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Salt and pepper, soft boiled eggs and toast soldiers, mac n' cheese, some things just go together. It's apt then that the <a href="http://www.sweetpaulmag-digital.com/sweetpaulmag/spring2011">Spring issue of Sweet Paul magazine</a> is here and it's a kids special. Kids + Food = a license to play with your food. The whimsy that comes with being a child is often lost when we grow up. We go from eating mac n cheese for supper to dining at <a href="http://www.artisanalbistro.com/">Fromagerie's</a>, wolfing down ice cream for pudding to indulging in '<a href="http://www.wd-50.com/imagewins/imagewin223.html">whole wheat sorbet</a>', it all just get's a little serious really.

Thanks to the ever sweet Paul Lowe this issue of Sweet Paul reminds us of what makes food fun - I hope that it inspires many to have a rollicking good time in the kitchen and to put stuffiness aside for a bit in 2011.

Some of my favourite articles in this edition:

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Eggs are one of my most favourite things in the world. Poached, baked, scrambled, fried, I have them any and every which was in any given week. Wonderfully shot by Colin Cooke, "<strong>Eggs, Which came first?</strong>" contains five recipes for the little and big kids in our lives. From what looks like the perfect egg sandwich to cuddled eggs  - I plan on adding each of these to my menu in March.

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A few years ago on a trip to Australia, I remember watching a five-year-old girl swig about 4 oz of an ice latte from her mama's cup before anyone could stop her. Some would be alarmed, but for this coffee addict it was incredibly amusing and made me wonder if I was a coffee addicted child growing up. { it would certainly explain a lot }. I was very chuffed to read that as a child Paul himself had a similar addiction..except to <strong>Coffee</strong> Pots! I imagine a little rotund boy with rosy cheeks and a bow-tie playing in his Nana's garden surrounded by an array of Scandinavian coffee pots. Adorable!

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I was never one to play with my food. Coming from a big family and being the youngest, any delay in polishing off what was on your plate meant that your meal would become a victim of someone else's fork! In the article <strong>Play with your Food</strong> Paul get's creative in presenting morsels in such a way that no child would be able to resist a little bite!

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Given the choice any kid will eat something somewhat healthy. <em>Given the choice</em> that is. Putting that theory to the test. In <strong>My Favourite Food</strong> five little cuties tell us what their favourite dish is, with recipe included. My favourite was young Leo's: Potatoes with creamed spinach and fried eggs. Yum!


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