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Tips on how to make picnicking easy and fun

Travel Light: Avoid the temptation to prepare elaborate meals. Remember, you have to carry them. Bring foods you can nibble for a long time like fruits and nuts, for example. ... read more
 Moveable Feast
Moveable Feast
A picnic is one course food, one course family, and one course nature

Alex Heminway, author of Picnics (Gibbs Smith 2007), remembers his childhood fishing trips just beyond New York's Fire Island with his uncle and grandfather. They were among t ... read more
 Video Cookbook Playdate Tips
Video Cookbook Playdate Tips

- If you don’t have a video camera, check out inexpensive and very simple point-and-shoot models like the Flip camera and the Vado. Or use the movie function on your dig ... read more
 Lights, Camera, Cook
Lights, Camera, Cook
Filming kitchen playdates create a moving catalogue of cooking with the grandchildren.

A recipe cannot convey what makes a dish special, says Lauren Bank Deen, author of Kitchen Playdates (Chronicle Books, 2007) and an award-winning cooking and lifestyle-televis ... read more
 An Academy for Chefs Both Young & Old
An Academy for Chefs Both Young & Old
Since opening a New Jersey branch of the Young Chef's Academy, Anna Levien has found inspiration in watching grandparents and grandchildren cook together.

“Teacher, can I bring my grandma to class?” That’s the single most common question Anna Levien and her husband, Phillip Levien, have heard over the two yea ... read more
 Sharing the Seder
Sharing the Seder
Joan Nathan makes holiday cooking with the grandkids a breeze.


According to Joan Nathan, author of a dozen Jewish cookbooks, including The Children’s Jewish Holiday Kitchen (Schocken, 2000), there are a lot of ways for children to b ... read more
 For Beth Purifoy, Every Kitchen’s a Classroom
For Beth Purifoy, Every Kitchen’s a Classroom
For this cooking teacher at the Viking Range Company, kids are the best students of all.

It would be enough to drive a lesser woman bat-crazy, but for Beth Purifoy, 55, teaching cooking to a classroom full of children is a piece of cake. Chalk it up to a lifetime ... read more
 Tips for Cooking With Grandchildren
Tips for Cooking With Grandchildren

Our Cooking With Kids recipes are written for children ages 2 and up and their grandparent helpers. Before beginning, read the recipe all the way through. If the child is old ... read more
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Bein' Small and Livin' Large
An almost-grandfather cooks up a storm with his almost-grandchildren

Steve Baker is a retired auto-racing parts dealer, a former private investigator, a food-obsessed cook, and a fixture in the iron-mining community of Chisholm in Northern Minn ... read more
 Making Pancakes With Linda Collister
Making Pancakes With Linda Collister
With a little guidance from an expert, you can get your grandchildren to help prepare their favorite breakfast treat

"Grandparents have two things: experience and time," says Linda Collister, the author of Cooking With Kids (Ryland Peters & Small, 2003). "They have so much to show their ... read more
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Spatulatta.com's Little Food Mavens
A cooking website for children, by children

Belle and Liv Gerasole are an accomplished sister act: They are cooking mavens whose online how-to videos have earned them Internet fame and a James Beard Foundation award. Th ... read more
 Get Cookin
Get Cookin' With Your Grandkids

Gone are the days of slaving away behind a stove as you wipe beads of sweat from your forehead. Cooking with your grandchildren is anything — messy, chaotic, clumsy &mda ... read more
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