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The Science Chef Travels Around the World: Fun Food Experiments and Recipes for Kids
Discover the delicious answers as you satisfy your hunger forscience!
The Science Chef Travels Around the World is serving up a feast offun with over 60 easy-to-do food experiments and recipes. Come andjoin the adventure! You'll travel to 14 fascinatingcountries--starting in Canada and ending in Ghana--and along theway you'll explore the science secrets of food.
Why does orange soda fizz? Do vegetables really die when you pickthem? What makes peanut butter smooth? You'll discover thescientific answers to these and dozens of other yummy mysteries.Plus you'll get to make and eat Sizzling Mexican Chicken Fajitas,tasty Italian Cannoli, Awesome Chinese Egg Rolls, and many otherdelicious dishes.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you can become anInternational Science Chef, too. All experiments and recipes arekid-tested, include metric equivalents, and require only commoningredients and kitchen utensils. The Science Chef Travels Aroundthe World also includes rules for kitchen safety and a completenutrition guide.
The Science Chef Travels Around the World is serving up a feast offun with over 60 easy-to-do food experiments and recipes. Come andjoin the adventure! You'll travel to 14 fascinatingcountries--starting in Canada and ending in Ghana--and along theway you'll explore the science secrets of food.
Why does orange soda fizz? Do vegetables really die when you pickthem? What makes peanut butter smooth? You'll discover thescientific answers to these and dozens of other yummy mysteries.Plus you'll get to make and eat Sizzling Mexican Chicken Fajitas,tasty Italian Cannoli, Awesome Chinese Egg Rolls, and many otherdelicious dishes.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced cook, you can become anInternational Science Chef, too. All experiments and recipes arekid-tested, include metric equivalents, and require only commoningredients and kitchen utensils. The Science Chef Travels Aroundthe World also includes rules for kitchen safety and a completenutrition guide.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 24, 1996
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December 21, 2013
As many know, I am a long time home school mom (20 years) and since before that have run home school activity groups for families with kids from birth to (and including) college and teach classes for homeschoolers from preschool to college. I also have a longtime involvement with scouting (from being a scout myself to being a leader) and volunteer with Down Syndrome and at risk inner city kids. Naturally, I read a LOT of cool activity books of all sorts for great ideas to use with kids of all ages.When it comes to science teaching, I want to make it fun and interesting and allow kids to see how science is around them even in ordinary everyday ways.
This book is a combination cookbook and science experiment book using food. I would say it is mostly cooking but the science experiments are here too and they are interesting and fun. What I love about this book is that it focuses on food from around the world, not just American food. There is Spicy Vegetable Stew, Baked Plantains, Cabbage Salad (with pineapple, carrots, and orange juice), and West African Peanut Soup all from Ghana (note to self: Plan trip to Ghana soon). The recipe from China for Bubbly Mandarin Orange-Pineapple Floats (using vegan ice cream) is worth the price of the book alone! Then there are dessert crepes with raspberry sauce from France, Focaccia and Cannoli from Italy, couscous and some luscious almond pastries from Morocco, and more recipes from these countries as well as Mexico, Canada, Brazil( how about mocha cupcakes from coffee country?!), Germany, Spain, Israel, India, Japan and Thailand. There are science experiments and food science facts in each chapter. This is my way to do science!
All I have to say is- where did I put my passport?!
This book is a combination cookbook and science experiment book using food. I would say it is mostly cooking but the science experiments are here too and they are interesting and fun. What I love about this book is that it focuses on food from around the world, not just American food. There is Spicy Vegetable Stew, Baked Plantains, Cabbage Salad (with pineapple, carrots, and orange juice), and West African Peanut Soup all from Ghana (note to self: Plan trip to Ghana soon). The recipe from China for Bubbly Mandarin Orange-Pineapple Floats (using vegan ice cream) is worth the price of the book alone! Then there are dessert crepes with raspberry sauce from France, Focaccia and Cannoli from Italy, couscous and some luscious almond pastries from Morocco, and more recipes from these countries as well as Mexico, Canada, Brazil( how about mocha cupcakes from coffee country?!), Germany, Spain, Israel, India, Japan and Thailand. There are science experiments and food science facts in each chapter. This is my way to do science!
All I have to say is- where did I put my passport?!
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June 10, 2023Time to weed my library, this time I’m going through cook books. I almost never use cookbooks, and yet have a whole cabinet full of them.
This has some solid food-based experiments and recipes for kids. It does involve using the stove or oven for most recipes and experiments so kids would need adult supervision. There’s an introduction to a variety of cuisines from around the world as well as a few recipes for each. Skimming through, it looked like a number of them used prepared packages ingredients to make them easier.
Not a keeper for me, but good for families with young to middle-grade kids who like to experiment and/or cook. The explanation of the result of the experiments was interesting.
This has some solid food-based experiments and recipes for kids. It does involve using the stove or oven for most recipes and experiments so kids would need adult supervision. There’s an introduction to a variety of cuisines from around the world as well as a few recipes for each. Skimming through, it looked like a number of them used prepared packages ingredients to make them easier.
Not a keeper for me, but good for families with young to middle-grade kids who like to experiment and/or cook. The explanation of the result of the experiments was interesting.
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