The Mother Daughter Cookbook: Recipes to Nourish Relationships

by Lynette Rohrer Shirk

The Mother Daughter Cookbook offers a unique team approach to cooking. Developed by professional chef Lynette Rohrer Shirk and approved by many up-and-coming young cooks (including her daughter), the book is designed to turn once confusion-wrought, team-cooking kitchen time into pure fun mother-daughter bonding time. Sound impossible? Lynette makes it a piece of cake.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Lynette Shirk is an accomplished chef and cookbook author. She has authored 9 books, served as the corporate pastry chef for Williams-Sonoma, and worked in kitchens of some of the best restaurants in the country.

Lynette is a native of Warren, Ohio. She got her first culinary experience in nearby Columbus, making pizza while attending The Ohio State University. She graduated in 1989 with a B.A. in Classics, and promptly moved to San Francisco to attend California Culinary Academy. While attending CCA, she started working in the pastry department at well-known restaurant Chez Panisse across the bay in Berkeley.

Reviews

[Lynette · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is not limited to mothers and daughters, but when I wrote it I had them in mind (being a new-ish mother of a daughter). Although it is directed to children, it is not just a children's book. For example, the recipes are divided into 2 roles: one that handles knives, fire and other potentially "dangerous" parts of the recipes; and the other assisting with the rest of the hands-on experience. There is a back-and-forth participation which makes the recipes good for any pair of cooks. A grandmother and child (any gender) is a good example; or an elderly mother and her daughter (son) or grandchild; or two sisters, partners, cousins... Also, the recipes are delicious and fun, but not "childish".

[Karen Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute cookbook and well set up with duties divided between mother and daughter. Visually, it's a fun cookbook to use and I like the quotes and history tucked in among the recipes. We still have lots of recipes left to try but have enjoyed it so far!