I stopped in at the local Goodwill yesterday, it's right beside the grocery store so it's always tempting. I had no intention of getting another cookbook but I found this for a buck. Isn't it cute! Sweet little Winnie-the-Pooh has his own cookbook series. There's this one on picnics and one with teatime recipes and another on cookies. One set even comes with Pooh shaped cookie cutters. In this book, there's little Christopher Robin and all his little friends eating baby carrots and heart shaped scones. So cute and sweet, gag. Sure they try to shock us with a recipe for "Bug Juice" but if you check the ingredients, there's not a single bug in the stuff.
What I'd really like to find is a cookbook inspired by the children stories of David Greenberg. His book "Slugs" is a masterpiece! Take a look at the picnic they're having in this book, now that looks like fun. According to David, slugs are totally edible. Their feetsies, giblets, riblets and bellybuttons, can be roasted, toasted, minced or blended into slug juice, slug soup or chocolate slugshakes. Sure it suggests many unpleasant things that can be done with and to slugs but it also warns that even the lowly slug may have its revenge. The end is pretty graphic so there's a lesson to be learned. Some critics have suggested that while "The text is funny as well as the colorful drawings, the subject matter, slugs, and the treatment, suggesting ways to eat them, can be too much for some children." Ha!
I'll have you know, I gave the Slugs book to my daughter when she was 8 and she's just fine. She does love the "Simpsons", horror movies and she collects comic books. Oh my gosh, what have I done. Quick, get the Pooh cookbooks and make some cute little cookies with your kids before it's too late!! Cookbook #40 is Winnie-the-Pooh's Picnic Cookbook with decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
