Romy
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233 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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Just go on their website and see if they have anything about it.
So David wraps up the class discussion, and he pulls me and Truthy aside. He had told us earlier that he'd chosen two students for this yogurt question to try to figure out why, like why La Fermiere was using clay pots for their yogurt.
I don't know if that's good luck or bad luck, but thank you all the same.
Chapter two, the students. Okay, for the record, can I just get you to say your name?
Romy and Anouk, both 11th graders at the school.
Right, and which in French is what it's called?
I'd get to know Romy and Anouk much better in the many months that would follow. Romy, I would learn, grew up in New York. She's one of those teenagers who almost seems like a fully-formed professional somehow.
Yes. Anouk's family is from France, and she's a more laid-back type. Like, she seemed to have the kind of curiosity that chases all sorts of things, just not necessarily the stuff that shows up on a syllabus.
And of course, anytime we're trying to help somebody answer a question, one thing we want to know is, why do they specifically care about it? Well, first of all, do you guys eat yogurt?
And what about La Fermiere?
No, I don't really eat La Famille yogurt, except when I want yogurt at school because it's the one they sell, but usually not.
And what do you usually eat?
Trader Joe's Greek yogurt. Very good. Recommend.
So Romy and Anouk, a little more blasé about La Fermiere than their teacher. Okay. Enough so that Shruti and I are beginning to wonder, like, are these two student investigators even interested in this question? Like, is this something they're excited about? Or is this just a homework assignment?
both of them sort of say immediately, it was your question, David, not our question. And then David replies in what I can only describe as fluent teacher.
I will admit, PJ, in this moment, my faith in this Yoker question was getting kind of low.
I was, like, more with the students here in their seeming ambivalence than I was with their teacher. But also, it turned out I was underestimating him because by the time this was all over, this question would become interesting.
Yeah, not in a pedagogical, demonstrative, educationally effective way, like, properly interesting.
But on that day, we all just sort of dutifully get into the elevator. We're heading to the school cafeteria, which is the first stop in our investigation. And on our way there, I started talking to Anouk about her relationship to dairy products back when she was growing up in France.
So I would say just consuming milk and milk-based products is something that's very advertised in France. For example, in my childhood TV show and everything, they would say at every ad break, oh, you have to consume five vegetables a day, also three different milk-based products a day.
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