Conversations with my daughter.

[rivka]

Alex: Why do we always do the same old thing? I want you to make me a fancy lunch.
Me: What did you have in mind?
Alex: A little pig that looks like it's alive and has an apple in its mouth.
Me: You're planning to eat an entire roast suckling pig for lunch?
Alex: Half. (beat) The front half.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Has she seen piglets up close? They're pretty big for a single meal.

That said, I totally think you should make a roast suckling pig for her sometime. And, by that, I mean, you should totally do a project based on dissecting a piglet, learning about the organs and how everything fits together, then cooking and eating it. And that you'd have to ALL cook it together as a family, and learn about how proteins change when they're cooked, and why you cook, and how, and what cooking does.