3rd Graders Have Fun with Food and Chef Makani from Pono Burger

This week, Chef Makani Carzino from Pono Burger, helped Ms. Schwartz's 3rd grade class at Marquez Charter School have fun with food.

She started by talking about eating a rainbow and asked the kids to name the colors of the rainbow and some foods that matched them. She had brought a selection of colorful organic vegetables with her including cucumbers, rainbow carrots and red peppers. She also brought a selection of edible flowers and herbs including rosemary, chives and nasturtiums.

Each child had the opportunity to cut some colorful vegetables to put on their plate, to peel an organic egg from Makani's hen, Fluffy Buns, to make an animal out of rice and and to cut small shapes from seaweed.  Some children had seconds and thirds!