Cooking up a pictograph

We have had lots of children interested in cooking so over the past few weeks we have been making and trying different foods and flavours from cultures other than ours. We made korma curry which is a mild coconut flavoured curry. We cooked rice and each child had a sample before coming back for a larger helping if they enjoyed the taste. At mat time we had a discussion about who enjoyed the korma curry, who didn't and who didn't even try it. We decided to record our findings using a pictogram. After we made our graph we 'read' it using comparative mathematic language such as more, most, less, same. We counted and we asked questions such as how many?, how many more than, how many less than, did (child's name) like the korma? Our young friend wanted to know if he was as tall as the graph and this also initiated another mathematical investigation from the children.