In the classroom this week we read the book Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match about a girl who comes from multiple cultures and loves them all. A fun thing about the book is that the illustrations show that Marisol lives in San Francisco!
In the kitchen we made arroz chaufa, a staple of chifa, the cuisine that came out of Chinese immigrants in Peru and the melding of East Asian and South American foodways. Many of our first grade chefs had experienced fried rice before, but our recipe kicked up the flavor with the addition of cumin and ají panca, a fruity pepper paste. We enjoyed practicing our chopsticks skills when we sat down to eat together.
