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Food can form an enjoyable part of a wider agenda for learning to value diversity and respect different cultures, says Jane Lane Food can be an exciting and rewarding tool for practitioners to use to enable children to learn more about the world they live in. It can help them to better understand and appreciate the lives of people who are different from themselves.

Food can be an exciting and rewarding tool for practitioners to use to enable children to learn more about the world they live in. It can help them to better understand and appreciate the lives of people who are different from themselves.

But learning about the food eaten by people from cultures different from our own does not automatically mean that we value and respect them more.

So, learning about and appreciating the food that people from various cultures eat is only a part of learning to respect people equally.

Thinking about some key principles involved in planning projects about the diversity of food ensures that work on food is part of an overall on-going strategy about inclusion and equality.

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