Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0547336896 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A memoir about the joys of food and parenting and the wild mélange of the two Matthew Amster-Burton was a restaurant critic and food writer long before he and his wife, Laurie, had Iris. Sharing in his culinary capers is little Iris, a budding gourmand and a zippy critic herself who makes huge sandwiches, gobbles up hot chilis, and even helps around the kitchen sometimes. He's come to realize that kids don’t need puree in a jar or special menus at restaurants, and that raising an adventurous eater is about exposure, invention, and patience. Now he’s a full-time, stay-at-home Dad and his experience with food has changed a little. Hungry Monkey takes food enthusiasts on a new adventure in eating and offers dozens of delicious recipes that "little fingers" can help to make.. He writes of the highs and lows of teaching your child about food--the high of rediscovering how something tastes for the first time through a child’s unedited reaction, and the low of thinking you have a precocious vegetable fiend on your hands only to discover that a child’s preferences change from day to day (and may take years to include vegetables again)
I LOVE this book! This man, Matthew Amster-Burton, is hysterical! He is witty and insightful on how the inner-workings of a toddler's mind work, in particular that of his beautiful Iris. I enjoy the fact too, that he uses research I would not have access to to talk about food allergies and the like to explain his theories regarding toddler-feeding methodol. "Loving Dad's Tribute to his daughter" according to R. Katz. This is a wonderful laugh out loud adventure of one man's quest to document and introduce his daughter to food. In the process, he paints a picture that every man should aspire to as a parent to have with his daughter--open, humorous, loving, at times silly and all about learning to be the best person that you can be. This should be requi. Feed Your Baby Food! I finished this book today and gave it to my husband so he could read it while on a business trip. I am already regretting that decision because I won't have Hungry Monkey in my hands again for 6 whole days. As soon as I read the last page I wanted to start over again with some little sticky flags in my hand to mark recipes I wanted to tr
And he’s not averse to cooking with wine or allowing his daughter a tiny sip of beer. --Mark Knoblauch . From Booklist Seattle dad and food critic Amster-Burton wants his daughter to grow up fearlessly savoring a wide range of appealing foods, something beyond untutored childhood’s bland fodder and ubiquitous processed foods persistently marketed to television-watching adolescents. Recipes include a number of Mexican favorites, even highly seasoned Thai and Chinese dishes, all designed to be simply and quickly prepared. One by one, Amster-Burton debunks widely held opinions about feeding toddlers, such as withholding salt, sushi, or spices. Any parent frustrated by an offspring’s dismissive “Yuck!” will find some usefully novel approaches here to patient cultivation of adventuresome palates. He believes that developing a child’s taste for uncommon pr