A Smart Girl's Guide: Cooking: how to make food for your friends, your family and yourself is an American Girl publication in the A Smart Girl's Guides series, focused on kitchen safety, food preparation, and meal planning. A revised edition with a cover change for the new Smart Girl's branding was published in 2020.
It has a companion cookbook, You're the Chef, which contains more recipes. The book was the focus of the Smart Girl's Guide Kit: Cooking.
Contents[]
Food, Glorious Food[]
- Join the Club
- Family Traditions
- The Joys of Cooking
- Quiz: Your Cooking Sense
- Happy And Healthy
- Different Foods for Different Folks
Tools and Rules[]
- The Safe Kitchen
- Tools:
- Pots and Pans
- Knives, Peelers, and Graters
- Bowls and other Basics
- Best for Baking
- Small Appliances and Gadgets
How-To Basics[]
- Measuring Ingredients
- Handling Knives
- Slicing and Dicing
- Peeling, Grating, and Zesting
- Keeping It Clean
- Mixing It Up
- Breaking It Up
- Rolling It Out
Get Cracking![]
- Ready, Set, Cook!
- Hot Terms
- How To Read a Recipe
- Recipes
- Easy Eggs
- Fruit Smoothies
- Great Basics
- Beautiful Bird
- Fish Feast
- Gorgeous Greens
- Veggies Two Ways
- Sweet Treats
- Cooking 911: Help for Kitchen Emergencies
- It Happened to Me!
From Soup to Nuts[]
- Thinking Ahead
- Mind Over Menus
- Recipe Finds
- Menus
- The Lunchbox
- Family Dinners
- Birthday Bashes
- Breakfast Bites
- Making a List, Checking it Twice
- Let's Go Shopping!
- Table Time
Book Covers[]
First cover from 2016-2020
Second cover from 2020-present
Trivia[]
- As with all American Girl cookbooks, a safety notice is included that states how techniques use sharp tools, heat, powered appliances, and raw food which may cause cross contamination; thus, adult supervision is required at all times for all instructions and recipes.