Cooking Tutorial

     This is my first action project for my class Food for Thought, in which we had to create a food tutorial while connecting it back to what we've been learning in class. During this unit, we've been discussing how the systems of oppression impact our relationship with food and water. These include food deserts, the meat industry, the Flint water crisis, and many others. We've also been on two Field Experiences to the Logan Center, one was a concert, and the other was a poetry showcase. While being fun, I don't really see how they connect to what we've been learning.

    For the cooking tutorial, I decided to make a grilled cheese sandwich, as it was simple yet held some personal value to me. I'm not the best cook, so I had to do something not too complex. Planning out what I had to say took a while, but overall I'm glad about how it turned out.  Overall, I'd say this was a very exhausting project. It was really abstract and required too much thinking for my liking. It was hard to find a relationship between the cooking part and what we learned in the project, so I did what I could. I tried my best, and I'm glad it's over.

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