Cooking with Ruby

About the Book

The fun-filled and exciting children’s book you have been waiting for is here! This story takes place around Ruby, a seven-year-old energetic little girl; Brad, the four-year-old little brother, and then there is Mom and Dad. The day of the promised Halloween party for all the little kids has arrived. As Ruby wakes up first thing in the morning, Mom tells her that the party will be later that night. As the day goes on and night approaches, goodies are made, Vulture Punch is poured, and witch hats and pirate costumes are thrown around the children’s rooms. Friends and family go out on the streets in search of candy and collect bags full to enjoy for many days to come. Fun for the whole family, it includes real recipes for everyone to make and enjoy!

About the Author

The book is coauthored by a mother-daughter team. The mother, Loreen Marie Benner, and daughter, Anne-Marie Benner, were both born and raised in Southern California and transplanted to the Northeast seventeen years ago. Loreen is an avid cook and baker with one of the largest cookbook collections in the Northeast and is a fifteen-year award winning baker. She has self-published one previous recipe book, which is still being sold. In the past, Loreen has been interviewed and published in at least two local newspapers here in Vermont. Loreen spoke weekly for over two years to a radio audience through her local radio program segment, “Recipe of the Week.” Loreen resides with her husband, Patrick, and herd of animals in South Burlington, Vermont. The daughter, Anne-Marie, found out how important it was to be able to cook when she moved out on her own. Now being keenly aware of the task at hand, she was more than eager to help with the writing of this book. She is also an award-winning baker with numerous awards from the local country fair. She feels that coauthoring the “Ruby” book/s, she not only gains the experience of cooking, but it will serve to help bring them closer together as “Ruby” is close to her own mother and family. Anne-Marie resides in Colchester, Vermont with her twenty-two-pound cat, Oscar.