We built a vegetable stand and dad hooked up a doorbell that rang in the house when a person would stop to buy our vegetables. We painted a sign that said Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Cucumbers. Our job during the day was to man the stand. We sold tomatoes for 50 cents a pound, potatoes for 25 cents a pound, and cucumbers were 25 cents each. By the end of the day, we would have sold out of most of the vegetables and when he arrived home we all went to the garden to pick more for the next day.
I was anxious to eat this special meal because it was the first time I would try the pozole. The aroma coming out of the pot where the pozole was cooking was tingling through my nostrils as I breathed in, and also making my mouth extra watery. When I asked my mom what pozole was, all she said was that it was like menudo. My heart sunk when I heard this. Menudo was the food I hated most.
Then we grab all the potatoes and rinse them off with cold running water. We cut each potato into dices and put all the potato dices into a pan to let them boil. While we cooked potatoes and a turkey, with my dads help, my brothers and I put a ham with pineapples on a grill. The smoke coming off the grill about an hour later really made me so hungry. Who likes pie on Thanksgiving?
Squanto showed the immigrants how to plant corn in hillocks, using dead herring as fertilizer after many failed attempts of growing while using their own Methods. He also taught them how to fish and where the best spots were to catch enough to feed the colony. These important tips were essential to the
As I stood there looking the sounds of the crickets was getting louder which meant it was time to head back to the campsite and for me to finally make that campfire. I made it back to camp right before the rays of the sun stop slicing through the trees. All the children was laughing and chasing the lighting bugs with jars just hoping to catch a few to watch them glow, while I was making the campfire. After about five to ten minutes of trying to get the campfire going the family where able to gather around the fire as a family to roast marshmallows for smores. Have to be carefully though that chocolate marshmallowie mess can burn your tongue.
On this day, a special tradition is followed. Haitian pumpkin soup or soup Joumou is made in commemoration of Haitian Independence Day. Shari’s mother wakes up bright and early to prepare the soup. The first thing that her mother does is to let the pumpkin puree in the water on the stove at low heat for about 30 minutes. While the pumpkin cooks, Shari’s mother cleans the beef with lime, rinses and then
She also lives in Memphis Tennessee, with her daughter. The illustrator Jan Spivey Gilchrist is an artist whose illustrations have won numerous awards; including the Coretta Scott King award “Christmas Soup” a children’s book written by two African- American women. In this essay I will discuss what this book is about, describe the book itself, and give a response on how I enjoyed reading Christmas Soup. Christmas Soup is about the Beene family. They are having soup again for Christmas dinner, instead of the feast the children had desired.
Every time her uncle and aunts go visits her she always gets sad when they have to leave because of the goodbyes. Although most of the time his flights are delayed, she decides to stay home instead of going along to drop him and leaves, her father tells her that her uncle said he will never forget them. Furthermore, she talks about the day she turned fifteen and how they did not have enough money to celebrate like most girls with a quincenera but instead they have a gathering of 6 people to celebrate. Their budget is tight but her mom still decides to buy what her daughter deserves and nothing lower. She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor.
Or eat, for that matter. “We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually,” (Food Inc.). In Wendell Berry’s article, The Pleasures of Eating, he strongly expresses that we as a country need to start eating more responsibly. Before watching the movie Food Inc., I found his argument slightly too harsh and maybe offending. But after watching it, I could not agree more.
(Food Inc.) The narrator gives facts on how we as customers get to enjoy ‘tomatoes’ all year round. He states that they were “grown half way around the world, picked when it was green and ripened with ethylene gas” (Food Inc.). This is meant to inform the audience that what they are eating isn’t what it seems. Just like the rest of the vegetables in the supermarket that is not labeled “organic”. We rarely think completely about where the food we eat comes from and how is it produced.