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It is our final FFT action project! That also means Summer Break is coming up too. Let us finish what we all started, the school year. Lettuce Wraps served at the P.F. Chang’s restaurant in Northbrook. What this action project is all about is testing the comparisons between a homemade dish and a restaurant dish. For this project, I chose to prepare homemade Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps and compare them to the Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wraps served at P.F. Chang's restaurant in Northbrook. To describe our dishes, we had to use relevant adjectives and ayurvedic tastes to describe them. We also needed to relate our experience to Michael Pollan’s Five forward than all the others. This AP was more straight Quite sophisticated I must say, right? That is not all, remember Micheal Pollan? Food Transformations we used to compare our dishes to. Feel free to try this project out for yourself. I hope you enjoy my final action project! For this meal review, I ate Chinese Chicken Lettuce Wra...

You may have heard the acronym ‘GMOs’ thrown around before, but do you know what it means? GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. A GMO is a plant, animal, microorganism or other organism whose genetic makeup has been modified using genetic engineering . This process creates combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that do not occur in nature. Over the past few years, there have been several debates about the safety of Genetically Modified crops (GM crops). Some groups argue that GM crops are an important contribution to the world’s growing population. Other groups are concerned that GM crops degrade the health of humans, animals, and the planet. In this FOOD unit, the class studied both sides of the GM crop argument and had to choose a side for themselves - anti-GMO or pro-GMO. I am in the anti-GMO camp, and I would like to tell you why. You should know that someone has been messing with your food. Many of the products consumed on a daily ...