News from Mr Grady
Hello everyone. An army, we’re told, marches on its stomach, and I think it’s safe to say that Mr Roach and the team in the kitchen take this to heart, providing us with a whole variety of snacks, meals and drinks across the working day to keep us marching onwards. I cannot begin to tell you how much I look forward to that jumbo sausage roll on a Friday breaktime!
And indeed, just like a kitchen is the heart of a home, the kitchen at RHS remains the heart of the school – it is here that you come to sit down to eat, or to takeaway food to share with friends and colleagues, and this week in particular, the kitchen has gone all out in celebrating the diversity of our community in culinary style.
Not content with spoiling us with Swedish meatballs, nyama, kulfi, strudel, tagine and crème brulee, (go and look them up if you want to know what they are – or ask your child if they’ve tasted them!) the canteen itself has been decorated in a variety of flags and also phrases declaring friendship in a whole host of languages.
Food is such a communal experience: It has been a real pleasure to see students and staff sharing and discussing the different meals and the similarities or differences to meals they might already have sampled.
Of course, once you start talking food, you start talking culture, and family and friends and experiences all come piling out. For me, I have yet to eat an apple pie that tastes as good as my grandmother’s old Irish recipe, or pho that taste as good as the pho I bought from the street stalls in Vietnam, when I travelled through it with my wife 10 years ago. But every time I try an apple pie, or take my chances with what western food-chains think are Pho, I get that flush of pleasure of shared memories and shared experiences and the joy that diversity of appetite brings.
So, thanks Mr Roach and your team for rounding off this first half term by celebrating the diversity of our community, for tickling our taste-buds, and for ensuring this last week of the half term has reminded us there are plenty of different words for friendship, but that they all have a place in one room when we sit down and eat together!
Best wishes,
Mr Grady
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