This past Christmas holiday, I visited family and ate a lot of food! One of the dishes prepared by my sister-in-law was the Korean Bibimbap, or Bee-Bim Bop — a rather musical sounding dish to be sure. A couple nights later, I found myself reading Linda Sue Park‘s Bee-Bim Bop (illustrated by Ho Baek Lee, Clarion, 2006) to my four year old niece. Bee-Bim Bop is about a young girl who helps prepare Bibimbap with her mother. Written rather appropriately in verse and making full use of that Bee-Bim Bop alliteration and words that rhyme with ‘bop’ like ‘shop’ and ‘flip flop’ — the girl helps her mother shop, prepare and serve the meal. It was fun to read this book to my niece after we had dined on the dish so recently! I since discovered that bibimbap is often served as a lunar calendar New Year dish, so our eating it just after Christmas before the New Year was somewhat timely. But bibimpap any time of the year is delicious.
What festival foods did you and your family consume over the holidays? Are there kids books about those foods? Do drop us a line and let us know the title. Reading is a kind of feasting, after all!
Poetry Friday this week is hosted by Tara at A Teaching Life.