Foundation Questions And Answers

Essential Question: How can i introduce ethnic food to the students of City Charter High School?

I am striving to have an ethnic food festival for the 12th grade. i will hold it either at lunch time or after school.

1. Why is food important to different cultures?
A. it helps individualize each culture.
2. What cultures will i choose?
A. i will choose venezuelan, uranian, ethipopian...etc.
3. Who will i interview?
A. i have interviewed Heredina Suarez who is venezuelan and Negar Alteeri who is Uranian. i hae a couple more people to interview.
4. How does food impact foreign religion?
A. sometimes you cannot eat certain foods under a religion.
5. Where will the Food Festivl be held at?
A. maybe in the Cafeteria or classroom (maybe just for the panel)
6. how much food will i need?
A. enough for 130 students plus fauclty.
7. Why do people frown about tasting other foods?
A. people believe that anything outside of their own taste is not necessarly wrong, but not right compared to them.
8. How do foreign people feel about traditional american food?
A. most feel that we fry to much of everything and we eat unhealthy.
9. how do american people feel about traditional foreign food?
A. they are hesitant to taste it because of the way it looks and smells.
10. What are some traditipns of these specific cultures?
A. they are very family oriented and eat dinner as a family where as americans rarely eat together.
11. how did the spread of ethnic food come about?
A. people brought their recipes here to have a little taste of home. its like feeling close to home without actually being there
12. what are some cultural backgrounds of these ethnicities.
A.
13. how do these dfferent cultures impact the world?
A. they bring tradtions to emerge a new way of life...this is how cultures and beliefs continue through the years.
14. what are people's opinions of other foods?
A. they are unwilling to try most things because its outside of their traditions.
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