American cooking Coloring Book - a Surprise Castle exclusive

24 hand-illustrated scenes from American kitchens, picnics, and diners, from a Thanksgiving turkey to a backyard tailgate spread.

Pour the coffee. Pull up a stool.

A hand-drawn adult coloring book, 24 scenes that run from breakfast counters and bakery windows to 4th of July picnics and holiday tables. The pace is set by the sizzle of a flat-top and the slow bake of a pie crust, not the next notification.

Step up to a movie theater concession stand, popcorn bucket overflowing, a hot dog in its cardboard tray, a drink with a striped straw. Walk to a breakfast spread of pancakes with melting butter, eggs and bacon plated next to toast and coffee. Pull up to a backyard barbecue grill with hot dogs and burgers laid in rows over the coals, a salad bowl and a pitcher of lemonade beside it. Then to a farmer's market display heaped with corn, tomatoes, pumpkins, fresh bread, and mason jars, a checkered cloth underneath.

The pages keep moving. A summer picnic on a checkered blanket with a wicker basket, hamburgers, apples, salad, and a milk jug. A sunlit kitchen window where a lattice-crust apple pie cools on the sill above flour, potatoes, and corn. A breakfast table loaded with bowls of eggs, a milk pitcher, a coffee mug, and a stack of waffles. A diner cook flipping burgers and dogs on the griddle while the coffee pot brews and the OJ pitcher waits.

Wander through the day. A second pie cooling on the windowsill among baking supplies — apples, rolling pin, flour sack. A platter of fried chicken next to corn casserole and a tall lemonade with a lemon slice on the rim. A holiday Thanksgiving table set with a roasted turkey, potato casserole, cranberry sauce, pie, and a place setting. A fast-food meal — burger, fries, soft drink — on a checkered wrapper.

Keep going. A bakery window display with a three-tier cake under whipped cream, fruit tarts, pie, and a coffee. A 4th of July picnic with hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, watermelon slices, lemonade, and a small American flag in the basket. A second baking spread on the counter — apples, rolling pin, mixing bowl, flour sack. A breakfast plate with eggs, bacon, toast, coffee, and salt and pepper shakers. A tiered birthday cake with lit candles, slices already cut, balloons drifting overhead. A food truck open window with burgers, hot dogs, fries, and lemonade in pitchers. A morning kitchen with pancakes and syrup, an apple, mixing bowl, and rolled dough. A salad lunch — two bowls of greens, tomato, avocado, lemonade, a flower vase. A second food truck window with hotdogs, hamburgers, fries, and condiment bottles. A bakery case stacked with pies, donuts, muffins, cookies, and bread loaves. A backyard tailgate with the grill running, picnic table loaded, chips, drinks, cooler, and sports balls. And to close, a chef in a commercial kitchen flipping eggs and bacon on a hot griddle.

There's a reason coloring sticks around. It gives a busy mind somewhere to land, and in this case that somewhere is the lattice of a pie crust or the chrome edge of a diner counter. Some pages are bold and forgiving. Others will eat a whole afternoon. Works fine with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, or gel pens.

If you know someone whose favorite holiday is Thanksgiving for the food alone, a friend who's perfecting a barbecue rub, or a cousin whose drive-through order hasn't changed in twenty years, this is for them. It's also for the person who'd quietly rather shade an apple pie on a Saturday than scroll.

Pull up a plate.

Inside you'll find 24 scenes: a movie theater concession stand, a pancake-and-bacon breakfast spread, a backyard barbecue grill, a farmer's market display, a checkered-blanket picnic, an apple pie cooling on a sill, a loaded breakfast table, a diner cook on the griddle, a second cooling pie with baking supplies, fried chicken with corn casserole, a Thanksgiving turkey dinner, a fast-food meal, a bakery window with a three-tier cake, a 4th of July picnic with watermelon and flag, a second baking spread, a classic breakfast plate, a tiered birthday cake with candles, a food truck open window, a morning kitchen with pancakes, a salad lunch, a second food truck window, a bakery case full of pies and pastries, a backyard tailgate spread, and a chef on the line in a commercial kitchen.