This book introduces past participles as adjectives used to describe nouns, through various ways of handling or cooking food. It features 20 different sets of dishes with expressions such as: “What would you do with chopped chicken?” accompanied by an image of chopped chicken, and on the following page, “How about fried chicken?” with a picture of fried chicken. Before turning the page, young readers can share their own cooking ideas, and then they will discover a suggestion for each grocery item.

By the end of the book, young readers will easily grasp how past participles with passive meanings function as adjectives.