One line of Nana's bread recipe has been rubbed out. When Lucas and Mei start to make it, the pantry door opens onto a bakery in the shadow of the pyramids, where the oven has fallen in and two hundred workers will want bread by sunset. Lucas knows exactly how to make dough rise faster. He is about to find out what is alive in the jar.
Kitchen Lab
Ages 10–12Kitchen Lab is a series of illustrated adventures for readers aged ten to twelve about food: where it comes from, who first made it, and the science happening in every pot. Cousins Lucas, who is always hungry, and Mei, who is always testing, cook from their grandmother's old recipe book, and each recipe with a line rubbed out opens the pantry door onto the time and place it came from. Each book delivers one food topic through real history and real kitchen science.