Recipe Road Trip, Cooking Your Way Across the USA: 120+ Delicious Recipes and Fun and Surprising Facts from Every State

by Nanette Lavin

Overview

Take kids on a road trip around America without leaving your kitchen. Did you know that Baked Alaska is not from Alaska? This recipe was created in Louisiana. The first Twinkie was made in Illinois, and Virginia was the first state to grow peanuts. Explore the geography, history, and regional charm of the United States as you help children prepare different dishes with this entertaining book. Food humor sprinkled throughout the book will have you laughing out loud. Kids can look at the map of the United States to see where a recipe comes from, compared to where they live. The recipes offer a wonderful opportunity for kids to learn cooking along with US geography. Includes more than one hundred recipes—with easy-to-find ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions. Fun food facts and jokes are sprinkled throughout the book, along with colorful, engaging illustrations to highlight state products and inventions. Informative and delicious for kids and their families!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943016143
Publisher:	Kitchen Ink Publishing
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

No suitcase required for Nanette Lavin‘s debut Recipe Roadtrip. This book was created out of her love of travel, cooking, and children. As a Social Worker in a preschool for the past 25 years, she knows how food connects with children. This book is an exploration of the U.S. without leaving your kitchen. The fun and surprising DID YOU KNOW facts of each state is an bonus to the mouthwatering recipes. Nanette lives in New York with her daughter Emma and their three-year-old Wheaten Terrier Maddie.

Table of Contents

Book is divided into geographical regions and contains food jokes, two recipes, and a DID YOU KNOW fact for each state.

Editorial Reviews

"A colorful celebration of food and culture—children will delight in cooking (and eating) their way around the nation." —Kirkus Review.

"A colorful celebration of food and culture—children will delight in cooking (and eating) their way around the nation." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2023-06-07
Lavin provides recipes and fun facts from across the United States in this children’s cookbook.

The author collects child-friendly recipes from the American Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West as well as from the federal district, commonwealths, and territories. Each section is prefaced by a map and a brief cultural and geographical description of the states therein. These introductions serve to identify unique regional characteristics throughout the U.S., which in turn are reflected in the recipes. The reader learns that the Southeast, with its subtropical climate, has a long growing season and thus is “rich in natural resources such as rice, cotton, citrus, sugar cane, tobacco, and peanuts.” The recipes that follow include Arkansas’ “Arkansas Rice Casserole,” Florida’s “Key Lime Pie,” sugar-heavy dishes such as Kentucky’s “Kentucky Derby Pie” and Louisiana’s “Yeti Baked Alaska,” and peanut dishes like Georgia’s “No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie” and Virginia’s “Boiled Peanuts.” Some recipes pay homage to historical food facts: Connecticut’s “Cheeseburgers in Puff Pastry” acknowledges the claim by Louis Lassen (of the city of New Haven) that he created the first hamburger. Lavin writes for children but with the caveat that adult supervision and a degree of adult involvement will be required in the cooking process. The dishes are all, to some degree, historically significant, easy to cook, or highly appealing to a child’s palate (often all three) and tend toward the lighter side. The book’s most obvious strength is its contextualization of food within ideas of national and local identity. Keeping the project fun, many of the recipes include silly jokes in the margins (“Why don’t lobsters share? They are shellfish”). Instead of photographs, the dishes are depicted in vibrant drawings by Eroshina that make them seem both delectable and achievable to the budding chef.

A colorful celebration of food and culture—children will delight in cooking (and eating) their way around the nation.

Kirkus Reviews