Lesson 2: Exploring Food Cultures and Cuisines
Duration of Days: 2
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to explain the fundamental factors that determine which ingredients and cooking methods are accepted and favored, and identify the importance of attitudes toward food in relation to ingredients.
What factors influence regional cuisine?
Ingredients and cooking methods are influenced by historical, geographic, and cultural factors.
Attitudes toward food can shape the way ingredients are used and meals are prepared.
Understanding the cultural significance of food is essential to appreciating different cuisines.
Cuisine: The style of cooking or preparing food characteristic of a particular region or country.
Gastronomy: The practice or art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food.
Culinary: Relating to cooking or the kitchen.
Fusion: The blending or combination of different culinary traditions or techniques.
Spices: Aromatic or pungent substances used to flavor food.
Herbs: Plants used for their aromatic, flavor, or medicinal properties in cooking.
Ingredients: The foods or components that are combined to make a dish.
Tradition: A custom or belief passed down through generations within a culture.
Palate: The range of flavors that a person can taste or the appreciation of taste and flavor.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.11-12.7: Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media in order to address a question or solve a problem.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.5: Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence.
2.1.2 Analyze how individuals and families make
choices to satisfy needs and wants.
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Assess the role of climate and geography and culture in determining the food choices of a particular country.
Ingredients and cooking methods are influenced by historical, geographic, and cultural factors.
Attitudes toward food can shape the way ingredients are used and meals are prepared.
Understanding the cultural significance of food is essential to appreciating different cuisines.
Visuals of foods, people and landscapes to access prior knowledge.
Students will write a short essay discussing how ingredients, cooking methods, and attitudes toward food influence the development of different cuisines around the world.
various internet resources and the textbook.