ER GCE Portfolio

  This blog post is a special one! It marks my last Action Project for Freshman year.  In our Food For Thought class we talked about agricultural revolution and Borlovs place in cementing cross breeding into our eating habits forever.  We spoke about the down sides of the things we eat and the way we produce them.  For instance we saw how monoculture caused the death of millions in Ireland.  We worked to understand Pollans 5 food transformations and how they changed the way we eat. For this action project we took the opportunity to make our own version of Anthony Bourdains 'Without Borders'.  We tried making our own food comparisons and reviews using as many creative descriptions for what we were eating as possible we would buy one from a restaurant and the other we made ourselves.  I decided to make spaghetti simply because I wanted it and I decided to follow my ayurvedic taste.  Above is my video of my food review. My ingredients I used to make my own spaghetti Me chopping up

 Over this whole year our GCE  STEAM class took 3 thematic courses - Water, Fuel, and food. All three classes connected to one another, here how. Water is a basic necessity required for many processes. It can be used both as a fuel - hydroelectric plants and in fuel since water or H2O is a result of the combustion equation.  These both connect to food because through the fact that water is an important component in cooking as well as growing the food, and fuel also necessary to cooking and denaturing the ingredients.       During this last course - food  we talked a lot about the Green Revolution, and Norman Borlov.  We learned about how he learned to cross breed to create stronger more resistant crops for use in countries like Mexico that were starving due to crop diseases like the rust fungi. We considered the upsides and downsides to this such as the way it made plant resistant to the rust fungi but required extensive amounts or water and chemical fertilizer. It also caused a monocu