My Daughter Wants to Be a Chef or DO CARROTS MAKE YOU SEE BETTER

My Daughter Wants to Be a Chef!: Everything You Should Know about Becoming a Chef!

Author: Martin Lapris

Finally, a book designed to help budding chefs from all backgrounds figure out the best culinary path and learn valuable inside information.
- facts from inside the walls of professional kitchens
- helpful tips on choosing a culinary school
- qualities needed to become a great cook and/or a great chef
- how much money you should be expecting
- basic kitchen management strategies
- real-life stories
- a few heads up to know before you become a chef
- interview skills set to get the job you want


And plenty more

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DO CARROTS MAKE YOU SEE BETTER?, Vol. 1

Author: Appleton

Do Carrots Make You See Better? is an innovative resource that focuses on practical food learning experiences for children from infancy to age eight. Young children learn about food and nutrition through food preparation, eating together, play, science activities, games, and more. The text guides you as you bring nutrition activities and awareness into your classroom. Involve children in decision-making and food preparation and watch them develop fine and gross motor skills, language and social skills, and early math understanding through counting and measuring.

Children's Literature

This comprehensive, well-researched guide to nutrition and eating for early childhood centers is the best seen so far. Based on the rationales that "we are what we eat," and that good nutrition and ideas about food should be shared experiences between adults and children, this book explores the many nutritional, cultural and social experiences of food. It provides a framework and resources for approaching this subject with preschoolers. More and more preschoolers are receiving at least two meals a day plus many ideas about food and eating in early childhood centers. Although most states provide guidelines for serving meals in these facilities, parents and teachers often do not make nutrition and the formation of good eating habits a priority. This workbook-type guide provides suggestions for establishing an overall approach to nutrition and eating for staff as well as children. Also, it emphasizes that decisions about forming good eating habits can be a shared experience between adults and children. Suggestions for incorporating nutrition in the science, math and health curricula are provided as well as incorporating good nutrition in language, drama, physical education and social living activities. Nothing is left out¾illustrated menus, ideas about food safety, preparation and presentation and much more is available. The program itself is a product of action research on the part of the authors. Highly recommended for anyone working with groups of preschoolers. 2001, Gryphon House, $19.95. Ages Adult. Reviewer: Meredith Kiger

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	5
	List of figures and tables	9
	Preface	10
	Acknowledgments	11
Chapter 1	An Introduction to Food Foundations	13
	A rationale	14
	Foods and food learning	14
	Food is a vital part of our lives	14
	Roles of adults	15
	Ways of learning	15
	Children can learn about ...	16
	A variety of children's programs	17
Chapter 2	A Framework for Learning About Food	19
	Introduction	20
	The Food and Nutrition Curriculum Development Framework	20
	Key principles for formal and informal curriculum	20
	Learning and teaching considerations	21
	The learning process	22
	From framework to implementation	23
Chapter 3	Approaches to Children's Food Learning	25
	Introduction	27
Approach 1	Children's decision-making	29
	Introduction	29
	Example of a shared decision-making process	29
	Making pizza	29
	Other decision-making opportunities	30
Approach 2	Science and mathematics	31
	Introduction	31
	The body and the senses	31
	Science activities	35
	Mathematical concepts	45
	Sorting and classifying	46
	Money	46
	Space and time	47
Approach 3	Food cycles	49
	Producing	49
	Processing	50
	Purchasing	52
	Preparing	52
	Partaking	53
	Processing wastes	53
Approach 4	Language, drama, and social studies	55
	Curriculum webs of children's books	55
	Curriculum webs of cultures and countries	65
Approach 5	Physical activities and motor skills	71
	Gross motor skills	73
	Eye-hand coordination	74
	Fine motor skills	75
	Safety and hygiene	76
	Physical activities and games	77
	Setting the scene	78
Approach 6	Food selection, preparation, and presentation	79
	Food selection	79
	Food preparation and recipes	79
	Food presentation	79
	Picture recipes	80
Chapter 4	Food and Nutrition Issues and Information	113
	Introduction	115
Section 1	Nutrition guidelines and terms	116
	Dietary guidelines	116
	The USDA Food Pyramid	118
	Common nutrition terms	119
Section 2	Nutritional needs of infants and young children	124
	Infant feeding	124
	Young children and their nutritional needs	126
Section 3	Children with special food needs	129
	Food chemicals and associated problems	129
	Lactose intolerance	131
	Vegetarian diets	131
	Diabetes	131
Section 4	Meal planning	133
	Meal planning for early childhood settings	133
	Ideas and information for family child care homes and parents	140
Section 5	Safety and food hygiene	146
	Food poisoning	146
	Personal hygiene	146
	Cross contamination	147
	Temperature danger zone	147
	Cleaning and sanitizing	147
	Sterilizing, preparing, and cleaning infant bottles	148
	Pests and their control	149
	Safety in the kitchen	150
	A food safety and hygiene checklist	150
Section 6	Information and ideas for parents	154
	Food foundations for children	155
	Food needs	156
	Snack ideas	157
	Ideas for the lunch box or evening meal	158
	The USDA Food Pyramid	159
	Feeding fussy eaters	160
	Looking after teeth	161
Chapter 5	Making Decisions About Food Foundations	163
	Introduction	165
Section 1	Children's rights	165
Section 2	Negotiating food foundations	167
	Resolving different perspectives	167
	A negotiator's guide	167
	Attitudes and actions related to food events	170
	Negotiating perspectives and practices	171
Section 3	Sample food education and nutrition policies	172
	Policy for food living and food learning	173
	Infant and toddler nutrition policy	175
	Preschool nutrition policy	177
	Nutrition policy when food is brought from home	178
	After and before school nutrition policy	179
	Family child care nutrition policy	180
Section 4	A management process for food issues in early childhood programs	181
Section 5	References and resources	184
Section 6	Organizations for resources and information	189
	Index	191