Kabuli Pulau, a pilaf of rice, meat, carrots and redolent spices, is said to be the national dish of Afghanistan. We made ours with lamb and quickly became intimate with the dish’s rustic origins. This is one of those treatments that requires several cooking vessels to prepare various elements, all of which come together in […]
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We love to torment the rest of the school with the aromas from our food appreciation classes. This week was more wickedly fun than ever. “What are you cooking in here!” bleated numerous visitors to the multi-purpose room kitchen. The moral of this story: people talk a lot about the benefits of vegetables, but what […]
Even after five years working with the kids in my “food appreciation” classes, I am still occasionally bowled over by their reactions to certain foods. This week they dove into the process of making a classic Irish stew. They were not at all grossed out by the site of lamb being sliced and diced. On […]
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