family activities guide to the smithsonian folklife festival 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival Welcome to the 2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival! Grab a pencil, and get ready for a challenge! With this guide, you can find mystery ingredients in the Food Culture USA program; become a Junior Forest Ran ger in the Forest Service, Culture, and Community program; and follow Sindbad the Sailor across the oasis, desert, Food Culture USA and sea in the Oman program. Along the way, you’ll learn where your food comes from, find out how to identify animals by their tracks, watch camel decorating, and a lot more. This guide includes activities to earn different rewards in all three programs. Pick one, two, or all three. Each part of the guide tells you where to bring your answers and get your reward for that program. To learn more when you get home, visit www.folklife.si.edu. You’ll find lots of information there — and be sure to Oman: Desert, Oasis, and Sea visit the Smithsonian Global Sound section for music from around the world! Thanks for coming to the Festival. Have fun! Forest Service, Culture, and Community the edible explorer’s guidebook quesadillas appetizer welcome to food culture usa! area to explore easy quesadillas How much do you really know about your favorite foods? Tradition and Adaptation ingredients Cooking oil for greasing the pan Do you know where they come from? Do you know how 8 flour or corn tortillas they grow? Do you know what makes some foods taste mystery ingredient hint 12 ounces Monterey 4 spicy and others taste sweet? Did you ever wonder how This great dairy product Jack _ _ _ _ _ _ recipes are invented? makes Made from curds — toss the whey, 1 cup tomato salsa Hot chili peppers or sweet red Well, here’s your chance to find out! Can be hard, soft, or crumbly, peppers; cilantro (optional) This section is filled with tasty treats that you’ll have fun making And called “Blue” or “Monterey.” directions at home. There’s only one problem — some of the essential 1. Grate the _ _ _ _ _ _. ingredients are missing! The only way to start fixing the meals the mystery ingredient is 2. Heat a lightly oiled cast-iron pan is to solve the recipe riddles inside. _ _ _ _ _ _ . or griddle over medium heat. Clues are all around Food Culture USA: 3. Arrange 4 tortillas on a large baking sheet and spread Read signs for hints about where to go. fun food fact _ _ _ _ _ _ over each one. Spoon Talk to the farmers to hear what they grow. The world’s largest quesadilla some salsa on the _ _ _ _ _ _ and top with the tortillas — like Speak to the spice suppliers to learn what they know. was made in Oaxaca, Mexico, you make a sandwich. For a on April 29, 2000, to celebrate spicier flavor, add chili peppers when you’re done, visit the the city’s 464th anniversary. The and cilantro. potting shed to claim your prize. quesadilla measured 14 feet wide 4. Using a spatula, slip each tortilla and was made of 70 pounds of sandwich into the hot pan. Cook _ _ _ _ _ _ , 70 pounds of beef, for 2-3 minutes or until the bot- 45 pounds of beans, and 5 gallons tom is golden brown, then flip of salsa. ¡Olé! and cook another minute or so until the _ _ _ _ _ _ is melted. Is there a dairy farm near you? Remove with a spatula and cut Go to www.farmaid.org and search into quarters. 5. Repeat with the rest of the for dairy or _ _ _ _ _ _. tortilla sandwiches. Get to it! cooking tools grater baking sheet cast-iron pan or griddle spatula green salad first course stir-fry main course area to explore The Edible Schoolyard areas to explore Soy Tent, Tradition and Adaptation mystery ingredient hint the mystery ingredient mystery ingredient hint the mystery ingredient is From a fruit with a pit is _____ ___ . This block-shaped ingredient ____ . That gets picked and then pressed, (two words) Begins life as a bean. It mixes with vinegar You can drink its cousin soy milk So the salad can be “dressed.” To keep your body lean. cooking tools frying pan wooden spoon fun food fact fun food fact More than 3,000 different It’s always best to cook with local produce that’s “in season.” varieties of tomatoes are now cooking tools The longer vegetables are out of the ground, the more they grown around the world! large salad bowl lose their nutrients and their taste! To find out which ones grow near small mixing bowl To find out what fruits and vegetables are in season, ask a farmer you, go to www.farmaid.org and wooden spoon in the Tradition and Adaptation area or go to www.farmaid.org and search for tomatoes. search for a farm near you. salad and vinaigrette dressing stir-fry (recipe adapted from washington youth garden) 4 ingredients for the salad Dash of sugar ingredients directions serves Lettuce 4-5 tablespoons _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1. In a frying pan heat Find your favorite salad ingredients directions 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped oil over medium heat. in The Edible Schoolyard. 1. Peel the shallot and cut into 2 tablespoons ginger, 2. Add garlic and ginger. Stir Add them to the recipe. very thin slices. finely chopped for one minute. 2. Place salt, pepper, vinegar, 4 ounces _ _ _ _, cut into 3. Add _ _ _ _ and cook for 4 mustard, and sugar in small cubes 1-2 minutes, or until _ _ _ _ serves a small bowl. 2 tablespoons soy sauce is slightly golden. Cooked rice or noodles 4. Add soy sauce and stir. ingredients for the vinaigrette: 3. Stir in the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 shallot, chopped and mix well. 5. Add 3 seasonal foods you Name three foods to add to 1 Salt and pepper to taste 4. Taste to see if the balance listed to the left and stir for your stir-fry. Visit the 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar of the vinegar and _ _ _ is 2 two minutes. Tradition and Adaptation 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard right — you might need to add 6. Serve over rice or noodles. more of one or the other. area to ask a 3 5. Add to salad; toss. farmer for help. kheer (indian rice pudding) dessert hot cocoa drink area to explore The Spice Tent area to explore The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Tent mystery ingredient hint kheer 4 easy hot cocoa mystery ingredient hint ingredients ingredients Used as a seed or finely ground, serves This delicious food This spice first came from India ½ cup rice 3 squares unsweetened That we all love to eat But today, worldwide, it is found. 4 cups milk 1 cup sugar _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Comes from the cacao tree 1½ tablespoons _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4 tablespoons sugar And makes a sweet treat. the mystery ingredient is ¼ cup blanched sliced almonds Pinch of salt 4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . A few strands of saffron ½ cup water the mystery ingredient is directions 3 cups milk serves (Unscramble: M D A C R M O A) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 1. Place rice in a small bowl ½ teaspoon vanilla ½ teaspoon cinnamon fun food fact with just enough milk to cover it. Cover and let soak directions fun food fact Fresh herbs are also used to add for 30 minutes. 1. In a saucepan combine The cocoa we drink today tastes flavor to food. Hundreds of herbs 2. In a heavy-bottomed sauce- the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, very different from the original are grown in the United States. pan bring the remaining milk sugar, salt, and water. cocoa drink. The Aztecs drank To find out who grows herbs to a boil. Once the milk has Cook over low heat their chocolate cold, unsweetened, near you, go to www.farmaid.org boiled, reduce the heat to until the mixture has and often used chili peppers or and search for farms and low and add the rice and fully dissolved. wine to add flavor. Aztec nobles farmers markets where herbs milk mixture. 2. Gradually add the milk, drank as much as 50 thimblefuls can be found. 3. Cover and cook, stirring stirring continuously. of cocoa in a single day! occasionally, until milk has 3. Add vanilla and cinnamon, Do you want to try spicy cocoa? thickened and rice is cooked and heat to just under Go to www.farmaid.org to find (approximately 45 minutes). boiling. out where you can buy fresh hot 4. Add sugar and _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, 4. Pour into cups, and enjoy! peppers near you. making sure to stir well, and cook for another 20 minutes. cooking tools 5. Remove from the heat. small bowl Garnish with almonds and cooking tools saucepan wooden spoon wooden spoon a few strands of saffron. saucepan with a lid congratulations! You solved all the recipe riddles, and you’re ready to start cooking. The Edible Explorer’s Guidebook has But first... been generously supported by Farm Aid.