Introduction:

You have decided to make a recipe book of your favorite Mexican foods to bring to your friends back home who have been taking care of your goldfish while you were gone. You decide that you want to make sure that each recipe includes an ingredient indigenous to the Americas which has been combined with a non-indigenous foods in its creation.

Task:

Design a cookbook that has a minimum of five recipes. Each recipe must list the ingredients both in English and in Spanish and must identify a New World /Old World ingredient. You may need to use the translation site for some words.

Informational sources:

Foods native to the Americas:
http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/history/welcome.html
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/SPI/FOOD/COMIDA~1.HTM

Recipe site:
http://mexicanrecipe.allrecipes.com/default.asp
http://home.att.net/~enrique.houston/cocina.html

Translation site:
http://www.freetranslation.com/

Process:

Begin by identifying Old World (non-indigenous) ingredients from the site provided. Continue to the recipe site and find five different recipes that combine ingredients from both worlds and used in Mexican cooking today. Copy the recipes into your document and identify the New/Old world ingredients. Design a cover for your recipe book using clip art or pictures from the web.

Evaluation:

Use the attached rubric to evaluate your work.

Conclusion:

Your friends will thank you for this neat cookbook. Maybe you will even be invited to their house for dinner!

Standards:

Sunshine State Standards:
Communication-Standard 2 (FL.A.2.4)
The student understands and interprets written and spoken language on a variety of topics.

Culture-Standard 1 (FL.B.1.4)
The student demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between the perspectives and process of culture studies and uses this knowledge to recognize cultural practices

Connections- Standard 2 (FL.C.2.4)
The student acquires information and perspectives that are available only through the foreign language within the target culture.

Experiences-Standard 1 (FL.E.1.4)
The student uses the language within and beyond the school setting.

National Standards (ACTFL)

Communication-Standard 1.2
Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.

Cultures-Standard 2.2
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.

Connections-Standard 3.2
Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

Communities-Standard 5.1
Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.

Total (50 possible)_______________