INTERVIEW QUESTION ESSAY about WONTON- a Chinese food
– Use MLA
-Title page with your name, course name, date, and essay title
-PLEASE following the questions I provide
•Biographical Questions
1. Can you tell me your name?
2. Can you spell that for me?
3. When were you born?
4. Where were you born?
5. Where is your family from?
6. Which neighborhood did you grow up in?
7. What was the neighborhood like?
8. Could you describe house you grew up in?
9. What schools did you attend?
10. What were those schools like?
11. What did you do for fun when you were little?
12. Where did you play? (specific names/dates)
•Recipe Questions
IMPORTANT QUESTION: Could you please tell me the history of this dish? (Wonton).
+Add some further historical details, using sources to build out the story
1. Do you remember when you first tried this dish?
2. When did you learn to cook it? Do you make mistakes when you cook?
3. To cook this dish, what ingredients do we need to prepare? ( meat, vegetable…..)
4. How do you choose ingredients? For example, what meat do you choose (pork or beef) ? The ratio between meat and fat.
5. Do you make Wonton wrappers by yourself or you buy it from stores?
6. For people who don’t like beef or pork, can we use seafood instead?
7. Can we eat wontons with noodles, vermicelli or just by it self?
8. Why do you cook this dish now?
9. What is your favorite food?
10. What is your least favorite food?
11. What cuisine do you eat the most?
12. What role does food play in your connection to other people?
13. How does this dish connect you to culture?
14. What does food mean to you?
15. Is there anything you would like to add?
The essay will include the following:
1. Intro paragraph – explain your food dish and why you chose it
2. Second paragraph – talk about your interviewee (personal and biographical details)
3. Third paragraph – discuss what you learned about the food dish from your interviewee
4. Fourth paragraph – talk about what you learned about the life and culture of your interviewee
5. Fifth paragraph – add some further historical details, using sources, to build out the story
6. Sixth paragraph – add some further historical details, using sources, to build out the story
7. Conclusion paragraph – sum it all up!
8. Bibliography
• For the bibliography, you need the following:
Create a bibliography with each of the following (minimum):
1. Assigned Monograph (Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens)
2. Assigned Textbook (Unfinished Nation)
3. Book
4. Journal article
5. Internet source