Celebrate the joy of cooking with kids and feeding your family
Here at Little Sous, lately we’re thinking about spices—how these mystical flavor agents can help kids unlock the next level in the kitchen. And it hit us: The most elementary “spice,” salt, is something we can take for granted, something most people don’t really know much about. (It’s always fun to tell kids that salt …
The Salt King of the Northwest Tells Kids How to Shake Up Big Flavor Read More »
True confession: Odette Williams gives us hero-worship vibes. The Australia native launched a line of high-quality kids’ kitchen gear about seven years ago, championing an inclusive, laid-back approach to cooking with the whole family. Her new book Simple Cake puts this philosophy on the page, laying out dead-simple recipes designed for regular use, experimentation, participation, …
Sarah Copeland built a career out of making home cooking more accessible for the masses. The former food director of Real Simple magazine and Food Network vet just released her third cookbook, Every Day is Saturday, offering recipes and strategies for elevating weeknight dinners from “good enough” to great. Sarah, a busy mother of two, …
A Top Food Writer’s Advice: Let Kids Explore Food—And Accept the Mess Read More »
When I was a kid, my gawd, did I love summer. All … that … time. I logged many hammock hours reading, and I definitely emphasize that part when I tell my kids about those lazy days of 1980s yore. Secretly, I also played a lot of video games and binged Addams Family re-runs. Like all right-thinking children, …
These 10 Fun Kitchen Projects Will Keep Kids Learning All Summer Read More »
There’s really no wrong way to celebrate Mother’s Day. (Uh, aside from forgetting entirely. Let’s not do that.) But there is an established right way: breakfast in bed, prepared by the loving hands of spouse and children, served at a decent hour. This ritual provides an ideal opportunity for Loving Spouse to impart good values, …
15 Breakfast-in-Bed Recipes to Help You and the Kids Win Mother’s Day Read More »
The start of my culinary career was not an auspicious one. In 1992, when I was in seventh grade and tasked with making breakfast in my Home Economics class, I started a smallish grease fire while frying up some bulk Jimmy Dean pork breakfast sausage. My unflappable teacher taught me (quickly, by example) how to …
Kyra Bussanich runs a popular gluten-free, celiac-safe bakery near Portland, Oregon. (“When we first opened,” she remembers, “I thought maybe three people would come in a day. And we had lines out the door right away.”) The proprietor of Kyra’s Bake Shop authored her own baking book, but she is probably best known for her reality-show …
4X Cupcake Wars Winner and Superstar Gluten-Free Baker: Kyra Bussanich Read More »
Can cooking build better brains? Can parents slow-cook positive character traits along with basic prep skills? A chat with Sarah Lytle, a Ph.D. at the University of Washington’s interdisciplinary Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, reveals that it might not be quite so simple. But on the other hand, cooking together does offer rich developmental …
Chores, we are told, are good. Key, in fact, to raising decent, capable human beings. Studies and commentary point to regular chore routines as essential to kids’ positive development, happiness, even success as adults. Bracing stuff—especially if you’ve ever tried to convince a balky 10-year-old to rid a window of smudges. Obviously, we all want …
Kids Need Chores. Get ‘Em Started in the Kitchen. Read More »
Gabriel Rucker, the brains behind three of Portland, Oregon’s best restaurants—Le Pigeon, Canard, and Little Bird—also has three children, ages seven, five, and (almost) two. After he cooked a special kids’ tasting menu for some of Little Sous’s Kitchen Academy Kickstarter backers, we caught up with the chef to learn more about how he spends …
A Top Portland Chef’s Advice: Let Kids Cook What They Love to Eat Read More »
