Lowcountry Cuisine Spring/Summer 2019

lowcountry cuisine LC 52 www.LowcountryCuisineMag.com | www.CharlestonRecipes.com A passionate French teacher at Ashley Hall has found an innovative way to teach her students about French culture, traditions and vocabulary: through their stomachs. What better way to learn this romantic language than in the kitchen, exploring this culture’s unique cuisine? Olivia Hipp, a French teacher at Ashley Hall, has found that learning about French cuisine helps her students learn the language. “Being in the kitchen and eating French food brings an authenticity to the language. For our hour together, they are completely immersed in French culture through food,” she said. Her La Cuisine Française class is for fifth- and sixth- grade French language students, and it is one of the many after-school programs offered by Ashley Hall. “All the recipes and vocabulary exercises are in French,” Hipp explained. “The girls help with each step of the recipe, so while they build their vocabulary, they are also building their confidence in the kitchen – and, of course, building up an appetite to taste everything!” For the first lesson, the students prepared a galette des rois, a traditional French puff pastry king cake for Epiphany. Also known as Twelfth Night, Epiphany is a feast celebration for the Christian faith that commemorates the day the kings came to visit Jesus in the nativity story. BY THERESA STRATFORD La Cuisine Française Ashley Hall Students Master the Art of French Cooking Photos cour tesy of Ashley Hall.