By Roz Denny - 19 sample pages online!

Reviewed by Melanie Wilson


Beautiful enough to be a coffee table book, Cooking for your Vegetarian Kids is the newest book by Roz Denny, author of The Ultimate Vegetarian Cookbook. It's in hardback and overflowing with fantastic photography, reminiscent of those children's books with hundreds of photos of everyday things. If you are visually oriented like me and appreciate knowing exactly what your dish is supposed to look like when it's done, you'll love this book. Step by step instructions with photos make creating these masterpieces easy even for the inexperienced in the kitchen. Just a word of warning: it isn't for the perpetually behind schedule and the fast food obsessed. It's the kind of cookbook that makes you want to learn to cook, and it deserves an hour set aside to create these lovely meals. If you can only reconstruct half the fabulous presentation, it'll be worth your time! In reality, most of the recipes only appear to be time-consuming; they are not.

There are only a handful of recipes that seem to be specifically aimed at pleasing the preschool set. The book is meant for children of all ages, including teens. The recipes will most definitely appeal to adults and older children. I would be willing to bet you could even tempt a devout meat-eater with some of them. There is definitely an eggs and dairy emphasis, so it cannot be categorized as a vegan cookbook. Cooking for your Vegetarian Kids would make a great gift for a friend or family member that wants to know what to cook for you when you come to visit or as an introduction to vegetarian cooking.

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