Kasini is eight years old. She loves to cook. She reads a cook book on the school bus every morning and before bedtime.

Nobody knows her secret, that she sleeps with a wooden mingling stick every night. When she sleeps, she dreams that she is smiling, wearing a chef’s hat and holding her mingling stick high up in the air.

Kasini loves to sing as she cooks. She sings to the carrots and dances with the flour.