Mini-Lesson

Objective: Students will create a class cookbook.

1. Have students read TFK Kid Reporter Yunhee Hyun's interview with Rachel Ray. Ask: How did Rachel Ray become interested in cooking? Why is preparing food on her show and at home so important to her?

2. Have students talk with a partner about a recipe that is special to their family. It could be a meal that they eat often, or something that they eat only on holidays. For homework, have them find out and write down the recipe they discussed.

3. Challenge students to write about why their recipe is meaningful to them. They may choose to write a story about their family that they have been told, or one that they have actually experienced. Pull together students' recipe-story combinations to make a class cookbook.