Eat Drink Man Woman Voiceover

(silence for first part of scene until he cuts open fish)

The most challenging part of preparing this meal is skinning and gutting the fish. Though technical and precise, I have been preparing Oil Fish since I was ten, with my dad. Making this dish now is second nature.

I have three daughters, and I hope to teach them how to prepare my favorite meals. This next dish, I taught myself to make. First I will cut the peppers, then chop the bacon and onions. Next I will boil the meat then let it rest. Then I will put the vegetables in my steamer, which I got from my dad as a gift.

For my next dish, I need chicken. (silence while he gets chicken)

Presentation is everything. No one will want to eat your dish if it does not look appetizing, no matter how good the taste.

For this next dish, the hardest part is pulling of the frog legs. They are stubborn and really hard to separate from the body. I cook the frog legs by letting them simmer in broth. To make my chicken broth, I let raw chicken and boiling water rest in a pot for a long time. For my dumplings, I take time and care to roll my dough and shape it into a perfect circle before adding the filling.

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Extra Credit Video Summaries

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern [Sicily]

Andrew Zimmern is a foodie who travels the world tasting “bizarre” foods that the native people enjoy. In this episode, Zimmern travels to Sicily and visits four towns there: Palermo, Cerda, Viagrande, and Marzamemi. Palermo is a big port city where people from all over the world visit. With a guide, Zimmern explores a Palermo market place and sees baby lamb’s head, raw brains, cow stomach, and a mystery meat that customers have to buy without seeing the meat. Then he travels to a local eatery and has a cow spleen sandwich, Sicily’s original fast food. Still in Palermo, he goes to one of the best restaurants in the city, eating sardine meatballs stuffed with raisons, and caponada (eggplant and pepper relish). Then at one of the most expensive restaurants in Palermo, Zimmern eats cow nerves and tendons, tongue, and inner cheek. In Cerda, Zimmern attends the artichoke festival and tastes many different types of artichokes. In Viagrande Zimmern takes a cooking class from a local chef, making and tasting Chocolate Rabbit, all parts of the rabbit. Then he tastes Cinnamon Pudding. In Marzamemi, Zimmern wakes up early to go fishing with local fishermen. Then he goes to a fish processing factory, picking up tuna testicles. Zimmern eats lunch with the fisherman, eating sea snails, tuna sperm, tuna heart, and a whole Cuttlefish (Sepia). Zimmern admires the people of Sicily and the simple way they prepare their food.

Martin Yan’s Chinatowns – Chinatown Markets

Yan travels to San Francisco’s Chinatown, the center of Chinese American culture, where they spend their daily lives, working, living, shopping, eating, etc. Yan focuses on the process of curation in San Francisco Chinatown, where local vendors hang their meat to rest on the roof of their stores. There is another store where the shop owner sells live chicken, and fresh produce. Then Yan eats a meal at Pearl City, a restaurant in Chinatown and gets to tour the kitchen, watching how all the food is prepared. Back in Yan’s kitchen, he shows viewers how to make a traditional Chinese meal, drunken shrimp soup. Then he makes beef with many mushrooms and five flavored chicken and eggplant.

Food Blog Proposal Reflection

I really enjoyed reading someone else’s food blog proposal because I like to see their topic and I liked reading about how they plan to explore and research their topic. An idea that I got from reading someone else’s proposal is to use definitions in order to introduce the topic of the food blog. To give a better background, I could have actually given the definition of an eating disorder, instead of just jumping into the main idea of my blog. One of the suggestions that I got on my food blog proposal was to focus on 1-2 sources instead of 5. I agree that for the majority of projects, using only a couple sources would be good, I want my blog to be very research based, so I want to many sources (at least one per blog post). The person who looked at my proposal really liked my topic and thought it was interesting that I am focusing on the causes of eating disorders instead of effects. Having someone else’s input on my project was really helpful, and made me more confident in my project as a whole.