Cooking Books Supplement

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1 Cooking Books Supplement Cooking with Picture Books Picture books provide a wonderful jumping off point to explore more through conversations and activities. We share these books that all involve cooking! A few things to note: The discussion questions are carefully worded so that an older person or a young person (of any age) can answer them. All the books selected are great book choices for your cooking program. Books 1 and 2, in that order are our top picks. You may find videos of some of the books on YouTube. We made every effort to carefully select books that include both older people and children as well as to represent a variety of different cultures. If the children seem too old for some of these books: o Try reading them anyway with the promise of baking at the end. OR o Ask them to humor you and let you read it then you can ask questions afterwards. OR o Ask them to read to you. OR o Tell them that you just learned about this book and you were wondering what they think of it. This is a great first book for a consecutive cooking program as it reinforces the importance of trying new foods. The Sandwich Swap by Queen Rania with Kelly DiPucchio & Illustrated by Tricia Tusa Description: A fantastic book about appreciating differences in food - specifically sandwiches. Be warned - a food fight does erupt which leads to understanding! A great book to set the tone for the rest of the cooking program.

2 Conversation Questions: Who were/are your best friends in school? What did/do you enjoy doing together? Adults, who are your best friends today? What is your favorite kind of sandwich? How about your favorite type of bread? Do you have a story about how foods you eat are different from the foods of others? Recipe: Making sandwiches, of course! Consider an Additional Activity: Make sandwiches for a soup kitchen. This is a great second book for a consecutive cooking program as it reinforces the importance of helping! The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza) By Philemon Sturges & Illustrated by Amy Walrod Description: The traditional Little Red Hen story is about how the hen does all the work and asks for help from her friends along the way. No one wants to help her, but at the end, they all want to eat what she makes. This is a modern twist about going to the store to get the ingredients for pizza. A fun way to reinforce an important lesson we all need to help, especially if we want to enjoy! Conversation Questions: Who does most of the cooking for your meals? Do you ever help? If so, how? Who cooked when you were younger? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite pizza topping? Recipe: Pizza, of course! Consider using English Muffins for each person or canned pizza dough that you can just roll out. Have different toppings available including chopped veggies. It is possible to get dairy-free cheese made from soy or nuts. Tip: Put parchment paper down on the pan. Then, you may write the name of the chef next to her or his pizza. Consider Additional Activities: Do a relay race with the different items listed in the book or pictures of the items (pizza pan, mixing bowl, can of tomato sauce). OR Use pizzas to teach about fractions. OR As you read the book, have everyone do the actions such as run to the store, open the cupboard or make the sounds of the animals who say Not I.

3 Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie by Herman Parish & Illustrated by Lynne Avril Description: Amelia Bedalia visits her grandparents and they pick apples to make a pie. Amelia Bedelia books are full of plays on words - like Granny Smith will help name of person or apple? Conversation Questions: Have you ever gone to visit a grandparent or relative? What was it like? Have you watched birds or clouds make formations? Do you know any sayings about food and health - like an apple a day, keeps the doctor away. Do you believe such sayings? Have you ever had a disaster happen with your cooking? Recipe: Apple pie Consider Additional Activities: Try tasting different kinds of apples. OR Create a graph with people's favorites. OR Rate the apples by sweetest, crispest, tartest, colors, and/or shapes. A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat by Emily Jenkins & Illustrated by Sophie Blackall Description: Blueberry fool is made by four families in four different generations. The recipe is constant while the situations and cooking tools vary. Conversation Questions: What is a recipe that has been handed down in your family? Are there any cooking instruments that have changed in your family? What are your favorite cooking tools and why? What is your favorite fruit? Favorite dessert? If you could invite any five people who have ever lived to a dinner that you are hosting, who would you invite and why? Recipe: Blueberry Fool - the recipe is in the book. Consider an Additional Activity: Compare and contrast the living situations and the cooking instruments showcased in the book.

4 A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting & Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter Description: Three generations of an extended family takes the boat each year to celebrate the Statue of Liberty's birthday cake on October 28 with a picnic and birthday cake. Conversation Questions: Have you ever been to the Statue of Liberty or another famous monument? Have you ever gone on a boat ride? If so, tell us about it. Have you ever gone on a picnic? If so, tell us about it: where, with whom, what did you eat? Does your family celebrate a special event each year that is not a common holiday like Lady Liberty s birthday? In the book, Grandpa calls Grandma "bella". Does anyone call you a special name or nickname? If so, who calls you that special name? Recipe: A birthday cake (or other celebratory food). Consider Additional Activities: Have a picnic - even outdoors with coats on! OR Recite the poem on the Statue of Liberty. OR Consider talking about immigration and families' origins maybe even write letters to politicians supporting immigrants. OR Host a supply drive for a local center that welcomes immigrants. Applesauce Season by Eden Ross Lipson & Illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein Description: About three-generations of a family that make apple sauce using a variety of apples. Conversation Questions: Where do you buy your food? Have you ever gone to farms or farmer markets to get food? What s your favorite food that you eat only at a special time of year? With whom do you like to share a meal? Are there any foods you prepare when you always use the leftovers to make a new dish - like applesauce in a cake or turkey in soup? Do you ever remember someone by making her favorite recipe? Recipe: Applesauce, of course! OR Recipes that go along with applesauce like crepes, latkes or applesauce "parfaits" where people can layer on other items like cottage cheese, nuts, and coconut. Consider Additional Activities: Try different apples - create a graph with people's favorites. OR Rate the apples: sweetest, crispest, tartest, colors, shapes. OR

5 Do a fieldtrip to a farmer's market. OR Invite farmers to come share with your group. OR Setup your own make-believe farmer s market. Bee-bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park & Illustrated by Ho Baek Lee Description: A book in rhyme about a Korean mom and her daughter who make bee-bim bop - and then enjoy it with the dad and grandma. Conversation Questions: Have you ever helped anyone cook or has anyone ever helped you cook? What are some fast recipes you or your family make when you are in a hurry? Do you or have you ever eaten with utensils other than traditional American forks, spoons, and knives? Does/did your family do anything special at the start of your meal like say a blessing, share what you're grateful for (a Bridges Together tradition) or perhaps discuss a highlight from the day? Recipe: Bee-bim-bop recipe is in the book. "Bee-bim" means to mix everything together. In this Korean dish, rice is at the center and then veggies and meats are added and layered before "bee-bim". Items could be cooked ahead of time and then participants could fix their own dish and mix. A great opportunity to try eating with chopsticks. Consider Additional Activities: Make a list of quick dinners. Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan & Illustrated by Lillian Hsu-Flanders Description: An extended family goes to Grandma's house on New Year's Eve and has dumpling soup. The relatives represent many Asian enthnicities. Conversation Questions: The little girl has relatives from many countries. Where do your relatives come from? Do you like to give and receive hugs or do you prefer another way to greet people? Who's the best hugger you have ever known? Does your family have any traditions for New Year's Eve or New Year s Day? Recipes: Dumpling soup, kimchi (cabbage), or mochi (dessert)

6 Consider Additional Activities: Based on a shoe activity in the story, set up a pretend store to buy and sell shoes. OR Play a matching game with everyone's shoes. Eating the Alphabet, Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert, Author & Illustrator Description: Beautifully illustrated book with examples of fruits and vegetables that begin with each letter of the alphabet. Conversation Questions: What is your favorite fruit or vegetable? What is your least favorite? What is the most unusual one you've eaten? Recipe: Do a taste test with fruits and vegetables perhaps with dips. Consider an Additional Activity: Create an alphabet book in each group with favorite fruits and veggies. Do a taste test with items representing the different letters. Growing up with Tamales/Los Tamales de Ana by Gwendolyn Zepeda & Illustrated by April Ward Description: This book, which is bilingual on each page, is about Ana and her family who make tamales for Christmas. Conversation Questions: If you could be any age, what age would you be and why? Do you have siblings or cousins? Did you ever want to be like them? What are some of the ages when you were/will be able to do special things - like cook special recipes or hold babies or sit in the front seat of the car or retire? When you were younger, what did you want to do when you grew up? If you're grown up, did your wish come true? Why or why not or did it change? Recipe: Tamales! Tip: You can buy tamale wrappers.

7 Consider Additional Activities: Invite some of the older people to share about milestones in their lives - maybe by decades. OR Deliver food to other people the way that Ana does. Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji by F. Zia & Illustrated by Ken Min Description: Dada-ji and his Indian family enjoy a story about how roti, an unleavened bread, makes people super strong. Three generations of men make roti together. Conversation Questions: What type of exercise do you do? What type did you do when you were younger? Do you pray? Would you like to tell us about how and when? Have you ever lived with people besides your parents or children? What kind of bread do you most enjoy? What kind of food makes you strong - if only in your imagination? Recipe: Make roti or another unleavened bread! Tip: You may search online for a bread made in a plastic bag so that each participant will not spread germs. They may form it into their own shape. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper, put the bread down, and write the name of the baker next to her or his bread. Consider Additional Activity: Try breads from different cultures challah, French, naan, and Syrian.

8 Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter & Illustrated by Catherine Stock Description: A beginner chapter book. Justin goes to spend time with his grandfather, a real cowboy. While there, Justin helps on the ranch, learns about historial African-American cowboys and enjoys the best biscuits in the world. Conversation Questions: Do you have siblings or cousins? How did you handle challenges or fights? Did you ever go stay with someone for a week or longer? If so, tell us about it. Did your grandparents or other older people in your circle of love have a special recipe that you enjoy? When you were little did you enjoy spending time with a grandparent or another adult? What did you do together? Recipe: The Best Biscuits - recipe is in the book! Consider an Additional Activity: Research more about the cowboys mentioned in the book. The Peanut-Free Café by Gloria Koster & Illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler Description: A great story about Simon who's friend, Grant, is very allergic to peanuts and how Grant had to eat at a special table. Simon learns to try new foods, venturing beyond peanut butter sandwiches so he can join Grant and their other friends at the table. Great book for sharing about peanut allergies or tasting foods. Conversation Questions: What are your favorite foods? Are there any foods you eat over and over? Do you have any food allergies or dietary guidelines you try to follow? How do you handle those when you eat with others? Recipe: Make a peanut-free meal - consider using foods in the book like bagels, yogurt layered with berries, turkey and swiss sandwich, cream cheese and jelly, pizza, chili.

9 Consider Additional Activities: Have a guest speaker come and share ageappropriate information on peanut allergies. OR Support people in your school or community who have peanut allergies. Rainbow Stew Cathryn Falwell, Author & Illustrator Description: Three little children visit their grandfather who likes to cook, especially with vegetables from his garden. Conversation Questions: Do you know any men who like to cook? Have you ever picked things from a garden to eat? If so, tell us about it. Do you like stews? If so, what's your favorite? What do you like/did you like to do with your grandparents/grandchildren? Recipe: Make Rainbow Stew the recipe is at the back of the book. Or make another stew or a vegetable smoothie. Consider Additional Activities: Plant or tour a garden. OR Try different veggies and dips. Saturday Sancocho Leyla Torres, Author & Illustrator Description: Maria Lili looks forward to making chicken sancocho with her grandparents but one week, they don't have money to buy the ingredients so they trade eggs to get what they need. This book is also available in Spanish. Conversation Questions: Does your family eat a particular dish on a certain day of the week, like tacos on Tuesday or pasta on Wednesday? Have you ever swapped food or services - tell us about it. Do you like to take siestas or naps? Have you ever enjoyed them? Recipe: Chicken Sancocho - recipe is in the book!

10 Consider Additional Activities: Setup a pretend swap of items people have or services they could offer (examples: teach me to count in Spanish, color a book, or make a bracelet). Stone Soup John J Muth, Author & Illustrator Description: A traditional story set in China about everyone contributing to make stone soup. Conversation Questions: What makes you happy? Have you ever climbed a mountain or went on a long walk? If so, tell us about it including with whom you went. Have you ever brought ingredients to help someone make a recipe? Have you ever received help with a recipe? With whom do you like sharing meals? Recipe: Soup - and everyone brings an ingredient! Perhaps vegetable soup, chili or stew! Consider Additional Activities: Compare this story and illustrations with other versions of Stone Soup there are many. OR Invite some guests to share a meal with you - maybe parents, grandparents or neighbors. Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons & Illustrated by E. B. Lewis Description: Tosh's grandma makes tea cakes and tells the story about her family that had been slaves and made tea cakes. Grandma begins forgetting things - including the recipe. Tosh remembers, makes the cookies and then Grandma remembers the story. Conversation Questions: Does your family have any recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation? How about recipes that are often told with a story? Do you know anyone who suffers from memory loss? If so, how do you connect with the person? Have you ever helped a grandparent or other older relative? What do you enjoy/have you enjoyed doing with a grandparent, grandchild or someone in a different generation?

11 Recipe: Tea Cakes - recipe is in the book! Consider Additional Activities: Have a tea party. OR Make plates of cookies to deliver to people who live in memory-support neighborhoods or nursing homes. OR Learn more about slavery. These Hands by Margaret H. Mason & Illustrated by Floyd Cooper Description: A little boy and his grandfather talk about all the things they can do with their hands. The grandfather shares how at one point in history, his brown hands could not touch the bread in the Wonder Bread factory but how people joined their hands to effect change in the Civil Rights Movement. Now any hands can do anything. Conversation Questions: What are some things you like to do with your hands? What are some skills you have learned to do with your hands that were challenging at first (like tieing shoes)? Who taught you? Have you ever helped to change rules or laws? If so and you would like, tell us more. Have you ever been denied the opportunity to do things because of something you couldn't change - like your skin color or physical ability? If so and you would like, tell us more. Recipe: Bread in a bag (each person makes her or his loaf in a bag). Put parchment paper on a cookie sheet and then have people put their loaves on the sheet which can be labeled. Consider Additional Activities: Write letters or hold a march to help affect change. OR Set up stations where people can try new things - like magic tricks or instruments or lacing cards.

12 Veggie Soup Dorothy Donohue, Author & Illustrator Description: This book is about a rabbit and her friends as she explores creating her own version of her grandmother s recipe. Conversation Questions: Have you ever followed a loved one's recipe? Did you ever try to modify it? What happened? Have you ever made up your own recipe? Have you ever cooked for someone else or an organization, like a soup kitchen? Recipe: Build your own soup like in the book. Or take a different approach and build your own sandwich - with different types of bread and fillings including a nonnut butter (like sunflfower seed) and hummus. Tip: All-Fruit is a brand of jelly that is made with just fruit - no processed sugars; better for people with diabetes. Consider Additional Activities: Make a cookbook with favorite family recipes. OR Take a family recipe and switch an ingredient or two to make it more healthy.