
One thing I love about teaching Spanish at UIC is the food! Students will use any excuse to bring food to the classroom. Spanish students learned to bring food in high school, and they keep right on bringing it in college. I love it! If I could, I would design a Spanish course dedicated solely to comida de la cocina hispana.
My Spanish 104 class had to do oral presentations last week and some students found a way to prepare a dish that would highlight their proyectos. Of course, I never complain! I usually teach in the morning and most students are very hungry when they come to class. Okay, I’m hungry, too. So, the food is always a very welcome visual aid for the student presenting. I’m looking forward to the next set of proyectos!

By popular demand!
Oro no es.
Plátano es.
Entonces, ¿qué es?
(Okay, Okay, only Vito asked me to post this riddle!)
¿Adivinaste?
I guess you have to teach them that silver/banana word play pun with this dish, eh? How does it go again?