Food and culture

1. Food and culture Unit 2 – Essay 2 Please turn in your homework and your Topic for approval

2. Freewrite: • What is, in your opinion, the most interesting role that food plays in people's lives? • Some ideas – choose one or discuss your own • providing nourishment • giving an opportunity to socialize with family, friends and the community • transmitting culture • food trends, diets, fads, or “national foods” and how they impact identity • Political issues- food regulations, factory farming, food deserts, • defining gender or family roles • representing religious symbols • superstitions (like throwing salt over your shoulder) • If you are coming in late, please turn in your homework and topic for approval immediately.

3. You Are What You Eat: A Photo Essay • Let’s take a look into our refrigerators and see what it says about the way we live our lives: • http://www.markmenjivar.com//projects/you_are_what_you_eat

4. “Food Traditions: The Thread That Links...” • Think about a time when food made you feel especially connected to your family. • When was it? A holiday? An ordinary day? • Was the food prepared quickly or slowly? • Was it at home? Fast food? Fancy restaurant? • Were you exploring new foods together? Eating old family favorites? • Do you like similar foods to what the rest of your family likes? Do you like anything the rest of your family can’t stand or has never tried? • What does that say about the cultures you may be exploring or a part of that the rest of your family is not?

5. Grandmother’s Cooking:A Look at the Photo Project “Delicatessen With Love” • http://www.gabrielegalimberti.com/projects/delicatessen-with-love-2/

6. Food and Culture on PBS • http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/food_and_culture/

7. “Rice Culture” • a. Diaspora (noun): Scattering of language, culture, or people. A dispersion of a people, language, or culture that was formerly concentrated in one place. Example- the African Diaspora, the Irish Diaspora, the Jewish Diaspora. • What part of the United States is author Julie Dash from? • From what uniquely American culture does she descend? • What is the importance/significance of rice to this culture, both historically and contemporarily? • How many other world cultures around the world can you think of where rice is a main dish or staple crop?

8. Rice in Cultures Around the World • http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=769:rice-in-the-arts-and-culture&lang=en

9. Free Rice! • Learn English Grammar and Vocabulary while you raise money to buy this important staple crop! • http://freerice.com

10. Break Time! • Please return in 15-20 minutes. • Get some food maybe? 

11. Farming, Food, and Culture • Food Security and the Roots of Migration: Defending Corn and Culture in Mexico http://www.prx.org/pieces/70454-food-security-and-the-roots-of-migration-defendin • Take notes as you listen. What are the important issues at work here? Do any of the issues mentioned relate to your topic?

12. Brainstorm Ideas relating to your Topic in Groups While I continue to look over your topics, get into groups of 3-4. • Re-read the prompt together. • Then, one at a time, share your topic with your classmates. • Discuss your ideas for the topic and ask your classmates if they have any ideas, resources, or experience relating to your topic. • Take notes---you may get some good ideas you can use in your essay. • Keep your discussion ON TASK. I want everyone to get good ideas for their essays and that can only happen if you let everyone get their chance to discuss their topic and brainstorm. Don’t let the conversation get off-track. • Also, be courteous of the groups around you and keep the volume down. Talk freely, but talk quietly.

13. Preparing to Write Your Rough Draft Create an Outline

14. Types of Outlines • Scratch • Chunking • Topic and Sentence Outlines

15. Handy Tips • Readers often pay the most attention to the points presented at the beginning of the text. • This is also why the traditional place for a thesis is at the end of the introduction paragraph. • Think of the outline as your writing plan, and your rough draft as filling in the holes! • Write a detailed outline and the rough draft will almost write itself!

16. How do I develop an outline? • First: • Determine the purpose of the paper • Determine the audience you are writing for • Develop the thesis of your paper

17. Then… • Brainstorm • List all the ideas you want to include in your paper. • Organize • Group related ideas together • Order • Arrange material in subsections from general to specific or from abstract to concrete • Label • Create main and subheadings

18. For the Remainder of Class: • Work on creating an outline for your Food and Culture Essay. • You can change or improve this outline when you get home, but do as much as you can now.

19. Chinese Food and Culture:Sharing Culture Through Sharing Food • http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/slideshows/chn_throndsen.cfm

20. Sharing Food, Sharing Culture • What have you learned about a culture through learning about its food? • What can you learn about your own culture through learning more about traditional ways in which food was cooked? • RESPECT: Listen to what people from that specific culture have to say about their own food. Don’t make assumptions! And if someone from that culture tells you that you are wrong about something don’t argue with them. It’s ignorant AND arrogant.