Explain what you already know about your essential question. Explain why the topic is important to you, and what is motivating your inquiry.
This topic is important to me because I’ve always connected to my jewish routes through food. I have never been the most religious person, so I use food to connect to my religion and culture.
What understandings and experiences are you bringing with you as you start this research process?
I’m bringing with me my cooking skills that I’ve learned over the past couple of months during Coronication.
How have any outside sources informed your understanding of your essential question?
My Grandma has really helped me inform my essential question. To me, she is the epitome of Jewish cooking in my family, so when coming up with my question, I constantly thought back to her.
What don’t you know?
Why is it important for you to find out more about this question. Tell what you want to know about your essential question?
I’ve always been interested in Anthropology and recorded history, so getting a sense of how history can be recorded is part of what I want to find out about.
What are the areas of inquiry that you think need to be explored?
Jewish culture and food is definitely an area of inquiry that needs to be explored, because I don’t about much jewish food beyond dishes for holidays.
What are the other questions that are lurking just beneath the surface of your guiding essential question?
What can I do to improve my cooking skills and share the tastiness of jewish cuisine?