Marion Cunningham, today's Fannie Farmer, who has inspired a whole generation to find pleasure again in good American home cooking, now in this remarkable book teaches children (along with their mentors) how to cook. She takes them through fifteen basic lessons, showing them how to master essential techniques and to produce, all on their own, thirty-five favorite dishes. Starting with a vegetable soup, kids learn how to peel and chop vegetables and to understand boiling and simmering. Then they prepare salads, make a perfect hamburger, handle eggs, cook rice, pasta, and vegetables, make pancakes, biscuits, bread, pizza, cookies, brownies, a fruit crisp, and an apple pie, and put together a complete chicken dinner. And, finally, they create a triumphant birthday cake.