Regional Foods
Super UserObjective: You and your group are to research a particular region in relation to foods. You will create a visual (poster, pamphlet, power point, or video) presentation to present to the class including:
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Map of the region
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Climate and topography of region
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Indigenous foods and reason they are prevalent
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Menu incorporating selected food item(s) including appetizer, entrée, vegetable, starch and dessert; including a brief description of each dish.
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Interesting facts you uncover during research.
One of the teams chose California cherries and entitled their project:
- BING! BING! BING! Cherries
- Cherry Salad
- Cherry-Pistachio Biscotti
- Hawaiian Chicken with Cherries
- Joan's Cherry Rice
This lesson was created in my Foods II course, which consists of 9-12 graders. Since we are unable to get fresh cherries at this time of year, we substituted, jarred, frozen and dried cherries in the menu items listed. The results were quite delicious as well as unusual.
Jody Haniquet
Farmingdale High School
Farmingdale, New York 11735
516-752-6673
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