Let's get in the kitchen together! This cookbook for parents of kids 8+ transforms time in the kitchen into meaningful family connection—designed to spark curiosity, encourage healthy habits, and turn up the joy.

Salt Fat Acid Heat meets How to Talk So Kids Will Listen in this parent-child cookbook that teaches culinary skills while nurturing emotional intelligence, patience, and connection. Co-written by family therapist Eli Harwood and her ten-year-old son, Slate, this cookbook features 75 approachable recipes developed by Slate.  

Many parents want to get their kids inspired in the kitchen to try new foods, but they struggle with how to start. This cookbook provides the perfect solution: Inviting kids into the kitchen with 75 recipes written by a kid for kids, organized by time of day and marked for different skill levels. Plus plenty of confidence-building extras like:

• Pairing Conversations: helps parents and kids have discussion while they cook 
• Fascinating Food Facts: historical and scientific facts about ingredients 
• Turn Up The Fun: fun suggestions throughout help parents and kids experience joy in the cooking process (such as, cook in costumes, or listen to music, or dance while you wait for noodles to cook, etc.)

Cooking Together not only inspires better eating habits, but provides a hands-on activity that builds important life skills and strengthens parent-child bonds through shared experiences. This isn't just a cookbook; it's a guide to creating lifelong memories, deeper connection, life skills, resilience, and a stronger family bond.

Turn family dinner into a hands-on kitchen adventure with this bright, bold kids' cookbook filled with 75 real recipes from kid chef Slate and his family therapist mom, Eli Harwood—perfect for ages 8+!

Cooking Together is a family cookbook for parents and kids ages 8 and up, packed with silly projects, real-deal dinners, and conversation-sparking extras. Created by bestselling author Eli Harwood (aka Attachment Nerd), with recipes developed and taste-tested by Slate, every page builds kitchen skills, confidence, and connection.

Inside you'll find:

• FOOD EVERYONE WANTS TO EAT: Together, you'll make Gummy Sushi, Fruit Pizza, and Mini S'mores Casserole, plus grown-up-worthy dinners like Thai Pumpkin Curry, Poke Bowls, and Moroccan Chicken Stew.
• BUILD REAL COOKING SKILLS: Go beyond assembly-only kids' cookbooks. Explore breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and dessert where recipes go from easiest to most challenging and young chefs build independence one recipe at a time.
• FUN BUILT IN: Kitchen Connections, Fascinating Food Facts, and Chef's Challenges keep the laughs and learning going.
• KID-TO-KID ADVICE: "Slate Says" tips give young chefs his honest, unfiltered take on what works in the kitchen.
• THERAPIST-APPROVED CONNECTION: Turn screen-free cooking time into real conversation. Includes notes for parents of neurodivergent and food-hesitant kids.

This joyful, hands-on cookbook makes a memorable Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthday, or holiday gift for budding chefs, food-loving parents, and anyone who believes the best conversations happen over a mixing bowl.

With this kid-tested family cookbook, everyone gets a job, nobody gets bored, and dinner is officially a team sport.