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Paula Deen's My First Cookbook

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<p align="center"> <big>One of America's most beloved cooks, Food Network personality and restaurateur, Paula Deen invites you to share in her favorite dishes and memories from childhood in this delightful cookbook for the very young.

What better way to celebrate childhood than with pancakes around the kitchen table? Or how about a quick snack

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Spiral-bound, 176 pages
Published October 7th 2008 by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Esti
Paula Deen's joyful, energetic approach to cooking is the perfect attitude to bring to a children's cookbook. The book starts off with safety tips and basic definitions of various cooking terms like sifting and sautéeing, and then gives clear, illustrated instructions for making a variety of foods for each meal. The recipes range from the familiar and easy (Ants on a Log) to more complicated, creative recipes like rice-filled meatballs that cook up to resemble porcupines. The book puts the child...more
Julie
Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars
The kids have had a good time making recipes with us and with sitters from this book. It's Paula Deen, so it's not exactly low-fat, but none of the recipes are totally outrageous, either. They haven't liked everything they've made, but they have liked the process and the way she illustrates the ingredients and points out which steps are for kids and which ones need adult supervision. And then they cook in their pretend kitchen for a while, which I enjoy ;-) When this goes back to the ibrary, I m...more
Darlene
Darlene rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: carol
This book is a great book for kids of all ages. The book shows pictures of what you need so even kids that are not able to read words can read the pictures. This is a good introduction to reading non-fiction as it has table of contents, glossary, a safety first section, and an index. It even gives some recipes for making things that children wouldn't eat like bubbles and play clay. All of the different elements of this book make it a great book for children. This would be a good read aloud ...more
Nicole
Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars
Simple, but tasty recipes that kids really can follow, for the most part, on their own. Illustrations make it easy to identify ingredients, and there are chapters on manners, table-setting and safety. My 5.5 year old's favorite book at the moment (she consults it multiple times a day), and is light enough for her to carry around; in addition the book is spiral-bound to make page-turning easier.
Jenny
Jenny rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: cookbooks
For a first cookbook for kids, I think this is great. The illustrations are darling, there isn't anything that a photo would depict better. The recipes look yummy, we will be trying a few out real soon. The instructions are clear and the chapters each have a lot of recipes to choose from. Well done. No pun intended. :)
Jennifer
Way too complicated for a 'first cookbook'. Also, the illustrations were horrible--very misleading. (ie vanilla cupcakes that looked dark brown, huh?) And... why include such unhealthy items like doughnuts? To her credit, there are some great healthy recipes, but felt that most of the recipes were too advanced for a little one!
Shelley
My daughter got this for Christmas, along with her own rolling pin and apron, from her Grammy. It's such a thorough, well illustrated, simple, and fun book. There's even recipes for crafts like Bubbles and Salt Dough. The family pics of the Deen's are fun to look at too. We just have really enjoyed it.
Rachel
Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars
Shelves: kids, cookbooks
My daughter picked this out at the library and she read through every recipe! Good stuff- not real simple, but definitely things that kids can make with mom or dad. I like the way it's illustrated, even though there isn't pictures of the actual food.
Debbie
Debbie rated it 1 of 5 stars
I bought this for my niece's 7th birthday, so that we could cook together. The recipes are ridiculously too simple. My 7 year old niece was already way past this level. Much too boring and quick.
Wendy
Wendy rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: unowned
This was an amazing book. My son and I worked on a few of the recipes and loved them! They were well written and extremely easy to follow. The Ingredients are listed in picture form makeing it extremely easy for young cooks trying to help out mommy! This is one I highly recommend!
Holly
Holly rated it 2 of 5 stars
Shelves: cooking
Illustrated rather that pictures, It uses a lot of prepackaged ingredients that I do not have readily available.
Jenny
Jenny rated it 4 of 5 stars
Great holiday recipes. It was awesome meeting Paula, she is exactly the same, bubbly light in person!
Meadow
Meadow rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: kid-lit, food
Shocking that my butter-fiend of a child would choose this book.
Susan
Susan marked it as to-read
Gift idea for nieces and nephew
Michelle
The recipes seem fun...but there are no photos of the food...I hate cookbooks with cartoon drawings...I NEED to see what the final product MIGHT look like if I did a nice job.
Amber
my mom got this for lily. and she is very excited to read it and to learn to cook.
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Paula Deen (born Paula Ann Hiers) is an American cook, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality.

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