Task 1 for Lesson 4: Group Discussion on Diets for healthy living
Many open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. For example, some ingredients needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavour can be different from the taste and flavour of the dishes that they would prepare in their home countries.
Additionally, when immigrants sell food in another country, they do not only sell it to people from the same countries as them, but to people from different countries.
Therefore, they have to alter the original dishes to cater to a wider range of customers with distinct tastes and flavour preferences. Alterations to original dishes can create new flavours that still retain the cultural significance of the dish.
What stays the same though is the extent to which each country or communitiess unique cuisine can reflect its unique history, lifestyle, values, and beliefs.
Questions:
- Write down as many foods as you can think of that has been slightly altered from its traditional version (e.g. sweet sushi)?
- What do you think are the positives and negatives of this kind of alteration and diversity of food?
Click on the button "Add discussion topic" below and write your results and opinions. You will see the answers of your colleagues only after you have posted your own. Write 2 replies to fellow students to spark the discussion!
Grading for this activity: Pass or Fail.
Timing: 60 mins