In the classroom this week we read excerpts from A Very Asian Guide to Vietnamese Food and watched a short video of how rice paper is traditionally made by hand in Vietnam.
In the kitchen the first grade chefs made salad rolls featuring edible rice paper and rice vermicelli. Everyone got to make their own rolls filled with loads of colorful ingredients and enjoyed them with a nut-free dipping sauce. The edible flowers (calendula, society garlic, and pincushion flowers) were grown at the Dearborn Community Garden, which most of the first graders visited on a field trip last spring!
