Investigate the food of every place you visit. Kids identify ingredients, trace dishes to their origins, learn cooking traditions, and document what they taste. Food becomes a window into culture, history, and geography in this hands-on (and delicious) investigation.
Ages 6–14 · Activity guide · 3 skill levels
Your child investigates one dish like a case: where the ingredients come from, who cooked it first, why it exists in that place at all. Then they cook or taste it and write it up. Food turns out to be history that you can eat.
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