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| The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Barnes
Publisher: HP Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 2879
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1557884536
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5622
EAN: 9781557884534
ASIN: 1557884536
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Easy-to-use book; Easy-to-make recipes February 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was looking for a book that includes dairy free recipes and this book provided a variety of choices. It also includes a lot of helpful information (safe food handling, general childhood health issues, nutrition resources), but it is not overwhelming. The section "Stocking the Kitchen" lists tools and foods people who haven't done a lot of cooking may not be familiar with, hence it is a good, basic tutorial for people who want to start providing healthy meals for their family.
I have a modest budget, but never found the list of ingredients too expensive. There are choices for every lifestyle.
 so-so recipes February 11, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This had great reviews but I haven't yet found a recipe I liked from here. The book was a good read and I loved the push for organic. The baby biscotti called for a lot more sugar than I would give my baby at such a young age.
 Yummy! February 8, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great book. The recipes are straight forward and easy to follow. I love the use of different grains and organic foods. I am excited to try new recipes as my son grows.
 Hideous, Pretentious Codswallop. January 30, 2008
45 out of 90 found this review helpful
I knew I was in trouble with this book by page 14, when it starts listing STUFF you need to have in order to cook. By page 29, when the author is gabbling about dancing with your toddler in the kitchen and having them "help" you cook, it's too late. You realize you've purchased a LIFESTYLE book. Not just any lifestyle book, one that promotes a lifestyle best suited to the six figure income and up crowd, and for mothers who are obsessed, neurotic, or insane.
One: The kitchen is not a place for dancing, playing, hanging out, or anything else, with small children. All the major injuries I received as a child under three were kitchen related, ergo, as soon as my son becomes mobile I plan to encase my kitchen in heavily reinforced chicken wire. If he wants to dance, learn manners, or engage in social activities, he can do it well out of the way of huge knives and hot things and glass bits.
Two: My kitchen has quite enough "stuff" in it, being as it's not a stadium sized chef-style...thing...from the pages of Home Digest. It is, in fact, what my mother and I term a one-behind kitchen, and most of America has one exactly like it. There is no space for another spoon, let alone five separate cutting boards and a food mill or "moulis" or any other French Food Twaddler. If it can't be done with a blender, it doesn't need to be done for an infant.
Three: I categorically refuse to serve "Baked Ricotta Cake" (page 144) or "Portobello Burgers" (page 214) to anyone not yet old enough to order an appropriate Zinfandel to go with them. Perhaps you live on a portobello mushroom farm, have lots of portobello mushrooms lying about the place, and feeding the family grossly expensive mushrooms makes economic sense to you. However, in my house we have something called a "food budget".
This book is a shining example of the horrific competitive parenting tripe I see at every turn. If your idea of good parenting is a $40,000 pre-school, by all means, this is the lifestyle learning experience for you. I'll be in the kitchen mashing homegrown carrots with a fork, thanks.
Great meals for everyone! January 28, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really like the recipes in this cookbook and my daughter isn't even old enough to eat solids yet, so it isn't only for the kids. I am really looking forward to preparing home-cooked meals for her when she is bigger and this book clearly lays out a plan of introducing new foods. One slightly annoying part of the book is that the author over-uses the term "organic" when listing ingredients for a recipe. I fortunately live in an area where organic produce is plentiful, but I know others who live in areas where organic-everything is either not always available or cost-prohibitive. A short note in the beginning stating: "Use organically grown produce when available" would have sufficed. It's odd too that she lists "olive oil" and "organic carrots, organic peas, etc..." why not organic olive oil if we're going to repeat the term ten times in one recipe? A funny misprint is that her home-made fish-sticks are labeled with a vegetarian symbol. I wonder where she gets her vegetarian fish? Aside from those minor quirks, the recipes themselves are really yummy!
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