Take the Kids on the Road Via the Kitchen

Staying home this summer with the kids? You can still have a world-wide adventure from inside your kitchen.

Taking kids around the world, the Handstand Kids offer up cookbooks with kid-friendly fare (both for eating and making) coupled with lessons in foreign cultures. Borne out of the cuisine, the education in foreign countries touches on some of their phrasing, some geography and gives cultural context to foods your kids always thought of as “American.”

With a dash of American meals adjusted to make them fit better into another cultural setting and some totally foreign foods, Handstand Kids rank the recipes by what your kids need to know before they get there. So you can work your way up through the book as you work on their kitchen skills.

Get any of the books in the set straight from Handstand Kids.

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• 7 Days of Monsters: Game On

• Tea Collection’s Turning Japanese

• Go Fishing Without Ever Leaving the House