Let’s Eat: Recipes for Kids Who Cook

Let’s Eat: Recipes for Kids Who Cook by DL Acken & Aurelia Louvet, Touchwood, 2023. 9781771514132

Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5

Format: Hardcover

What did you like about the book? This is an extraordinary kid’s cookbook.  It begins with Good Kitchen Practices explaining the symbols used in the book.  This is followed with the necessary Tools you will need in preparation and how to use them.  Next is Techniques explaining how to dice, fold, whisk, cream, sear, boil and other unfamiliar terms. Other Useful Terms such as Tbsp., stiff peaks, soft peaks, roux are also defined.  Then Ingredients and Allergens.  No recipes yet! First: How to cook eggs, How to cook bacon, How to Mash potatoes and more.  At last recipes beginning, of course, with Breakfast, followed by Fruits and Veggies, Main Courses, and Dessert.  The photographs of each recipe make you want to try them all!  There are also substitutions and variations for many recipes which is certainly welcome to the vegetarians out there!

Anything you did not like about the book?  No.

To whom would you recommend this book? This is heartily recommended to kids who like to cook or who would like to learn to cook.

Who should buy this book? Public, elementary and middle school libraries and kids who like cooking

Where would you shelve it? 641.5

Should we (librarians) put this on the top of our “to read” piles? If you know a kid who likes to cook, then yes.

Reviewer’s Name, Library (or school), City: Katrina Yurenka, Retired Librarian, Contributor, Youth Services Book Review

Date of Review:  October 27, 2023