Challenge 4 Create a class cookbook

Create and publish your own class recipe collection! Create a cookbook, launch a foodfocused podcast, or build a recipe site. Collect stories from your family and gather the stories behind the food that you love most.

What’s cooking?

Create an ebook with recipes, pictures and stories

Launch a podcast series with recipes, interviews and soundbites

Produce a short film series shot in your home kitchen (See Diva’s amazing home cooking video on page 11!)

Write and share a weekly food newsletter

Gather stories by interviewing, recording or transcribing recipes from family or community members.

Food for thought

With your team, decide who is going to do each job and what you will produce (see What’s cooking above).

My mother taught me how to cook at 5! Being of Chinese heritage, food and family is at the centre of all that we do. I never wrote down recipes until I started writing cookbooks.

Kylie’s tips

write down a basic framework of your new recipe meassure every ingredient carefully document each step of prep and cook

Will you include all meals such as entrees, mains and desserts?

How will you gather the information? Will you interview your family members or people in your local community?

Will you test cook the food before you publish the recipe?

Tip: take photos and grab personal advice from the cooks in your life!

Are you using any food from your kitchen/school or community garden?

Is there a ‘hero’ ingredient?

Are you using any indigenous foods in your cooking?

1. Hunt and gather

 Will your class collection contain simply recipes, or include interviews with family chefs, or stories about where the recipes come from?

 Will you have pictures?

 Do you need a photographer or illustrators?

 Could you record some audio for a podcast or create a cooking playlist?

2. Kids in the kitchen

Which countries do your class recipes come from? Create a Jamboard of countries or drop pins on Google Maps and build a global picture of your class!

Build a cookbook team and assign jobs - writer, photographer, website builder, podcaster etc.

Get busy in the kitchen!

3. Plate it up and dish it out

Design and publish a digital cookbook. Use Canva, Sway or Pages to gather and present your recipe.

Spread the joy!

Launch your cookbook at a community morning tea

Build a Google Site and collect everything from photos, recipes and interviews - why don’t you open it up for submissions from other classes or the wider community?

Create a food blog or vlog (video blog) and document your recipe gathering processes and showcase your cooking!

KITCHEN DIVA!

10-year-old Diva from Sydney LOVES to cook! Watch her make yummy fried rice and get tips on making your own cooking show!

Showcase your creation at grandparents’ day

Hold a food fair and cook the food for your friends!

Print copies of your digital cookbook for the school library!