LoveReading Says
LoveReading Says
Goodbye, beige; hello, colour! How refreshing to find a family cookbook that refuses to shy away from bold flavours, fresh twists or a generous helping of food theatre. A collaboration between Nicole Pisani, Head Chef and co-founder of Chefs in Schools, and cookery writer and columnist, Joanna Weinberg, this is a little gem for any family looking to break free from their cooking rut, without breaking the bank in the process. This beautifully curated book is bursting with culturally diverse recipes interspersed with the stories of the school chefs responsible for bringing them to dining halls across the country. For those just starting out on their food journey, classics like fish fingers and bolognese have been given a fragrant face-lift (and an added nutritious punch). For more adventurous children, wholesome dishes like SouSou’s Moroccan Chicken, Samia’s Samosas or a seafood Keralan Curry will all add a little joy to those midweek menus. There’s a fabulous selection of street food perfect for streetwise teenagers and look out for special contributions too from kitchen heroes including Thomasina Miers and Yotam Ottolenghi. The target audience for these delectable recipes may be school-aged children, but that’s no reason to stick to safe, time-tested favourites. Feed Your Family is about celebrating the excitement and drama that food can bring and laying down the foundations for positive relationships between children and the food they eat. It’s an absolute delight.
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Feed Your Family Synopsis
Cooking for kids can be tricky. One day they'll eat a whole cucumber from one end to the other; for the next three weeks, they will swear it's a slimy snozzcumber.
Feeding kids is a maze and there's no guarantee you'll ever find your way out. A family meal can be the most rewarding of memories, or the most disappointing. Whether time or cash strapped, it's all too tempting to turn to fish fingers, bangers and mash and other kids' classics, whilst wishing it was easier to do it better on all fronts: more exciting, more inspiring, more wholesome. If only there was someone out there who knew how to feed kids really well on a budget, who could inspire them to try different food, and make it easy on the cook and easy on the pocket! Well, there is. And Chefs in Schools would like to help.
Chefs in Schools is a charity that operates in over 80 schools and feeds up to 30,000 pupils a day. They have a plethora of renowned chefs that support and endorse them, either as their patrons or trustees, including Thomasina Miers, Yotam Ottolenghi, Henry Dimbleby, Prue Leith and Amelia Freer. This cookbook stands apart from other 'cooking for kids' cookbooks as the recipes are tried and tested on thousands of children. They're nutritious and proven to work. This cookbook will tell the stories and share the recipes of the people who are helping to transform school food. Their mission is to teach children to love and understand real food cooked from fresh ingredients, and to inspire them not just to eat it, but to choose it, and to learn to cook it for themselves too.
Chapters include: Breakfast, A New Way In, Midweek Suppers, Street Food & Snacks, Feasting, Sides & Sharing, Bread, Desserts.
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Bye bye boring school dinners - this is the future of food for our kids - Tom Kerridge
A brilliantly inspiring book packed with seriously good family focussed recipes. A total must have. - Thomasina Miers
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About Nicole Pisani, Joanna Weinberg
Nicole Pisani is the co-founder and Executive Head Chef of Chefs in Schools. She is the former Head Chef at Ottolenghi’s NOPI having previously cooked at The Modern Pantry amongst other notable restaurants. She took on the role of Head Chef at Gayhurst Primary School in 2013 where she fell in love with feeding children and developed her mission to improve children’s relationships with food. She has gone on to share her discoveries and training programmes with schools across London and beyond as well as being integral to the food education programme at the Hackney School of Food. She is the author of Magic Soup and Salt, Butter, Bones.
Joanna Weinberg is a cookery writer, columnist and author of How to Feed Your Friends with Relish and Cooking for Real Life. She has worked closely with the co-founders to create the Chefs in Schools from its birth. She lives in Somerset with her family, a greedy dog, a shy cat and an out-of-control vegetable garden.
Chefs in Schools is a charity that operates in over 80 schools, feeding more than 30,000 pupils every school day. Its mission is to teach children to love and understand real food cooked from fresh ingredients, and to inspire them not just to eat it, but to choose it, and to learn to cook it themselves. The team trains school kitchen teams to improve their food and to teach pupils to cook. They are supported and endorsed by renowned chefs and food campaigners including Thomasina Miers, Yotam Ottolenghi, Henry Dimbleby and Prue Leith, many of whom have contributed to the book
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