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Food Adventures: Knowing Good Food from the Start
Food Adventures Knowing Good Food from the Start Author:Frances Boswell In most societies around the world even quite small babies join the grown-ups at table, perched on a parent's or grandparent's knee, eating what the adults eat - healthy, nutritious home-cooking in a child-friendly form. Babies and small children are naturally adventurous. They will try anything once, and once is all you need. In 100 recipes fro... more »m all over the globe, Food Adventures takes us from first spoonfuls to first schooldays. Starting with simple apple sauce and sweet potato mash, it progresses to the artichoke with lemon that Greek parents feed to toddlers and on through Italian rice balls to the school lunch of meatballs and tomato sauce inspired by a Lebanese classmate. The authors the food director of Real Simple and a prize-winning British cookery writer are also daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. Food Adventures is thus a collaboration between a working mom and a traveling granny. It provides recipes that can be prepared by busy parents everywhere, using readily available ingredients and no great culinary skills. Dishes are chosen not only because they look good and taste good, but because they are the food children actually like to eat. Elisabeth and Frances also come up with ideas to keep children interested, transforming mealtime from that old familiar battlefield into a playground where everyone can join the fun. Baby food is, after all, not just for the early years it's the first step towards a lifetime of enjoyable food.« less