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Raddish Brings Cooking Lessons to Your Child’s Mailbox

The new subscription box includes a badge each month, so your young cook can track his progress on his apron.

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November’s recipes were corn pudding, cranberry crostini and maple pumpkin pie. In December, subscribers to Raddish, a monthly cooking instruction kit designed for children 4 to 14, can make rosemary focaccia, minestrone soup and hot cocoa cupcakes. The step-by-step recipes are simple but intelligent (adult novices, take note). The focaccia, for example, is a yeasted bread. Background material on ingredients provides teachable moments; November’s box covered Native American lore about corn, cranberries and pumpkin. An apron comes with a 12-month subscription. A utensil and a completion patch are included in each box.

Raddish, $20 to $24 per month, raddishkids.com.

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Florence Fabricant is a food and wine writer. She writes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, as well as the Pairings column, which appears alongside the monthly wine reviews. She has also written 12 cookbooks. More about Florence Fabricant

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: To Practice: An Instruction Kit Aimed at Young Cooks. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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