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Classify Food
This document provides guidance for classifying foods in a culture or family in an essay. It instructs the writer to choose one staple food, one common holiday food, or a typical meal to classify. The classification should be based on a clear principle, with 2-3 examples provided in each body paragraph along with details about taste, texture, and how the food is eaten. Descriptions of cooking processes should be avoided, focusing instead on how and when foods are usually eaten. Background information about the cultural importance of the foods should also be included.
Classify Food
- 1. Classifying Food ESL 33A– R. Frank
- 2. Points to Considerin Classifying Choose only one item to classify One staple food in your family/culture One common holiday food with several different types or ways of preparing A typical meal in your family, with the parts you ate most days or every day Have a clear, specific principle of classification The principle shows your PLAN for the essay Be careful NOT to write a paragraph about one specific dish. Each paragraph should be about a kind, or type, or part of the item you are classifying. Each body paragraph should include 2-3 clear examples with plenty of sense details – taste, texture, smell, etc.— and explanation about how it is eaten. Do not describe the cooking process. This is not a process essay. You should describe how and when it is usually eaten. Be sure to include enough background information so that your reader learns something about the importance of this food item or part in your family/culture.
- 3. Classifying Rice (staplefood) Principle : Grain Size/Type Examples: Ways of eating, frequency of eating red or black long grain rice short grain glutinous
- 4. Classifying Tea (staplefood) Principle : Length/Degree of fermentation Examples: Types of tea; tea characteristics green other Chinese tea wulong yellow white double "red" (black) fermented
- 5. Classifying Holiday Cookiesin My Family Principle : Preparation method Examples: Types of cookies drop other cookies cookies traditional cookies refrigerator cookie cutter cookies cookies
- 6. Parts of aDinner Meal in my Family "filler" Dinner dessert main dish vegetables
- 7. Bread in MyFamily Principle : Meal/Situation where eaten Examples: Types of bread, ways of eating bread lunch/ Sweet (like cake, dinner eaten with breakfast coffee/tea)
- 8. Soup in MyCulture Principle : Length of cooking; ingredients Examples: Types of soups soup "quick Specialty (looks like cooking" "long soup but not cooking" considered soup)
- 9. Plantains in MyCulture Principle :Ripeness of the fruit Examples: Dishes plantains green ripe