Food around the world by Maite, Carla, Chelo and Rosa

Hello classmates,

My name is Micarla and I am from Brazil so that I know a lot of typical Brazilian dishes. 
The most typical food that all Brazilian people eat is Feijoada.

I am going to tell you how to make a Feijoada.

Ingredients for two people:

• 500 grams beans;
• 200 grams pork ribs;
• 1 onion;
• 300 grams rice
• A quarter  an orange
• 200 grams Brussels sprouts
• 200 grams  manioca flour

Are you hungry? 

Could you imagine how to prepare this amazing dish? Just try it!

Would you say that this plate is for breakfast, lunch or dinner?  And why do you think that?

• What do you think about this plate? 
• What country do you think it belongs to?
•  What do you think it is made of?

 Italian dishes

 

• Look at this photograph. It's a pizza, isn't it? 
• Do you like pizza? 
• Do you think that pizza is healthty food? 
• What ingredients do you think this pizza has got in it?  
• How many kinds of pizzas do you know? 
• How often do you eat pizza? 
• When you eat pizza, do you buy it or do you do it yourself at home?

• Look  at this photograph. 
• What do you think it is? 
• How many kinds of pasta do you know?  
• Have you ever eaten in an Italian restaurant? 
• Why do you think children love pasta? 
• How many Italian restaurants do you know?

Spanish Food

There are typical food in different regions of Spain.  

In the south it's eaten more fresh food than in the north.

In the south in summer, It's tipical "Gazpacho". It's very refreshing, and if you want to cook it, you just need tomatoes, onions, pepper, cucumber and bread, with a bit of  oil, vinegar and salt.  All together put it in a whisk, and ready to eat!!!!.  You can drink it during all day, better serve it very cold.

Also in Andalucia it's very typical the 'tapas'.  Wherever you go, just for having your drink you will have a 'tapa'.

Do you know the  'tapas' origin?

The name is because when people went to a bar and drank something, a plate was put on the top of the glass to avoid flies to come into.  

And so the barman taking profit of this started to put something into this plate.

In the coast the typical dish is paella.   When I was a child it was very usual to eat paella on every Sunday.

The origin of paella comes from the past.  People used to put the leftovers of the meat  (chicken or rabbit) or fish (squid, prawns, mussels, cuttlefish, clams), or vegetables (onion, garlic, pepper, green beans) with rice.  But it's very important to boil the rice with a nice broth.

And if you want to cook a splendid paella, you must add saffron.

Saffron grows in "La Mancha" and Aragon, exactly in my village, in Monreal del Campo in Teruel.  There the best saffron of the world is grown.

If you go to Monreal, you can visit the saffron's museum.  Also you can help to collect it in October 

and so you will understand the needed effort to grow it and collect it.  This is the reason by which it's very expensive.

In the north you can find the best cooks in the world, and you can eat seafood and delicious fish (such as hake, sardine, turbot....).

• Do you know the typical plates of the north?
• Do you prefer the southern food or the typical northern food?
• Do you like to eat "cocido" (a typical Spanish stew) in summer?
• Do you think  Spanish  people actually eat healthy or it is just a myth?
• What kind of desserts are typical Spanish? 
• Do you think in other countries people use to eat "turron" or nougat candy for Christmas, or "Torrijas" or French toast at Easter Week?
• Could you name other typical dishes in other areas of Spain?