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The Cuisine of India 

Sunday, 02 March 2008 08:35

A lesson plan.

By Mary Petersen and Ronald S. Wolf, CCC, CCE

This lesson plan focuses on the history of and cultural influences on Indian cuisine, the topography and climate that affect food production and preparation, key ingredients and foods, cooking methods and common equipment, a focus on culinary regions, and dietary restrictions as dictated by various religions, among other aspects. A handout as an MS Word document is available for download and copying.

Using Food to Teach History and Related Subjects

Tuesday, 01 January 2008 07:57

By Bruce Kraig, Ph.D.

This lesson plan teaches history through American regional foodways, as influenced and reflected by geography, ecology and cultural ecology, economics, social science, anthropology and language. The lesson plan, which contains many illustrative recipes, may be downloaded as a PowerPoint presentation from this page.