Message from egonzalez

[Anonymous]

I like the idea of reading Bee-Bim-Bop! by Linda Sue Park to teach children greater appreciation for the food of their culture. Wouldn't it be great to follow that up with another book about food and culture. I found one such book: Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin. Although it doesn't go into as much detail as Bee-Bim-Bop about the ingredients and preparation, it does depict a Chinese girl and her mother who work in their garden cultivating Chinese vegetables. The young girl wishes she and her mother would grow flowers like the rest of the neighbors. It isn't until she and her mother harvest the vegetables and prepare a soup that she gains an appreciation for the delicious vegetables.