(ukulele strums) ♪ From right here, you can go anywhere ♪ ♪ And see amazing things.

♪ And that's because you and I are friends.

♪ ♪ And right here you can be just the very best ♪ ♪ That you can be, so take a look around ♪ ♪ Let's learn and play and see ♪ In Blueberry's Clubhouse, Blueberry's Clubhouse, ♪ ♪ Blueberry's Clubhouse - [Narrator] Join us in the clubhouse, where everyone has a view of all the wonderful things to do.

- What about that one?

- Nah, that looks like it would make my stomach hurt.

- Oh, okay.

- Oh!

Carrots, my favorite!

- Oh I don't, I don't really like my carrots shredded.

It's a texture thing.

- Okay.

- Ooh, what about that?

Ooh!

That looks good!

- Oh, I don't like lettuce.

- Okay.

- None of these recipes are going to work!

- Yeah, what even is blueberry marmalade?

(Blueberry shudders) (trumpet sounds) - We've got to find something to cook for the friendship feast, Max.

It's this afternoon!

- I know that.

But do you even know what half of this stuff is?

- No.

If only we had some help.

(trumpet sounds) - I said, if only we had some help!

- Bad, no, no stop it plate!

Hey girls!

What are you two up to?

- We're just trying to decide which dish we're going to bring to the festival.

- But we don't like any of the recipes in these cookbooks.

- Hmm, yeah yeah.

Can't think of anything to cook, huh?

Well I have never had that problem (laughs) but I am burdened with culinary genius.

(audience clapping) - Huh?

What?

- I find inspiration everywhere.

Television shows, clouds in the sky, even radio songs, right?

- In fact, that's where I came up with my infamous heartbreak Rotel cheese dip.

- Oh that's my favorite!

- Yeah, mine too!

(moose slurps) - What are you doing?

- Oh, Marv has the most discerning palette in the entire state.

He's one of my best taste testers.

- Oh!

- And?

(Marv smacks lips) - More black pepper.

- Are you okay Marv?

- I'm fine.

I've tasted countless dishes.

- Oh.

- I've been here longer than the mess hall itself.

- Wow.

- They built it around me.

- Yeah, his back end could make cooking in the kitchen a nightmare sometimes.

(Marv gasps) - But we don't have time for this right now, Sean!

We're just two hungry campers with no idea what to cook!

- Well, some of the best recipes come family traditions or your culture.

- What's culture?

- Oh, I think I know this!

- Culture is all the beliefs and traditions that a group of people share and that helps them feel like a family.

(Sean screams) - Was that a ghost?

- No!

That was my friend Joel.

- Oh.

Oh, will you put that down?

- I'm sorry.

- You know, I didn't realize that food could apply to culture as well.

- Oh, you betcha.

Food is the most important way people share their culture with each other.

- Well, that's great.

But it's just that I don't know anything about my culture, or even loved foods that are important to me.

(Blueberry gasps) - Oh, I bet our friends at Central Arkansas Library System can help.

(spring uncoils) - You guys looking for another ghost?

- No.

This is normally when the periscope comes down.

- This is a mess hall, little lady.

No periscope here.

- Oh man.

- Hey, I might have something that'll work.

- What could it be?

- Oh yeah, here it is.

- Oh wow!

Wow!

- Look at that, huh?

- That's so cool!

Let me see it!

- I wanna see it too!

- When did you get this?

My recipe reader.

- Well, I don't rightly remember where we got it.

You remember, Marv?

(Marv clears throat) - Many years ago, when the mess hall was just a pup tent (record scratch) - I'm sorry Marv, but we don't have time for a story right now.

- Uh, that's right, that's right, it's okay.

- Move your hand.

Move over.

- Just a second.

I just wanna look.

(xylophone sounds) - Hello?

- Hello.

This is Max from the mess hall.

- Oh, Hi Max, how's camp going?

- It's going well.

Me and blueberry need to make a dish for this afternoon's friendship feast.

- Lucky you called.

Librarians have great taste.

(trumpet sounds) - Oh, oh ask them about Arkansas foods.

- So me and Blueberry wanna make a dish that's an example as who we are as campers.

But, we're not really sure what that would be.

- Follow me!

- Oh you wanna know about foods from here?

Well Arkansas can grow it all.

Well, almost everything.

The state produces crops that are normally grown in the temperate climate zones.

So that's like every crop in the United States.

Except for citrus, so no oranges.

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

(laughs) - Arkansas has almost 5 million harvested acres.

That's like 3,781,250 football fields.

That's bigger than the state of New Jersey.

Whoa!

We can grow anything, from pickles in Alma, to the sweetest watermelon in Cave City.

Here's a list of all the things that we grow in the state.

Whoa!

That's a lot!

Wowzers.

I'm getting hungry.

Nationally, Arkansas produces more rice than any other state.

We're number one!

We're number one!

We're number one!

Arkansas farmers produce more than 9 billion pounds of rice each year.

And almost half of the rice produced in the United States comes from Arkansas.

Arkansas also produces a variety of edible nuts, from peanuts near Walnut Ridge, to pecans down in Atkins.

- Oh boy!

Did someone just mention my favorite hard-walled edible kernel?

- Hi Earl!

- I love all kinds of nuts, but not macadamia nuts.

- Why do you say that, Earl?

- Because much like me, they're tough nuts to crack.

(laughs) (laughs) - Oh Earl!

(laughs) - So funny.

- You goof!

- So, uh, where are the nuts?

(record scratches) - I'm sorry.

We don't have any nuts.

We were just talking about different foods that we could cook with Max and Blueberry, foods from Arkansas.

- Aw, fiddlesticks.

- I do have these awesome books about nuts.

- Oh, no no.

I've read it.

No, I've read that one.

- You sure?

- Oh, no that's okay.

- What about this one?

It's really funny.

- Oh, I, uh, I write my own jokes.

- I know that's right.

You really crack me up!

- What can I say?

I'm nuts about nuts.

See ya!

- Goodbye Earl!

(gasps) Speaking of kernels, Arkansas grows a whole heaping of wheat.

The soft red wheat that's grown here helps make all the wonderful bakery treats like cookies and cakes.

Arkansas also has a rich history of world famous beverages.

But there was one beverage that rose above all the rest to be crowned Arkansas' official drink.

You know what it is.

It does a body good.

That's right, it's milk!

(cows moo) Dairy production was long a mainstay in the state of Arkansas, with the average Arkansas cow producing over five gallons of milk a day.

That's 1,715 gallons of milk over a course of a year.

(cow moos) Well, I hope this helped you guys learn about all the wonderful foods here in Arkansas.

I'll see you next time.

Bye!

(upbeat music) - Hey, y'all it's your gal Gertie.

Are you surprised to see me?

Possum's like me, we're usually active at night.

But today's the big day!

It's the summertime friendship feast!

And I would be madder than a wet hen (hen clucks) if I missed it.

I just can't wait to see all my friends at the mess hall and we're going to get so full, full as tick on a hound dog.

(dog barks) I hope to see you there.

- So what do you think Blueberry?

Can we make a dish out of Cave City watermelons?

Or maybe Alma pickles?

- I don't know how you could cook a watermelon.

- It's tough I'll tell you.

Oh it's (triangle chimes) the first on the (indistinct) What did you bring us?

- I made candied yams.

- Oh!

- Candied yams?

- How did you think of that?

- I like how surprising they are.

It's a vegetable that tastes like candy.

- I love candy!

Keep talking.

- See you guys later!

- Bye!

Bye, thanks!

- Thank you!

See you later.

- What about you Chef Sean?

What's a dish from your family?

- Ah, my viking ancestors used to make a dish called lutefisk.

- Lutefisk?

What's that?

- Uh, it's kind of a baked fish.

- Oh.

- Baked fish?

Gross.

(coughs) - Okay okay, thank you.

That's my heritage you're coughing at there.

- Who are you?

- Well, that's Rhubarb.

- And that's Floret.

- And we're the ones that keep this mess hall running, kid.

(laughs) - I daresay I have a hand in that as well.

- Well, maybe you can help us.

We're trying to decide what to cook for the friendship feast today.

- Yeah, and we want something that's an example of who we are as campers.

- Well, the best place to start is with your favorite foods.

- Well I like strawberries and watermelon.

- How about you Max?

- Well I like carrots (Floret gasps) - And spinach.

(Rhubarb screams) - Spinach.

Ugh, a camper who likes to eat their vegetables.

Well I never!

Never, never, never ever never ever ever.

(laughs) - What are you doing over there, Sean?

- I am setting at the table for the feast.

- Did you know that you've got the forks on the wrong side of the plates?

(laughs) - Rookie mistake, Sean.

- Hey!

(laughs) - Hey!

Chef Sean is working hard.

Don't pick on him.

- Besides what's it matter what side the fork is on?

- What manner of question is that?

- A question of manners indeed.

- A question that matters indeed.

- Because manners matter a lot!

- Huh?

- You need to learn your table manners, Max.

- Table manners?

- Yeah, sometimes when you're part of a group you have you follow certain rules.

- Like never talking to strangers.

- Or covering your mouth when you cough.

(coughs) - Are there manners to eating?

- Oh shug, yes, table manners are part of our camp culture.

Just like canoes and kite festivals.

- That's right.

I bet my friends at the Proper Way Academy can help us out.

- Let me see.

(bells chime) - Hello?

Is this the Proper Way Academy?

- It is.

Is this Max?

- It is.

And Blueberry.

Me and Blueberry want to sharpen up our table manners.

- Well thank you for calling me.

I'm so glad that I will be able to help you today.

When we are around other people, we want to show our good manners so we can all enjoy our time together.

When you are sitting at the table, it's very important that you are not seated too far away, because if you are too far away, you will be hunching over your food.

The best distance would be to put your hand on the table at the edge.

We also don't want to put our elbows on the table because we don't want to cause an accident by knocking a glass of water that is on the table.

It's important to understand how to set the table.

The first thing we need, it's a table mat.

Then our blade will go in the middle.

Fork will always go on the left.

Our knife will always go on the right, with the blade always facing the inside.

And maybe today we'll also have soup.

This would go on the outside of the knife because we will be having our soup first.

This would be our plate for the soup.

Our napkin should always go on the left, and our glass for water or drink should always go on the right.

So there are two ways to hold our spoon.

This position is to cut our food.

This would be our pencil hole, and this is a proper way to hold our spoon.

When you are eating soup, you always go away from you.

The soup should always come to you, and also no slurping and not making loud noises.

(child slurps) And when you want to drink water, always pull it in an L-shaped motion.

Bring it towards you, and then up.

Otherwise, you can end up with your drinks all over you.

- Always remember it's very important to say please and thank you.

So once you're finished, remember to always put back your napkin on your left and always push back your chair to the table.

That's it.

I hope you like everything I taught you today and if you need anything else, I would always be happy to hear back from you.

Bye!

(xylophone sounds) - It's Gertie again.

Y'all think being a possum is all about fine dining in the great outdoors, eatin' whatever and wherever I want.

And it is.

But I still use my manners.

That means chewing with my mouth closed, no burping, and always using my napkin.

I may be a wild animal, but I don't have to eat like one.

Food and friends go together like mashed potatoes and gravy.

That's what the summertime friendship feast is all about.

Get ready to belly up to a spread of something special.

But remember, there's plenty to go around.

So be sure to share with everybody at the table.

(timer dings) My cornbread casserole is done.

Mhmm.

What are you bringing to the feast?

- Is that your dish for the banquet?

- Sure is!

- Oh, I will take that.

Ah!

- When did you cook it?

- I'm not really a cook, but I made a seven layer dip.

- Ooh, well that's okay, Jordan, a lot of my favorite foods are eaten raw, like cookie dough.

(record scratches) - Oh Blueberry!

You eat raw cookie dough?

With raw eggs in them?

That's disgusting!

- What makes your dip so good Jordan?

- Every time you think you dug to the bottom, you dig little bit more and you find something new.

- Oh, that sounds delicious!

- See you later at dinner tonight.

- Okay, bye Jordan, thanks!

Bye!

- You know Max, you could've been a little more empathetic to my cookie dough snacks.

- Oh, Blueberry.

I'm sorry.

I wasn't trying to be mean.

- Well, I understand.

There's still one problem, Max.

- What's that?

- The friendship feast is almost here and we still don't know what we're going to make!

(gasps) - I believe I can be of some assistance.

- Chef Sean!

- Ah, here you are.

- What is all that?

- Well this is a list of ingredients from you guys' favorite foods that you were talking about earlier.

I figured if you're going to make a dish that represents both of you, you could use this stuff.

Plus, this is all we have left in the kitchen.

- Well, we, we could.

No, that won't work.

- Oh, wait, what about?

No, that won't work.

- What if we?

No.

- Well one time you tried, oh yeah that didn't turn out.

- You know what?

I've heard of cooks being stumped before, so I think we need a second opinion.

- Oh!

(xylophone chimes) - Hi Blueberry!

-Howdy, Kid Cook gang.

Good to see ya.

Listen, I got a couple of campers here that are running out of time and they need your help to make a dish that represents them both.

There's pumpkin- - There's grapes.

- Grapes.

There's also three eggs, I don't know what they're from, could be a snake.

There's a banana.

There's a mango.

- Oh there's an old lemon.

Orange.

- Old lemon.

There's an orange.

We have orange slices.

Maybe we can find some milk.

I'm gonna have to go looking.

- There's a cheese wedge as well.

- Two.

- Two of them, so go nuts.

- Oh, a mystery recipe challenge.

We love doing those kinds of things.

We have strawberries.

Does anybody there like fruit?

And we also have some great lettuce that we picked from our garden.

So we've got a great recipe to show you putting the two together.

(upbeat music) Let's talk about safety tips first.

Jordan?

- You should always have adult supervision around anything really.

- Never cut your fingers.

- And don't forget to wash your hands really well with soap and warm water before you start cooking.

First step is to put out all of your ingredients.

The next thing we're going to do is cut up the strawberries.

All right, so I think you guys are being very safe today, so the first thing we're going to do is cut up some strawberries.

So, let me see all your safe skills.

So, everyone take a strawberry out and start cutting.

And then cut it in four pieces total.

Let's talk about our lettuce.

Uh, if you did not have a knife, what's another way you could use the, um, could cut up the lettuce.

Allie?

- Um, scissors?

- Scissors, yeah, what else?

Jordan?

- You can tear it.

- You can tear it, right.

So let's demonstrate that.

Why don't you each take a scissors or tear it and show how you can do this without a knife.

So what is our salad missing?

- A dressing.

- Yeah vinaigrette.

All right, so it's usually, a vinaigrette is usually those simple ingredients of vinegar and oil.

But the difficulty about that is that, vinegar and oil don't mix very well.

So what we're gonna do right now is make an emulsion, all right?

So the science to make our vinegar and oil into an emulsion is to add a drop of milk.

And that's because the molecular structure of the milk allows the vinegar and the oil to combine thoroughly and smoothly.

So that's the science, but the purposes, the purposes of tasting eating means that two things that wouldn't come together will combine.

So two tastes that you would not eat separately, will come together to make a third taste which is really delicious.

I'm gonna measure carefully a tablespoon of vinegar.

And then we're gonna measure carefully a tablespoon of oil.

And then we're going to put just a drop of milk, just a tiny drop of milk.

And then all you have to do is stir it really vigorously.

So it's no longer separated.

All right, Is everyone's vinaigrette done?

All right.

So now's the time to do the tasting, because in the end cooking's about tasting.

- Yummy!

- So now we're going to combine some flavors.

So put a strawberry and some salad and a little bit of that cheese onto your toothpick and dip it into the vinaigrette.

And let's see how those flavors combine.

It's a surprise.

Isn't it?

That all the things that you might not eat separately when you put them together, they taste really great.

I hope this gives you idea of how to use fruits and vegetables together.

- Bye!

Bye, Blueberry!

(triangle chimes) - Come and get it!

- It's Gertie, your favorite foodie.

♪ Well, it's that time of year where ♪ ♪ all this food appears.

With flights of plenty that ♪ ♪ fill the table, little Chef Sean and his magic ladle.

♪ ♪ There's all the delicious treats, with some of ♪ ♪ your favorite eats.

Pull up a chair, there's no time ♪ ♪ to spare, it's the summertime friendship feast!

♪ ♪ There's dips and chips and Chef Sean's ♪ ♪ heartbreak Rotel.

Bless your heart, ♪ ♪ you'll get so full, your belly starts to swell.

♪ ♪ I may get full and pass out, but I'm not deceased.

♪ ♪ Remember, I'm a possum.

It's the summertime ♪ ♪ friendship feast!

Get out of my way, ♪ ♪ cause today's the day.

I'm here ♪ ♪ with friends, let the eatin' begin.

♪ ♪ It's a summertime friendship feast.

♪ ♪ It's a summertime friendship feast.

♪ (gasps) -Whoa!

- This all looks amazing!

Blueberry, our salad!

- Looks great!

- Wow, Max!

Is that the dish you made for the feast?

- Yeah, the salad in the red bowl.

- Great job girls!

That looks great!

- Chef Sean helped.

- Oh, a little bit.

- Great job, Sean!

- Thank you.

- Oh, doughnuts.

- Wow, all these dishes look great!

- Oh, yeah it's like looking out what it means to be a camper.

- What do you mean Blueberry?

- Well, Devin's yams are a lot like table banners.

They aren't very fun by themselves, they're a lot more fun to share.

- Well I guess that makes sense.

- Oh, or Jordan's dip.

Every time I think I've learned all there is about food and culture, I dig a little deeper and find something new!

- And what about our salad Blueberry?

The best foods, like the best traditions, are mix of everybody's favorite things.

- Well I'll eat to that!

- Wait wait, where's your dish Chef Sean?

- Oh, well I've been helping you guys make yours, so I didn't have any time to make- - Hey Sean?

- Hey listen, shug.

Now we saw Blueberry being nice to Jordan earlier about his dish - Mhmm.

and well, we felt bad about making fun of your heritage.

So we made you some.

- Look, look in it!

- Lutefisk!

(triangle chimes) (laughs) - Have some.

There it is!

♪Manners ♪ matter as you wander through this world ♪ ♪ Be mindful of what you say and do, ♪ ♪ it's true, it's true, so true ♪ ♪ Say yes please ♪ And thank you ♪ Or no thanks, no thank you ♪ Manners ♪ Matter as you wander through this world ♪ ♪ Be careful of what you say and do ♪ ♪ It's true, it's true, so true ♪ (guitar strums) ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ And now I am a bird (guitar strums) ♪ I am a bird ♪ I can hop, hop, hop, hop I am a bird ♪ ♪ I am a bird ♪ I can peck, peck, peck, peck ♪ I am a bird ♪ I can fly, fly, fly, fly ♪ Faster, faster, faster, faster ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ And now I am a bee (guitar strums) ♪ I am a bee ♪ I can buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz ♪ I am a bee ♪ I am a bee ♪ I can swoop, swoop, swoop, swoop ♪ ♪ I am a bee ♪ I can fly, fly, fly, fly ♪ Faster, faster, faster, faster ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪ ♪ And now I am a butterfly (guitar strums) ♪ I am a butterfly ♪ I can glide, glide, glide, glide ♪ ♪ I am a butterfly ♪ I am a butterfly ♪ I can float, float, float, float, float ♪ ♪ I am a butterfly ♪ I can fly, fly, fly, fly ♪ Faster, faster, faster, faster ♪ ♪ I am an animal, animal, animal ♪