Funny Food: 365 Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts - Hardcover

Bill Wurtzel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1599621118 ISBN 13: 9781599621111

Publisher: Welcome Enterprises, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

They re easy. They re silly. They re healthy. They re clever. They re artistic. They re delicious. They re fun. They re a great way to start the day. One breakfast at a time, Bill and Claire Wurtzel are determined to make you laugh and eat and play and laugh some more. Riffing over the years with oatmeal, eggs, apples, and nuts, it is finally ours to share...Funny Food!
 
Not since Joost Elffers Play With Your Food has food been so ridiculous and so endlessly diverting. Parents and children will giggle through breakfast. Teachers and students can laugh some more making snacks or desserts after lunch. This is a book filled with nothing but engaging spontaneity and simplicity that makes you say, I can do that. And, you can...the consequences are yummy.
 
Really, who doesn t like to play with food? Bill Wurtzel, a jazz guitarist, has been making these plates for his wife, Claire, for as many years as they ve been married. Now they are turning a hobby into an art form with a social message. Their goal is to discourage obesity by inspiring children and adults to improve their eating habits by creating meals and snacks that are not only nutritious, but fun.
 
These are not your mother s smiley-face sandwiches. In Bill s world, carrots turn into airplanes; boiled eggs into jugglers, and pears into guitar players. As gracefully as Picasso s ceramic plates found endless form so do Wurtzel s portraits, which seem to grow out of almost anything cheerios and bananas; lox and bagels; oatmeal, blueberries, and strawberries. Sometimes you think he is portrait artist and you could swear you just saw Sigmund Freud emerging from a pear or Shakespeare growing out of an apple. Sometimes the plates are just plain fanciful. Your breakfasts don t have to look like they ll hang in the Louvre, he says. It s the gesture that counts. But it sure looks like he riffed on Matisse s paper cutout dancers with a papaya.
 
In addition to creating Funny Food - which contains both recipes and how-to photographs - Bill and Claire have been conducting workshops for children at Public School 188 on the Lower East Side of New York, teaching them to use their imaginations to improve their health rather than just putting lettuce and vegetables on their trays.

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Review:

A new art form that also delivers a social message!"--The New York Times Wake up to fun! --PBS Parents "Calling all parents...Go out and buy this book!"--Shelley Goldberg, NY1 "Breakfast isn't usually heralded as a prime romantic moment, but with a little ingenuity, New York City jazz musician Bill Wurtzel and his wife, teacher Claire Wurtzel, made it just that."--Reader's Digest Your kid doesn t want to eat real food for breakfast? No excuses. This book illustrates 365 breakfasts made of eggs, toast, cereal, pancakes, fruit, cheese, yogurt, and other good things...I can t imagine any kid resisting eating foods like these. --Dr. Marion Nestle "Bill and Claire Wurtzel s book FUNNY FOOD is not only adorable and fun, it s also educational and useful for parents who are having trouble getting their kids to try new foods. As a mom and a registered dietitian, I am always looking for ways to present new foods to my son and my clients. In this book, there are 365 fun, healthy, silly and creative breakfast ideas so you should have enough to keep you going for a while. If your kids are old enough, let them pick their favorites and help you create them. The more you engage them in the process, the more likely they are to try their creation." --Elizabeth Fassberg MPH, RD owner of EAT FOOD, a food and nutrition consultancy in New York City ( http: //eatfood.biz/pages/clients/index.html) FUNNY FOOD: 365 FUN, HEALTHY, SILLY, CREATIVE BREAKFASTS is a 'must' for any general lending collection, especially those catering to parents. It features food that tastes great and can be easily and artistically displayed to entice kids. The author has spent the past fifty years transforming simple breakfast dishes into edible paintings for his wife, using common fare - Cheerios and bananas, lox and bagels, pancakes and more - as the palate for his art. Color photos pack a fun, whimsical collection perfect for any cookbook library and present dishes that will appeal to all ages. --California Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review Funny Food, A Book for Snackers, Eaters, and Artists! The trickiest thing about the recipes in this book is not trying to follow them (they re pretty simple), but allowing your child to eat them. Why? Because some of these creations are so artistic you might be tempted to glue them to the plate and hang them on your wall. Bill Wurtzel is the mastermind behind these fanciful, fun and healthy breakfast designs, which feature eggs, pancakes and waffles, fruits, oatmeal and cereals, toast and bagels. Claire, a teacher and his wife of 50 years, wrote the accompanying text minimal instructions and some nutritional guidelines. But really, it s the pictures of these amazing edible creations that do all the talking in this book. Tony the Tiger doesn t stand a chance against any of these critters."Bon Appetit!" "--NOLA Baby & Family Magazine" "Turn family breakfast from epic struggles to creative sessions filled with giggles and yummy noises with the new book "Funny Food: 365 Fun, Health, Silly, Creative Breakfasts...the book includes step-by-step instructions and easy tips for making your own food pictures."--Moms Gear, Tribune Media Services What I love most about this book is the way the Wurtzels help kids eat healthier and make food appealing at the same time. There is no trickery here by hiding ingredients in dishes. Instead, the Wurtzels make dishes kids want to make and eat because it is plated in a fun and whimsical way. With the help of this book parents can get their kids excited about making and eating breakfast with ingredients that are probably already in their kitchen. --Kitchen Explorers on PBS Parents Oh, yes! Bill Wurtzel is the Pea-casso of cooking. He combineswholesome ingredients with a healthy imagination to create incredibleplates. --Kiwi Magazine "Unfamiliar fruit --Matthew Tivy, Chef Owner, Cafe du Soleil, Chez Lucienne, Soleil Caterers"

About the Author:

For decades, Bill Wurtzel worked in advertising by day and moonlighted as a guitarist in big bands. In 1989, he retired from advertising and turned to music full time. Now 73, he plays with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, performing on the Upper West Side and the American Folk Art Museum, among other places. Mr. Wurtzel is a founding director of the Jazz Foundation of America, which helps jazz and blues musicians in need. Claire Wurtzel has been an educator for 40 years. Her focus is on supporting teachers who work with students struggling with learning and /or behavior difficulties. Claire was on the faculty of Bank Street Graduate School for 17 years, where she taught courses and chaired the Department of Special Education. She works with teachers, administrators, families, psychologists, librarians, and museum educators both nationally and internationally. Claire and Bill Wurtzel were married in 1961, have 2 daughters, 3 grandchildren, and live in New York City."

About this edition

• Publisher: Welcome Enterprises, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1599621118
• ISBN 13: 9781599621111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192