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Eve Hagert 137 Stoney Point Road Dubois, Wyoming, 82513

9/19/09

Senior Project Advisory Committee Dubois High School 314 Helmer Dubois, Wyoming 82513

Dear Senior Project Advisory Board:

The general idea of my project is exploring culinary arts. I have always been very interested in cooking since a very young age, mostly because I’ve been cooking with my family for years and it has always been an important past time for them. Cooking in my family is everything, because to them it’s the most important time of day, in fact it’s a rule to eat dinner together as a whole. I am generally good at baking and cooking up one of those famous one-pot-wonder meals, though I’d like to go into more depth of the subject and gain better skill and experience in it. I am also very nervous to go into college without proper cooking skills because I feel that I won’t be very healthy in my choices of food if I don’t cook, and being healthy is very important to me. I want to learn because how to become a better chef because I rather enjoy it and it’s a skill I can use the rest of my life.

My research paper will focus on different cooking styles of many cultures. It will provide information about the cultures themselves, for example I will discuss the brief history of their culinary styles and the different spices and tools they use in their cooking. I want the readers in my research paper to actually get an idea of why different cultured cooking is important to the world today, and why it is important to the cultures themselves. Cooking is an art, and the many different styles of art are interesting to people (which will hopefully intrigue the readers). I am going to the U.S, Virgin Islands to get an actual idea of what cooking styles are there, and how they intertwine with others. I plan to go and interview chefs on some of the islands and discuss their knowledge on their culinary styles, including the spices they use, the tricks and tools they use in their cooking, and what is most popular to the island and why.

My project and research paper go hand in hand together because they both go into culinary arts. My research paper will provide information on different cooking techniques, while my cookbook gives you lessons on cooking. My project will be a cookbook. It will be a fairly large cookbook with simple, yet delicious recipes for starting chefs, It will also have many different types of culture foods, including French, German, Dutch, Japanese and many more unique styles. It will be over eighty recipes- not including the dessert section! This project will help me very much indeed and challenge me at the same time. It will help me become a better chef- which better prepares me for leaving home on my own, and it gives me the opportunity to teach others what I’ve learned in this project. I believe this project is positive and can benefit everyone. It will challenge me very much because I don’t have a lot of skill in the subject. Some recipes I make will be delightful, and others will be a complete disaster but I personally believe that either way I am learning no matter what outcome I attain in the end. Time for me is no big issue, it will most likely take me at least three months in which I will have to do prep cooking, actual cooking experimentation, and planning time. The cost is quite difficult; I will have to look at the different types of material I will use to make my book, including lamentation. I will have to use my funding money on a plane ticket, and also buying certain spices and special equipment I don’t have in my own home. Predicting the cost i would have to say around six-hundred dollars or less. Possible resources I would use are the internet, the people of Dubois, the chefs in the islands, and anyone with a great recipe and unique heritage!

Plagiarism is a huge issue everywhere, in school and society itself. Plagiarism means taking someones information from them and using it as your own without proper citation. In other words it means copying and stealing, Consequences of plagiarism are school expulsion, suspension, only getting 50% of the credit on your assignment or less, and many penalties. It also goes on your permanent record, which is irreversible. I understand what plagiarism is and I promise I will not proceed to do it.

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