Kasama Means Together: Connecting Through Longanisa

In this lesson, students will learn how food connects them to others/their family by learning about the Filipino sausage longanisa and drawing or writing a story about sharing a dish with someone special to them. This lesson was designed with the support of Chefs Genie Kwon and Tim Flores of the world’s first Michelin-starred Filipino restaurant KASAMA in Chicago. Their famous longanisa sausage breakfast sandwich has become known as one of the best dishes the city has to offer.

Curricular Connections:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.1.3:

Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Family Letter:

This lesson includes a Family Letter, a one-page handout that is ready for teachers to send home to families (or include in their electronic updates) after delivering Pilot Light Food Education lessons in their classrooms. With these letters, we aim to strengthen the school-home connection and family/caregiver involvement, as well as support teachers in their ability to authentically share classroom activities with families.

• breakfast
• Filipino
• Kasama
• longanisa
• Philippines
• sausage