Read This

My class has been studying bread. We're making it, tasting it, dissecting wheat stalks and having an all around good time breading it up. One book that we've read that I think is a great multicultural piece of writing, not just for our study, is the book Everybody Bakes Bread by Norah Dooley.

The main character is sent by her mom on an errand through her neighborhood. Every house that she stops at there is bread coming out of the oven (lucky girl)! The Barbadian family is cooking coconut bread, the South American family has pupusas and the Jewish family is making challah. There are more cultures and more kinds of breads that the girl tries. I love that the author ties together so many people and places from around the world with something as tangible to kids as bread. 

Of course, like all great books that talk about food, there are recipes for the breads at the end of the book. You could work through the recipes on chilly fall afternoons. Yum!