In the classroom this week, we read The Have a Good Day Café about a Korean American family that finds success through sharing their food traditions with their community.
In the kitchen, the first grade chefs made kimbap, a dish that looks a lot like sushi but is seasoned with sesame oil rather than vinegar and is filled with cooked ingredients. We learned to position the kim, or seaweed, on a bamboo mat; wet our fingertips to work with the bap, or cooked rice; placed our fillings of choice (including egg, braised burdock, pickled daikon, spinach, carrot, and cucumber) on the rice; and rolled tightly so that the pieces we eventually cut would stay bite-sized. Everyone worked so well together and had a lot of fun working with their hands and trying some new ingredients and techniques!
