Eat local to taste the world

Cooking and nutrition

Making mini Victoria sponges

Making a Thai curry

This unit focuses on the wide range of cuisines, ingredients, cooking techniques and equipment that are used around the world. Pupils explore food imports, food produced in the UK, and food waste. They cook two dishes to highlight cuisine differences, undertaking different types of evaluation.

Local food to worldwide cuisine

True or false? The UK produces all of its own food.

Food grows seasonally and, when not in season in the UK, is __________ so consumers can easily buy what they want.

Which of these shows tandoori cooking technique?

Which piece of equipment is used to steam food, such as vegetables?

What is the list of food used in a recipe called?

Which of these are types of food production?

Match the country to its traditional food.

What might influence what we eat consciously?

Packaged foods have food {{ }} which inform us where the food comes from.

a type of ingredients produced and processed from a country.

a style of a piece of equipment from a certain country.

a style or method of cooking (in a country, region or restaurant).

Eat local to taste the world

Lesson outcome