The observation of the media in the worldwide and domestic market allows us to see a tendency towards the professionalization of children’s culinary culture. A manifestation of this phenomenon is inter alia the development of toy industry associated with the manufacture of culinary accessories, as well as the annexation of the media space reserved for children and the young. Within it, we can notice the multiplication of culinary TV programs, while more and more Internet culinary projects, little chef online games, and applications for mobile devices are becoming available. A culinary “thematic turn” is also taking place in the book market for children and young people. After 1989, impressive qualitative and quantitative changes took place in the cookbook segment for the youngest readers. Evolution covered their new thematic variants and editorial styles as well as media formats (culinary audiobooks and e-books), which reflected the global fashions and ideas characteristic of the consumer culture, as well as evidenced the culinary emancipation of the youngest. The report will show diverse variants of present-day cookbooks for young readers, including: those linked with children’s entertainment supersystems; those referring to the works in the canon of school reading and to classical children’s and young people’s literature; family books i.e. addressed to children and their parents/guardians; cookbooks in verse, culinary toy-books, guides promoting healthy nutrition and ecological lifestyle, books promoting knowledge about national and regional cuisines, and finally – recipes in literature for children. Apart from presenting interesting examples for individual varieties offered by the Polish publishing houses, the author wishes to refer to selected exemplifications that recapitulate the history of the phenomenon in Western culture (Germany, the United States, the UK). The principal thesis posed by the author is to connect the popularity of culinary publications for children with the tradition of children’s kitchen and cooking games, including playing the cooking doll and miniature cooker, popular from the mid-nineteenth century. To confirm her thesis, the author refers to the works of the French Annales school (chiefly Philippe Aries), thus including her report in the research methodology practiced by the French school’s representatives.