In the classroom this week we learned about chifa, a cuisine that emerged from Chinese immigrants living in Peru over a hundred years ago. We read the book Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match, which is a story about a Peruvian Scottish American child learning how to navigate and celebrate the many facets of her identity.
In the kitchen we made a chifa dish called arroz chaufa (chaufa being the Spanish transliteration of the Chinese words for fried rice). It is similar to a traditional fried rice, but incorporates cumin and ají panca, a mild and fruity red pepper from Peru. The first grade chefs got more practice cracking raw eggs and had a lot of fun building the arroz chaufa in a wok.
