Big Cook, Little Cook
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
My son absolutely loves this series. As with most children's programmes, it starts to grate on the adult nerves after awhile. The snappy theme song, the impossibly perky characters (many a time I've wanted to whack Little Cook Small and Big Cook Ben with a spatula) and corny catch phrases which includes Big Cook's: "Now remember, the oven is hot, hot, hot!" bouncing up and down as he goes. How I long to kick him into the oven when he says it.
The saving grace of this show is that it got my son (then 4 years old) into cooking and baking. We've done a few simple things like cookies, tarts, ice popsicles, finger foods basically. Last Christmas, he even made his own pepernoten - traditional Dutch spiced cookies - and did a good job out of it too.
We get Big Cook, Little Cook daily (with repeats *horror*) on the CeeBeebies channel via cable. I put that on alot to keep up with the English at home. He also gets to visit the website where he can play games, listen to stories and print out activities we both work on. There's also a Big Cook Big Recipe book on the website and it contains all the recipes featured on each episode. Some of them are rather good and it's a great way to spend quality time with your child.
The Dutchess of Cookalot whipped this up at 4:13 am
