Around the world in 80 meals: how to bring an international flavor to your kitchen table.How to bring an international flavor to your kitchen table I love to travel. Except for the, well, traveling part. I can get motion sick on roller skates roller skates npl → patines mpl de rueda roller skates roll npl → patins mpl à roulettes roller skates roll npl . And the jet lag jet lag Period of adjustment of biological rhythm after moving from one time zone to another, experienced as fatigue and lowered efficiency. It reflects a delay in the synchronization of changes in the level of blood cortisol, the major steroid produced by the adrenal cortex . I'm not crazy about that either. Or strange cities. And of course, you can't drink the water. You've got to watch out for the food, too--plop, plop plop v. plopped, plop·ping, plops v.intr. 1. To fall with a sound like that of an object falling into water without splashing. 2. , fizz, fizz. So, really, you could say that I love being somewhere else, doing something new and exciting, but with all the comforts of home. Yup, I'm a real traveler. Maybe that's why I'm so into ethnic cuisine. I mean, let's face it: Food is half the reason people travel. Scenery is the other half. Why travel halfway across the world for food you can have at home? So while my palate palate (păl`ĭt), roof of the mouth. The front part, known as the hard palate, formed by the upper maxillary bones and the palatine bones, separates the mouth from the nasal cavity. is the only part of me that travels well, I am sad to say that my family is not so, shall we say, adventurous. "We're eating Pad what?" I realize the family dinner has been on the endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. activities list for a number of years now. With many families juggling work schedules, school activities--both regular and extracurricular--for both kids and sometimes parents, it is simply too hard to get everyone together to sit clown at the same time and eat. But if you want to make the rare or occasional family dinner a special event or add some spice to your regular family dinners, try making it a cultural smorgasbord every now and then. It's almost as good as traveling. Enlist Friends and Family Members. If you aren't an authority on ethnic cuisine, making something unknown might be a little intimidating in·tim·i·date tr.v. in·tim·i·dat·ed, in·tim·i·dat·ing, in·tim·i·dates 1. To make timid; fill with fear. 2. To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats. . It's hard to know if you got it right if you're not sure what it's supposed to taste like. Sampling at local ethnic restaurants can help. So can friends and family members who are either from ethnic backgrounds or are well traveled. My sister, Aimed, is living in South Korea right now. When she came for a visit, she made us a Korean dish. Sangita, a friend from Nepal, stayed for a week once and showed me how to make several Nepalese dishes. Missionaries or overseas project volunteers are great sources of inspiration and information, plus they tell great stories. Get the Kids Involved. The best way to get kids to eat food they've never seen before is to have them help prepare it. The next best way is to have them study the land it comes from and make dinner a learning game in history, geography, and culture. The children can participate in proportion to their age. For smaller ones, simply reading a story that highlights the culture might be sufficient. Older kids can make table decorations, write an article critiquing the food or telling an interesting point about the culture, or demonstrate a game or other local custom. Or let them design and send postcards to relatives telling where they "went" for dinner. Prop It Up. Props and costumes add even more fun and flavor. For example, if dinner is of an Indian or Nepalese nature, everyone might wear a sari made from old sheets or tablecloths to dinner. During Aimee's Korean dinner we learned that in Korea the main eating utensils This is a list of eating and serving utensils.
Bambusa vulgaris bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo ones. Do a little research either at the library or on the Internet. Better yet, have your kids do it, and find something to use for each culture. It doesn't have to be anything extravagant, but try to experience as much as you can of each culture. With a little practice you might not even miss the scenery. Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
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