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The Creative Kitchen founder Cricket Azima drew from personal experience to create a cooking class that allows children with special needs to learn and grow. Read More...
— Vanessa Friedman,
New York Metro Parents
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Over two dozen stalls offered visitors everything from illustrated recipe books to samples of organic produce - and for anyone who did feel the chill, attendants with backpack-mounted tanks of cocoa provided free hot chocolate. Read More...
— Matt Finch,
DNAinfo
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"The book is a welcome addition to the small, but growing, catalog of children's books about food and food culture. " Read More...
— David Papandrew,
Cooking Forengineers
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Everybody Eats Lunch not only has fun content, but it comes with a nifty built in handle that makes it as much a toy as a book. Read More...
— Juliette Rossant,
Super Chef
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Lunchtime Fun
"Introduce your kids to new lunchtime foods in addition to geography, math, reading, different languages, and telling time. Everybody Eats Lunch is an appealing book that is shaped like a lunchbox with bright colors and friendly text."
— High Maintenance Mom
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This interactive board/puzzle book explores what kids from other countries eat. Read More...
— Parenthood Staff,
Parenthood
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"Make friends from around the world and find our about their lunchtime cultures and recipes. Read More...
— Lboxes Staff,
Lunch Boxes
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Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book
This, easily the most attractively produced book in this selection, sets Mrs. Darwin in her historical context.
— CAM
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"Emma Darwin was in charge of the staff. As a well-to-do Victorian woman, she wasn't expected to cook. But her recipe book reveals an intimate knowledge of food preparation. "One of her first actions in her new London home was to take her cook to task for not boiling potatoes properly," the editors wrote." Read More...
— Michael Hastings,
Winston Salem Journal
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"Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book," revived and illustrated by Dusha Bateson and Weslie Janeway, is a look into the kitchen notebooks of Emma Wedgwood Darwin. Read More...
— Linda Bassett,
Enterprise News
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"Unlike mr Darwin, she's hot! While everybody is celebrating Darwin year because he wrote The origin of Species some 150 years ago, mrs made her comeback too with her recipe book." Read More...
— Kitchen Script
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"Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book" commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "The Origin of Species." It does not directly address Darwin's achievements, yet it is a worthy celebration of them because it delights in so many different ways." Read More...
— Claire Hopley,
The Washington Times
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"By all accounts a modest and retiring example of his species, Charles Darwin would surely have been more astonished than flattered by the honours done him during this year's bicentennial celebrations." Read More...
— Keates, Jonathan,
Find Articles
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"Yes, Charles Darwin was a great man. But as everyone knows, behind every great man there is a woman. For Charles Darwin, that woman was his wife, Emma." Read More...
— Meredith Goad,
The Portland Press Herald
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"This charming volume, with its botanical drawings and 55 recipes, reminds us of the evolution of tastes." Read More...
— Lee Svitak Dean,
Star Tribune
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"These wonderful recipes have been adapted for today's modern kitchen and are easy to prepare and create unique dinner menus for family get-togethers, holiday parties, or weeknight dinners." Read More...
— Laura,
Annistonstarbite
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"She was always a part of what was going on," said Weslie Janeway, co-author with Dusha Bateson of "Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book" (Glitterati, 2008, $35). The book is a compendium of recipes (updated and tested) from Emma Darwin's handwritten cookery notebook, as well as a chronicle of the Darwins' lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia." Read More...
— Kathryn Rem,
The State Journal Register
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"It's very important to remember Emma Darwin ran a household. She had 12 servants and she had to tell them what to do." It's not known whether Emma did any of the cooking in her home, but she did direct the cooking staff." Read More...
— Kathryn Rem,
Patriot Ledger
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"Charles Darwin's wife Emma kept a 'recipe book' much as her husband kept his natural history notes: here it sees print for the general public for the first time, packing in photos, tested recipes, botanical and anecdotal information, and more" Read More...
— Midwest Book Review
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"Darwin's handwritten personal cookbook. I just got my copy yesterday and am scouring it for snacks I can serve at our Darwin birthday party. " Read More...
— Kate,
Charlie's Playhouse
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"The couple married just two years after Victoria ascended England's throne, and Janeway says their married life "covered the whole sweep of Victoriana." They had 10 children and their household at Down had at least 10 people on staff." Read More...
— Mary Jean Porter,
The Puebo Chieftian
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"The couple married just two years after Victoria ascended England's throne, and Janeway says their married life "covered the whole sweep of Victoriana." They had 10 children and their household at Down had at least 10 people on staff." Read More...
— Mary Jean Porter,
The Pueblo Chieftian
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"Emma Darwin's recipe book recorded some of the dishes-cheese souffle to mutton ragout and gooseberry cream-enjoyed by the family as they gathered in the dining room at Down House." Read More...
— Kathleen M. Burke,
Smithsonian
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"Known as one of the most celebrated thinkers of his day," Charles Darwin at home led a quiet life. Often plagued by illness, the scientist kept watch over the financial affairs of the family, but left Emma Darwin to take charge of the kitchen staff, household accounts and other activities involved in running a Victorian household." Read More...
— Jane Milza,
SIlive
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"Mrs Charles Darwin's Recipe Book features more than 40 dishes from her personal cookery notebook, which is housed in Cambridge University Library." Read More...
— BBC News
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"Food authors Dusha Bateson and Weslie Janeway compiled the book recreating and testing all the 55 recipes after being given access to archives at Cambridge University where Darwin studied at Christ's College between 1828 and 1831." Read More...
— The Hindu News
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Food authors Dusha Bateson and Weslie Janeway compiled the book, recreating and testing the 55 recipes after being given access to archives at Cambridge University, where Darwin studied at Christ's College between 1828 and 1831 Read More...
— Jon Swaine,
Telegraph
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And so, as a prime example of the latter, I give you Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book: Revived and Illustrated with a preface by acclaimed Darwin biographer Janet Browne ~" Read More...
— Karen James,
The Beagle Project
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Dietmar Busse's portraits are intimate and intense, always featuring striking and fascinating people. Looking at these images I find myself wondering about his relationship with the sitters and about what else went on during those sessions. Read More...
— Four & Sons
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Vince Aletti is a photography curator and critic based in New York City who writes frequently for the New Yorker and a variety of magazines. Last year he curated 'Avedon Fashion 1944-2000' at the International Center of Photography. Here Phillips de Pury & Company invited him to choose 6 photographers who reflect NOW. Read More...
— Vince Aletti,
Phillips de Pury & Company
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