svhen v;e photographed the 8 to 12 year old children cooking forourbook fFirstStepsinChinese Cooking',Idiscovered thatthey werevery keen to learn how to cook Chinesedishes.Surprisingly,they enjoyed eating thefood theyhad cooked,even though someofthedishescontained ingredientsthatthey nonnally disliked. Therearecertain typesoffood thatm ostchildren particularly enjoy eating,such as,eggs,tom atoes,chicken drum sticksand chicken wings.M any m othershavecom plained to m ethattheir children refused to eatcertain thingssuch asonionsCtoo smelly'),carrots (fstrange flavottr'),cucumberCtasteless')and plainrice(Ktooboring').M ostchildrenalsohaveastrong dislikeforcongee,althoughitisgood forthem .Ihaveseen m otherschasingtheirchildrenaround thediningroom andthenresortingto briberyorthreatsinorderto forcethem to eattheirfood.