
Human Interest
At summer camp run by grandmas, kids learn life skills
The smell of frying garlic and ginger is inescapable as it wafts through the room, while a row of fidgety kids watches an older woman in a blue plaid apron cooking in front of them. “When I was growing up my mom used to make this a lot,“ she says, showing a chicken stir fry recipe. At this “Intergenerational Summer Camp” in a Southern California suburb, the grandmas are in charge.