Help your child experience the “Great Melting Pot” through food and the part it plays in America’s cultural diversity. What better way to learn about each other than by sharing the foods and customs of different parts of the country?
The cookbook, Cooking Around the Country with Kids: USA Regional Recipes and Fun Activities by Amy Houts, focuses on helping children learn how different cultures in America came to co-exist, yet continue to celebrate their uniqueness. By settling in different parts of the country, people developed distinctive dishes based on what was harvested and available.
This USA heritage cookbook provides food adventures through eight regions of America, including Hawaii and Alaska. Names of favorite recipes offer hints of their origin and region. For example, there are recipes for Boston Baked Beans and Boston Brown Bread, Hawaiian Punch, Florida Orange Drink, Hush Puppies, New England Cranberry Bread, Pennsylvania Dutch Funnel Cakes, Seafood Cocktail, Cheese Grits, Cowboy Chili, Kansas City Barbeque, New England Clam Chowder, Texas Sheet Cake, “The Big Apple” Squares, Red Beans and Rice, Wild Game Burgers, Campfire Potatoes, and many other recipes.
Children will find their knowledge of American history and geography expanded as each geographic area includes a brief description and presents activities related to that region. As a home-schooling mother noted: This book has helped me explain the meaning of America as “The Great Melting Pot”.
Help your children experience the “melting pot” of our country. For more information about the book and to order your copy of Cooking Around the Country with Kids, go to: http://imagesunlimitedpublishing.com/cooking-around-the-country-with-kids-usa-regional-recipes-and-fun-activities/
Best to you and your family,
Lee Jackson
Images Unlimited Publishing
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