Kosher by Design Kids in the Kitchen

by Susie Fishbein, John Uher (Photographer)

Simple enough to give a child confidence and interesting enough to engage the parental chef, these kid-friendly recipes and helpful tips introduce the techniques known by every good kosher cook. Each recipe comes with an equipment list, an ingredient list, and a photo of every scrumptious dish.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook was not quite what I expected! By the title, I thought it might have lots of Jewish ethnic dishes (and therefore maybe a narrow interest for our school library), but it's really mostly everyday "American-ish" food that I think most kids are quite familiar with.--pizza, milkshakes, tuna melts, nachos, hamburgers pancakes, hot chocolate, etc. The only slightly Jewish recipes were: Goldilox (eggs with lox), Potato Bourekas, Peach Noodle Kugel and Hearty Blintzes. No: latkes, hamantaschen, bagels, challah, matzah, matzo, etc. The only chicken soup is Asian Wonton Soup.

I am not Jewish, but I love to cook different ethnic dishes. This book is not for that. It's a very nice cookbook that anyone with kids would enjoy or anyone really just learning to cook. I happen to be vegan, and the book has many egg, dairy and meat dishes, so I haven't cooked from it.

It has a very nice layout, with some beginning cooking tips, a full page of "Keeping Kosher in the Kitchen" (about the only real reference to Jewish cooking), and a photo glossary of kitchen equipment.

I love that every single recipe has a photo with it and the type size of the text is quite large (which, frankly, these over-50 eyes were very thankful for!).

I will be adding this to my K-6 library since we have kids who are interested in cookbooks, and this is an overall nice one. Just take the title very literally--it tells you how to keep kosher in the kitchen, but it's not a good resource for Jewish ethnic dishes. (P.S. I would have added it to our library if it DID have an ethnic slant.)

[Sophia]

This is the first cookbook I ever used! As a elementary student my sister and I used to have baking/cooking contest with the direction of this books! It has wonderful easy to use recipes that I will continue to use as an adult and hopefully one day as a mother!

[Naomi · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a nice addition to the "Kosher by Design" series, but I'm not really into cookbooks designed for kids' food.

[Mark Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome! Kosher recipes that even I can make.

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This where I get the meatball part of my meatball recipe from. Then I make the sauce that is used for stuffed cabbage.

[Clarence :P · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing cookbook with delicious things. : )
Well...the pictures look delicious, anways.