false 5560559 3 Matthew Amster-Burton was a restaurant critic and food writer long before he and his wife, Laurie, had Iris. Now he's a full-time, stay-at-home Dad and his experience with food has changed …a little.<BR><BR>Hungry Monkey is the story of Amster-Burton's life as a food-lover--with a child. It's the story of how he came to realize that kids don't need puree in a jar or special menus at restaurants and that raising an adventurous eater is about exposure, invention, and patience. He writes of the highs and lows of teaching your child about food--the high of rediscovering how something tastes for the first time through a child's unflinching reaction, the low of thinking you have a precocious vegetable fiend on your hands only to discover that a child's preferences change from day to day (and may take years to include vegetables again). Sharing in his culinary capers is little Iris, a budding gourmand and a zippy critic herself--who makes hug sandwiches, gobbles up hot chilis, and even helps around the kitchen sometimes.<BR><BR>A memoir on the wild joys of food and parenting and the marvelous mélange of the two--Hungry Monkey takes food enthusiasts on a new adventure in eating (with dozens of delicious recipes!). In the end, our guide reminds us: "Food is fun, and you get to enjoy it three times a day, plus snacks!" 5731699 book 19 5 2009 Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater total:178|5:43|4:83|3:44|2:8|1:0| 178 695 452 83 2 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 04:47:06 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 04:53:49 -0800 2009
Parts of it were quite funny.

There were some recipes that I'd like to try sometime (I probably won't)

But

It was also just a series of vignettes about how lucjy he is that his daughter was adventurous in food.
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Anyway, this book can't decide if it's a cookbook or a memoir... it's a stay-at-home dad's account of how he tried to encourage his daughter to be willing to try new foods (and sometimes succeeded!). I like food and I like ki...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jul 20 22:59:39 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 15:51:31 -0700 2009 into them: a kind of dishonesty, an attitude of "hey, look at my beautiful life!", an unwillingness to delve deeply into how this lifestyle is maintained - we ca...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 15:28:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 14:16:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:40:17 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 16:30:21 -0700 2009
It's more of a fun read than a step-by-step how-to, but it's great for perspective, even for those who do not frequent their local Asian market. ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 06:46:49 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 06:59:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 true false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:08:42 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 12:32:53 -0700 2009 I loved Hungry Monkey because it gave me exactly what I needed—an attitude adjustment! I bought Hungry Monkey because I was looking for practical tips to help fulfill my summer 2009 goal of getting Katherine to try some new foods. While Amster-Burton did give me some great practical tips (...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 11:18:42 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 22:52:34 -0700 2009 Hungry Monkey in my hands again for 6 whole days. As soon as I read the last page I wanted to start over again with some little sticky flags...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 09:10:34 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 09:19:14 -0700 2009
A humorous book filled with short snippets (and recipes) of a father's journey to "raise an adventurous eater."

Amster-Burton confesses to things that many food writers/chefs would never admit...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:42:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:46:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 24 14:02:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 09:52:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 14:02:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:15:39 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 14:19:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:11:18 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 11:36:22 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 10:31:57 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 10:42:55 -0700 2009 I really liked his practical style for feeding his family. He gives many recipes that are economical...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:35:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 13:41:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue May 12 08:53:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 08:58:14 -0700 2009 Shauna recommends, I tend to be into, and this teaser excerpt sold me:

"Iris is very into sprinkles, in the same sense that Robert Downey Jr. was very into cocaine. Typically, if I ask her to help put sprinkles on something, one-third of the sprinkles will end up on the cake...more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 06:25:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 06:26:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 14:41:08 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 15:36:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 13:20:01 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:21:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5560559