Swiss Spaghetti

 This could be used in your foods classroom.  For younger students and newer teachers, I thought you might want to know were spaghetti comes from.

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76 Videos on Food Chemisty

 

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Tasting History with Max Miller

 

This youtube channel would work well in a History or Foods & Culture class.  Some topics include:

Ancient Greek, Roman and Mesopotamian Recipes

The Best of Medieval and Renaissance Recipes

The Forme of Cury

Deserts

Breads

One that I found interesting is Making Medieval Mead Like a Viking.  Here is the trailer for the channel below.  To see the channel click here.

Swiss Spaghetti

This could be used in your foods classroom.  For younger students and newer teachers, I thought you might want to know were spaghetti comes from.

If you would like more information about growing your own spaghetti click here.

The Science of Food

The U of Nottingham has posted 14 videos about the Science of Food.  If you are teaching Foods or Sciences this may be something to look at.  To see the site click here.

The Chemistry of Cookies

Last week I had a post on Reaction - A Food and Chemistry Channel.  To see that click here.  Today I am posting about a TED Ed  on The Chemistry of Cookies.  I have embedded the video below but you will want to go the the Ted Ed page as it has many resources for teachers.  To see the webpage click here.

Reaction - A Food and Chemistry Channel

PBS Digital Studios has produced this Youtube channel called Reaction.  This channel is geared to Science/Chemistry/Biology teachers but they have a section on Food Chemistry that might work for Food teachers.  Other sections are: Chemistry Questions, Speaking of Chemistry, Chemistry and Biology - A Match Made in Nature, Tech Topics, Chemistry Life Hacks, and Drugs & Medicine, To see the Youtube channel click here.

Tasteatlas

If you are teaching a foods class you might want to check out Tasteatlas.  Tasteatlas is an interactive map that shows traditional foods from the area you select.

Iron in Cereal

You can use a magnet to show that there is iron in your cereal.  From Steve Spangler's website "Many breakfast cereals are fortified with food-grade iron (chemical symbol: Fe) as a mineral supplement. Metallic iron is digested in the stomach and eventually absorbed in the small intestine. If all of the iron from your body were extracted, you’d have enough iron to make two small nails."  To see the website click here.

Food for Health

The Food for Health exhibition and website from the Canada Agricultural Museum takes a look at the foods we eat and answers many of the questions Canadians have about their food choices.  To see the exhibition click here.  To see the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum click here.

School Lunches from around the World

The Economist has a tour of school lunches from around the world on their website.  School lunches look pretty interesting everywhere but in the US.  To see the article click here.

40 ways the world makes awesome hot dogs

Here is another short post that I am not sure if it fits in a Geography Class or a Foods class but it makes me hungry.  Check out all the ways hot dogs are prepared around the world by clicking here.

Food Capitals of Instagram

I am not sue if this fits in with a Geography class or a Foods & Nutrition class but I thought it was pretty cool.    Just click on your favourite food and you will see an interactive map that shows some great geographic application of social media data.  For example I picked Pierogi and it shows a map of the top tagged areas of the world as shown on Instagram selecting Pierogis.  It also has a list of the top 5 cities also.  Click here to see the webpage.

Chef Works

Below are a couple of infographics from Chefworks blog.  Maybe you can use them in your Foods class. You can see the blog by clicking here.

Click image to see a larger versionLunches From Around The World Infographic via ChefWorks

Here is another one

  Click image to see a larger versionRise of The Cooking Empire Infographic via Chef Works

School Lunch in France

If you are curious, here is a school lunch menu in France for the month of October.

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This comes from Karen LeBillon's blog on French School Lunch Menus which can be found by clicking here. It is quite extensive and it is all in English so it might be good for a Foods class.  She also posts weekly here.

Map Your Recipe

With this website you can enter a recipe and you can find out where the ingredients were first domesticated. You can type in your own recipe or use ones they already have.  Then you will see were the items were first domesticated on a map.  As an example, I put in the recipe for Perogies ( a Ukranian staple).  Here is the map I received.

Photosynthesis and Food

This TED ED would make for a good review or introductory video to the topic of Photosynthesis.  The video is short and only 4:01 long.  The video is below.