

A classic listed as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time by the New York Times, this 40th anniversary edition of Mollie Katzen's seminal book will be a treasured addition to the cookbook libraries of fans young and old. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.The Moosewood Cookbook has inspired generations to cook simple, healthy, and seasonal food. Mollie is a consultant and cocreator of Harvards groundbreaking Food Literacy Project. MOLLIE KATZEN is a cookbook author and artist who has profoundly shaped the way America eats. San Francisco Chronicle About the Author ANN HENDERSON is a credentialed early childhood education specialist and is co-director of the Child Education Center in Berkeley, California. Scholastic Parent and Child A winner! -School Library Journal You can toss a coin whether to give this charming cookbook, for preschoolers and up, to your favorite kid or to a food-loving adult who deals with children. Magazine This is the best book to date on cooking with preschoolers. You and your child can have great fun finding this out! Review Quotes Mollie Katzens cookbooks for preschoolers, Pretend Soup and Salad People, are works of child-friendly genius. 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. Whimsical watercolor critters and pictorial versions of each recipe will help the young cook understand and delight in the process. Extensively classroom- and home-tested, these recipes are designed to inspire an early appreciation for creative, wholesome food. Children as young as three years old and as old as eight be head chef while an adult serves as guide and helper. Mollie Katzen, renowned author of The Moosewood Cookbook, and educator Ann Henderson bring the grown-up world of real cooking to a childs level. Book Synopsis 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.


Together with an early childhood educator, Mollie Katzen combines her renowned cooking talents and her whimsical artistry in a recipe collection that is sure to excite budding young chefs-and teach them a thing or two along the way.

About the Book Pretend Soup lets young children put on the chefs hat with a grown-up there to help and guide.
