Sep

17

The Spatulatta Cookbook

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The Spatulatta Cookbook When I was invited to review the recently released Spatulatta Cookbook, my answer was an enthusiastic “Yes!” and I couldn’t wait to see what the girls from Spatulatta had cooked up.

Spatulatta.com is a James Beard award-winning website with video cooking lessons for kids. The hosts are Isabella and Olivia Gerasole, sisters ages 11 and 9, and they do all the video demonstrations. If you have not seen the website, you must go and visit it because the videos are lively and fun. The girls, who are naturals in front of a camera, prepare foods while their mom and other guests help out with things like cutting, assembling the food processor, and working with the stove or oven. Spatulatta has webcasts demonstrating recipes and basic skills, such as separating eggs and chopping an onion.

The full-color cookbook, which was released this month, begins with a basic skills overview for such tasks as chopping, shredding and grating cheese, measuring, and food safety, and also includes information on essential cooking tools and measurements. Read more

Jan

26

America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook

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I am totally addicted to the America’s Test Kitchen cooking show on PBS. They are all about the food and the gear. While they are selective about ingredients and methods, they remain unpretentious. They’ll tackle the most daunting chunks of meat for a festive celebration or the most basic weeknight dinners. Even when they are preparing something that I wouldn’t under normal circumstances (such as lamb or veal), I will still watch just to try and pick up any bits of cooking wisdom that I can.

The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook is reminiscent of the familiar cookbooks designed to provide basic every day recipes. So in that sense the book isn’t a revolution among cookbooks, but it has the teaching approach and helpful asides that make an ATK cookbook. Read more

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