The Cook’s Warehouse Hosts Cooking Classes for Kids

Author Deanna F. Cook will teach children how to make recipes from her newest book at classes hosted this weekend at The Cook’s Warehouse stores in the Atlanta area.

Kids love to cook, but many children don’t have basic cooking skills, according to Cook, who will teach select recipes from her newest book, “Cooking Class: 57 Fun Recipes Kids Will Love to Make (and Eat!).” The book makes learning to cook fun and exciting through easy-to-follow recipes and creative projects that kids will have a blast making, according to the author.

Cook will be at the Midtown and East Cobb locations of The Cook’s Warehouse this weekend, teaching two classes at each location. Children aged 8 to 12 will learn how to make biscuits, spring rolls, popcorn chicken and dipped strawberry dessert.

Filled with lively, full-color, step-by-step live-action photography of kids cooking, “Cooking Class” invites all skill levels with fun food creations. They’ll gain a working knowledge of basic kitchen skills with information on everything from proper cutting to accurate measuring, and from prep work to cleanup. A handy one- to three-spoon difficulty scale accompanies each recipe, so kids can start with simple recipes first and graduate as they master key skills.

The cookbook has tasty and healthy recipes covering breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert, and snacks such as French Toast on a Stick, Italian Panini, Apple Monsters, Fruit Rollups, Nutty Noodles and Hot Cocoa Pops. And there are lots of fun projects for every occasion, such as self-portrait personal pizzas and crazy quesadilla art to make at a slumber party, or a smoothie stand to beat the heat during the hot summer months. 

Author of more than a dozen family and kid cookbooks, Cook wrote her first book, “The Kids’ Multicultural Cookbook,” when she graduated from college and received a grant to travel around the world and collect recipes from kids. After that, she was a magazine editor for many years, first at Scholastic, then at Disney’s FamilyFun where she often shared kids’ crafts and recipes on TV programs. She is now the content director at Kidstir.com and writes children’s non-fiction books. An avid cook and spokesperson, she’s hosted kids’ cooking specials on the Food Network and is a TV spokesperson on cooking with kids.