by Sasha Ginnetti

Mozzarella. Sarsaparilla. Matelote. Ingredients for CookShop’s weirdest new recipe? Think consonants, not comestibles — these food words and many more were on the menu for some of America’s brightest youth at the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee this year.

Eater.com picked their favorite word from the Spelling Bee list, and we’d have to agree: Borborygmus, "the gurgling, rumbling or growling noise from the abdomen caused by the muscular contractions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines downward," a.k.a. tummy grumbling. To battle the borby… blorbo… borgyb… the tummy grumbles, why not whip up one of the delicious and easy-to-prepare snack recipes, like Apple Dippers, that students learn in CookShop, our nutrition education program?

Students in CookShop don’t just learn new recipes for healthy, affordable foods — they also learn things like the science behind what makes certain foods healthy, the math that goes into measuring out a recipe and a whole host of new vocabulary words to describe their food experiences.

You can learn new food words too! Check out the official Scripps list of food words from this year’s National Spelling Bee. Oh, and let us know if that Mozzarella Sarsaparilla Matelote soufflé is easier to make than it is to spell.

 

Apple Dippers