“PS Caitlin my long term affair with your macaroni & cheese recipe reached its apex this fall, when I used the text from your blog post as my final assignment for my CELTA certification (we had to bring in an “authentic, level-appropriate text” and design a set of skills tasks around it). A class of 13 pre-intermediate language learners were given it as a reading in a lesson on “Comfort Foods,” before teaching each other how to make comfort foods from their own cultures. I cooked it in a kitchen in Greenpoint and brought it in on the 7 train for them to eat at the end. Adults from Japan, China, Guatemala, Algeria, Martinique, Basque Country, Haiti, and Italy give it full marks.”
an email from my friend Jim that totally made my day
