We made a joint project between humanities and chemistry. For this project we learned about food in both an ethical and chemical sense as we studied it in both our humanities and chemistry classes. We made various different experiments for chemistry and a meal demonstrating our food ethics for humanities.
The meal went very well. I had four wonderful partners. We decided on an Italian theme for the meals and that we would each incorporate our food ethic into our own dishes. I made a caesar salad (with a handmade dressing) and incorporated my ethic of things should taste good, but also be good for you. To do this I changed from using dijon mustard to using honey mustard as it was sweeter and lighter.
I feel that the interdisciplinary part of this project was less effective than some have made it out to be. To me this whole project felt like two different projects that had similar themes. The recipe cards for chemistry and the meal for humanities made the whole things feel to me like we were trying to do something connected, but only really did two projects in the same theme. Little to nothing of what I learned in science went towards my meal and I used little to no ethic in my experiments.
Takeaways from our studying of food for me are few in number. I already knew most of what we learned from previous learning experiences. However I did start to think about more about food in a deeper sense of how acids and bases make different tastes to us and how an animal's diet changes its chemical balance making it taste different. It also made me realise that most people don’t think about their food and how many people look and meat and think of just the meat, not the fact that it was running (or standing) around a few weeks ago as a living breathing animal.
The meal went very well. I had four wonderful partners. We decided on an Italian theme for the meals and that we would each incorporate our food ethic into our own dishes. I made a caesar salad (with a handmade dressing) and incorporated my ethic of things should taste good, but also be good for you. To do this I changed from using dijon mustard to using honey mustard as it was sweeter and lighter.
I feel that the interdisciplinary part of this project was less effective than some have made it out to be. To me this whole project felt like two different projects that had similar themes. The recipe cards for chemistry and the meal for humanities made the whole things feel to me like we were trying to do something connected, but only really did two projects in the same theme. Little to nothing of what I learned in science went towards my meal and I used little to no ethic in my experiments.
Takeaways from our studying of food for me are few in number. I already knew most of what we learned from previous learning experiences. However I did start to think about more about food in a deeper sense of how acids and bases make different tastes to us and how an animal's diet changes its chemical balance making it taste different. It also made me realise that most people don’t think about their food and how many people look and meat and think of just the meat, not the fact that it was running (or standing) around a few weeks ago as a living breathing animal.
Personal Essay
Just your everyday devourer of life
By Weston Lewis
My personal view towards a food ethic is that I eat that which I desire. When you eat anything, it probably was alive, which means it died so you could eat it (except when it’s still alive). Food like everything else is reality, if you eat it it’s consequences are real.
I personally see food as an input, something that once taken in will affect the consumer depending on the properties of the consumer and the properties of the intake. If You eat food that fits your desires we share a food ethic.
When I sit down to eat I want to eat what I want, and what I want is to be strong and healthy, but i'm not just going to eat raw ingredients to meet my intake requirement. I will eat healthy things, but I make them taste like heaven by working in a balance between ingredients. You can pour some kombucha in with some sparkling water to make a soda like drink. Just a little salt can make an avocado go from good to great.
Convenience is important to my food ethic. If I were to chart what food I ate per day about 70% of my diet is cliff bars. They provide energy and nutrients in a convenient form that is easy to eat and can be taken anywhere. While I still eat things other than cliff bars, I personally like them more than any other snack that is equally convenient.
Some people can't stomach seeing the face of their food, I am not of that variety. When I was about nine I would catch crawdads with my hands, ask mom to boil a pot of water and would drop em in and eat em up. I personally look at everything I eat as the carcasas of fellow lifeforms. When I visited a sheep farm in New Zealand it was the first time I have ever felt an animal surrender itself, to be fine with whatever happens next. While all I ended up doing was shear the sheep I kinda wish I got the experience of slaughtering an animal. I would love to see how I feel about taking a mammal's life and eating them, as to boil a crawdad is very different that cutting a lamb’s throat.
By Weston Lewis
My personal view towards a food ethic is that I eat that which I desire. When you eat anything, it probably was alive, which means it died so you could eat it (except when it’s still alive). Food like everything else is reality, if you eat it it’s consequences are real.
I personally see food as an input, something that once taken in will affect the consumer depending on the properties of the consumer and the properties of the intake. If You eat food that fits your desires we share a food ethic.
When I sit down to eat I want to eat what I want, and what I want is to be strong and healthy, but i'm not just going to eat raw ingredients to meet my intake requirement. I will eat healthy things, but I make them taste like heaven by working in a balance between ingredients. You can pour some kombucha in with some sparkling water to make a soda like drink. Just a little salt can make an avocado go from good to great.
Convenience is important to my food ethic. If I were to chart what food I ate per day about 70% of my diet is cliff bars. They provide energy and nutrients in a convenient form that is easy to eat and can be taken anywhere. While I still eat things other than cliff bars, I personally like them more than any other snack that is equally convenient.
Some people can't stomach seeing the face of their food, I am not of that variety. When I was about nine I would catch crawdads with my hands, ask mom to boil a pot of water and would drop em in and eat em up. I personally look at everything I eat as the carcasas of fellow lifeforms. When I visited a sheep farm in New Zealand it was the first time I have ever felt an animal surrender itself, to be fine with whatever happens next. While all I ended up doing was shear the sheep I kinda wish I got the experience of slaughtering an animal. I would love to see how I feel about taking a mammal's life and eating them, as to boil a crawdad is very different that cutting a lamb’s throat.