Today’s lesson: Yellow curry for the food bank - Explore Big Sky
By Jack Reaney STAFF WRITER Eighth graders from Discovery Academy visited Lotus Pad on Friday and got to work on the wok. As part of a middle school project exploring food insecurity, three eighth graders—Discovery lost its other three middle school students to a weekend ski competition—learned how to cook yellow curry from general manager Marsha Barker. Supervised by art teacher Hannah Boyd and assistant head of schools Beth Marlington, the students packed up 10 containers of curry to donate to the Big Sky Community Food Bank, where the tubs will be frozen and distributed by operations manager Sarah Gaither Bivins. The students hope this can spark a pattern for community restaurants. "It needs to be 10 ounces of vegetables, 4 ounces of chicken," explained eighth grade student Liam Bevan as he placed a small mixing bowl on the kitchen scale. After some instruction, Bevan and his classmates added Thai cuisine to t...