Culinary Arts - Food History Lesson and Worksheet for Foods and FACS - FCS

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I used this as first lesson in my Culinary Fundamentals class this year. I think it is a good starter lesson.

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Description

Are you looking for a way to introduce your culinary arts students to food history and the ways cooking and the restaurant industry have evolved over time? This no-prep FCS, FACS, and culinary lesson will help them understand why we eat the foods that we eat, where they came from, and the beginning of the restaurant industry.

⭐The colorful slideshow walks students through a timeline of culinary events from ancient man to modern-day foods and the questions are easy to assign and will check for understanding.

⭐This is a great way to start off your culinary arts class with your middle school and high school students. It gives them an idea of why they eat the food that they eat and is a no-prep lesson for you during your first weeks back to school!

What's Included in this culinary arts lesson?

• 20-page slide show about the movement of food in history as well as the restaurant industry with information such as:
  • discovery of using fire to cook
  • hunters and gatherers
  • beginning of agriculture
  • Columbian Exchange of food
  • history of the restaurant industry
  • The most influential chefs in the restaurant industry:
    • Marie-Antoine Carême
    • Auguste Escoffier
    • student worksheet that follows the history of food slideshow
    • questions for students to answer
    • answer key for easy grading in the Google folder
    • research project on regional foods in the United States and their influences
    • Video questions for a video about the history of Medieval Foods

    Who is this culinary arts and FCS lesson for?

    • High School or Middle School Culinary Arts
    • Family and Consumer Science
    • Global Foods or International Foods
    • Prostart
    • Home Economics
    • Food History or Food Science
    • Sociology

    What other teachers are saying about this culinary arts lesson:

    ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Loved this lesson - it greatly improved my existing food history lesson for my advanced middle school cooking course - thank you!"

    ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "I have been looking for history of food resources to start out my Global Eating class. This is perfect! Thank you!"
    

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