Crumble Crumbs

By Kaylani Sawyer

I remember when I was little, like five years old, my grandma was making some sweet corn bread in the kitchen. When I inhaled the cake batter, I immediately started running like a cheetah to the kitchen. Then I looked at the oven, and started drooling. I was drooling so hard that I fell on the floor, still staring at the oven. When I got up from the floor, I saw a huge puddle of drool from where I was staring at the oven, like a lion staring down its prey. When I finished cleaning my drool, I looked at the oven again. The corn bread was rising like the sun. My stomach said, “boo boo rumble boo” as I watched it. My grandma walked by me staring at the oven, almost where I opened it. She stopped me to tell me to sit down; I watched her like an eagle. She said that the corn bread was a part of history or something. I wasn’t paying any attention to her. I was just sniffing the air, inside my nose my booger was dancing for a closer smell. “Ding,” the timer went off. I jumped and ran as fast as a cheetah. Then my grandma opens the oven, and the smell of roses comes out. She cut me a slice of cornbread. I just stared at it: the color was goldish yellow, and there were little pieces of chocolate chip. When I took a bite of the corn bread, I felt like I was walking on the clouds to a soca concert. I put it down, and a good amount of crumbs fell out. Then I licked my white plate. It was the most special experience I ever had!! My great grandma’s cornbread is the greatest dish ever, trust me. One reason why my great grandma’s cornbread is special is because of its history. Let me explain. So, when my grandma and her dad were in the kitchen making something for her mom, she had an idea to make corn bread because her mother loves cornbread. After she told her

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dad, he ran to the attic to get a box from his mom. When she opened the box, he pulled out a magical recipe. He handed it to her and the date was May 14, 1954. She said, “That was over twenty-eight years ago.” Her dad smirked at her. “Yes, that was twenty-eight years ago, but my mom was only fifty-four years old. At that time, I was nineteen. Me and your grandma were in the house looking for ingredients because on this day in 1954, lawyer Thurgood Marshall scored a landmark victory as the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Your grandma found something to use like: two cups cornmeal, two cups all-purpose flour, half a cup granulated sugar, six teaspoons baking powder, two teaspoons salt, half a cup vegetable oil, two-thirds cup of milk, four eggs, one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, one-quarter cup semi-sweet chocolate chips for sprinkling.” So then they used all of the instructions that were on the paper. They finally got a perfect chocolate chip cornbread. That is why my great grandma is the best!! Another reason why this food is so special is because the special ingredients are LOVE. Let me tell you, the word love has many ingredients like:

• L is for lemon honey curd so we can put it on top of the chocolate chip cornbread • O is for oat milk as an ingredient • V is for vanilla extracts, the special ingredient • E is for eggs as an ingredient Sometimes in my family, love is an ingredient to food, or it’s a feeling that we give to people that makes us happy. That’s why my great grandma’s chocolate chip cornbread is the best. When I think about my great grandma’s chocolate chip cornbread, my tastebuds are dancing like they were excited that they went to

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Disneyland on vacation. It’s just not my stomach that celebrates this glorious dish, but also my heart. This food will make you drool until you get a puddle. It also makes you hungry for a thousand seconds. Lastly, it makes your boogers dance inside your nose. The next time you feel like treating your taste buds, you should try my great grandma’s chocolate chip cornbread. You won’t regret it!!!