About this blog...

For a person to live on their own and sustain their selves, he or she must learn how to cook, unless the adult plans on living on hot pockets their whole life. This idea, along with the movie Julie & Julia lead me to the idea behind my independent project. I have created this blog for a project assigned to me in English, a project that requires me to explore coming of age in some aspect of life; I chose cooking. Throughout the course of this project, I will explore cooking in two ways: 1) how it pertains to my life through my family traditions and recipes as well as my 'coming of age' and being able to cook for myself and 2) how history has influenced foods or made certain dishes significant. Actually this project has allowed me to see history in a new light. The discovery of agriculture and farming, lead to the creation of permanent settlements. Before people knew how to grow crops and domesticate animals they traveled where the food source went as a nomadic people. Food lead us to civilization. One of the most effective war strategies involves a blockade of ports, in other words cutting off the food supply from hungry troops. Food won wars. Think of every social event you have ever been to, food was present, was it not? Throughout history, food has brought people together social through feasts, fairs, and parties. Food created culture. Food has brought opportunities to the people of the world.