Three children’s cookbooks to add to your Christmas list
Perish the thought of bland kiddies’ menus and dumbed-down food with silly smiley fruit
I’m generally not in favour of separate food for children. Once humans have teeth, and even a bit before that, there’s no reason they shouldn’t be eating the same thing as grown-ups. While the ripest Gorgonzola you’ve ever bought or a bitter endive salad might be a cruelty to foist upon your toddler, in general it’s daft to dumb-down children’s meals. What you end up with is a fear of flavour and texture, which — apart from anything else — makes visits to friends or different places a stress rather than an adventure.
A major culprit in this narrative is that scourge of civilisation, the Kiddies’ Menu. The horror of the name is usually topped by the criminal sloppiness of the contents, which are invariably a selection of the blandest, most unconsidered and least healthy food on the planet...
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