Cooking With Children ─ 15 Lessons for Children, Age 7 and Up, Who Really Want to Learn to Cook

Marion Cunningham, today's Fannie Farmer, who has inspired a whole generation to find pleasure again in good American home cooking, now in this remarkable book teaches children (along with their mentors) how to cook. She takes them through fifteen basic lessons, showing them how to master essential techniques and to produce, all on their own, thirty-five favorite dishes.
Starting with a vegetable soup, kids learn how to peel and chop vegetables and to understand boiling and simmering. Then they prepare salads; make a perfect hamburger; handle eggs; cook rice, pasta, and vegetables; make pancakes, biscuits, bread, pizza, cookies, brownies, a fruit crisp, and an apple pie; and put together a complete chicken dinner. And, finally, they create a triumphant birthday cake.

Marion Cunningham was born in southern California and later lived in Walnut Creek. She was responsible for the complete revision of?The Fannie Farmer Cookbook?and is the author of?The Fannie Farmer Baking Book, The Breakfast Book, The Supper Book, Cooking with Children,?and?Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham.?She frequently traveled throughout the country giving cooking demonstrations, and contributed articles to?Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Saveur,?and?Gourmet?magazines, as well as writing a column for the?San Francisco Chronicle.?In May 2003 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the James Beard Foundation. She died in 2012.