The Wizard's Whisk---a cooking school for children

About the Book

Need a project?
Want to teach someone to cook?
Want to add to your Home School curriculum?
Want to start a cooking club?
Want to engage your community in a skill-building endeavor?
Want to get back to the basics?
Want to involve the family in a common activity?
Need to adjust your family diet and broaden your menus?
Want to share the knowledge of community elders?
Want to teach people who love to learn what you’re teaching

About the Author

Kathleen Sheehan Corletta has been a wife, widow, mother, and educator for almost 50 out of 70 yrs. She believes she is no more qualified to write a book than the next person and she believes that everyone has something they would like to share.

“My background is life experience orientation as a teacher, a wife and a parent with 5 children, very close in age, who needed to be occupied until they went to school. The 5 children and the husband (who had very high standards) needed to be fed a healthy diet and America was not yet a fast food nation. Schools had already dropped Home Economics from their curriculum and I soon knew what a job I had in front of me. Within 9 yrs. of marriage I was responsible for the health/safety, diet and amusement of those younger people. The very first person who needed to be amused was me. I remember wishing at one point that someone would just invent a new meat

My response was to learn as much as I could about parenting, cooking, health and safety and, oh yes, keeping house. That one was something I’m still working on but overseeing the building of a professional kitchen and knowing I’ll be inspected by the Health Department does wonders for one’s learning curve. Marrying into an Italian family also made demands on my “need to know” levels as far as cooking went (As cooks go, she went....SAKI) and I felt very fortunate as a young wife and mother to have had great parenting and family life instructions already passed on to me by my own family.

After being blessed enough to stay at home for the first 13 years of parenting, I then returned to work as a high school teacher in 1976 and loved my years as a teacher until I retired in 2004. My husband had died in 1998 and I retired to a beach community where I opened The Wizard’s Whisk cooking school for children in 2001. It seemed to fill a need for a virtual skill that young people could enjoy learning about. I’m just sharing the process.”