Learning Goals:

-Learn about how/why the people in the food buisness value authenticity

-Learn how important is authenticity to consumers

-Study different aspects of authenticity
-Come up with my own definition of authenticity

-Cook authentic food

How my project will help me reach these goals:

I’m hoping to answer these questions through listening to podcasts which I am hoping will provide basic and foundational information needed to understand this topic. The interviews will really be the thing that is most helpful in ansering these questions because I plan to ask forms of these questions to the people. By writing reflections and reviews and learning about “authenticity” in food will help me to come up with my own personal defintion aswell as help me to actually cook the food.

General work plan:

Weekly plans:

-Interview with at least 3 people

-Cook a dish a day

-Go out and sample at least 2 times a day

Daily plans:

-Watch/Listen to a media recourse related to my project

-Find a recipe (do research on most authentic) (Also make sure recipe is doable for me)

-Do a video + written review of the dish I tried

-Food sampling (on certain days as well, will need research to be done before

-Compare in review video + writteb piece

-Interview (on certain days, might not be able to find enough people for 5 days a week)

-Going to spice shops/specialty grocers to ask their opinions on authenticity.

Documentation:

-I plan to display my work as a multi-media presentation meaning I would have videos (like the reviews videos I did) as well as text about what I’ve learned. I think it would look similar to the example one on the senior project planning guide. I think it would also be cool to put some of the recipe’s I used/turned out well into the presentation. I would also have daily documentation of my dishes (reviews) and reflections on the interviews.