Pizza, after all, does not come 'from a telephone. Just consider all that can be explored in the kitchen: counting, reading readiness, science awareness, self-confidence, patience, and, importantly, food literacy. Nineteen easy-enough recipes for little hands including Zucchini Moons, Green Spaghetti, Hid and Seek Muffins, Number Salad, and our favorite, Pretend Soup. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called the gold standard for chidrens cookbooks by the New York Times.

Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called the gold standard for chidrens cookbooks by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight become head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. The drawings in Pretend Soup allow small children to grasp. Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Each of the 17 vegetarian recipes appears twice, once in words and once in full-color pictures. Celebrating 25 years of vegetarian recipes and called the gold standard for chidren's cookbooks by the New York Times, Pretend Soup, by celebrated Moosewood chef Mollie Katzen, offers children and families easy recipes for healthy, fun, and delicious food. The author of The Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie Katzen, collaborated with an educator to create this imaginative, accessible cookbook for children.

Pretend soup and other real recipes