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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 19 april 2017
Sarah Michelle Gellar still has

awesome skills with a skewer

MARK KENNEDY snacking in front of the TV. Stefani and Jessica Alba
AP Entertainment Writer “You’re getting that same who have shown a strong
NEW YORK (AP) — As a sensation, that same sat- entrepreneurial drive after
vampire slayer, Sarah Mi- isfaction, right, but you’re establishing themselves.
chelle Gellar learned the getting a nutritional value “I think that there’s a safety
value of an old-fashioned at the same time.” net that we have because
wooden stake. As a mom Gellar, who with her hus- we’ve achieved so much.
of two children, she’s still band, Freddie Prinze Jr., I’ve achieved more than
pretty handy with a good have two children, Char- I ever thought I would
stick — only this time it’s in lotte, 7, and Rocky, 4, is achieve. So everything
the kitchen. passionate about food else becomes gravy and I
Gellar skewers all kinds of and nutrition, urging kids to think it makes you braver,”
things in her new cook- learn about different foods said Gellar, who lives in Los
book, “Stirring Up Fun with early and help in the kitch- Angeles.
Food ,” making appetizing- en. “It makes you not rely so
looking chicken fingers, Cooking, she said, teach- much on the negative
fondues, fruit slices, sliders, es gross motor skills, math, comments. It makes you
cake pops and even a science and vocabulary. really sort of feel like, ‘You
Caesar salad. “More than that: It’s about know what? I’m going to
The former star of “Buffy the time spent together. Peo- try it and if it doesn’t work This cover image released by Grand Central Life & Style shows
Vampire Slayer” also em- ple will say, ‘My child is out, that’s OK because I’m “Stirring Up Fun with Food: Over 115 Simple, Delicious Ways to
braces muffin tins, cookie too young.’ You’re never happy with everything I’ve Be Creative in the Kitchen,” by Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gia
cutters, jars and some nif- too young. My daughter done.’”q Russo.
ty knife work — all part of will say to my son, ‘OK, we Associated Press
her effort to get kids to eat need three cups. Which
their veggies and try new one is the three, Rocky?’
flavors. He just points to the three.”
“We eat with our eyes first Karen Murgolo, who
and a lot of decisions are worked on the book as edi-
made just by looking at torial director of the Grand
something,” she said. “A Central Life & Style imprint,
child, an adult, anyone, said she was impressed by
looks at asparagus and Gellar’s creativity and con-
says, ‘I don’t want to eat cern for portion control,
that. I’m going to go and nutrition and creating food
eat a cupcake.’ So how do for people on the go. “It’s
you make things more vis- great for parents of kids
ibly appealing?” anywhere from 1½ to 17,
Gellar and co-author Gia but I think 80 percent of the
Russo think they have the recipes could be served at
answer with something any dinner party, honestly.”
called food crafting, which Gellar’s interest in better in-
elevates a dish’s appeal by gredients and sustainable
using clever presentation. food policies has led her
Think of boring old meat and Russo to start their own
loaf as a cute muffin. business, Foodstirs, a non-
In their book, mashed po- GMO line of baking mixes
tatoes are put in shot glass- free of artificial preserva-
es, bat-shaped mozzarella tives, flavors and colors
is baked for Halloween and that’s ethically sourced.
chili is spooned into mason She was prompted to act
jars. Those weird aspara- after being frustrated by
gus are baked in panko the lack of change in su-
crumbs. permarket baking mix box-
One clever way Gellar gets es, which often have salt
fruit or vegetables into her as the second ingredient
kids’ stomach is by using or add red dye in a yellow
cookie cutters to cut letters cake mix.
out of cucumbers or water- “There’s been so much at-
melon, assembling words tention on the perimeter of
and then sending her kids the grocery store — juices
to school with edible notes and cleanses and fruits
(“I Love You” or “Great and vegetables. Then you
Job!”). “Let me tell you go into the interior and it’s
how fast those vegetables kind of really antiquated. I
go,” Gellar said. thought, ‘This is wrong,’” she
She also substitutes roast- said. With her business, Gel-
ed, Parmesan-flavored lar joins other actresses like
cauliflower for popcorn for Gwyneth Paltrow, Gwen