In the classroom this week the first grade chefs watched a video from PBS Wisconsin, Manoomin: Food That Grows on the Water, about the sacred role wild rice plays in Indigenous Anishinaabe culture.
In the kitchen we made a manoomin salad featuring wild rice produced by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, winter squash, cranberries, and pumpkin seeds—all foods native to North America. We also enjoyed an iced strawberry leaf tea, which some chefs loved and others found bitter, but everyone tried something they had never tried before!
