Cookbooks serve a variety of purposes in life. There are some that are a resource for the basics (think Joy of Cooking, Better Homes and Gardens and Fannie Farmer), some that are written to instruction a particular genre of food (Mastering the Art of French Cooking and The Classic Italian Cookbook leap to mind) and still others that are designed mostly for showing off gorgeous pictures of nearly-unattainable food. My favorite category of cookbook is the one in which the book makes you want to crawl inside the binding and live the life described and pictured within...
The National Mango Board selects their Rising Star
Back in June, we mentioned that the National Mango Board was conducting a contest, looking for the first Next Mango Rising Star. Essentially, they were inviting kids between the ages of 8 and 14 to make a cooking video, using a recipe that included mango. Well, the contest is now over and they've crowned a winner.
Dean Sturt, of Rowlett, TX, has been anointed with the title Rising Mango Star, thanks to his confident video and delicious dish, Mangolicious Flip Flop Cake. The video above is the one that catapulted him into the winning position. It's pretty cute and...
We're heading into the waning days of summer now. With just a couple of short weeks to go before Labor Day, it's time to start thinking about school lunches. While I don't have any little ones to send off to school quite yet, I know that lots of you do. When I spotted this Lunchbag Round-up over at Teensygreen, I knew it was just the sort of thing that Slashfood readers would be interested in.
They've taken the time to search for lunchboxes of all shapes and sizes in order to help you...
A favorite children's foodie book heading to the big screen
When I was growing up, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was one of my very favorite books. Set in the very fictional town of Chewandswallow, the residents don't have to shop at grocery stores the way the rest of us do. Instead, all their food was delivered by the weather. Morning would start with a drizzle of hot coffee, followed by eggs, toast and bacon. Life was good in Chewandswallow, until the weather becomes unpredictable and the food that comes from the elements becomes life-threatening. Eventually the townsfolk are forced to...
Are you concerned about your kids eating their eggs? The Egg Robot is here to help.
The Egg Robot comes with the robot suit and the spoon, but you have to provide the eggs, of course. It's a newish toy that claims to make eating eggs more fun for your kids, thus they will now eat their eggs (it's really nothing more than a fancied up egg cup). That's assuming you have trouble getting your kids to eat eggs, otherwise it's just a novelty item...
Teach your kids healthy eating habits with online games
I don't have any children, but I like to think that I'd be a good mom if I did. I'd read to them, try to get them interested in many different areas, and most of all teach them about food. Of course I'd want to try and raise sophisticated eaters, but I'd also teach them about eating healthily.
There are lots of ways to go about doing that, but I think that healthy eating websites would be a good tool to have in the bag. As I don't have...
The National Mango Board (did you even know there was such a thing?) is calling all aspiring chefs between the ages of 8 and 14, trying to find the next Rising Mango Star. They are asking kids to make videos of themselves (no longer than seven minutes) preparing a recipe that includes mango and upload it to YouTube (there's also an online form that you need to fill out as well).
The judges of the contest are Food Network's Ingrid Hoffmann, Chef Allen and Regina Ragone. The winner will get an opportunity to cook and appear along side Hoffmann...
Most of us are familiar with the Easy Bake Oven. I was never one of the lucky kids to have one in my personal toy arsenal, but millions of others were. However, did you know that there was another children's toy that used similar light bulb technology to bake pretzels?
Until this weekend, I had no idea that there was such a thing as a Pretzel Jetzel. However, during a late afternoon meander through the basement of a junk store in Wrightsville, PA, I stumbled across one. I was sorely tempted to buy it, but I am...
Health value of cereal inversely related to how heavily it's marketed to kids
When I was growing up, we were a granola and Cheerios kind of family. Kix cereal was an occasional treat and we were allowed to pick out one sugar cereal a year (on our birthday). This didn't mean that we didn't beg for the other, less healthy cereals that we saw advertised to us during Saturday morning cartoons, but my mom was passionate about keeping brightly colored and sugared flakes, charms and balls out of our cereal bowls.
It seems like she was on to something, as according to a recent report, printed...
Are you concerned about your kids eating their eggs? The Egg Robot is here to help. 
Ok, the kids pictured may be a bit too young, but you get the picture, right? That's right, Bravo wants to expand on its top rated 
