Cookbooks for a bored teenager

What do you do with a bored teenager?  Teach them to cook.  At least that was what I did.  I was a single mother with three sons and the oldest, at seventeen, had way too much time on his hands.  I bought several creative cookbooks and challenged him to make dinner for us with the recipes.  To everyone’s surprise, including his, he loved cooking.  Soon he was doing all of our cooking and baking and realized he had found his career.  When he left school, after winning several cookery contests, he attended the local catering college and is now on a path to being a top chef.