Creative Recipes for a Just World
By 826 Valencia
Students from 826 Valencia, a literacy organization in San Francisco, share their formulas.
Illustration by Elizabeth McConaughy-Oliver
Erik Edriel, Age 11,
826 Valencia’s Exploring Words Summer Camp
Recipe to Donate Food
Ingredients:
150 quarts of kindness
2000 gallons of money
400 cups of water
50 cups of family
60 tablespoons of ecstatic
20 cups of trucks
400 gallons of biodegradable plates
150 quarts of volunteers
400 gallons of toys
Directions:
Add 150 quarts of volunteers because they need to pass the food around.
Mix in 150 quarts of kindness in the bowl to spread kindness to the volunteers. Kindness is needed for volunteers to give food to everyone.
Add 400 Gallons of food to give to the people who need it. Food is important because we need it to donate and it gives us protein.
Then add 400 cups of cold water to give water to the people. Water is important because it hydrates people.
Mix in 2000 gallons of money to give to the people. With money people can buy more things like clothes and a home.
Grate 50 cups of family because we need a community and families to have food.
Blend 400 gallons of color toys in a blender to give the toys to the kids. The toys are important because they make the kids happy!
Add 20 cups of trucks to the blender and blend because it is important to transport the food.
Mix 400 gallons of biodegradable plates to serve it on a plate.
Knead all of the ingredients together and place in the oven.
Bake all of the ingredients in the oven to make the perfect pie recipe to donate food!
Trish Tran
826 Valencia’s Exploring Words Summer Camp
How to Make the Earth Greener and Cleaner!
Ingredients:
52 Tablespoons of healthy trees
37 Teaspoons fresh, clean air
790 Pinches of healthy crops
954 Gallons of clean, filtered water
28 Handfuls of free food
Directions:
Simmer 52 tablespoons of big, tall healthy trees into a big bowl. How do healthy trees help? Healthy trees help by cleaning the oxygen we breathe and stabilize their soil to give life to the wildlife!
Pour 37 teaspoons of fresh clean air into the same bowl. Why is clean air important? Clean air is important because polluted air affects our health and makes our lungs weaker.
Drop in 790 pinches of big healthy crops. Why are healthy crops important? Healthy crops are important because careful and consistent monitoring of crops health is a must for farmers!
Sprinkle 28 handfuls of Freshly cooked free food. Why is free food important? Free food is important because lots of people can’t afford food and everybody NEEDS food to survive.
Grate 954 gallons of clean, filtered water. Why is clean air important? Clean water is important because clean water is essential to human life and promotes healthy living.
Maxine See, Age 9
826 Valencia’s Exploring Words Summer Camp
Recipe for a Crepe Cake of Kindness
Ingredients:
1 half cup of help
2 gallons of forgiveness
1 quart of more niceness
3 gallons of respect
10 tsp of acceptance
8 ounce of responsible
6 cup of togetherness
1 tsp of reuse
4 ounce of more food
7 gallon of better people
Directions:
Add 1 half cup of help into a bowl that needs to be fed. If you help people, they might help you when you need it, like when a plant needs sun and water.
Stir 2 gallons of forgiveness into the same bowl, because if you forgive people it will make them feel joyful and they can trust you more, like how you can trust a chef to make you enjoyable food.
Bake 1 quart of more niceness in a fervent oven. If there is niceness in the world there will be less litter and hate.
Add 3 gallons of respect into a new bowl. If you respect others you will also learn not to be rude to others or to your surroundings.
Kneed 10 tsps acceptance on a rubber cutting board. Acceptance is important in having other people like each other. If there is no acceptance in the world there will be no love and only hate.
Bake 8 ounces of responsibility in a lukewarm oven. Responsibility is necessary in remembering things like to pick up your trash and to pick up your things.
Add 6 cups of togetherness into a tray, because if there is togetherness in the world there will be more social contact and social contact is key in life.
Grate 1 tsp of reuse into the same tray. If you do reuse, there will be less trash and pollution in the world.
Layer 4 ounces of more food to the tray. If we do not have enough food, we will starve and some people will die from hunger and starvation.
Layer 7 gallons of better people and all the ingredients and make a rainbow chocolate crepe cake with black drips from the top of the cake to the middle and candles that spell out “Kindness!” for a more kind and respectful world ✌︎︎
Joyce Ouyang, Age 7
826 Valencia’s Exploring Words Summer Camp
Recipe for Treating People Fairly
Ingredients:
1 cup kindness
2 half handfuls of safety
300 teaspoons of respect
4 gallons of responsibility
5 quarts listening
60 ounces of caring
7 teaspoons of sharing
8 kilograms of money
98 bowls of beds
1000 whole mountains of homes
Directions:
Pour 1 cup of kindness into a bowl because it's important to treat people fairly. Like being kind and being safe and like sharing and caring and being respectful. Like saying “Can you share that toy?” or “Can you share that book with me?” Kindness makes me happy like my cousin gave me a gift for my birthday!
Bake 2 halves of handfuls of safety. It’s important to be safe because you might be in danger like fire or earthquake or falling out the window. Feels good to be safe like someone wants to play and the adult brings you to a safe place to play. And I feel nervous to be in danger like a dark and scary forest.
Fry 300 teaspoons of respect. We need this because they will treat them fairly. Like how Martin Luther King Jr. changed the unfair laws to fair laws. They will fix the restaurants and everybody's homes.
Mix 4 gallons of responsibility into the bowl because they helped the refugees out to build a place to live and grow foods to eat. The people who help the refugees can assist the people building a house. Having a home feels like sleeping. I feel dreamless, sometimes hot or cold or warm.
Fold 5 Quarts listening. If you don’t listen, nobody will know your ears or what you are saying. They could be saying, “Wake up” or “Eat your breakfast on time you’re going to be late working.” It feels wonderful to be listened to. If you don’t listen, then the other people or your friends won’t trust you.
Stir 60 ounces of caring. Some people could be hurt and they need a lot of care at the hospital. We should care about refugees because they work hard and they are trying to build a house. The house is made out of bricks and red.
Toss 7 teaspoon sharing. Like some refugees are kids so we have to share our toys or their parents could share other things. When other people have a child that doesn’t need their toys, but they need other things like computers or iPads or iPhones.
Boil 8 kilograms of money because you need goods like food and drink, like water or some sugary drinks or fruit and vegetables. We also need soup. Some soups are sweet and sometimes bitter and sour. We need a place to live and a place to sit and a place to eat and watch and play and a place to sleep.
Spread 98 bowls of beds because once they have money for a home they use their money to buy some beds, chairs, lamps, tables and other stuff. The furniture is comfortable and soft. Because if they don’t have furniture, they won’t be comfortable. It’s important to be comfortable because you need to sleep well and know things to do.
Dip 1000 whole mountains of homes because they need homes to live. If they don’t have homes they don’t have money to buy a home to live in. They need to work to earn money to buy a home and goods and furniture.
