Cool Midwestern Cooking: Easy and Fun Regional Recipes

by Alex Kuskowski

Overview

Cook your way across the USA! This title teaches kids to cook local dishes from the Midwestern states. Each book is specially formatted to engage kids while reinforcing Common Core Standards in math, reading comprehension, and science. Kid-tested recipes, from Minnesota Wonderful Wild Rice Pilaf to Kansas Hearty Heartland Stew, include easy step-by-step instructions and custom, how-to photos. Complete tool and ingredients lists are also provided. Get going on a cooking adventure!

Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617838309
Publisher:	ABDO Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Series:	Cool USA Cooking Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Discover Midwestern Eats! 4

Learn about the Midwest 6

The Basics 8

Cool Cooking Terms 10

The Tool Box 11

The Ingredients 12

Moist & Delicious Butter Cake 14

Hearty Heartland Stew 16

Windy City Hot Dog 18

Wonderful Wild Rice Pilaf 20

Fried Ravioli Pasta 22

Delectable Mac & Cheese 24

Great Plains Cookies 26

Apple Crisp Delight 28

Conclusion 30

Glossary 31

Web Sites 31

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2013
Gr 3–6—All the titles begin with an introduction to the featured region, a spread addressing health and safety, another that defines and illustrates "cool cooking terms" and tools, and a section of necessary ingredients. The instructions for the eight recipes that follow are nicely arranged, but some of the recipe names (e.g., "Three Sisters Soup" in East Coast) are left unexplained. One might expect to find recipes for foods mentioned in the introductions ("Delaware has a soft spot for peach pie. It's their state dessert"), but that is not always the case. It is also puzzling as to why "Apple Crisp Delight" is included in Midwestern when apples are not mentioned as a special crop for any of those states. These are attractive, well-designed books with bright, clear photographs-but whether they are truly useful in reflecting the cuisine of an area is questionable.

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