National Geographic Kids Cookbook: A Year-Round Fun Food Adventure [Paperback]

Join Barton Seaver—master chef and National Geographic Explorer—on a year-round culinary adventure as he explores what it takes to create the ultimate dish. Barton provides mouthwatering recipes, the ins and outs of healthy eating, awesome crafts and activities, and food-focused challenges, proving once and for all that cooking can be a blast. Follow along as he teaches you to plant a kitchen garden, host a dinner party for your friends, and pack the perfect school lunch. Other highlights include ways to play with your food, festive holiday meals, snow day snacks, and family cooking competitions. With fascinating sidebars, profiles on real people, and cool facts, theNational Geographic Kids Cookbookwill have you ruling the kitchen in no time! This resource is intended to engage young chefs both inside and outside of the kitchen, connecting the world of food with the larger world around them. Hands-on kids will find much to appreciate in this compendium of fun and food with an Earth-friendly focus. --Kirkus Reviews

Kids will learn not only how to cook, but cool food facts, why our food heritage is important, how to save our oceans, and the science of sweet. --Relish Magazine

The National Geographic Kids Cookbook succeeds spectacularly; it is fun, it is bright and cheery, it is educational, and it makes cooking and eating in a healthy and responsible way seem exciting. -San Diego Book Review

Seaver encourages youngsters to not only get cooking, but to also use mealtime as a launching pad for trying new things, investigating family food traditions and initiating new ones, delving into global cultures and tastes, and thinking about the big picture of food sourcing’s ecological impact and sustainability. -School Library Journal 

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