Eat Up: Food for Children of All Ages - Tapa dura

Nursery food recipes that adults can enjoy too. First serious book on ‘comfort food’ that explores ways to get kids to enjoy a diverse, nutritious diet and why we all love those nursery favourites.

Mark Hix, much praised executive chef of The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheeky, brings all his experience to help parents create that rare phenomenon – the child who will happily eat food which is not camouflaged by a crispy coating. He believes children should be introduced to a variety of foods and natural flavours at an early age, getting away from the culture of separate meals for children as soon as possible.

‘Eat Up’ is his solution: a range of simple and delicious nursery food recipes that can be easily adapted to make dishes adults can enjoy too.

Hix discusses his experiences with his own children and how he encourages them to explore food. He has also invited a few other chefs to reveal innovative ways to feed kids, such as the chef who has invented a tomatoless tomato ketchup to overcome his daughter’s allergy. Hix also delves into the reasons why adults are obsessed with comfort food.

Mouthwatering recipes, practical tips, and beautiful photographs of children having fun with food make ‘Eat Up’ a must for anyone fed up with fish fingers.

The first book on nursery food for all ages to be written by a chef, Eat Up helps parents to escape from the tiresome culture of separate meals.

From eggy bread to iced strawberry soup, koftas with minted yoghurt to butternut squash risotto, sweet couscous with raisins to jam roly poly, proper lemonade to banana and peanut butter smoothie, acclaimed chef Mark Hix has created accessible, mouth-watering recipes that children will not be able to resist. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of babies and children enjoying food, Eat Up is the first serious book on kids' food that appeals to parents as much as to tots. New dishes and old favourites with a modern twist come together in the most imaginative and inspiring cook book ever published for parents.