A Guide to Worcester’s Many Cultural Markets
Volume III
This guidebook, a culmination of a multidisciplinary 8th grade project at Worcester Academy, is about stepping out of our comfort
zones to explore foods that may not be immediately familiar to us, but which can provide us with powerful new culinary and cultural experiences. Food can truly be a portal to another world, a window into another culture that might otherwise seem completely inaccessible to us.
In teams, Grade 8 students visited the local specialty markets featured in this guidebook, taking photographs, interviewing customers and staff, surveying grocery items, and taste-testing ready-to-eat foods. Each team compiled their findings in a separate chapter, including a general overview of the market and its offerings as well as some background on the food culture of the group or groups represented by a particular market, and a signature recipe from the regional cuisine.