Melissa & Doug: The Toy Kitchen Cookbook

Author Sohui Kim
Photographs by Rick Holbrook
Ebook
On sale Oct 13, 2026 | 40 Pages | 9798217243419

The first-ever cookbook made solely for young chefs and their toy ingredients!

All chefs deserve a beautiful cookbook—even those who cook with toys! This playful volume features sixteen original recipes for the youngest chefs in their toy kitchens. From alphabet soup to cookie pie, each dish offers a toy ingredient list and step-by-step instructions created by the real-life award-winning chef and restauranteur Sohui Kim. Published in partnership with the toy company Melissa & Doug, this book is a must-have for every toy kitchen and every eager young chef. Bon appétit!
Sohui Kim loves to play. She plays with food in the kitchens of her restaurants, Insa and Gage & Tollner. She plays with words in her cookbooks, The Good Fork Cookbook and Korean Home Cooking. And she plays with toys with young neighbors and friends. Through playing, Chef Sohui creates recipes and menus, and wins awards. She is a twice-nominated Best Chef by the James Beard Foundation, and her restaurants garner stars and glowing reviews. Chef Sohui lives with her husband, dog, two teenagers, and the pink toy kitchen they’ve outgrown, in Brooklyn, New York.

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The first-ever cookbook made solely for young chefs and their toy ingredients!

All chefs deserve a beautiful cookbook—even those who cook with toys! This playful volume features sixteen original recipes for the youngest chefs in their toy kitchens. From alphabet soup to cookie pie, each dish offers a toy ingredient list and step-by-step instructions created by the real-life award-winning chef and restauranteur Sohui Kim. Published in partnership with the toy company Melissa & Doug, this book is a must-have for every toy kitchen and every eager young chef. Bon appétit!

Author

Sohui Kim loves to play. She plays with food in the kitchens of her restaurants, Insa and Gage & Tollner. She plays with words in her cookbooks, The Good Fork Cookbook and Korean Home Cooking. And she plays with toys with young neighbors and friends. Through playing, Chef Sohui creates recipes and menus, and wins awards. She is a twice-nominated Best Chef by the James Beard Foundation, and her restaurants garner stars and glowing reviews. Chef Sohui lives with her husband, dog, two teenagers, and the pink toy kitchen they’ve outgrown, in Brooklyn, New York.

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