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Article: Mollie Katzen's `Pretend Soup' Introduces Kids to Real Cooking
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 8, 1994
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Judging from most cookbooks written for children, the typical
8-year-old eats cake frosting, open-faced peanut butter sandwiches
cut in goofy shapes and fruit salad. And those kids must be
proficient readers to follow the recipes.
But for Mollie Katzen, who turned vegetarian cooking into a
feast for the eye and palate in her classic books Moosewood Cookbook
and Enchanted Broccoli Forest, these are stifling notions.
"The assumption that children are only interested in sweets and
decorating sweets isn't true," said Katzen, who lives in Berkeley,
Calif., with her husband and their daughter Eve, 3, and son Sam, 9.
"And preliterate kids can be very intelligent, very passionate
and very ...