A couple of years ago when Maile’s school expanded to elementary school, the first class of kindergarteners started a tradition of a “semi-formal” or communal lunch. Basically, a couple parents help prepare a communal meal and the children help setup the room with glasses, plates, knives and forks and do chores like setting the table, serving and cleaning up afterwards.
These lunches happen 3-4 times a year. Christine and I helped out today and we had a great time. We joined with another family and made our theme about different ways to cook and prepare food. We made a smoothie and also showed how something as simple as vegetables could be arranged to look “pretty” and be art (they are doing a unit about what art is). The other family made pork sous vide style (which I’m not positive the kids totally understood), but they definitely got a kick out of the blow torch the dad used to finish off the pork!
Maile and her friend, Zoe, getting the table all setup.
Maile really enjoyed having us there and serving her classmates.
And after all the work setting up, the food was very yummy!
Kindergarten lunch is definitely a mad house - one day was enough for us!
