The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler by Lisa Barnes Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler
Book Review: The Petit Appetit Cookbook
Summary: 3 Stars
This cookbook has lots of easy nutritious recipes to make for a child and to enjoy as an adult. I will definitely tell other parents about this book.Book Review: Easy-to-use book; Easy-to-make recipes
Summary: 4 Stars
I was looking for a book that includes dairy free recipes and this book provided a variety of choices. It also includes a lot of helpful information (safe food handling, general childhood health issues, nutrition resources), but it is not overwhelming. The section "Stocking the Kitchen" lists tools and foods people who haven't done a lot of cooking may not be familiar with, hence it is a good, basic tutorial for people who want to start providing healthy meals for their family.
I have a modest budget, but never found the list of ingredients too expensive. There are choices for every lifestyle.
Book Review: so-so recipes
Summary: 3 Stars
This had great reviews but I haven't yet found a recipe I liked from here. The book was a good read and I loved the push for organic. The baby biscotti called for a lot more sugar than I would give my baby at such a young age.Book Review: Yummy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great book. The recipes are straight forward and easy to follow. I love the use of different grains and organic foods. I am excited to try new recipes as my son grows.Book Review: Hideous, Pretentious Codswallop.
Summary: 1 Stars
I knew I was in trouble with this book by page 14, when it starts listing STUFF you need to have in order to cook. By page 29, when the author is gabbling about dancing with your toddler in the kitchen and having them "help" you cook, it's too late. You realize you've purchased a LIFESTYLE book. Not just any lifestyle book, one that promotes a lifestyle best suited to the six figure income and up crowd, and for mothers who are obsessed, neurotic, or insane.
One: The kitchen is not a place for dancing, playing, hanging out, or anything else, with small children. All the major injuries I received as a child under three were kitchen related, ergo, as soon as my son becomes mobile I plan to encase my kitchen in heavily reinforced chicken wire. If he wants to dance, learn manners, or engage in social activities, he can do it well out of the way of huge knives and hot things and glass bits.
Two: My kitchen has quite enough "stuff" in it, being as it's not a stadium sized chef-style...thing...from the pages of Home Digest. It is, in fact, what my mother and I term a one-behind kitchen, and most of America has one exactly like it. There is no space for another spoon, let alone five separate cutting boards and a food mill or "moulis" or any other French Food Twaddler. If it can't be done with a blender, it doesn't need to be done for an infant.
Three: I categorically refuse to serve "Baked Ricotta Cake" (page 144) or "Portobello Burgers" (page 214) to anyone not yet old enough to order an appropriate Zinfandel to go with them. Perhaps you live on a portobello mushroom farm, have lots of portobello mushrooms lying about the place, and feeding the family grossly expensive mushrooms makes economic sense to you. However, in my house we have something called a "food budget".
This book is a shining example of the horrific competitive parenting tripe I see at every turn. If your idea of good parenting is a $40,000 pre-school, by all means, this is the lifestyle learning experience for you. I'll be in the kitchen mashing homegrown carrots with a fork, thanks.