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EVERYBODY EATS LUNCH by Cricket Azima Glitterati Incorporated May 2008 With die-cut form in lunchbox shape; lift-the-flaps throughout $16.00/Paper over board hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9793384-4-1 Sample recipe

Contact: Trina Kaye
310-915-0970
TrinaKaye@tkopr.com

What do YOU eat for lunch? Where do you eat lunch? Who makes your favorite lunch foods? These are just some of the questions that children ask when making new friends. EVERYBODY EATS LUNCH, is an exciting interactive children's cookbook that is at once educational and playful, developed and written by children's cooking authority, and best-selling author, Cricket Azima. It is one part cookbook, one part toy, and one part global adventure--with children from around the world!

This lunchbox-shaped engaging cookbook explores culture and ethnic lunch foods typically eaten by today's children as it takes them on a lunch-time journey through five countries. Perfect for kids ages 4 - 11, each page is devoted to a different country and features colorful removable images of the food to examine and explore; underneath each food image is the recipe for that international dish. In this book they will visit:

• Brazil
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Mexico
• South Africa

"My goal in creating EVERYBODY EATS LUNCH is to produce a positive relationship between children and food - creating healthy eating habits for life," says Cricket. "While practicing basic cooking skills, children also learn and enhance other traditional disciplines, such as reading, math, science, social science, nutrition, history and geography. In addition, I believe children strengthen their motor skills, self-esteem, and socialization when learning about food."

Young children will enjoy playing with the book and the removable puzzle pieces, while older children learn educational content such as social studies, geography, math, nutrition, languages, telling time-and cooking!

"Children typically don't like foods they don't know," adds Cricket. "But once a child becomes familiar with a food, he or she is much more comfortable eating it. That's why I made the pages and recipes in my new book fun and easy, incorporating a variety of colorful, delicious ingredients."

EVERYBODY EATS LUNCH inspires children to express themselves through cooking and the arts, and fosters multicultural understanding. Cricket believes that the benefits of teaching children about food and cooking is that they learn about colors, shapes, sizes and expand their creativity, while learning about food, healthy eating habits, counting and measuring ingredients, motor skill development, tactile skills development, finger coordination development, map skills, climates and agriculture. Kids have so much fun with EVERYBODY EATS LUNCH they don't even realize that they are learning!

Cricket Azima is a dynamic young professional chef who specializes in cooking for and with children. She is the founder of The Creative Kitchen™, Food Editor for Kiwi Magazine, Director of Kids' Programs for Kidfresh™, and Director of Culinary Curriculum and Recipe Development for Batter Up Kids Culinary Center. Since 1999, Cricket has been teaching cooking classes to thousands of children of all ages throughout New York City, including schools, Girl Scout groups, the Children's Museum of Manhattan, Whole Foods Market, and in her private classes. As an instructor, Cricket is one-of-a-kind. She strives to teach more than a recipe or basic cooking technique, in keeping with a major tenet of her teaching philosophy: that learning to cook has many educational benefits. The author developed her cooking and teaching philosophy while pursuing her Master's degree in Food Studies and Food Management at New York University (NYU). She is also a graduate of Boston University and Peter Kump's New York Culinary School (now, The Institute of Culinary Education). She and her husband and young son live in New York City. To learn more about Cricket, visit her website, www.TheCreativeKitchen.com.