Fruit Pizza {Cooking in Technicolor}

Ever since 50 innocent people lost their lives during the Orlando shooting at LGBTQ+ nightclub Pulse on June 12th, I’ve had this recipe stuck in my head. No only rainbows were a staple in my son Tomás Eugenio’s drawings when he was a little boy. I thought this fruit pizza is the perfect excuse for my children to eat fresh strawberries, nectarines, mangos, pineapples, kiwis, blueberries, and blackberries.I took advantage of the white canvas provided by Flatout Flatbread to create this dessert pizza while sharing a reflection on tolerance in today’s society. I’m convinced that any opportunity to talk to my kids about tolerance and respect for people of all origins, races, genders, creeds, political inclinations, or sexual orientations should not be passed up; what better place than the dinner table to ingrain such fundamental values?The first time I ever saw a rainbow flag was in New York City, when I was a student at Columbia University. They were displayed outside windows on Christopher Street, close to my apartment in the Village.

Right there on Christopher Street, history was made on June 28, 1969 in what is now known as the Stonewall riots. This was the beginning of mainstream integration of LGBTQ+ people, once on the fringes, into society. By putting their fight for civil rights on the forefront and making the public aware, the long, arduous fight for acceptance began. To this day, and after Orlando, it’s apparent that it continues.