We will spend the next few weeks talking about global foodways and how important and fun it is to explore how and what people eat around the world. In the classroom, we read My Food, Your Food, Our Food, which is also a song.
In the kitchen, we worked with some ingredients native to the African continent: fonio, an indigenous West African grain; black-eyed peas; and yams. The kindergarten chefs made a fonio grain bowl with fava greens grown locally at Dearborn Community Garden. They prepped fresh ginger, bell peppers, tomatoes, and roasted yam, and seasoned the fonio with curry and sweet harissa. It was the first time eating fonio for most of us and a nice opportunity to try something new and different!
