We will spend the next two weeks discussing global food cultures and how we can expand our palates by learning about what and how people eat around the world. In the classroom we listened to the song and read the book My Food, Your Food, Our Food.
In the kitchen we worked with a West African grain called fonio. The kindergarten chefs agreed raw fonio looks a lot like sand! We sauteed onions and ginger in coconut oil to build a foundation of flavor, then added sweet potato, curry, harissa, rainbow chard, tomatoes, and black eyed peas. The fonio takes only five minutes to cook once it’s combined with vegetable stock and brought to a boil. There were a lot of new flavors for everyone to experience and now we can all say we’ve tried something we’d never tried before.
