Culinary Diversity

LESSON ONE

Lesson Overview:

Food is a very important and necessary part of our lives.  We use food for many different purposes and the food that we choose to eat is selected because of a variety of different influences.  Many of us like certain foods because we have been raised eating those foods.  In many cases, whatever our parents and family members eat or like to eat is what we eventually enjoy eating ourselves.

For students to understand why different foods are used in different households, they need to understand a little about culture and how it could affect the foods we use. Culture is a learned experience; we learn it from our families and the people around us.  It is the same with food, the region of the world in which we live; as well as economics determines much of our food selection.  The goal of this unit is to focus on the fact that our background and our environment play an important role in what and how we eat.

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