1) Choose your favorite food item or the major ingredient of your favorite food item.
2) Explain where it came from all the way back to its original agricultural hearth.
3) Find out who (what country) is the biggest producer of that food item or ingredient in the world today and how much do they produce.
4) Find out how much of that food or major ingredient is consumed in the USA each year.
5) Include your reliable source(s) of info (URL address).
Include your first name, last initial, and class period in your comment, with 1-5 above, by 11:59pm on 5/2/16.
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ReplyDeleteOh boy!
Delete1. A Fresh Mozzarella Topped Authentic Margarita Pizza from Napoli.
2. Italia - 1889 - Created a dish that resembled the Italiano flag.
3. America has surpassed Italia for the biggest producer of pizza, but Italia is the king/queen, whichever you prefer, of Margarita pizzas.
4. America eats 100 acres of pizza a day! That's a lot of pizza.
5. http://www.thepizzajoint.com/pizzafacts.html
6. The best pizza in Illinois is - Da Luciano's. Go there.
7. The best pizza in The USA is - Via Napoli in Orlando. Go there.
8. The best pizza in the world is - Di PIZZERIA DA MICHELE in Naples. Go there.
See... I went above and beyond the call of duty. That's like a 6.5/5.
How many acres is that per year?
DeleteCullen Cogburn 3rd period
ReplyDelete1. Chocolate bar
2.Chocolate invented 3,100 years ago by the Aztecs - but they were trying to make beer
3. Ivory coast is the largest producer they make 1.7 million tonnes annually
4. america eats 18% of the worlds chocolate
5.source is wikipedia
Missy Wiegman period 3
ReplyDelete1. Chicken wings- chicken]
2. Came from China, earliest domestication was 7500 B.C
3. China is the biggest producer of chicken with 750 million birds produced.
4. 8 billion chickens are consumed each year in the U.S.A
5. Sources- http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/faen/poultry%20facts.html
http://www.roebuckclasses.com/101/lectures/prehistory/agorigin/05.htm
8 billion?1?!
Delete1. Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo
ReplyDelete2. Italy
3. America is the biggest producer after it was brought back from Italy by some famous actors
4. 23 pounds of cheese a year is how much the average US citizen eats
5. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo
- https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=how+much+cheese+do+americans+eat+yearly
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/Menuism/the-origins-of-fettuccine_b_4590831.html
Rachel Ramirez period 3
Hayden B. p3
ReplyDelete1)Bananas
2)Kuk Valley of New Guinea around 8,000 BCE
3)India 24,869,490(Tonnes)
4)The average American consumes approximately 30 pounds per year
5)http://sustainabledish.com/are-we-going-bananas-a-few-thoughts-on-our-favorite-fruit/
http://cwh.ucsc.edu/bananas/Site/Early%20History%20of%20the%20Banana.html
Alli S. p3.
ReplyDelete1. Strawberries
2. First domesticated in Brittany, France in the 1300's.
3. China 2,997,504 (tonnes), which is 38% of all strawberries produced.
4. Each American consumers about 8 pounds of strawberries each year.
5. http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/factsheets/strawberryhistory.html
https://top5ofanything.com/list/35769269/Strawberry-Producing-Countries
http://fsi.colostate.edu/strawberries/
Marlo C. p3
ReplyDelete1) Pineapples
2) northern Paraguay and southern Brazil
3) Costa Rica produces 2.7 million tons
4) About 6 pineapples are eaten per person in the US
5) http://www.kingoffruit.com.au/origin-of-pineapples.html
http://www.pbhfoundation.org/pdfs/about/res/pbh_res/State_of_the_Plate_2015_WEB_Bookmarked.pdf
1) Pasta
ReplyDelete2) Largest producer is China
3) 130.9 million tons
4) 146.3 pounds per year
5) https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=hwat%20country%20produces%20the%20most%20wheat
JAKE ENGEN p3
ReplyDeletebroccoli
1) aly, more than 2,000 years ago.
Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family whose large flower-head is eaten as a vegetable. The word broccoli comes from the Italian plural of broccoli, which means "the flowering crest of a cabbage", and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning "small nail" or "sprout
2)the United States produced more than 2 billion pounds of broccoli with a value of over $750 million on more than 130,000 acres.
3) 3.75 billion pounds of broccoli per year is used in the us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccoli
1)Sushi
ReplyDelete2)Originates from japan as a means of preserving rice
3)Japan produces 1.7 million tons of sushi
4).2 pieces of sushi for every person in the us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushi
0.2 pieces?
DeleteJesse Heidenreich, 3rd period
ReplyDelete1.bread
2.The earliest archaeological evidence of it is from ancient Egypt.
3.Europe is the biggest producers and consumers of bread.
4.32 million tons in the EU 27 countries per year.
5.Each American consumes, on average, 53 pounds of bread per year.
http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/a-brief-history-of-bread
Matt Eaton,3rd Period
ReplyDelete1.Gyro
2. Predicted to have originated in Greece
3.Biggest producers, as of 2012, are India, China, Australia
4.Largest consumers of Australian Meat is the United States, accounting for 34% of total exports of lamb meat
http://www.agmrc.org/commodities-products/livestock/lamb/international-lamb-profile/
Which country produces the most? How much?
Delete1. Fried chicken
ReplyDelete2. Introduced in the American South and it became a staple.
3. USA
4. 16 pounds per person
5.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/chicken-vs-beef_n_4525366.html
Where did the chicken come from?
DeleteCrystal Cardona
ReplyDelete1. fries
2. Belgium, people began frying potatoes in the 1600's
3. USA
4. 29 punds per person
5http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-1198/What-Are-We-Eating-What-the-Average-American-Consumes-in-a-Year-Image.html
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DeleteWhere did the potato come from?
DeleteBrenda Contreras 3rd pd
ReplyDeletemango
southern asia they were later introduced to California in 1880
India , 15,250,000
increased from a small number to a larger one, most recent being 2013 where it increased 2.4 pounds
http://www.statista.com/statistics/257231/per-capita-consumption-of-fresh-mangoes-in-the-us/
What increased 2.4 pounds?
DeleteJP Sullivan 3rd pd.
ReplyDelete1. Cheeseburger
2. Pasadena, California in 1926
3. The US is the biggest producer at 11,789,000 metric tons per year.
4. The average American consumes 53 lbs of beef per year
5. http://www.beefusa.org/beefindustrystatistics.aspx
Potato
ReplyDeleteSouthern Peru
China is the largest producer (85,920,000 tonnes)
The US consumes roughly 117 pounds per capita
http://www.potatopro.com/world/potato-statistics
Pineapple
ReplyDeleteSouthern Brazil
Philippines 2200 Thousand Metric Tonnes
5.4 lbs per capita
https://www.statista.com/search/?q=pineapples