International Food Research Poster

When you are cooking or eating food from another culture it is important to be respectful and thoughtful in the process. Part of this process is learning about and sharing the culture and history of the region, the recipes, the cooking process, and the ingredients. When you share your International meal with others, share what you have learned.

To prepare for your International Meal lab, you will be researching your chosen region, the recipes you chose, and some of the key ingredients in that recipe. Remember to choose recipes that challenge you with new food products, spices, and cooking techniques.  

Your poster must include:

1) At least one map showing the whole country and the specific region your recipes come from in that country (5 marks)

2) Discussion of the culture such as popular recipes, food customs, manners, and etiquette (5 marks)

3) Facts and history about the recipes (5 marks)

Ex.) The sandwich as we know it was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it, and most food historians agree, that Montagu had a substantial gambling problem that led him to spend hours on end at the card table. During a particularly long binge, he asked the house cook to bring him something he could eat without getting up from his seat, and the sandwich was born. The original sandwich was, in fact, a piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread. Montagu enjoyed his meat and bread so much that he ate it constantly, and as the concoction grew popular in London society circles it also took on the Earl’s name.

4) Facts and history about the key ingredients in the recipes you chose (5 marks)

Ex.) Although the modern version of sliced bread is a fairly new invention (Wonder Bread began marketing the first sliced loaf of bread in 1930), bread itself is an ancient food with origins dating back more than 22,000 years. In 2004, at an excavation site called Ohalo II, in what is modern-day Israel, scientists found 22,000-year-old barley grains caught in a grinding stone: the first evidence of humans processing wild cereal grains. But these early "bread" creations were probably more like "flat cakes of ground seeds and grains heated on a rock, or in the embers of a fire," than standard sandwich bread, Howard Miller, a food historian and professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, told Live Science.

5) Have a bibliography with the links to the sources of your information (3 marks)

Total: 23 marks