I've been following Jamie Oliver's endeavors for a while. Wasn't that crazy? I have always used the grocery store as a place for teaching and learning. My kids learned their numbers, colors and shapes at Publix. LOL. Great place for reading readiness, too. Maybe those WV kids are left in the truck while the parents go into the grocery store without them.
My 5 year old granddaughter can identify common (and some less common) vegetables, and she and her 7 year old brother can also tell you whether they come from a tree, vine, bush, etc... and whether they are the fruit, stem, root or leaves of the plant. Geez. Cee ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:37 AM Subject: RE: [gatortalk] Where food comes from - It MUST be the off-season! (was: sports cars) Don't know if it's been mentioned but I was watching a show recently called Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution. He was attempting to introduce heathier items into a West Virginia elementary cafeteria menu. He had a group of kids 5-6-7 years old who could not identify common vegetables such as tomatoes, potatoes, Bell Peppers etc when displayed to them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [gatortalk] Where food comes from - It MUST be the off-season! (was: sports cars) Years ago when my kids were younger and we were visiting my parents down in Florida - I asked my dad to take the kids out to the orange trees, pick some oranges, eat them and make orange juice. Just so they did not think oranges and orange juice comes from the stores. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gatortalk] Where food comes from - It MUST be the off-season! (was: sports cars) From: "Cecilia" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 12:41 am To: <[email protected]> I come from long lines of rural folks on both sides, Leon. My grandmother always had chickens. I watched her walk through her big chicken pen MANY times, wringing necks as she went... then she'd string 'em up on the clothesline. ;-) Both of my grandfathers had huge vegetable gardens and fruit trees (and my dad still does, out in the fancy neighborhood where they live off Newberry Rd). My dad and his dad and brothers always hunted, and all of us fished a LOT. I think we were pretty well acquainted with where our food came from. Most of our food probably did come from a grocery store, but there was enough of it from "the source" for us to know and appreciate how it got from there to our table. My kids haven't seen their grandmother wring a chicken's neck, but most of the rest of that stuff above applies to them, too. They've both fished all their lives, their grandfather has a huge garden and fruit trees... and my daughter has even killed an antelope since they moved to Montana! Her husband and his dad usually kill enough deer, antelope and elk to keep them in meat all year most years. Her kids certainly know where their food comes from. ;-) Cee ----- Original Message ----- From: Arthur Polhill To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] RE: sports cars Good for you, Cee. I'm a firm believer that kids need to know where their food comes from...and it ain't Publix. A. Leon Polhill, Gator "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know." - Mark Twain -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cecilia <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 10:45:17 PM Subject: Re: [gatortalk] RE: sports cars LOL... reminds me of the time our neighbors gave my family an entire butchered cow because their kids couldn't stand to eat "Moomoo". The first night we had steaks - which we NEVER had in our family of seven - all of us kids were raving about how delicious the steak was. My dad said, "You know where we got this steak, right?" We said, "Yes... it's Moomoo," and kept right on eating. ;-) Cee -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us
