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Introduction

This week we will be writing our discussion posts again (but be prepared – next week we will have another video discussion assignment). Again, you are divided into your small group to make discussion easier. You are required to make at least three written posts this week . First, respond to the Question Prompt. Second, respond to at least two classmates.

Question Prompts

Choose a recipe that you associate with a particular place (it could be a family recipe you associate with home, a recipe you learned on your travels, etc). Briefly explain your chosen recipe and write the ingredients in your discussion post.

Now, look up and share the origin of each of the food items in your post – not where they are currently grown, but where they are native to, where they were originally found. For example, the cacao tree (chocolate) is native to the Amazon Basin, but is now primarily grown in the West African countries of Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon, as well as in Indonesia. We want to know where the food originated, not where it is currently produced.

Did the foods used in your recipe originate in the place you associate the recipe with? If not, what does this make you think about the exchange of food in our world? Does your recipe show connections between Latin America and other parts of the globe? Be sure to reference course material in your post. 

European colonization of Latin America had a significant and lasting impact on the region. The majority of Latin Americans today can trace at least partial ancestry to Europe. It began an era of significant movement and intermingling between people, ecologies, and cultures across all the world's continents. It is also an event/time period that caused tremendous pain and sorrow for Indigenous Americans who lost land, freedom, and life in many cases and for Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas as part of the Atlantic slave trade. While this discussion post focuses on the globalizing effects of the period of colonization, please take some time to reflect on the atrocities committed during that period and how they continue to shape people's lives today. 

6 months ago

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