A little girl makes food with her mother, following her grandmother's recipes.

This is a sweet book all about the joys of cooking, especially together as a family. The focus is on healthy eating, starting with visiting a farmers' market for local, fresh food as ingredients. The book includes a couple of tomato-based recipes that readers can try for themselves.

The final pages include trivia about tomatoes, such as how their scientific name translates to "wolf peach" (although I wish I knew why!). There's then some information about farmworkers and the need to protect them and their work, including a bibliography for more details.

Lastly, there's an author's note encouraging readers to cook their own food, not just for health reasons but also for bringing families together. Honestly, the book already gave that inspiration, but that final reminder is a nice push for readers of all ages to start thinking about chopping, sautéing, and more.

The illustrations are absolutely beautiful, as can be seen by the cover and continuing throughout, even to the backmatter. ( )

A celebrity written picture book about food. Oh boy, this could be a disaster. That not even Juana Martinez Neal could save....

THANKFULLY it was such a sweet ode! ( )

Neela and her mother, Amma gather tomatoes to make Grandma Paati's special sauce. Includes a supplement volume of tomato recipes, tomato facts and about farm workers.

RThis is a sweet kids book about missing someone and cooking their recipes to feel closer to them. Neela misses her Paati and makes her sauce to jar so she can share it with her when she comes to visit. The book also covers info about farm workers and foods in season. A nice story and great illustrations ( )

Neela loves to cook with amma (mom) and think about her paati (grandmother in Tamil) that lives all the way in India. The book tells the story of Neela and Amma exploring a famers market to find tomatoes to make Paati's wonderful sauce recipe. Neela learns all about the different types of tomatoes and then she and her Amma cook together.