Much of the early drama of the Exodus story takes Place in Egypt and revolves around the Ten Plagues which God let loose upon Egypt to force the Pharoah to allow the enslaved Jews to leave the country. To make these plagues more meaningful, we chose to represent each of these plagues in the order they occurred on each successive day during the Passover holiday. Whenever possible we used a combination of food and artificial props to reinforce the concept.
The 2nd of these plagues* involves frogs leaving the Nile and invading the residences, public places, and temples all over the land. To represent this horror, for dinner I hand-modeled and baked a pair of frogs (made from ground chicken) and set them on a lily pad of romaine lettuce leaves surrounded by (green salsa) pond slime.
I also molded a green jello frog and sat it on a pistachio-pudding pond for desert, but Bruce had the frog half eaten before I remembered to take a photo.
* "But wait a minute; you are probably thinking.,"What happened to the first plague?" To represent the first plague Water turning to Blood, yesterday (3/27/21)I set an all Red table cloth (to represent the Nile) down on the Egyptian Breakfast Bar, and served an all-red dinner consisting of sashimi Ahi Poki, with red cabbage slaw, red rice, cranberry juice drink, and red jello with small dying fish shaped from white pear slices floating in the jello. It was a clever way to reinforce the idea of the water staining everything blood red, and it was very tastey, but red-on-red color combinations do not photograph well at all.
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