Comments on: Teaching and Learning in the Kitchen http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: rokh http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/#comment-126430 rokh Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:08:21 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1163#comment-126430 i wish i had the chance to learn to cook when i was young, but i guess it is not too late for me to self learn now. your daughters are really lucky!

]]> By: Christy http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/#comment-121347 Christy Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:31:51 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1163#comment-121347 A lovely post. It was great to read about your growing-up cooking experience and about Kat’s.
I grew up like that, too, except my learning never involved watching others do it. I mean, I don’t have any memories of sitting in the kitchen watching other people cook. We were always being taught directly, as Kat is. We were homeschooled, and cooking lessons were part of school. My mom, having gone through a great deal of trial and error in learning to make bread, taught us how to knead and fold and measure and check for doneness with a knife, and when my dad was making dinner he’d always have me be his taste-tester and teach me about adding more of this herb or that. Cooking and baking were a natural part of life and continue to be for me, though I have no family to feed but myself.

]]> By: Kim http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/#comment-121197 Kim Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:20:06 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1163#comment-121197 Lovely post. I am hoping to start teaching my son (15 months) to cook. He loves to vacuum and clean – maybe I can get him to take over housecleaning duties?

I just wanted to point you to a great kids book on the Korean dish bibimbap (spelled in the book’s title Bee-bim-bop). The text is great, the illustrations are great, and there is a recipe at the back of the book with parts for the child to do and parts for the adult to do. (My only reservation with it is that we would never make bibimbap from scratch like that- we’d make Korean BBQ first and make bibimbap from the leftovers.)

http://www.amazon.com/Bee-Bim-Bop-Linda-Sue-Park/dp/0547076711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250266785&sr=8-1

]]> By: Diane http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/#comment-121016 Diane Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:39:58 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1163#comment-121016 My Mom actually hated to cook, but I loved cooking with her anyhow. I have many good memories of that. She always cooked from scratch with fresh whole ingredients, and was very patient – so she was a great teacher, she just didn’t much like it herself. And cooking with my grandma remains one of my favorite memories.

This was a lovely post.

]]> By: Zoe Dawn http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2009/08/10/teaching-and-learning-in-the-kitchen/#comment-120923 Zoe Dawn Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:59:40 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=1163#comment-120923 Exactly how I’ve been feeling as I teach my 23-month-old how to stir pancake batter and put the potatoes in the pot to boil.

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