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The Best Buttermilk Waffles, Courtesy of a 6-Year-Old

Welcome to More Ketchup, Please, our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We’ve got some great guests stopping by to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. The…

Welcome to More Ketchup, Please, our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We've got some great guests stopping by to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. The more (cooks) the merrier? We think so.

Clara Stubbs has never really left the kitchen. And she’s only 7. As a toddler, she sat across her mom (and co-founder of Food52), Merrill Stubbs, while she stirred things on the stove. Or played with the wooden spoons. These days, she invents family food traditions.

The No-Cheese, No-Sauce Pasta Amanda Hesser & Her Kids Eat on Repeat

Welcome to More Ketchup, Please, our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We’ve got some great guests stopping by, to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. Th…

Welcome to More Ketchup, Please, our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We've got some great guests stopping by, to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. The more (cooks) the merrier? We think so.

If it surprises you how self-sufficient Amanda Hesser’s 12-year-old twins Walker and Addison are in the kitchen, then you probably haven’t read Cooking for Mr. Latte. The 2003 cookbook with memoir is an account of how her husband went from being a man with an empty refrigerator when they first met, to a pasta-making supremo after they had kids. If you have read Mr. Latte, then it’d be perfectly logical to expect this love of food and fearless cooking from her kids, whose starter lessons in the kitchen began when they were little.

A Chef’s Back-Pocket Pantry Meal for Busy Weeknights

Chitra Agrawal knows the power of replicating good food memories. After all, the chef, blogger and cookbook author has built a business around melding food and nostalgia, churning out huge batches of Indian achar in an industrial kitchen in Brooklyn. (…

Food is one of her strongest early childhood memories. “Both my parents worked till 6 p.m. every day, but they always made it a point to make dinner every evening,” she says. So it’s no surprise that she makes cooking a priority in her home, too, often spinning new versions of old favorites for her two-year-old son, Alok.

Sohui Kim’s Extra Crispy Chicken Cutlet is a Weeknight Champion

Welcome to “More Ketchup, Please,” our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We’ve got some great guests stopping by, to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. …

Welcome to “More Ketchup, Please,” our newest series that’s spilling the beans on all the different ways we cook for, and with, our kids. We've got some great guests stopping by, to get schooled by their little ones on how to perfect family favorites. The more (cooks) the merrier? We think so.

Anyone who has eaten at The Good Fork in Brooklyn, knows that chef and owner Sohui Kim has a way of making even the simplest foods delicious: her Korean-style steak and eggs and roasted chicken are enduring favorites. And watching her cook with her two kids underlines that accessible approach to cooking. “I don't know, there's something about playing with food that is so very special,” she says, “right guys?”

This Rich, Golden Bread Is the Easiest Thing to Make With Your Kids

Watching spice-blender and chef Lior Lev Sercarz make challah with his kids, Luca and Lennon, is like witnessing a masterclass in how to sharpen your senses in the kitchen. “Smell the turmeric,” he tells them. “Taste the salt.” “Put your hands in the dough.”