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MAKING SOUP
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Mollie Katzen’s charmingly illustrated Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes (Tricycle Press, 1994) is a delight for just-beginning cooks – safety tips, step-by-step illustrations, and, as promised, nineteen real recipes, among them Pretend Soup (a yummy mix of orange juice, yogurt, and fruit), Zucchini Moons, Green Spaghetti, Hide-and-Seek Muffins, and Bagel Faces. Sequels are Salad People and More Real Recipes (2005) and Honest Pretzels (2009). For ages 3-6 (plus adult). |
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Virginia Ellison’s Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook (Dutton Juvenile Books, 2010) is filled with Eugene Shepard illustrations, Pooh quotations, and kid-friendly recipes, including several for soups. Try Pea-Bean Alphabet Soup (and add lots of Ps, for Pooh and Piglet). For ages 7 and up. |
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Fans of Brian Jacques’s Redwall series know that the animals of Redwall Abbey love to feast. Jacques’s The Redwall Cookbook (Philomel, 2005) has everyone’s favorite recipes from the book, categorized by season. Learn how to make the Abbot’s Special Abbey Trifle, Great Hall Gooseberry Fool, Summer Strawberry Fizz, and the otters’ favorite Shrimp ‘n’ Hotroot Soup. For ages 8 and up. |
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Straight from the Roald Dahl books, with witty illustrations by Quentin Black, comes Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes (Puffin, 1997). Included along with the Eatable Pillows, Stink Bugs’ Eggs, and Snozzcumbers is a recipe for Green Pea Soup from The Witches. For ages 8 and up. |
| From Cooking with Kids, Vegetable Soup Mix is a good project for beginning soup cooks: kids measure and combine dry ingredients to make a soup mix; then use their mix to cook vegetable soup. | |
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Make Soup in a Jar. |
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Kids’ Octopus Soup has instructions for a very silly soup, featuring an octopus made from a hot dog. |
MULTICULTURAL SOUP
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In Norah Dooley’s Everybody Serves Soup (First Avenue Editions, 2004), Carrie travels around her multicultural neighborhood shoveling snow, in hopes of earning enough money to buy her mother a Christmas present. Each house is cooking a different kind of soup – Puerto Rican chuleton, Italian lentil soup, Southern corn chowder, Japanese miso shiru. All seven soup recipes are included in an appendix. In the same format, see Dooley’s Everybody Bakes Bread, Everybody Cooks Rice, and Everybody Brings Noodles. For ages 6-9. |
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In Jama Kim Rattigan’s Dumpling Soup (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1998), every New Year’s Eve, Marisa’s very mixed Hawaiian/Korean/Japanese family gathers at grandmother’s house to make a traditional pot of dumpling soup. Included is a helpful glossary of Hawaiian, Japanese, and Korean words. For ages 4-8. |
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In Tomie dePaola’s Watch Out for Chicken Feet in Your Soup (Aladdin, 1985), Joey is worried about introducing his friend Eugene to his old-fashioned Italian grandmother – but Eugene adores his visit, including his bowl of zuppa, with chicken feet. For ages 5-9. |
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The Silver Spoon for Children (Phaidon Press, 2009) is a delightfully illustrated collection of 40 kid-friendly Italian recipes. Learn how to make fresh pasta, focaccia, Fruits of the Forest ice cream, and some delicious Italian zuppas. For ages 8 and up. |
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In Leda Schubert’s The Princess of Borscht (Roaring Brook Press, 2011), Ruthie’s grandma is in the hospital with pneumonia and she wants – because “A person could starve to death in here” – a bowl of homemade borscht. In fact, she’d like it by five o’clock. If, that is, she’s still alive. Ruthie heads home to look for grandma’s secret recipe – and with the help of the neighbors and some improvisations of her own, manages to brew up a delicious pot of borscht. (Readers also get to watch Ruthie race the clock.) |