Chop, Cook, Yum!

Teaching children about food through fun and interactive workshops is at the heart of what Deirdre Doyle and her team at the Cool Food School do. Their workshops in schools and pre-schools have helped thousands of children to learn more about healthy eating and how to make positive choices around food

* Irish Times *

‘well worth picking up for the mini chef in your life’

-- Bibliocook

In her colourful, beautifully laid out new cookbook, Chop, Cook, Yum! Deirdre Doyle, of the Cool Food School, helps children young and not so young to make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners, safely and with yumminess guaranteed!

-- RTE Guide

Deirdre Doyle clearly knows her onions, not to mention her cannellini and haricot beans - and knows how to entice children to prepare and eat healthy food. Anyone that names their recipe ‘Beans to Make you go Pop’ is heading in the right direction to attract young people’s attention, particularly if their instructions come with this warning: “Keep all the windows open.” A health coach and mother of three, Doyle has taught thousands of children about food and cooking since opening her Cool Food School in Co Wicklow in 2018. She continues the fun in her new recipe book, in which the titles of the dishes are a hoot. There’s the Irish ‘Hummus Ata Tu’, the anger-recipe for Bash-it-about Chicken, or ‘It’s a Pizza Cake’ with add-your-own toppings, and the descriptive Spinach and Cheese Egg Muffin Thingies, for when you’ve run out of fancy recipe names … the aim is to inspire in young readers an appreciation of what they are eating, where their food comes from, and how it is prepared. The topic of seasonal eating provides food for thought as Doyle weighs the benefits of enjoying fruits and vegetables as they ripen locally and naturally versus the costs to both environment and stored produce of demanding strawberries in Ireland in January. Her recipes are graded by age range in terms of difficulty of preparation, with a symbol indicating where adult help or supervision is required

-- Evening Echo

Help children young and not so young make their own breakfasts, lunches and dinners: safely, and with yumminess guaranteed … Cooking is a pizza cake with this uniquely Irish cookbook for kids 

-- Irish Daily Star

beautiful new book, lots of delicious recipes

-- Neven Maguire

Perfect for young chefs everywhere

-- Fallen Star Stories

tried and tested recipes that children can make themselves

-- Irish Times

a great basic cookbook to help readers aged 9+ to grasp the basics of creating their own culinary delights

-- RTEjr Book