Smashed Potatoes: A Kid's-Eye View of the Kitchen

by Jane G. Martel

Book Overview

Gives children's versions of their favorite dishes such as "Basketti," "A whole turkey," and "Banilla cake." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395197759
• ISBN13: 9780395197752
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Endearing & Funny

As a child, I read this book over and over - I still remember standing in the bookstore, successfully pleading with my parents to buy it for me. It survived many moves and now my seven year old laughs out loud as she reads it - just as I did.

Hilarious!

Peas...ingredients: everything but peas. How to cook them? One at a time! A quote from one of the recipes. And then there's the cryptic "Makes enough for all 4 of us - but not Freddy!" (My guess is that Freddy is the dog.) I read this book over and over whenever I need to laugh.

Smashed Potatoes

I checked this book out many times as a child from my school library. As an adult, and a professional chef, it still brings me to tears. Anyone who cooks, teaches, or raises children will find it MOST amusing!