Looking at Food Through Google Earth

I'm always a fan of a food post! Keeping with the Google Earth theme let's look at a few of their explorations about food.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio (or send an email to your teacher), title it the same as this blog post, then complete two of the tasks below.

1. Learn about Mexico City Street Food and describe 3 new things you learned. 
2. Which food from the  Mexico City Street Food would you want to eat? Explain your answer.
3. Learn about Global Markets and describe 3 new things you learned. 
4. Which place in Global Markets would you want to visit? Explain your answer.
5. What is a new food you learned about? Would you try it? Explain your answer.
6. What's your favorite and least favorite foods? Explain your answer.

Comida de Cinco de Mayo!

¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla.

click here to see photos I took while in Puebla, Mexico

Now how should we celebrate Cinco de Mayo? By eating food from Puebla, Mexico of course!

mole sauce

chicken in mole

chile en nogada

Click here to read more about traditional dishes of Puebla, Mexico.

Hot Tamale Activities 

Create a new blog post on your Spanish blog portfolio and answer one of the following questions in complete sentences in English.

• Which traditional dish from Puebla would you like to eat? Explain what is in the dish, how it is made, and why you would like to try that dish. Include a photo of the dish.
• Reflect on the photos that I took in Puebla. What do you see? What does it make you wonder? Include 3 photos in your post.

School Lunch & Snacks from Around the World!

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(Each of these lines will link you to a previous food-related blog posts)

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and answer 3 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these infographics.

• Compare our school lunch to 2 other countries' school lunch. 
• How are they similar? Different?
• Based on these infographics, which country would you be most interested in visiting to try their food? Explain.
• Based on these infographics, which country would you be least interested in visiting to try their food? Explain.
• Which snack or lunch looks the most appetizing?
• What information in these infographics is most interesting to you?
• Based on these infographics, which country do you think is the healthiest? Explain your answer.

Different Translations for the Same Word - Food Edition

The last post was about different translations for the same words, and today we'll continue that trend and focus on food related vocabulary.

source: Speaking Latino

source: Speaking Latino

source: Speaking Latino

More examples can be found here.

Hot Tamale Activities

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete one of the following tasks based on the information above.

• Select 3-5 different words and create a table or chart (or infographic) translating them across different countries
• Select 2 countries (perhaps Mexico and Argentina) and create a table or chart (or infographic) with the different words translated.

Limón & ...???

If the word in Spanish for lemon is limón, then what is the word for lime? This question has stumped me for years, and apparently I'm not the only one. 

 

Click here to read/listen to story about the difference ways to say lemon and lime in Spanish.

Hot Tamale Activity

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete the following tasks.

• Describe 3 different ways people in Spanish speaking countries say lemon or lime and detail which country says it which way.
• Where did the fruit come from? How did limes come to Latin America?

LatinoBurgh

The latino community in Pittsburgh is growing, and they are starting to have an increased voice on social media as well! This is great for students who want to expose themselves to different cultures.

Hot Tamale Activities 

Create a new blog post on your Spanish Blog Portfolio and complete one of the following activities

• Click here to read about the growing Latino contributions to culture and society in the Pittsburgh region.
• Check out the Best of Latinoburgh winners!
• Select 3 winners you'd want to visit and explain why.
• If you have Twitter you can follow Latinoburgh and CafeLechePGH
• Scroll through their tweets and share 3 new things you learned based on the their tweets.

Map Your Favorite Recipie

Here is where ingredients of deviled eggs come from.

MapYourRecipe is a neat website that will tell you where the ingredients of your favorite food comes from.

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as a advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Think of your favorite dish - find the ingredients on allrecipes.com and copy them. Paste the ingredients in the box on the left side of MapYourRecipe and see where different ingredients come from. Include the screen shot in your blog post and a brief description of what you learned about ingredients of a delicious dish!
• It's not really helpful, accurate or interesting for foods like hamburger, hot dog, meatballs, or macaroni and cheese. You may need to copy and paste a few dishes before one becomes "screen-shot-worthy."

Great Travel Videos

When I found the links on the post about Mexican cuisine, I came across this great Vimeo channel, The Perennial Plate. This channel is fantastic at showcasing the value of traveling!

Travel Is from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.

Check out this video about food from Spain.
(It makes me miss jamon serrano and pulpo a la galega soooo bad.)

A Spanish Roadtrip from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as a advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Respond to one or both of these videos - what stands out to you? Does it inspire/scare you? Explain your answer.
• For the "A Spanish Roadtrip" video take a screenshot of the food that looks that tastiest and of the food that looks the least tastiest. Include both images in your blog post along with the video. Explain why you feel the way you do.
• Find another video on The Perennial Plate channel that you enjoy. Embed it in your blog post and explain what you like about it.

Comida Infographic

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as a advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Which fruta y vegetal is in season in your birthday month?
• Explain other information that this infographic tells you.
• Take your preferences from the categorize comida activity and use them to create your own infographic (using one of these websites).

Mexican Cuisine

One Minute in Mexico from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.

When I was in high school like my students I didn't really have exposure to international cuisine. One time the French club was having a fundraiser for something and they were making crepes and it made me throw up. I didn't eat an avocado until I was in my twenties. I was a vegetarian and didn't drink soda, so I pretty much survived on oatmeal and Little Debbie brownies. I get it if you are a picky eater.

But when I traveled, those walls started coming down. It started when I found desserts better than store bought brownies, and eventually I got to the fruits, veggies, and meats.

In an effort to encourage you to try something new sooner, I have a few videos, photos, and blog posts from Matador, a great travel website for 20-somethings (bookmark it for the future!) Click on the links below to read the articles.

8 weird things you can eat in Mexico that are actually really good

(This is a photo of my friend Courtney, taken on our trip to Mexico when we tried grasshoppers!)

10 foods to try in Mexico

8 signs you've never eaten real Mexican food

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as a advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Respond to one or more of the blog post/video - which "weird" Mexico food would your want to try and why? According to the article article 8 signs you've never eaten real Mexican food, have you ever had real Mexican food? What was it? Describe the experience. Which foods would you not want to try? Include images in the blog post.

YouTube Cooking Channels in Spanish

Many of you have asked what Hot Tamale means - check out the video below to see how to make a tamale! 

YouTube has many channels of people showing you how to cook food from Spanish speaking countries. The channel that the above video came from, Cocina Identidad, is full of great videos that show the viewer how to make traditional Mexican cuisine. Below is a video from another channel, MarisolPink, about how to make a traditional meal chimichangas.

Hot Tamale Activities - Complete one or more of these activities as a advanced/Hot Tamale blog post. Title your post the title of this blog post.

• Select one of the videos from either of these channels and watch it. Summarize the basics of the recipe in your own words (You don't have to include measurements - keep it basic.) Include the video in your blog post.
• Find 3-5 videos of food you would want to try and create your own personal "Authentic Hispanic Food Video Cookbook" Explain what drew you to each video.
• Find other Spanish cooking channels on YouTube and include videos in your blog post.

Food Fight!

In Spain every year they have a crazy tomato-throwing food fight. Check out the video below.

Hot Tamale Activities

Watch the video then answer these questions in a new blog post

• Where is this? Find the city this is held on a map. Send me an screenshot locating where this city is on a map.
• Read about La Tomatina here  or here to find out some answers to these questions - Why do they throw tomatoes and not ? Why do they do it in August? 
• Would you ever want to experience La Tomatina? Explain.
• There are people in Pittsburgh who want to host one here. They have a Twitter account. If there was a Tomatina in Pittsburgh would you go?