Cooking with kids, and cooking food your kids will both love and be well-nourished by, is a central part of parenting, and a core concern. We could all use a little help with the family food day to day. These four books share a wealth of advice, recipes, and foodie fun, to help you and your family make the most of kitchen time together.
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries... the range of berries coming into season just now is beautiful to behold and possibly even better to cook with. Pies, cheesecake, tarts, roulades – the recipes in this collection are a pure taste of summer.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
Foodie and mother Rossini Perez has gained a huge online following for her healthy lunch ideas, and creative approach to cooking for and with kids. Her book Kids in the Kitchen: 70+ Fun Recipes for Young Chefs to Stir Up! is her how-to guide to child-friendly cooking
Throughout the series we’ve used tasty dishes to get kids engaged; learned cooking fundamentals through traditional recipes from around the world; and experienced first-hand how a simple sauce can transform food from meh to mouthwateringly-delicious!
In this concluding installment of Cooking with Kids, we’re hoping your newly-skilled young chefs are ready to take charge of their own summer party menu. Here are three different snack-centric menus for a spicy set of parties, each selected with kids in the kitchen in mind.
Two fascinating books arrive on your ckbk shelf this week, celebrating the rich traditions of Polish baking and the unmistakable flavour of an iconic Yorkshire condiment. Plus we welcome Blueberry season, and offer a selection of cooling ice cream sundaes.
To mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, we invited publisher Lena Tabori to tell us the story behind Glorious American Food, the multi-award winning large format cookbook by her friend, the late Christopher Idone, which was recently added to ckbk and which celebrates the richness of America’s culinary traditions.
“The lemon is delightfully versatile. We take it for granted as we peruse the greengrocer’s shelf, and without thinking about it, we buy one or two along with a bunch of parsley—sometimes before even deciding what we might be cooking for dinner. Sometimes lemon juice is incorporated into a dish during the early stages of preparation and sometimes it is added after cooking. Even the zest is often an integral part of a recipe and should never be tossed away.”
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