Secret Life of Food,

Now in paper! Turn your kitchen into a playground! Welcome to the Secret Life of Food, where your food is actually masquerading as ordinary objects found in and around your home. This stunning gift book, overflowing with lush photography, shows us a new side of the kitchen, where what you see is definitely NOT what you get! Easy-to-follow recipes turn potatoes and string beans into stylish flip-flops. Sushi cakes are served with chopsticks, but they are really tasty morsels topped with coconut icing wrapped in green fruit roll-ups. And gorgeous Jell-O aquarium swims a chewy Swedish fish. Parents will have as much fun as their children creating these culinary masterpieces. Clare Crespo teaches cooking classes to kids at the New School of Cooking in Los Angeles. She has also produced TV commercials and music videos for Whitney Houston and Macy Gray. Currently she is developing a children's cooking series for television.