Gifts for Culinary Kids - a list by GourmetGlam

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Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine

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I must be PMS'ing or something because every time the nostalgia stick whacks me upside the head today I am getting all teary. This did it big time. Had totally forgotten it EXISTED until I saw this. It was the FAVE toy of my best friend Jenny and I the summer of our... oh hell I don't even know how old we were. I grew up partly in the Valley of So. Calif so there are a lot of years I've purposefully blacked out of my memory due to traumatic fashion choices (like my 4-inch vertical Aqua Net bangs that were always painstakingly backcombed using my single non-lace glove-clad hand....). "Before we discovered Duran Duran", that's the only way I can date it. Because once DD came on the scene... well screw Charlie Brown and basically anything else on the planet.

At any rate, I am so excited to see this make a reappearance. Given that my mother gave every single thing I ever considered near and dear to our cleaning lady a week after I left for college (do you think I have lingering issues about that? No...... ok yeah maybe one or two- I mean she was nearly SIXTY! Did she NEED the Weeble Wobble circus????), I've spent many years reacquiring things like this to pass on to my children. Or more accurately, to excitedly present to them while ignoring the fact that some shaved ice and a 'freakishly-bald-except-for-the-pubic-like -orehead hair thingy' cartoon character isn't quite as stimulating to them as rebuilding civilizations on Sims. Luckily we have reached a compromise- I shoot them the "we are going to BOND over Mommy's childhood memories, dammit!" look and they bury their "Oh for Christ's sake" expression. Then we all dig into bowls of yummy denial and 6 minutes later go back to whatever we were doing feeling a bit used and unsatisfied. Hey, it works for us.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go squirt some unnaturally colored juice on ice chips and pretend to myself that it's a life-coming-full-circle, beautiful moment.

Updated Dec 11, 2008

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Melissa and Doug Pizza Party

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It's a Pizza Party! Melissa and Doug's wooden Pizza Party playset includes wooden "toppings," a pizza wheel, and a crust that will cut apart because the slices are held together with velcro. Perfect for the Culinary Kid aged 3 and up. Melissa and Doug also make wooden Birthday Cake, sandwich, and sushi sets.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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KidKraft Light Blue Retro Kitchen

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Though I wouldn't dream of being a color-genderist, it probably isn't right to make your budding Emeril Lagasse or Thomas Keller cook in a bubble gum pink play kitchen. KidKraft's light blue kitchen play set is just the thing, with stove and refrigerator.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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Dexton Retro Kid's Sink, Pink

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If you're teaching them to cook, you have to teach them that cleaning up -- both beforehand (prepping the ingredients) and afterwards -- is part of the drill.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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Dexton Retro Kids Refrigerator, Pink

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You can't have a retro kitchen without a retro icebox! The Dexton pink retro icebox matches with the stovetop to complete the set.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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Dexton Kids Retro Stove

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Along with the retro icebox (it's not even called a refrigerator!), this pretty little pink kitchen play set will let you rlittle girl pretend like she's cooking casseroles and jello molds, '60s style.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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Scientific Explorer's Tasty Science Chemistry in the Kitchen Kit

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For the budding food nerd a la Harold McGee or Alton Brown, this kit lets your kid whip up cupcakes, cookies, and candy, all to learn a little bit of science. It teaches things like what makes cakes rise and candy crystallize The kit comes complete with ingredients, recipes, activity cards, a test tube laboratory, and more activities to learn.

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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Children's Enamel Pot & Pan Cooking Set, Blue

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Perfect for the Culinary Kid who isn't quite old enough to join you in the kitchen yet, the royal blue enamel pots and pans look almost like your beautiful Le Creuset

Updated Nov 26, 2007

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