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Picture a Latin American person. There's a decent chance that you pictured a person the color Jennifer Lopez and not the color of Roberto Clemente.
The truth is, as a group bonded primarily (but not exclusively) by language and region Latin Americans are the descendants of people from around the globe. From Indo-Trinidadians, to Afro-Hondurans, to the Maya of Belize, there is not one way to be Latin American. And surely not one way to look Latin American.
The cookie we've made to celebrate the diversity within Latin America is a chocolate chip cookie dough base with dark, semi-sweet, white chocolate and butterscotch chips.
Our first iteration of this cookie was inspired by one of our favorite Puerto Rican families, the Ayala Riveras. Their multihued house is a gorgeous reminder that the Latin American diaspora is a people made of many people groups even within countries.
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Ingredients:
Flour (Organic Unbleached Wheat Flour, Organic Unbleached Barley Flour), Sugar, Butter (Cream, Natural Flavors), Molasses, Rainforest Alliance Certified Milk Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Milk, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate Liquor, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Butterscotch Chips (Sugar, Palm Kernel Oil, Whole Milk Powder, Nonfat Dry Milk, Cocoa Powder, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor, Paprika Extract), White Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Palm Kernel Oil, Whole Milk Powder, Nonfat Dry Milk, Vanilla Extract, Natural Flavor), Rainforest Alliance Certified Chocolate (Sugar, Belgian Unsweetened Chocolate Processed with Alkali, Cocoa Butter, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Extract), Eggs, Cornstarch, Corn Syrup, Whole Milk Powder, Vanilla Extract, Baking Powder, Fine Sea Salt, Spices. Contains Wheat, Eggs, Soy, and Milk
Looking to have conversations about skin color with a child? Here's a list of books that may be helpful:
The Color of Your Skin / El color de tu piel by Desiree Acevedo
The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
All the colors we are / Todos los colores de nuestra piel by Katie Kissinger and Chris Bohnhoff