Delicious organic recipes from an award-winning organic-foods cookbook author and nutrition expert. As kids get older, parents get busier, and they all need simple, creative, healthy ideas and recipes for school lunches, snacks, drinks and the seemingly endless round of parties, playdates, and special occasions. This all-new collection of recipes from Petit Appetit is just what they need. These nutritious, organic, and easy-to-prepare snacks, drinks, and celebration foods are the perfect alternative to processed store-bought items laden with high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, additives, and preservatives. Chef and mother Lisa Barnes’ simple, delicious recipes enable parents to think “outside the bag” (of processed chips, crackers, and cookies) and learn how to create new family favorites with healthy, organic ingredients.Petit Appetit: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry features: • Expert advice, tips, and stories • Nutritional, dietary, and allergy information Throughou (more…)

From Library Journal

This large-format volume is the first in a new series from the publisher of the “World Cookbook” series, whose attractive paperback cookbooks feature an array of international cuisines. Here, Fukushima offers recipes for traditional, generally uncomplicated dishes, most of them shown in full-page, color close-ups; there are also color photographs of ingredients and techniques for making sushi, preparing tempura, etc. Hiroko Shimbo’s authoritative The Japanese Kitchen (LJ 11/15/00) is the new standard on this topic, but Fukushima’s book provides a good introduction. For most collections. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Cookie.com, 8/18/09 “Gives ideas for meat-, cheese-, and egg-free lunch entrees that will appeal to carnivores and vegans alike.”PlanetLactose.com. 8/17/09 “With quick and easy recipes, fruit and veggie ideas for even the pickiest eaters, and an allergen-free index, Vegan Lunch Box Around the World is essential for every family raising healthy kids—and for anyone who packs a lunch.” Wa’sTacoma Tribune and Olympian, 9/9 “Jennifer McCann has traversed the globe for a second time to find inspiration for her plant-based meals. A clever concept…” Baltimore’s Child magazine, 9/1 “Although aimed at parents, plenty of teens will love this book as a way to support their decision to go vegan—and there is no doubt that school lunches need all the help they can get!”NJ’s The Record, 9/7 “Readers are whisked around the globe in search of the best lunch foods in the second installment of McCann’s ‘Vegan Lunch Box’ series.”Omaha World Hera (more…)

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“With Real Food for Healthy Kids, a new cookbook by Tracey Seaman and Tanya Wenman Steel, wholesome meals may find their way onto the table on more regular basis.” (San Francisco Chronicle )”The book is not about health food with a capital H, but simply wholesome nutritious food that kids will eat.” (Winston-Salem Journal )”Steel, editor in chief of Epicurious.com, and Seaman cover plenty of nutrition basics, then put them into practice with appealing, kid-friendly recipes. Offerings cover cookie-jar treats (usually spiked with whole-wheat flour) and everything from breakfast to dessert.” (Columbus Dispatch )”Here’s a book that will help parents help their kids.” (Sacramento Bee )”Like a modern, family-oriented version of The Joy of Cooking.” (Austin American-Statesman )”Seaman and Steel created their recipes with the premise that tasty food, well prepared from fresh, simple ingredients does not need to be dressed up and ties with a bow for children to eat it.” ( (more…)