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Abigail Johnson Dodge, a cookbook author who oversees cooking classes for 8-to 12-year-olds, cautions against giving kids knives that have grown dull. Instead, she suggests table knives for young children, then paring knives and, finally, the sharper tools of the trade. Parents must supervise closely, she says, and "it's important that the knife fit in their hands well." Having and handling the right implements is one of the joys of cooking. "If the tool isn't going to get the job done, it's going to be frustrating," says Dodge. "We want to turn children...
Alexandra Guarnaschelli, executive chef at Butter, a New York City restaurant, grew up with food aficionados for parents. She fondly remembers how her mother, a noted cookbook editor, helped her gain confidence in the kitchen. "She'd say, 'Oh, you're so good at this' and 'You've got a real, natural inclination for this stuff.'" But just as important to Guarnaschelli--as it is for other families who cook together--was the opportunity for parent-child bonding. "We built a strong, emotional connection from cooking together," she says. "My mother and I were able to talk about everything...
...ideas, she called on celebrity friends who also have diabetes, including Halle Berry (who offered a recipe for Berry Cool Chicken Chili). Drawing from what she learned and her own homegrown recipes, LaBelle published a healthy-eating cookbook this year titled Patti LaBelle's Lite Cuisine (Gotham; $26). The book carries seals of approval from both the A.D.A. and the American Dietetic Association. "It's not just for diabetics," LaBelle insists. "It's for anyone who wants to eat healthier food...
Mark Zanger reads from his The American History Cookbook, a book of recipes, able to be made in a modern kitchen, for historical American foods from 1524 to 1977. 3 p.m. Free and open to the public. Jamaicaway Books, 676 Centre St., Jamaica Plain...
Another encounter with the ordinary objects of an eminent person caught me by surprise last fall back at school. Julia Child, whose kitchen, as it happens, is now exhibited one floor above my summer office, had donated her cookbook collection to Schlesinger Library when she moved out of Cambridge. But I did not know that, and when I opened a copy of the New York Times Cookbook in a remote Schlesinger carrel and saw her name in ballpoint script written on the inside cover, my mind was sent scampering back to younger days when I watched her TV shows...