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Food & Cuisines Educational Posters, Art Prints & Charts
for classrooms, kitchens and restaurants.
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social studies > CULINARY FOOD < nutrition < science
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Food is any substance consumed by living organisms for energy. Most food is of plant or animal origin; notable exceptions are the fungi mushrooms and the mineral salt.
Gastronomy (from the Greek 'gastros' = stomach + 'nomos' = knowledge) is the study the relationship between food and culture; the word cuisine refers to traditions and preparation techniques related to a particular culture. The culinary arts have to do with food and kitchens. Nutrition is the study of the relationship between health and diet. Here is the US Government definition of food.
Author and food lover Orson Welles said “My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
• “If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table.” ~ Roberto Acuna, farm worker
• “Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.” ~ Pearl Bailey
• “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.” ~ Edward Bellamy
• “The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.” ~ Alton Brown
• “Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” ~ G. K. Chesterton
• “Eating words has never given me indigestion.” ~ Winston Churchill
• “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” ~ Theodore Dreiser
• “People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
• “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
• “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
• “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo
• “Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth, work, healing, and dying.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou ...” ~ Omar Khayyam
• “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.” ~ Lucretius
• “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.” ~ Lewis Mumford
• “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~ Edith Sitwell
• “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” ~ Socrates
• “No fool can be silent at a feast.” ~ Solon
• “If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
• “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.” ~ E. B. White
• “Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
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Dairy Posters
In industrial societies cow's milk is the usual source of dairy products like cheese, yogurt, ice cream and butter.
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Fruits Posters
In cooking “fruit” ususally refers to just the sweet, fleshy plant fruits like apples and oranges. A nut is a dry fruit with one seed.
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Grains & Cereals Posters
Pulses are dry grains from the pods of annual leguminous plants (i.e. dry beans, peas, lentils). Grains are seeds of annual grasses, sometimes referred to as cereal (i.e. wheat, rice, maize).
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Spices & Culinary Herbs
Herbs are annual or perennial plants that are grown for their culinary, medicinal and/or spiritual value.
Spices, valuable trade items throughout human history, are the dried seed, fruit, root, bark or resin used to flavor or preserve food.
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Vegetables Posters
Vegetable is a culinary term (not botanical) to describe any part of a plant that is usually food for humans, and is not a nut, fruit, grain, herb or spice.
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Eggs
Edible eggs, the round or oval body laid by the female birds and turtles, consist of a protective, oval eggshell, the albumen (egg white), the vitellus (egg yolk), and various thin membranes. Roe and caviar are edible eggs produced by fish.
Eggs are considered a good source of protein and choline.
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Meat & Poultry Posters
Meat is food from animals: cattle (beef & veal), sheep (lamb & mutton), pigs (pork), poultry, and horses (mostly in Europe).
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Seafood Posters
Seafood is a term used to describe any aquatic animal suitable for eating and includes both animals from salt and fresh water.
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Cuisines of the World Posters
Cuisine refers to the food traditions associated with a specific culture and refect the locally available ingredients and trade items, such as spices. The word French word “cuisine” is from the Latin coquere, “to cook”.
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Beverages Posters
Coffee, tea, wine...
Beverages are drinks that are prepared for human ingestion.
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Desserts Posters
Dessert is typically the last course of a meal, and is sweet. Desserts, prior to the mechanization of sugar production, were expensive and reserved for the wealthy or for special occassions.
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Medicinal Plants
Erbe della salute
Plantes medicinales
Medicinal plants are considered those that have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.
Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources.
• medicinal posters
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Honey, a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers, has a long history of human consumption and is used in various foods and beverages as a sweetener and flavoring.
The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis) is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties.
Honey has a role in religion and symbolism and is also used in various medicinal traditions to treat ailments.
• insects posters
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Sugar, edible crystalline carbohydrates, is characterized by a sweet flavor.
In food, sugar almost exclusively refers to sucrose, which primarily comes from sugar cane and sugar beet.
Sugar, produced in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times when methods of turning sugarcane juice into granulated crystals, was not plentiful or cheap in early times. When Alexander the Great invaded India he was surprised to taste the sweetening agent that was different from honey.
Other sugars are used in industrial food preparation, but are usually known by more specific names—glucose, fructose or fruit sugar, high fructose corn syrup, etc.
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Salt, a mineral that is composed primarily of sodium chloride, is essential for animal life in small quantities, but is harmful to animals and plants in excess.
Salt is one of the oldest, most ubiquitous food seasonings and salting is an important method of food preservation.
The taste of salt (saltiness) is one of the basic human tastes.
• more Gandhi and the Salt March
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Defines and describes the role of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and vitamins and minerals in the body. Discusses various low-fat diets associated with vegetarianism, complimentary proteins, and healthy ways to eat meat. Lists good sources of fiber and vegetable protein. Shows recommended daily requirements of key vitamins and minerals and discusses supplements. Diagrams percent of calorie intake that should come from carbs, protein, and fats.
• nutrition posters
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A Healthy Habit: Read Food Labels
Poster Text: Scan the Nutrition Facts panel on package to evaluate what's inside and compare the nutrient value of food. ...
• safety posters
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Taste
While a newborn has taste buds all over the inside of the mouth, adults' taste buds are mainly on the surface of the tongue. An adult has as many as 10,000 taste buds. Taste bud cells last only a week before being renewed by the body.
The sense of taste works in conjunction with the sense of smell to create flavor. The taste of food is a combination of several factors, including the feel of the food in the mouth, its smell, and its appearance.
The temperature of food also influences taste. When food is warm or hot, it releases more chemicals into the air. These trigger our sense of smell, which increased flavor. Heat increases the flavor of sweetness, while cold decreased it. Taste buds also seem to work better at warmer temperatures.
Taste buds on the tongue are located around the base and sides of papillac.
BITTERNESS is tasted at the back of the tongue.
SOURNESS is tasted along the sides of the tongue.
SALTINESS is tasted along the side at the front of the tongue.
SWEETNESS is tasted at the front of the tongue.
• sense system poster series
• more digestive system posters
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• “In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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