FOODWAYS

LESSON 3
FOODWAYS

• What do you think foodways is?

• What is your favorite meal?
• Is my favorite food connected to my identity?
• What food does your family eat for special occasions like holidays and birthdays?
• Why do people use different foods in different cultures?
• Does geographical locations play a role in what foods are harvested and used in cultures
across the world?
FOODWAYS

• Foodways is a term to describe all the ways we plant, grow, harvest, prepare, store, and eat food.
Foodways also includes beliefs and traditions about food, like proper foods and rules for eating at
certain times of day, the best foods for special occasions, and the ways we decorate or present our
foods.
 FOOD & CULTURE

• Food is essential in our everyday life.

• It can play an important role in celebrations,
ceremonies, and religions.
• What are some celebrations and ceremonies you take
part in where food is served?
• Why this specific food?

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 FOOD PRACTICES

• How food is prepared, where and how it is served and how it is eaten
• America: 4th of July, Grilling out BBQ, burgers, and hotdogs.

• It also involves specific types of foods

• Use of certain foods: Insects
• How food is prepared: Raw seafood
• Dining etiquette: Mexico food practice
• Dietary taboos and prohibitions
• Allergies, beef, pork, etc.

• How food is consumed

• Chopsticks, hands, silverware, etc.

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 UNIQUE FOODS

• Wonton Soup
• Originated from China
• Dumplings filled with mixed vegetables and meats

• Shish kebabs
• Chunks of meat threaded on a skewer
• Originated in the Middle East

• Is there a food from a different culture you have tried that you love?
• Is there a food from a different culture that you WANT to try?

https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/wonton-soup/
https://wander-lush.org/food-culture-unesco/
 LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION

• Geography plays a big part of what cultures consume what.

• Take the north and south parts of the United States for
examples! What are some foods that are enjoyed in the
south that are not common or liked in the north? And vise-
versa.

• Singapore has many different words for rice because it is

consumed by so many different cultures.
• Island and coastal areas eat more seafood due to
abundance of water life and not enough land mass to have
farms.

https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2021/04/producing_the_beloved_
yellowtail.html
https://wander-lush.org/food-culture-unesco/
 LUNAR NEW YEAR

• Spring Festival
• Most important festival for the Chinese
• Families gather on Lunar New Year’s Eve and have
a reunion dinner together
• Families set out New Year treats including egg
rolls, pineapple tarts, and melon seed.
• Foods symbolize many things.
• Mandarin orangs are symbols for good fortune
and prosperity

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articl
https://www.pinterest.com/macaousa/chinese-new-year/
es/10-chinese-new-year-traditions/
 TYPICAL BREAKFAST IN SOUTH AFRICA

• Cup of something hot (tea or coffee) with

lots of sugar
• Served with bread
• Toast, jam, cheese, cracker, biscuit

https://www.seriouseats.com/what-is-a-typical-breakfast-in-
south-africa
 TRADITIONAL MEAL IN EGYPT

• Shawarma
• Pressed lamb or chicken in flattened
bread
• Rotated on grill
• Vegetables are added

• Do we have this in the states? What is

similar?

https://www.cleopatraegypttours.com/travel-guide/egyptian-culture/top-10-egyptian-food/
PAPER FOOD
SCULPTURE PROJECT
OBJECTIVE

• After completing the handouts for this lesson, you will be researching a culture and a
meal they eat. This must be a meal you have not tried before nor a meal that is in your
culture. No two students will have the same meal or close culture.
• Once you have researched a tasty meal, you will use the pre-planning project handout to
complete your life-life food sculpture that must be life size, aesthetically pleasing, and as
close enough as possible to the researched meal.You will use toilet paper and water to
build your sculpture!
MATERIALS

• Handouts • Sketchbook
• Project Sheet Handout • TP Rolls
• Project Sheet Assessment Rubric
• Plate
• My Favorite Food Project Planning
Handout Worksheet • Container of water
• Self-Assessment Form • Spray bottle of water
• Mod Podge
• Watercolors and watercolor brushes