food and culture

food and culture

How does food impact culture?
Food is an important part of cultural heritage and national identity. It can connect us to people and places, bringing friends and families together, and food habits, such as whether you should eat all of the food on your plate vary across the globe

Aims

- Aan het eind van de les kennen jullie verschillende soorten eten en waarom eten zo belangrijk is voor de cultuur.

What is important for culture?

We start this lesson off with a slide asking what culture is.

Dit is een brede vraag, wat is belangrijk in een cultuur?
Eten is hier een van maar ook religie, hoe beinvloed religie eten?
In india mag je geen koeien eten, Islam mag je geen varkensvlees eten, Joden ook niet maar die mogen ook geen schaaldieren bijvoorbeeld. Wel vis met schubben.

Eten word op veel manieren beinvloed.

Scone

Where is this food from?

Ask students if they ever tried this food before, where it came from and if they like it or not.

Why is it specifically from England?

Sushi

Where is this food from?

Frikandel speciaal

Where is this food from?

What is your favourite food?

What is your favourite food?

- The place where the food originates from.

- Would you want to visit there sometime?
- Is this food important in culture? why is this food important? Can you find out?

Who wants to tell about their favourite food?

Worksheet!

Idioms

Give the students a worksheet with questions, ask the students to discuss the questions and share their answers with the class in groups of three.

  

* What is your favorite cultural dish and why? Do you know where it came from?

* How is food used in your culture to celebrate special occasions?

* Do you know any Dutch traditional foods?

* What does food have to do with culture?
* How do different religions affect food?

What have we learned today?