Thanks to her two girls, Kim Zachman spent a lot of time making popular American foods like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken fingers, hot dogs, and pizza. Her girls are adults now, but when they were young, Zachman also learned a lot about books written for children. “I just got hooked on children’s books myself, I just really love ‘em,” she said. Zachman wrote for newspapers and magazines, but she wanted to try writing a children’s book. With the recent publication of There’s No Ham in Hamburgers, she has. Zachman said it was not easy to learn how to write for children. She had to learn to use clear vocabulary and shorter sentences. She said, “it’s been a long process, a learning process.” The book is about the history of American foods like cookies, chocolate, and cereal. When Zachman first had the idea of writing the book, most publishing companies were not interested. But that was before chefs got famous and television was filled with cooking shows some of which featured children. “Now, times have changed, and kids are interested in food,” she said. One of her favorite “kid food” stories is about the first breaded boneless chicken pieces, now known as nuggets. No one had found a way to cover the chicken pieces with a bread mixture that could be frozen and then stay on when cooked. When that finally happened, chicken nuggets started selling at McDonald’s restaurants all over the world in the early 1980s. “You know, we had fried chicken for hundreds and hundreds of years, why not the chicken nugget? And it really was that that was a technological challenge. … It was actually that really required a lot of technology to make it happen, so that surprised me that this little chicken nugget was such a big deal, and we didn't have it sooner.”
Title: Stories, Cooking Directions for Popular American Foods
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/B.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Stories, Cooking Directions for Popular American Foods' data-article-id='5635'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='17458'>Thanks to her two girls, Kim Zachman spent a lot of time making popular American foods like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chicken fingers, hot dogs, and pizza.</span> <span data-start-time='17458' data-end-time='28542'>Her girls are adults now, but when they were young, Zachman also learned a lot about books written for children.</span> <span data-start-time='28542' data-end-time='36271'>“I just got hooked on children’s books myself, I just really love ‘em,” she said.</span> <span data-start-time='36271' data-end-time='45000'>Zachman wrote for newspapers and magazines, but she wanted to try writing a children’s book.</span> <span data-start-time='45000' data-end-time='54438'>With the recent publication of There’s No Ham in Hamburgers, she has.</span> <span data-start-time='54438' data-end-time='60042'>Zachman said it was not easy to learn how to write for children. </span> <span data-start-time='60042' data-end-time='66542'>She had to learn to use clear vocabulary and shorter sentences. </span> <span data-start-time='66542' data-end-time='72542'>She said, “it’s been a long process, a learning process.”</span> <span data-start-time='72542' data-end-time='80188'>The book is about the history of American foods like cookies, chocolate, and cereal. </span> <span data-start-time='80188' data-end-time='88479'>When Zachman first had the idea of writing the book, most publishing companies were not interested. </span> <span data-start-time='88479' data-end-time='98292'>But that was before chefs got famous and television was filled with cooking shows some of which featured children.</span> <span data-start-time='98292' data-end-time='105938'>“Now, times have changed, and kids are interested in food,” she said.</span> <span data-start-time='105938' data-end-time='118938'>One of her favorite “kid food” stories is about the first breaded boneless chicken pieces, now known as nuggets. </span> <span data-start-time='118938' data-end-time='129792'>No one had found a way to cover the chicken pieces with a bread mixture that could be frozen and then stay on when cooked. </span> <span data-start-time='129792' data-end-time='142021'>When that finally happened, chicken nuggets started selling at McDonald’s restaurants all over the world in the early 1980s.</span> <span data-start-time='142021' data-end-time='146667'>“You know, we had fried chicken for hundreds and hundreds of years, why not the chicken nugget? </span> <span data-start-time='146667' data-end-time='149833'>And it really was that that was a technological challenge. … </span> <span data-start-time='149833' data-end-time='162063'>It was actually that really required a lot of technology to make it happen, so that surprised me that this little chicken nugget was such a big deal, and we didn't have it sooner.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/B.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17407 data-hint-location='88479' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/what_is_a_chef.wav'>What is a chef?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='A professional cook'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/a_professional_cook.wav'><span>A professional cook</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/a_professional_writer.wav'><span>A professional writer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/someone_born_in_czechia.wav'><span>Someone born in Czechia</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/someone_who_eats_at_a_restaurant.wav'><span>Someone who eats at a restaurant</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17408 data-hint-location='105938' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/what_kid_food_does_she_tell_a_story_about.wav'>What kid food does she tell a story about?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='chicken nuggets'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/french_fries.wav'><span>french fries</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/tomato_soup.wav'><span>tomato soup</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/chicken_nuggets.wav'><span>chicken nuggets</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/grilled_cheese.wav'><span>grilled cheese</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=17409 data-hint-location='36271' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/zachman_wrote_for_newspapers_and_magazines_but_she_wanted_to_try_writing_a__blank__book.wav'>Zachman wrote for newspapers and magazines, but she wanted to try writing a <span class='blank'>children's</span> book.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='children's'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/vampire.wav'><span>vampire</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/romance.wav'><span>romance</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/comedy.wav'><span>comedy</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5069/childrens.wav'><span>children's</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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