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At Water’s Table restaurant in Renton, kids get a raw, airplane-shaped sugar cookie (a nod to the restaurant’s neighbor, Boeing) to decorate with sprinkles and white or chocolate chips at the beginning of the meal. The cookie bakes while you eat and is brought back to your table in time for dessert!
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Water’s Table, located in Hyatt Regency Lake Washington, 1053 Lake Washington Blvd. N, Renton
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For ravenous readers
Kid-friendly cookbooks Looking to get into the kitchen with your kid in a contemporary way? We asked Book Larder’s Lara Hamilton for three great picks to get your kids inspired. 3 Ottolenghi Simple:
A Cookbook By Yotam Ottolenghi This book covers a wide range of styles but also has some nice, really simple everyday baking dishes: “Simple savory and also simple sweet things.”
3 Dining In Aaron Smith brings new ideas to Seattle school cafeterias.
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Seattle Public Schools’ new director of nutrition services aims to serve every taste bud by J A C K I E V A R R I A N O / photo by J O S H U A H U S T O N
As you scratch supplies off of your back-toschool shopping list, there’s one item Aaron Smith hopes you won’t buy: a lunch box. This September, Smith is entering his first full school year as Nutrition
Services Director for Seattle Public Schools. When he moved from Chicago to take the position last November, he brought his innovative ideas with him. First up, Seattle schools will no longer have the same menu
across the board: “I’m working on breaking Seattle up into five regions, and as the year goes on and as we get feedback from those areas, we’re going to slowly start customizing and adding to the menu based on those students.” This approach takes into consideration the taste buds CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE >
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By Alison Roman Hamilton says her 12-year-old daughter loves picking things to make out of this book: “Her writing style and tone is just very fun.” Also, keep an eye out for Roman’s next book out in October, titled “Nothing Fancy.”
3 Salt Fat Acid Heat
By Samin Nosrat One for “kids who like to know the why’s behind things.” This book is for kids who are more patient readers. Bonus is the four-part miniseries on Netflix that serves as a visual companion to the book.
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