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In this food lab, we connected it to Multicultural Foods around the world. We chose countries around the world that are very new to us chose a dish and prepared it for the first time. I decided to Nasi Goreng from Indonesia , in other words Indonesian fried rice. The inspiration behind this food was to learn a new method of making fried rice other than what i know. My inspiration was successful because i liked this method better because of the simplicity and ingredients, it also tasted ten times better than how i used to prepare it before. If i was to prepare this dish again, i would love to use sweet soy sauce instead of dark soy sauce to see if it really differs from each other. I would also make sure my rice is a bit harder than it was in this lab☺️.

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In this food lab we were to make a traditional architecture inspired ginger bread house. My group and decided to build a Greek inspired traditional house they are one of the most simple and yet beautiful style of buildings. Greek houses are mostly painted white and blue, sometimes has a rough textured wall. Our inspiration was successful because one can tell that it is a Greek house. In this lab we made it Christmas themed with some lights and candy canes. We used peppermints and sour strap to make a bench, we also used some gummy bears to make a pathway leading to the door. This can be connected to our class because it is cultural and religious connecting to Greek architecture and Christmas. If we were to make this again we would make our blocks thick and also give the house a detailed texture like strokes or dot patterns.

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Margherita Pizza

Pizza Margherita was invented when 1861 when Italy unified. Pizza is one of the traditional dishes in Italy. The inspiration was making dishes around the world. I chose pizza  because I like to eat it a lot, so I wanted to try making it from the scratch. The pizza was not fully successful. It makes connection to our course because pizza is traditional based dish and in food and culture we talk about cultural based foods. I tried it at home and it came out good. My family really. My Aunt said “ It’s good that you can apply what you learnt at school and we would add pizza to our dinners. If i was to do this lab again, i would add more salt and back pepper to the sauce. Mould the pizza well so i have  a perfect crust.

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Traditional bread food labs.

The inspiration behind this lab was baking cultural breads around the world. Pretzels is from Germany, a food that has been in existence for decades. They refer to it as oldest food snack. It was invented by an Italian monk although is from Germany. Our food lab was successful because we got the exact shape, texture and taste of an original pretzel. It connects to our course because we learn about the culture and traditional dishes around the world. This connects to what we learn in classroom because we study the lifestyles of people through their foods. The traditional dishes, how they are made and eaten. If i was to do the lab again, i would make sure i add water to the egg yolk. This was because the pretzels had an egg yolk after taste.