这五个原因，足够你带领孩子进入厨房啦

家长们好，

我们喜欢在Newhattan的厨艺课上做饭！因为它不仅有趣，还能教你令人难以置信的技能，例如精细运动控制和文化的欣赏。纽约时报也有相同的观点。他们发表了一篇文章，列出了你的孩子应该学习做饭的五个原因。阅读这篇文章，然后再来加入我们的厨艺课吧。

Magi和Newhattan老师们祝您阅读愉快！

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Hello Parents,

We love to cook at Newhattan! Not only is it fun but it teaches incredible skills like fine motor control and cultural appreciation. The New York Times agrees. They published an article listing the 5 reasons your kids should learn to cook. Enjoy the article and then come enjoy one of our cooking classes!

Happy reading from Magi and the rest of the Newhattan teachers.

Children should learn to cook

By Kj Dell’Antonia and Margaux Laskey

孩子们应该学会做饭。毕竟这是一项基本的生活技能，我们可以在厨房中惬意地将一些食材制作成简单的饭菜。一个会做饭的13岁小伙子，当他放学后独自在家时，可以很容易地用冰箱里的剩饭菜，煸炒一些食物照顾自己，这是健康的。而他那不会做饭的同伴，就只能到冰箱中翻找一些包装好的成品食物了。

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Children should learn to cook.It’s a basic life skill, after all, being comfortable enough in the kitchen to pull a few ingredients into a simple meal. It’s healthy — a hungry 13-year-old who can cook, home alone after school, may decide to stir-fry some leftover rice with whatever is in the fridge; his noncooking peer is left rummaging through the pantry for anything that can be eaten straight out of the box or bag. Cooking is a source of pride for the children who can take care of themselves in this way, or feed a friend or sibling. They’re capable of cooking, they know what to do, they can get it done.

无论你的孩子是3岁，还是13岁。以下这五个原因，都足够让你引导孩子参与到厨房活动中。

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Here are five reasons you should get your children involved in the kitchen, whether they’re 3 or 13.

孩子们从做饭，到品尝，再到喜欢吃，如何实现这个过程？我们可以让孩子参与到烹饪活动中——例如，挑选西瓜和西红柿，采摘香草并添加到西瓜和西红柿沙拉中——大大增加了他们真正尝到这道菜的机会。嘿，或许他们会发现一个新的“最爱”。无论怎样，培养一种开放的、开明的、对待食物的态度，可以培养孩子成大后，以同样的情感对待生活。让我们张开双臂，张大嘴巴，接受新的口味、文化和态度吧。

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Children who cook become children who taste, and sometimes eat. Involving children in the process of cooking — picking out the watermelons and tomatoes and plucking the herbs to add to a tomato and watermelon salad, for example — greatly increases the chance that they’ll actually try the finished dish. And hey, they may discover a new favorite. Or not. But cultivating a welcoming and open-minded approach to food can grow adults who approach life similarly. Arms open and mouth wide to new tastes, cultures and attitudes.

对于会做饭的孩子来说，他们会说“我可以”而不是“我不能”。在热油中炸鸡肉丸或是鱼饼，是不是有些吓人？一个9岁的孩子可以为 6个人做晚餐，是不是令人震惊？如果一个孩子可以做到这些，那他可以看着任何餐厅的菜说：“我会做这个。” 毫不夸张地说，此时你的孩子已经掌控了整个厨房。

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Children who cook say “I can,” not “I can’t.” Sliding a spoonful of raw chicken or a piece of breaded fish into hot oil (as K J’s children did making ketchup chicken and an outdoor fish fry)? Daunting. Making dinner for six people at age 9 (A 9-Year-Old Makes Pasta With Tomatoes and Mushrooms)? Intimidating. A child who can do those can look at any restaurant dish and say, “I could make that.” That’s an attitude that can carry a child beyond the kitchen.

烹饪是一种讨论健康的方式。专家表示，为了你的健康，你可以做的唯一重要的事，就是在家做饭吃。引导孩子进入厨房并参与到做饭的过程中，让他们从小养成这种终身受益的习惯。此外，厨房亲子时间还让你有机会与3岁的孩子讨论：为什么吃鱼会让他变得更聪明（脂肪酸）；吃多种颜色的食物，能让他获取多种维生素和矿物质；以及吃大量新鲜蔬菜、喝大量的水，可以防止大便干燥。

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Cooking is a way to talk about health. Experts say that the single most important thing you can do for your health is to cook at home. Inviting children into the kitchen and involving them at a very young age fosters a habit that will have lifelong benefits. Also, it gives you an opportunity to discuss with a 3-year-old how fish (like broiled fish with chermoula) can help make you smart (fatty acids), how “eating a rainbow” ensures that you get a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, and how eating plenty of fresh vegetables and drinking lots of water will “keep your poop from hurting when it comes out.”

烹饪是讨论食品成分是否健康的一种方式。对于制作过冰淇淋和焦糖的孩子来说（例如焦糖旋涡草莓大黄冰淇淋），他们会知道冰淇淋中应该含有什么成分。他们知道这里没有添加任何的瓜尔豆胶。如果他们做的是免揉面包，他们就会知道好面包是不需要加糖的。当你在杂货店翻看食品包装上的说明时，店主会明白你正在寻找不含添加剂的食品，此时他们也会帮助你。（事实上，他们会比你更在意这些。）

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Cooking is a way to talk about healthy ingredients. Children who have made ice cream and caramel (like strawberry-rhubarb ice cream with a caramel swirl) know what is supposed to be in ice cream. They know they didn’t add any guar gum. If they’ve made no-knead bread, they’ll know that good bread doesn’t need sugar. When you flip over packages in the grocery store, they’ll understand that you’re looking for things you can’t pronounce, and they’ll join you. (They may, in fact, police your shopping more than you’d like.)

烹饪有助于减少代沟。无论做的好坏，至少你与孩子一起做饭时，能更深入地了解他们。同时，为了更好的沟通，你可以在做饭时分享从母亲、祖母和曾祖母那学来的食谱、烹饪技巧和趣事。当然也有不好的方面，当孩子在用浆果制作迷你酥饼时，他们将奶油洒到厨房桌子上，你可能会生气、失去耐心、抱怨甚至憋气。但是孩子仍然是爱你的，此时也教会你作为一个父母，应该具备无条件的爱护，以及有思想准备的宽容。

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Cooking brings cooks of all ages closer. For better or worse, you will get to know your children, and they you, more deeply when you cook with them. For better, you will share recipes, techniques and anecdotes that you learned at the elbows of mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers long gone. For worse, you will huff and puff and whine and lose your patience when they accidentally spill heavy cream all over the kitchen table while making mini-shortcakes with berries, but they will love you anyway, teaching you, the one who’s supposed to be the grown-up, about unconditional love and ready forgiveness.