DFN 220 Cultural Food Market Field Trip and Assignment
Objective: To survey cultural foods in a local small-scale market and to compare those findings with the ethnic food forms in a supermarket and to write a report on the findings and this experience.
Explore the food shops and restaurants.
What kinds of food stores are there? They have regular fast-food restaurants like most places in America, but with a little touch of cultural ideas added. like selling instant coffee in Mac Donald.
What types of foods are sold?
What types of foods are served in restaurants?
What are your feelings about foods and about shopping in this environment?
Did you see the foods that were discussed in class?
Are the prices worth the trip? Were they more or less expensive than you thought or compared to other markets?
Part 3:
Now go to a large supermarket in your neighborhood and find examples of foods that parallel the ethnic cuisine that you’ve chosen to investigate. What are the differences in the experience of buying culturally rich foods in a supermarket? What are the price differences in foods purchased at the ethnic stores and the supermarket? Which experience and source do you feel is more valuable and why?
Part 4:
Get one traditional recipe from this culture and conduct a nutritional analysis on it.
Discuss if it is a healthy choice or not
What could you do to change it?
