GLOBAL EATING: Learning From Other Cultures
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: 200149
ISBN Number: 0-917159-64-0
Producer: Learning Seed
Producing Agencies: Learning Seed
Subject: Consumer Studies, Family Studies/Home Economics, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2002
Running Time: 22:45
What can we learn from other cultures about food and nutrition? Some countries share our love for food yet manage to avoid our epidemic of obesity. How do they do it? By studying how other cultures eat, we can gain some useful (and tasty) ideas to adapt to our own needs.
- Meet Contilo from Paros and learn how the Mediterranean diet combines a zest for good food with healthful eating and long lives.
- Discover from the Japanese that eating is a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach.
- Discover the roots of Mexican food and explore its healthy ingredients.
- Learn the Chinese concept of a balanced meal that involves a blend of tastes and textures as well as the yin and yang of the foods.
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