Culture and Foods

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Students will:

• explain how culture affects food choices

• explain how location and climate affect food supply

• identify why food patterns differ from region to region and country to country

• prepare a variety of foods that are typical of the country being studied and compare to regions where that population migrated in the United States

• examine the difference between chronic hunger, malnutrition, and famine

• determine how finite resources can be used to meet worldwide needs

• appreciate a variety of family customs, traditions, and differences related to foods

• investigate new methods of feeding a growing population.