Food media final (1)

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Farrar !1 Emily Farrar Food Media Final Project Introduction Over 6 weeks of the class, I tried out 6 different recipes to compare my eating habits with traditional Spanish dishes. I currently eat a vegetarian diet while aiming to focus on local, seasonal foods from the farmer’s market or organic sources. Because of the nutritional value of grass-fed dairy, I aim to purchase these products as well as support healthy food systems. I chose this project as a way to try to get back to my roots, so to speak. My paternal grandmother immigrated to the US from Spain, so I am very interested in Spanish culture. She died before I was born, so even though I don’t have a direct link anymore, I would love to use food as a way to reconnect with the traditions my father grew up with. I don’t have a very strong culinary background, so I loved experimenting with different dishes and finding the similarities between my food and different foods in Spain. Traditional Spanish cuisine relies very heavily on seafood and fresh, seasonal ingredients. Many of the recipes I found online on English sites focused on recipes for good tapas. The tradition of tapas is an important part of Spanish culture — tapas are small plates meant to be enjoyed communally in between the large lunch around midday and dinner, a meal that comes much later in the night. A crude comparison would be bar food in the states; tapas are enjoyed as a group of small plates during happy hour. These tapas are usually very simple


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