How far has your food travelled?
How much extra do you pay for food that is available year round but 'out of season'?
We now have access to a wide variety of foods that we never previously had. This is in due partly to advances in methods of transport and speed, but also in science and production of food. The image above gives some insight into foods of the world.
Firstly during this session we discussed a variety of different foreign food outlets that we have in our country today.
For example we have:
Chinese restaurants and takeaways, Indian restaurants and takeaways, Thai restaurants, Mexican restaurants, American food outlets, Italian pizza shops, German supermarkets, Turkish restaurants, Polish bars & delicatessens and many more.
Each of the students named one of their favourite foreign dishes such as:
Chinese chow mein.
Indian curry dishes. Note the Indians don't call it curry. That is an English word that we use to describe a variety of Indian dishes.
Mexican Chilli con Carne.
Italian pizza and pasta dishes.
French frogs legs and snails.
German sausage.
Greek salad and moussaka.
Caribbean spicy chicken.
American burger.
We then considered and discussed how many miles this food has to travel from its production to our tables. We found an online food miles calculator and we agreed to continue this topic to do further research next week.
Please see the food miles calculator in the list of useful websites on the right hand side of this blog.
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