Make recipes off of Max Miller’s Tasting History. He includes history, it’s a fun group activity, nothing too offensive about it.

Honestly, though, a lot of kids aren’t built for nuance. That tends to come later. Most people who grew up with the idea of knights in shining armor, cowboys and Indians, or noble samurai had no problem adopting the reality that the knights, cowboys, and samurai were people too and therefore frequently the bad guys in the situation and that native Americans aren’t from India.