Children love to cook, even those as young as three or four. The popularity of the author's previous book, "Pretend Soup and other real recipes," reveals that a growing number of families attest to the fact that young children will embrace healthy foods, like fruit, vegetables, soups,and salads, without needing to be lured by sugar, frosting, or gumdrops. Pure, good food carries its own appeal that is enhanced may times over by the opportunity for...

Reinventing the traditional vegetarian repertoire, the author of the Moosewood Cookbook presents 250 recipes for simple and healthful dishes that celebrate vegetables in all their glory and juxtapose colors and textures to make weeknight dinners fresh and exciting.