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A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater
Houghton Mifflin
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 0151013241
EAN: 9780151013241
Hardcover
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Cookbooks | Non-Fiction
Matthew Amster-Burton was a restaurant critic and food
writer long before he and his wife, Laurie, had Iris. Now
he's a full-time, stay-at-home Dad and his experience with
food has changed …a little.
Hungry Monkey is the
story of Amster-Burton's life as a food-lover--with a child.
It's the story of how he came 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. 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
unflinching reaction, 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). Sharing in his
culinary capers is little Iris, a budding gourmand and a
zippy critic herself--who makes hug sandwiches, gobbles up
hot chilis, and even helps around the kitchen
sometimes.
A memoir on the wild joys of food and
parenting and the marvelous mélange of the two--Hungry
Monkey takes food enthusiasts on a new adventure in eating
(with dozens of delicious recipes!). In the end, our guide
reminds us: "Food is fun, and you get to enjoy it three
times a day, plus snacks!"
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