I got laid off this week. Well, it’s just the last two weeks of my food appreciation classes at a private elementary school here in the District of Columbia that I’ll be missing. Apparently they’re tightening belts even in places where tuition is around the same as my mortgage payment, and with only two weeks […]
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Doesn’t every culture have some sort of fried bread favorite? Where would New Orleans be without its beignets? Or Mexico its sopapillas? Or Boston its donuts? In Bolivia, a country high in the Andes mountains of South American where our food appreciation classes are currently visiting on a virtual world food tour, they call their fried […]
Tags:dessert·food appreciation·fry·kids·pastries·South American
In Latin America, food starts with corn and the arepa is another version of a corn cake that can be filled with just about anything–chicken, beef, pork, cheese, beans–to make a meal or a quick snack. In Venezuela, where our food appreciation classes are visiting this week on our virtual world food tour, arepas are […]
Tags:bread·corn·food appreciation·kids·snacks·South American·Venezuelan
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