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Written by	Pat Tornborg
Illustrator	Robert Dennis
Published	1978
Publisher	Grosset & Dunlap
Series
ISBN	0448476371

Public health nutritionist Angela Raponi-Usobiaga introduces the book with a "Note to Parents." It also includes a page of "Cooking Words," and a page about "Getting It Together."

Recipes/plots

• A La Peanut Butter Soup!, with The Amazing Mumford discussing Grandmother Mumford's (Grandmum's) recipe.
• Little Quiches, Grover thinks Betty Lou wants to give him a kiss, not a quiche.
• Tossed Salad, Grover throws the salad, to Betty Lou's dismay.
• Sweet Kisses, finally offering a kiss ("Sweet Kiss"), Grover offers to shake Betty Lou's hand instead.
• Oscar's Sardine Specialties, Oscar's can is floating in the ocean, as he comments that Grouches like sardines because they "come in a can and have a bad reputation!" Sardine and Orange Salad, Sardines in Cucumber Canoes, and Sardine and Pickle on Pumpernickel are the recipes.
• Tele-grahams, Cookie Monster, Bert, Betty Lou as a postal worker, Big Bird, The Count, and Sherlock Hemlock comment.
• Delicious Dishes
• Strawberry Mousse
• The Count's Twenty is Plenty Log
• Un-cookies
• Grover's Flights of Fancy
• Oscar's Junk Food Pie
• Prairie Dawn's Popcorn Pudding
• Rubber Duckie Floats
• Snuffle's Truffles
• Mrs. Wiggins' Alpha Betty
• Monster Melon
• Shake It Awake
• Bert's Best Breakfasts
• Secret Dreams
• Big Bird's Sesame Treats
• It's Very Easy Bean Green
• Herry Monster's Mood Food
• Snuffle-load in a Spaghetti Nest
• Sherlock Hemlock's "P" Soup
• Twiddle-burgers with Topping
• Count Your Dressings
• Big Bird's Best Nests
• Little Bird's Nest Fillings

Characters

In order of appearance

• Cookie Monster, Grover, Prairie Dawn, Ernie, Bert, Roosevelt Franklin, The Amazing Mumford, Grandmum, Betty Lou, Oscar the Grouch, Sherlock Hemlock, Count von Count, Big Bird, Guy Smiley, Willard Fillmore, Susan, Rubber Duckie, Maria, David, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Mrs. Wiggins, Herry Monster, Maurice Monster, Frazzle, Granny Fanny Nesselrode, Mr. Hooper, The Twiddlebugs, Little Bird

Notes

• 0-448-13035-1 was the library edition ISBN, and j 641.5 was the Dewey Decimal number.
• The book was published under Grosset's "Platt & Munk" name.
• The book was designed by Sallie Baldwin and Frank Scully of Bob Antler & Sallie Baldwin, Inc.