Our theme this week was foodways - what people eat and how they eat. In the classroom, we read the book My Food, Your Food, Our Food written by Emma Carlson Berne and illustrated by Sharon Sordo, which explores how our food traditions are alike and how they are different. The more exposure we have to foods from around the world, the more we discover new tastes and textures we love, the more we notice there isn’t only one way to be healthy. You can listen to or download the song version of the book here.
In the kitchen, the kindergarten chefs worked with fonio, an ancient grain from West Africa. Students cooked the fonio with onions, ginger, greens, curry, and tomato paste in coconut oil, then added the fonio and vegetable stock, brought the mixture to a boil, and let the grains cook by simply steaming in the hot pot with the lid on and the heat turned off for five minutes. Chopped tomatoes, yams, black-eyed peas, and peppers topped off our brightly colored grain bowls. Most of us tried a new food today, and liked it!
