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IHHS 2010 Find: Handstand Kids Cookbooks

If you’re a foodie with kids, like us, you’re raising (or trying to raise) your kids to appreciate food as much as you do.  Maybe your kid is already a burgeoning foodie.  In which case, the Handstand Kids cookbook series could be an excellent tool for you.

Each themed cookbook (Italian, Mexican, and Chinese so far) follows 5 kids learning to cook the specific cuisine, and translates the ingredients and utensils in each recipe into the featured language, then discusses the tastes and traditions of each culture.  Plus each cookbook comes packaged in a super-cute set: ie the Mexican cookbook comes with an oven mitt, inside a tortilla bag, the Italian cookbook comes with a chef’s hat, inside a pizza box.

And the cool bonus – each cookbook has the 5 characters working to use their new-found culinary skills to help a real-life charity – helping to introduce the idea of helping others to your kids.  Now that’s everything us foodies could dream about for our kids – ability to cook, speak a foreign language, and empathy for others!

Check out all the books at the Handstand Kids website – each set is $25, and coordinating place mats / cutting mats are available for $8.

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