Kid cooks at Young Chefs Academy

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Photos of kid cooks during a cooking class at the Young Chefs Academy in the Toco Hills shopping center on Feb. 6, 2010.

Call them 'koodies.' Kids are getting in on the cooking act - from future gourmands to prospective pastry chefs, kids are as influenced by cooking shows as the rest of us. Here, seven-year-old Julia Carroll works on making Canadian Maple Sugar Pies during a cooking class at the Young Chefs Academy in the Toco Hills shopping center.

Nine-year-old Chayla Bethea (left) listens to instructor Dene Lynn during her cooking class at the Young Chefs Academy in the Toco Hills shopping center.

Instructor Dene Lynn sprinkles flour on a students hands. At Young Chefs Academy, culinary contenders from kindergarten through high school can apron up and hone their chops on cooking everything from maple cream tarts to egg foo yung.

Twelve-year-old Kierra Winfrey, far left, adds flour to her Canadian Maple Sugar Pie during instructor Dene Lynn's, far right, cooking class.

Twelve-year-old Kierra Winfrey chops up celery. Jennifer Fox, the owner and director of the Young Chefs Academy in Sandy Springs, said that families are returning to the old-fashioned notion that cooking is an important life skill.

Seven-year-old Julia Carroll, left, and Caleb Jackson, 9, wash their celery. Koodies are becoming a prevalent part of the food chain, according to trend watchers.

Here's how those Canadian Maple Sugar Pies came out.

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Call them 'koodies.' Kids are getting in on the cooking act - from future gourmands to prospective pastry chefs, kids are as influenced by cooking shows as the rest of us. Here, seven-year-old Julia Carroll works on making Canadian Maple Sugar Pies during a cooking class at the Young Chefs Academy in the Toco Hills shopping center.

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