kid-friendly, Ratatouille-inspired recipes. The concealed wire binding allows the book to lie flat for ease of use while preparing such fun dishes as Remy's Famous Omelets and Emile's Sewer Sandwiches. This silly cookbook is sure to please...down to the last crumb!

 

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Spiral-bound: 64 pages
• Publisher: Disney Press (June 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1423105400
• ISBN-13: 978-1423105404
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the better kids cookbooks, August 28, 2007

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Julie Neal (Sanibel Island, Fla.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's Cooking?: A Cookbook for Kids (Ratatouille) (Spiral-bound)

This fun cookbook for kids is well designed and really useful. Each of the 27 recipes takes up a page spread. On one side is the recipe, on the other a full-page color photo of the food. Better still, the book has a hidden spiral binding, so it lies flat on a kitchen counter. Focused mainly on French cuisine, the recipes range from easy to "master chef" and are divided into five sections: breakfast; lunch; breads, salads and soups; dinner; and desserts. Each includes an extra tip, such as how to flip a crepe or what bread works best for French toast.

Here are the recipes:

BREAKFAST
* Colette's Crepes
* Ooh La La French Toast
* Remy's Famous Omelets
* French Breakfast Muffins

LUNCH
* Gusteau's Grilled Cheese
* Croque Monsieur
* Quiche Lorraine
* Easy Faux Escargots (using gherkin pickles for snails, tortilla-wrap slices for shells)
* Crazy Cheese Straws
* Cheese Fondue

BREADS, SOUPS AND SALADS
* A Classic Baguette
* Vichyssoise
* Chef's Salad
* Salad Nicoise
* Dijon Vinaigrette

DINNER
* Gusteau's Ratatouille
* Linguini Alfredo with Peas
* C'est Magnifique Salmon (with lemon and dill sauce)
* Remy's Macaroni and Cheese
* Pizza Rats (the slices use black olives for eyes and noses)
* Oven-Baked French Fries

DESSERTS
* Colette's Apron Cake
* Django's Dirt Cake (a brownie-like cake decorated with gummy bears and plastic rats)
* Cheery Cheesecakes
* Chocolate Bouchons (from California celebrity chef Thomas Keller)
* Chocolate Rats (chocolate-coated apricot bodies with licorice whiskers, peanut-half ears and rolled Starbursts for the tails)
* Eiffel Tower Cookie Sundae (with the tower made from sugar wafers)

With gorgeous photos, cute artwork inspired by the movie "Ratatouille" and a nice mix of serious and silly recipes, this is a cookbook kids could really get into.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best children's cookbook I've seen, September 10, 2007

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Beck Digs It (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's Cooking?: A Cookbook for Kids (Ratatouille) (Spiral-bound)

REAL recipes for REAL food, all in an easy-to-read, clear and uncluttered format. It's not just a book showing how to make your food into cute animals, or 100 ways to use peanut butter. Food you can serve the whole family, using mature but totally accessible ingrediants such as yeast and potatoes, to make some of the foods you know your kids would love if they'd only give them a try -- like Quiche Lorraine and Linguini Alfredo with Peas. And they'll probably try them if they make them! A fantastic cookbook, for any age cook.

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, July 4, 2007

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Michael Casey "Michael" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's Cooking?: A Cookbook for Kids (Ratatouille) (Spiral-bound)

Spiral bound and very easy to use in the kitchen. Wonderful recipes, though all require adult assistance. Beautifully illustrated with color photos. This is not your average kid's PB&J cookbook!