Tag: Food
Eat Dessert First Month
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Eat-Dessert-First-Month.mp3 Author Kachina Domenick and Chris Air Date 5/30/2005 selection of cakes Eat Dessert First Month Transcript Kachina: Imagine biting into a chocolate chip peanut butter cookie. But the peanut butter is unsweetened, and grainy, and oily, even after being baked. And the chocolate chips aren’t chocolate, they’re carob, a […]
Chocolate
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chocolate.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Lauren Brosnihan) Air Date 2/3/2005 Chocolate Transcript If you thought that chocolate grew on trees, you’d be right. But not in the form of candy bars or foil-wrapped bon bons. Earlier this fall I visited a traveling exhibition about chocolate from the Field Museum […]
School Lunch Week: Pizza
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-School-Lunch-Week-Pizza.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 10/12/2004 School Lunch Week: Pizza Transcript All over America, school lunches and pizza seem to go hand in hand. But few of us realize that this favorite of children and grown-ups alike has had a long and convoluted history down the millennia. Pizza as […]
Chaat – The Delights of Indian Snack Food
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chaat-The-Delights-of-Indian-Snack-Food.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 9/15/2004 papdi chaat indian spice hand held salty and sweet Chaat – The Delights of Indian Snack Food Transcript For millions of children in the Indian subcontinent, closing-time at school heralds the arrival of a very special person-the chaatwala, with his handcart and colored […]
Kulfi – The Joys of Indian Ice Cream
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kulfi-The-Joys-of-Indian-Ice-Cream.mp3 Author Malini Roy Air Date 8/11/2004 Kulfi – The Joys of Indian Ice Cream Transcript Imagine the parching heat of an Indian summer. The streets are nearly deserted except for a few stragglers, and idle shopkeepers stare grumpily into space. Amidst the flies and dust, you hear a musical […]
Disgustingly Yummy Foods
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disgustingly-Yummy-Foods.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 10/10/2002 Disgustingly Yummy Foods Transcript While we all know that October is famous for Halloween candy, it is also a month to celebrate strange foods in general. October 9 (1996) marks the day that a well-known American food company made the world’s largest grilled […]
Junk Food
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Junk-Food.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 7/22/2002 Junk Food Transcript I didn’t think that anyone, except the advertising agencies, would think of making up jingles about all those things we try to get our children not to want to eat all the time. But that’s just […]
Homer Price and Doughnut Day
That’s Homer Price’s Aunt Aggie, complaining about newfangled inventions like the doughnut machine that his Uncle Ulysses is tinkering with in the couple’s new little coffee shop on the village square in Centerberg, USA.
Noodle Month
It's National Noodle Month, and Shelley Fraser Mickle is singing the praises of pasta and all its twists and turns.
Cornflakes
Who would guess that there’s a story in cornflakes? Shelley Fraser Mickle has one for us today on this toasted American institution.