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Gadgetology

by Pam Abrams

Photographs by Melissa Punch

published by  Harvard Common Press


Getting your children involved in the kitchen at a young age is an exciting way to spend time together and teach them about nutrition, mathematics, measurements, history, and different types of food. Gadgetology makes it fun; your children will love using grown-up gadgets from an apple peeler to a whisk to play games, try simple recipes, make crafts, and conduct fun experiments.

Gadgetology has won a prestigious Bookbuilders of Boston design award for the organization’s 51st Annual New England Book Show in the category “Books: General Trade, illustrated.” The award recognizes design excellence among New England book publishers.

A box grater is handy for shredding mozzarella to make Super Easy Lasagna, but it's also great for shredding crayons onto wax paper to be ironed into "stained glass." You can also turn leftover walnut shells cracked with a nutcracker for Fudgy Walnut Brownies into perfect miniature sailboats. An egg slicer can make make more than sliced eggs: it can slice a cookie dough which can be turned into funny faces with currants, raisins, sunflower seeds, poppy seed or ground cinnamon and nuts.  Food coloring makes rosy cheeks.In Gadgetology, Pam Abrams offers so many creative, stimulating, and safe uses for everyday gadgets that the kitchen will become an educational playground for your whole family.

   

About the Author: Pam Abrams is a writer and editor with a special interest in kids and food. She has held editorial positions at several parenting magazines, most recently as vice president and editor-in-chief of Scholastic's Parent & Child. Her articles have appeared in Parents, O magazine, and The Chicago Tribune, and she is the author of Now I Eat My ABC's. An avid cook and self-described "gadget junkie," she has been cooking with her own children since they were in highchairs.

   

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