Creole Kids’ Meal

What Makes a Creole Kids’ Meal?
French bread sandwich, using local produce and meats
Milk from a local dairy
Smaller, healthier, local desserts
History Activity booklets prepared by local artists & historian
Repurposed action figures based on local historical events & figures

Localized Kids’ Meals
 Educate As Well As Entertain

UNO student Chanda M. Nunez’s M.A. thesis re-interprets the racist depictions of “pecan candy” or “plarine” vendors as “mammies.” She connects their legacy to the 21st century praline businesswomen no longer encumbered by the “mammy” legacy. Her kids’ history activity booklet focuses upon these 18th & 19th Century street vendors as entrepreneurs — before the tourist economy & praline shops branded them as mammies. 

Images courtesy of  the Newcomb Archives of Tulane University and Ms. Nunez

Present even more local dishes on the school menu. We love our New Orleans & Louisiana Food.”Time to Rethink School Lunch, produced by Rethink: Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, June 2010