Tag Archives: Food

This post is about a mural I had to create for my Food For Thought course. What I was supposed to capture through this project was to show each unit of the course through by drawing pictures that connected and gave an idea of what we learned. I am proud that I was able to Read More…

This post is about a food review I have completed for my Food For Though Course where we are learning about ways that food is changing and how it is affecting us. With this project, we were given the task of going out and finding the different tastes in foods that are made/produced differently. I Read More…

For our Food For Thought class we had to pick two dishes – one home-made and one purchased – and write a food review comparing them. I chose to review pizza because Chicago is known for it. I learned how to write a food review and about local food options. You can see my review below. Chicago Read More…

This project was about me going out to find a restaurant and comparing there food to a home cooked meal. What I learned was that my home cooked meal tasted a lot better that the restaurant meal. I can relate this to a time I had sweet potato pie at a store and when my Read More…

In the third unit of our Food For Thought class, we have to understand the impacts these changes have had on our food and our environment. We also learned about completing a series of readings and responded to reading prompts about the industrialization of food, learned to read food labels and analyzed common ingredients in processed foods, learned Read More…

This post is about a project from my food math & science class. We were learning about chemical reactions and leavening agents and in order to prove we learned something about these topics, we were given the task of taking a recipe and changing the leavening agent in it to create a new recipe and Read More…

This is a garden but not your average garden. This is a plan for a garden that has 5 different kinds of plants (bulbs, fruits, roots, tubers, etc.) and has 10 different object that can be grown in it and that are good and healthy for you. The purpose of this project was to see Read More…

Hello! This post is about Buffalo Mozzarella cheese and where it comes from. The purpose of this peice is to expose how our food is treated and how the production of our food effects us, other people, and the future. Through the process of making this project, I have learned that water buffaloes are scary Read More…

In my Food Redux course, I created a garden that shows foods that we have researched on. My favorite part about this project was drawing my garden and figuring out when they are planted and harvested. The hardest part about this project was finding all of the crops and making sure they fit in my garden. One Read More…

In the first part of our course Food For Thought, we had to complete a series of 2 to 3 reading responses. We had to create a map of the early agrarian    societies and to see where common foods originated. We had to create a family tree, research a common family recipe and the Read More…