Confidence in the Kitchen: Sharing Cooking Experiences with Your Preschool Child

From the DooF website, “DooF shows kids and their families how fun it can be to find healthy alternatives to the fast food many of us eat. Need some help in the kitchen or in getting your kid to eat their carrots instead of those french fries? Stay tuned for the new show that gets kids excited about good food by showing them how they can be part of the magical process of bringing it from source to table.”

DooF is set to be broadcast on PBS in 2009. It is aimed at young school-age children (6-11). I went to their website and watched the podcast on beets. It was a creative and rhyming exposé on the vegetable. Two young beet cops searched for a missing beet. This was for a “magic ingredient” segment. It’s a little too advanced linguistically right now for my protégée to catch the nuances, but by the time it airs on television she’d be at just the right age.

I found out about DooF by reading about DooF-a-Palooza on the What’s Cooking blog (see the BlogRoll). It is a great food festival held at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. While it sounds like a great event, I won’t be traveling to the festival. I will, however, be on the lookout for the show!

Read more about the creative team for DooF by clicking here. 

You can watch clips of the show through this link.