On Monday, I hosted a book club. As I pulled out the fixings for cups of tea, I thought to myself how surprised I was that the children had not eaten all of the sugar cubes, especially since they were still in their marked box. They did eat a fair amount during book club, and I threw away that box.
This morning, I went to open the new box, and to my surprise....it was empty! I'm not sure if they suddenly knew we had some and ate them all in a day, or if they had been pilfering from the bottom box the whole time!
Lucky for all, I had picked up a box from the Italian grocery store. I present to you Italian sugar cubes, still called cubes, but it seems their math skills may be lacking here. These cubes are most certainly rectangular in nature.
Today's Italian lesson is Zucchero- sugar. Pronounced zoo-ker-oh, this is a useful word when one drinks coffe (with or without sugar. Though now that I think about it, sugar is never in the coffee, it is always served as packets on the saucer or on the table.)
