Week Two Progress

This week I continued with my progress on my project and continued with my note taking. So far I have researched Argentina and Spain to find out their cuisine types and what their typical ingredients are when making traditional dishes. As far as learning about my myself I learned that I need to start managing my time a little better, and making myself due the work periodically instead of waiting until the last minute. For next week, I want to continue my research and try and get more contacts for my project so I can have input from people who actually cook these types of food, so I will have other information other than what I can fin on the internet. 

About my 20% project- Week 1

I have decided to focus my 20% project on the cuisine of other spanish speaking cultures. I’m not just going to focus on food itself, but more on how the other countries prepare their food differently than Americans, and what other different ingredients they use that might be specific to their country or region. This topic isn’t necessarily important to me, but it is something that I would generally like to know more about. I like knowing the food culture of other countries and how they differ from our own, I feel as though our country eats a lot of other types of foods but we never know anything about the foods so we can never really appreciate them. My goals for this project are to expand my knowledge about other country’s food customs so that I can appreciate the culture more. My other overall goal is to teach everyone else in the class about what I have learned so that they may learn the differences too, and be more understanding about the culture. I will be measuring my progress by writing down my information in my composition notebook, writing these blogs about what I have learned or achieved in the past days or weeks, and making deadlines for myself so I have a definite schedule of when I need to complete my work. So far in this project, I have only completed learning about one country, Spain, but I really want to learn about as many of the spanish speaking countries that I can so that I can not only see the differences between them and America but also see the differences between the many spanish speaking countries.