I’m the type of aunt who likes to send my nieces and nephews surprise gifts. I also like to spend time with them doing fun things together, but right now the pandemic is making that impossible. I stumbled across two cookbooks that came out back in October and in November 2020, and definitely want to ship them to a couple of kitchen-loving nephews, nieces and friends’ kids.
The author of these two quite similar cookbooks is Lacey J. Mauritz, a dietician from Chile.
The first of these kid-and-family cookbooks that came out, in October 2020, was Cooking with Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes and the Recipes they Inspire.
The second book is called Celebrating with Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes and the Recipes They Inspire.
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The publisher writes:
Other children’s cookbooks tend to focus on kids cooking for themselves or on parents preparing separate “kid food” without their children’s input or involvement. Celebrating with Mother Goose is not that kind of cookbook. This book (like its companion, Cooking with Mother Goose) encourages parents to cook with their children, thus including them in the process of making delicious food.
I love this! There’s enough cookbooks about cooking FOR kids and certainly enough cookbooks written for kids to learn to cook – but I’ve felt we definitely need more FAMILY cookbooks that adults can enjoy using with kids.
These books include clever and educational asides such as Nutrition Nibble and things to look out for while making the recipe. There’s a whimsical system for explaining how hard each recipe will be – “Piece of Cake,” or “Just a Pinch Involved.”
The books each offer newly written nursery rhymes, each with its own lovely illustration by Jacqueline Taylor.
I’m not sure why two quite similar cookbooks were released within a month of each other, but hey, the more the merrier, right?
If you like reading storybooks and nursery rhymes to your kids at night, pick up your own copy of Celebrating with Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes and the Recipes They Inspire and/or Cooking with Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes and the Recipes they Inspire and make a delightful mess in the kitchen with your kids next weekend!
-Carrie