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Loading... The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time (edition 2010)by Laurie David, Kirstin Uhrenholdt, Maryellen Baker (Photographer), Jonathan Safran Foer (Afterword), Dr. Harvey Karp (Foreword)
Work InformationThe Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time by Laurie David
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another cookbook I'm using to fulfill my New Year's resolution of cooking more & eating out less. Plenty of great ideas on how to turn what often feels like a dreaded chore into a fun & enjoyable activity w/ the kids. Lots of tasty recipes including quick & easy ones for weeknights. ( ) I have skimmed through this book a few times since I got it for Christmas almost a year ago. There are probably some good recipes here, and I liked a few of the ideas, but it's poorly organized (shrimp cakes in the slow cooking section?) and visually hard to read with its many-colored multiple fonts and scattered tip boxes. What really put me off, though, was the serious rich-people bias. Laurie David, when pressed for time just hired someone to do the cooking for her. Great. So not my reality. She could have drawn some examples of family dinners from the less affluent as well as (or even instead of?) herself and the Kennedys. I do think it's good that she had a section on divorce, though, which is one way of addressing the diversity of families' situations. I'm not throwing the book away yet, but I am moving it out of the kitchen. no reviews | add a review
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To help America's overwhelmed families sit down to a family dinner, David provides all the reasons, recipes and fun tools to do so. Includes more than 75 kid-approved recipes. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)641.59Technology Home and family management Food And Drink Cooking, cookbooks Cooking characteristic of specific geographic environments, ethnic cookingLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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