Exploring My World Through Food

"How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history"
-Michael Pollan
This website contains all of my chosen assignments for my McBride Honors Practicum project. For this project, I want like to explore three different cultural hubs around the Denver area for my practicum, including Lebanese, Ethiopian, and Cuban cultures. Exploring the idea of the authenticity of these restaurant's dishes through a variety of different lenses. I want to have a conversation with them over food that allows me to hear and experience their culture. In turn, hoping that those conversations then help open a doorway into their culture in Denver and give me more insights into how this cultural hub formed in Denver. Through this experience, I am hoping to “explore my world” without leaving the Denver area and help guide people on how to do the same in other areas. Feel free to explore each of the countries pages, each page contains a dish from that country and some research about the dish.