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In this unit we are going to My main problem is I not many people known about my culture which is surrealism. My main target audience is any one because I just need to let everyone understand my culture. So I will join my culture with a food I like which I choose the taco. I choose the taco because this is a food I like, not too hard to make and easy to match with the culture I have. Taco also is a food that I think more people will like because it is an international food. I will make it really healthy because when it is healthy more people could enjoy it. In this project I will try to use some of the idea from a famous artist I like which is Salvador Dali he is a famous surrealist artist. I choose him because of 2 reason’s first he is a really famous artist that has a really high skill so he could be someone that I could learn from, second because he is famous more people will know him and can let more people know about surrealism. Another small problem I have is I can’t use peach apple seafood and nut’s in my food product because a lot of people are allergic to those ingredient.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Salvador Dalí.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 24 Oct. 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Salvador-Dali.

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Cheese Pizza:A cheese pizza is similar to my product because cheese pizza and taco both uses a similar idea. A cheese pizza has a base which is a flatten bread, and taco has a tortilla which works like the base of the pizza. A cheese pizza is called a cheese pizza because there is not much topping except for the cheese which makes it special because it doesn’t need much things to make except for the cheese. This also means that the cheese is really important, through my research I have found out that the most often used cheese in a classic cheese pizza is the mozzarella cheese. Something I really like about cheese pizza is a cheese pizza doesn’t require a lot of complicated step cause it’s basically just a dough ketchup and cheese. The taste is also really simple the good smell of the bread, the milky taste of the cheese and the fresh juicy taste of the ketchup. Something I really hate about a classic cheese pizza is it sometimes feels a bit boring because when you eat a lot of the same thing you will feel that it doesn’t taste that good at first.

“Pizza.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pizza.

Traylor, Richard. “The Best Cheese for Pizza.” WebstaurantStore, WebstaurantStore, 9 Apr. 2019, www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/1900/best-cheese-for-pizza.html.

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Steak is a simple food that only requires a beef, that needs to be grilled. Steak could be used in my food product just because it is easy and taste really good. In my A1 I have said that my taco would be really healthy so to make my taco healthy I would need to have some protein which is beef. But I will not make steak like the usual way I will want beef that has been cut into really small pieces this is because when it is a really big piece of meat it  means that it could be hard for people which is old or young to chew. So I will cut it in pieces and spread it in every place of the taco. Some thing that I found through my research is I found out that a steak only requires 4-5 minutes for a side to be done. So I don’t need that much time making the steak it would have a maximum of 10 minutes for the steak to be done. Something I dislike about normal steak is it needs to be cut if I could cut it into small pieces and serve it to the target audience I could maybe not let them have this kind of situation happening.

“Steak.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steak.

“How Long to Grill Steak - The Ultimate Guide Steak University.” Steak University, 27 Nov. 2019, www.mychicagosteak.com/steak-university/long-grill-steak-best-taste-texture/.

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Example 3:=Burrito is a food that is really similar to taco because it has the same structure as taco. They both have a tortilla and ingredients inside. But something that is really different about taco and tortilla is a taco has a hard tortilla and normally has ingredient that has a stronger taste inside. A burrito normally is more healthy with more vegetable and a weaker taste. Something  that I will be using from the Burrito is the tortilla I would not make a hard tortilla for my taco. This is for two reasons firstly some people like old man and young kids they don’t have such a good teeth to chew and bite so if I use a hard tortilla it would be hard for them to eat. The second reason I wanted to use the soft tortilla is because making a hard tortilla requires a lot of skills and a lot of time which is really hard for me as a student to make a hard tortilla. But something that is bad about using a soft tortilla is when you eat it sometimes the ingredient would fall out because your tortilla doesn’t have an exact shape like a taco tortilla.

“Burrito.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burrito.

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The goal that I have is trying to let more people understand my culture through food. The food that I choose is a taco because taco is a food that can be accepted by a lot of people and I want to eat taco. Another reason I chose taco is because I think that taco is a food that can be challenging but not too hard. The target market I am aiming for is for everyone because anyone can know my culture through this. From the research in A2 we can see that I already has a basic idea of how to make a taco and the materials I need to make a taco. From A3 Analyze we can know that I have already know how to improve my taco through looking at other similar product. The problem that I will be facing are lack of skills and the limit of ingredient that can be used. Which means that I can’t make a taco like a professional and I won’t be able to have that much choices to choose from. The things that shows me I am success is if my food can show my culture and my taco should have the basic need for my taco to be a taco.

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a normal salad(no meat)=A salad is a really interesting food because in my research salad doesn’t have meat and it is normally cold dish. But in the modern society salad could have meat, and it could be hot. I will join a salad to my taco because I thought that there is beef salad so it I join my steak(cut) and lettuce which is the main vegetable used in salad, would my taco have the taste of salad. The main reason I wanted to join salad to my taco is a taco is the only food that I thought of when I said healthy in A1 so I think that it would be a really good idea to have salad as part of my taco. I only choose to use lettuce from salad is because I would have more vegetable from the other parts of the taco for example the tomato, onion, lime, for the salsa, carrot, cucumber, for the texture and structure of the taco. Something that I really hate about salad is there is a kind of vegetable that is in salad which is known as the purple cabbage or red cabbage. I don’t like it because there is kind of a bitter taste that makes me feel disgusting. Which I will never add in my taco.

“Salad.” Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salad.

“Red Cabbage.” Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com, www.dictionary.com/browse/red-cabbage.

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My 8 rough design

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Yankee’s Taco Recipe

Ingredients:

tortilla, 2

120g beef

1 tomato (110-130grams)

1/2 white onion

125ml cooking oil

1/2lime(50g)

100g Mozzerella or cheddar cheese

1 carrot(60-80 grams)

1 cucumber(100-120grams)

1 lettuce(3 piece)

15grams black pepper

20grams salt

Material and equipment:

1 Cutting knife

1 apron

1 bowl

2 plate

1 pan that can grill the meat

1 stove

1 cutting board

Steps:

1. Put a lettuce as the base of the taco on a plate that can fit

2. spread the tortilla on the lettuce

3. start making the taco

4. First make the salsa cut the vegetable on the cutting board. Cut the tomato, lime, white onion, into small pieces and add it into a small bowl

5. Add small amount of olive oil and black pepper into the bowl with salsa inside

6. Clean the cutting board

7. Open the fire of the stove

8. Put a teaspoon of oil onto the pan and put the pan onto the stove

9. Wait until the oil is hot enough when the oil starts to bubble a little

10. Put the slice of beef onto the pan and wait until the side facing the pan turns brown wait for around 1 minute then flip the slice of beef

11. 11.The side that is still raw should face the pan and wait until it is brown this time it should be shorter than the time we flipped the beef

12. Take out the beef put it onto the cutting board and cut it into strips of beef around the size of an normal adult

13. Put the beef on a side on another plate

14. Get out 2 pieces of lettuce and cut it into strips add it onto the top of the taco

15. put the beef on top of the strips of lettuce

16. Add the salsa onto the strips of beef

17. Close up the tortilla your done with the taco part

18. After your done with the taco you will need to start adding the things that makes the taco join with culture

19. First cut a carrot into a stick shape and cut two round ball shaped carrot then cut the other left over part of the carrot into a strips

20. Cut the cucumber into half the size of the carrot stick and cut the other in strips

21. Stick the carrot into the taco and try to make the carrot pointing forward around 75 degree

22. Stick the cucumber onto the carrot(use a sauce or cut the cucumber so the cucumber can fit on the carrot) make sure the cucumber is pointing forward at the same position of the carrot

23. Use two toothpick to stick into the cucumber make sure there is a bit space between the two stick

24. Get the two carrot balls we have and stick it through the two sticks

25. Use the knife to cut the cucumber around 1 out of 16 deep make sure the place you cut is pointing out

26. Enjoy!

Some of the ideas from

Eisenpress, Cara. “The Complete Guide to Making Tacos at Home.” First We Feast, First We Feast, 1 June 2018, firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/06/how-to-make-tacos.

“Mexican Taco Recipes.” Allrecipes, www.allrecipes.com/recipes/1219/world-cuisine/latin-american/mexican/main-dishes/tacos/.

Contributors, HowStuffWorks.com. “How to Cook a Steak On Your Stove Top.” HowStuffWorks, HowStuffWorks, 17 June 2011, recipes.howstuffworks.com/tools-and-techniques/how-to-cook-steak-on-stove-top.htm.

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Putting all the equipment in the right place. When I was doing this step I spent a lot of time because I find a lot of things were missing

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Cutting the cucumber, carrot, lettuce, lemon, tomato into  strips and pieces. In this step I have found that I don't know how to cut the vegetable and wasted a lot of ingredients

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After cutting the vegetable's add tomato, lemon, white onion, together with black pepper, salt. In this step I found out that making salsa is really hard because all the ingredient's needs to be cut into tiny pieces

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Putting the lettuce carrot and cucumber onto the tortilla. In this step I found out that there isn't enough space for the other ingredients

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Cooking the beef on the pan making it edible. In this step I didn't know that it would be that dangerous because the oil from the beef will be flying around

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Adding the beef onto taco(the beef needs to be cut into small pieces) and adding some cheese on it. It's Finished!!!

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A lot of changes were made through the process of making the food and planning I will be talking about the changes now. The first changes I have is I changed my ingredients, I have changed lime into lemon this could make the food more sour and more bitter. I made this change because there isn’t ways to access lime for an ingredient so I thought that maybe if I change it into lemon maybe it could make my food product more unique. Another ingredient that I have changed is I change the cheese strips(pizza cheese) into Mozzarella cheese powder. I made this change because cheese strips would not fit with the design because I already have that much ingredient in the taco if I added cheese strips it would taste strange cause there would be too much flavor in the taco. So I decide to add Mozzarella cheese powder just for a little flavoring inside the taco. The biggest changes in all of the changes is I changed the whole design I only followed the recipe but didn’t follow the design I have, which means I didn’t really added my culture inside my food. I decide to make this change because I think that we are making a food in food design so the main focus should be on the food so I shouldn’t spent that much time on making the appearance of the food, meaning that I tried to make the food taste better and payed less focus on my design of my food. Another big change I have when I was making my food is I changed the whole order around I cut the vegetable first, grilled the meat, and made the salsa the last. I decide to make this change because I found out that this is the order that is the most efficient way to make the food, because if I made the salsa first I would need to wash my hand again but if I cut the veggie’s first I could spent less time on washing my hands and preparing the material’s. The last change I had is I didn’t use all of my ingredient I left quite a lot of ingredients I think that this doesn’t really count as a change but it is kind of a change. I think that this is really important because I think that wasting ingredient’s means that I didn’t plan things out really well.

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In the first test I have tested is I used my classmates Eunwoo and Eric to help me. In this test I have proved that I didn’t waste any ingredients during the cooking because Eric Eunwoo and I have eaten all the left over ingredients. This is an really important test because in B1 I have said that I won’t waste any material so I decide to have the help of my friend to solve the problem of not wasting ingredient.

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Yann:It looks like a burrito it doesn’t really look like a taco.

Terry:It looks really delicious because it

Eric:It looks like a really high class restaurant

Eunwoo:I would give a 4 out of 6 for the appearance of the taco

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My mom: The lemon is a bit too bitter and sour if I could use lime it might have a better flavoring than the lemon.

My sister: The meat should have some flavoring inside it shouldn’t only have the taste of the beef.

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There is a lot of changes that could be added to my food design in D3 I will be talking about some the improvement’s I can make. The first improvement I think that I could make is making the tortilla crispy because a taco usually needs a crispy tortilla to make it has a crunchy taste. This is a really important part of a taco because without the crispy tortilla the taco wouldn’t taste like a taco. I made the decision to not do this step because I think that it takes too much time and it is really not that important compare to the really important factor’s that make up a taco. The second important improvement I can make is time management this is a really important part improvement because if I have managed the time better I can make some more improvement to the food. The third improvement I have is the improvement to the flavor I think that this is an important part because if the taco didn’t have much flavor like I have done it would be hard for other people to eat it. Also when I asked for other people’s idea they said that it’s actually taste’s okay but the flavor is just too simple there isn’t really much flavor inside. For this improvement there could be multiple ways to solve the problem for example adding more ingredient’s inside the food or maybe making the flavoring a bit stronger. The last improvement I want to make is having the amount of ingredients more controlled because I have wasted a lot of ingredient’s and for some ingredients isn’t enough. For this improvement I could maybe go to get the ingredients my self because if I let other people get the ingredients sometime it’s hard to let them know what your want and how much you wanted.

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The positive affects of my food is my food looks like a taco and it tastes good. This is a really important affect because our aim is to spread our culture and if my food did taste good and looks good it could have a better affect of letting other have a more deep impression of the culture. My food also is really healthy this is really important to my client and target audience because in A1 I said that our food should be suitable for anyone. So if it is healthy people that may be weak or unhealthy can eat it, also I didn’t use ingredient that is hard to chew or swallow.

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The negative affects of my food is my food didn’t really reach the goal of spreading my culture, this means that I didn’t impact my client and target audience with my culture. This is a really important affect because without the culture I lost the aim of making the food which means my food is just a food it doesn’t include any culture. Another negative affect of my food is I kind of fail the goal in B1 I said that it should be able to be hold by a normal human, but because my taco is kind of big and the shape of it could make the food fall out. This is a really serious affect toward our client and target audience, because if the food is hard to be eaten it would mean that the food would have an bad impression. If the target audience and client have bad impression towards the food they won’t think that the culture is important.

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My food didn’t really follow the steps it should really have but it did meet some of the Design Specification. One of the specification that has been meet are the Cost it did cost around 40-80 minutes in total and the taco should could around 10-100. The tools I used are from the school’s food design classroom so it should be around 20 RMB because it is borrowed not bought. Another specification I have met is the safety specification I didn’t add peach, apple, seafood, and nuts inside my taco. I have also met the material specification I did add meat and vegetable as a part of my ingredient. The important design specification I didn’t met is using an oven for cooking, it’s because I didn’t use an oven because using an oven require too much time and it is harder to use. Another specification I didn’t met is the tortilla would taste crispy this is an important specification because if we wanted a taco to taste well it requires a crispy tortilla to add the texture of the taco.

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I decide on this recipe because my goal is to make a taco that can be mix with surrealism. The recipe I made had the idea of surrealism because I have included how to make my taco include surrealism inside. I chose the first better idea because I think that this matches with surrealism the most because I wanted to mix a giraffe and a duck together with the taco. Also I think that in this design  it looks normal when the taco and surrealism is mixed together. This recipe fits with my design specification because all the ingredient I said will be used and none of it will be wasted which matches my ACCESSFM I have said in B1. Also it will take around 40-80 minutes of making because there isn’t any steps that will take more than ten minutes. I did not use seafood apple, peach and nuts which fits with the Safety  specification. In B1 I said that my taco would be eaten by using an hand to hold and eat it, the shape of my taco fits with it because it is in the right shape. If we look at the safety in B1 I have talked about the allergies that need to be careful of I didn't put any of the ingredient that shouldn't be added.