What is American Food?

1.1 Introduction

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What is American food? What foods fall into the category of American food? America is created by so many different cultures and is not like any other country where their is a specific food category. Research and find out information of what foods were created in America. Think as though you are going to open an "All American Restaurant" and what you would serve if the objective is to embrace the American culture.

1.2 Website 1

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The perfect site to give you an idea of what American food is really all about, there are more foods then these 10 that would be considered "American foods" but this is somewhere to start you off comparing American food to different cultures recipes and meals.

Analyze the different foods and the qualities of these american food.

Compare these foods to other foods such as fast food which is often considered "American Food"
http://http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8392312/

1.3 Website 2

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You will take a journey to explore 500 years of what we know about American food, the way we prepare food, grow food, and how we serve food. You will explore what this site has to offer about American food and see what they have to say about American food.

While on your journey through this site of the history of american foods make a time line.

Don't forget to make notes of the changes and progression of american food and where they were influenced from.

Make sure to distinguish all american foods from fast food.

http://www.keyingredients.org/001_timeline/001_timeline_01.asp

1.4 Goals

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The primary goals of this quest is to...
1.) Learn how to find information on the internet.
2.) Learn how to work and freely discuss a interesting topic with your peers/classmates.
3.) Learn about what is considered American food.
4.) Learn how America is unique and is much different than many other countries that have distinctive food categories.

1.5 Inquiry

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Now that you have learned the differences between american food vs. other cultures food you will be able to distinguish what should be truly considered american food. Make a tree of different foods that filter from other cultures to our american culture. Now that you have done this you will be prepared to describe what American food is and what you would serve in your restaurant if the goal is to embrace all the best aspects of not only American culture but American food.

Take ideas from the web and impliment these ideas with their own to make the perfect scene, feel, and embrace the American lifestlye through your restaurant. You can take bits and pieces of how many restaurants in america have succeeded and combine them to be the BEST! (E.g. Convenience, quality, satisfaction....)

Describe how other cultures have influenced America's food and what foods were created by America. (The genes of american food)

Describe what foods will be served in your All-American restaurant and the reasoning behind choosing these foods. Make a menu and list prices and a description of why this food is considered american in your eyes.

1.6 Teachers Help

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1. The intended audience for this web quest is high school age students

2.Students need to use the computer to look at the two websites and to bring their personal expierence into this assignment.

3. Students will be graded on their creativity of creating and embracing an all American resturant embracing the American foods while showing the American culture through this resturant.