The Recipe: Cream Cheese
Penguins
Ingredients:
18 jumbo black olives, pitted
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
18 small black olives
1 carrot
Directions:
Cut a slit from top to bottom, lengthwise, into the side of each
jumbo olive. Carefully insert about 1 teaspoon of cream cheese into
each olive. Slice the carrot into eighteen 1/4 inch thick rounds;
cut a small notch out of each carrot slice to form feet. Save the
cut out piece and press into center of small olive to form the
beak. If necessary cut a small slit into each olive before
inserting the beak.
Set a big olive, large hole side down, onto a carrot slice.
Then, set a small olive onto the large olive, adjusting so that the
beak, cream cheese chest and notch in the carrot slice line up.
Secure with a toothpick.
The Movie: March of the Penguins
(2006)
The film depicts the yearly journeys of the emperor penguins of
Antarctica. In autumn, all the penguins of breeding age (five years
old and over) leave the ocean, their normal habitat, to walk inland
to their ancestral breeding grounds. There, the penguins
participate in a courtship that, if successful, results in the
hatching of a chick. For the chick to survive, both parents must
make multiple arduous journeys between the ocean and the breeding
grounds over the ensuing months.
