{"id":33823,"date":"2023-09-16T05:39:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T05:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/your-assignment-will-be-to-choose-wonton-a-chinese-food-and-interview-someone-about-the-dish-then-write-an-essay-about-history-of-the-food-and-link-it-to-the-american-history\/"},"modified":"2023-09-16T05:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T05:39:08","slug":"your-assignment-will-be-to-choose-wonton-a-chinese-food-and-interview-someone-about-the-dish-then-write-an-essay-about-history-of-the-food-and-link-it-to-the-american-history","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/your-assignment-will-be-to-choose-wonton-a-chinese-food-and-interview-someone-about-the-dish-then-write-an-essay-about-history-of-the-food-and-link-it-to-the-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Your assignment will be to choose WONTON – a Chinese food and interview someone about the dish. Then write an essay about history of the food and link it to the American history"},"content":{"rendered":"

You will write an essay that uses the sources you chose in your bibliography. Remember, you are weaving information from your interview with information from your approved sources to create a unique look at American history<\/font><\/u><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n


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Write about Wonton’s history<\/u><\/b> and  <\/b>Link the dish to the US History<\/u><\/b>. For example:<\/span><\/div>\n
-The story of Wonton. ( add some historical details, using sources to build out the story)<\/span><\/div>\n
– Immigration of Chinese people (laborers, railroad,…), they brought their recipe to the USA.<\/span><\/div>\n
-They opened hundreds of stores.<\/span><\/div>\n
-To suit American tastes, they have to change their recipe.<\/span><\/div>\n
-Chinese-American,…<\/span><\/div>\n

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Then please follow the questions I provide<\/b><\/div>\n

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Recipe Questions:<\/b><\/div>\n
1. Do you remember when you first tried Wonton?<\/div>\n
2. When did you learn to cook it? Do you make mistakes when you cook?<\/div>\n
3. To cook Wonton, what ingredients do you need to prepare? <\/div>\n
4. How do you choose ingredients? For example, what meat do you choose (pork or beef), and the ratio between meat and fat?<\/i><\/u><\/div>\n
5. Do you make Wonton wrappers by yourself? Yes, sometimes.<\/b><\/div>\n
6. Can you tell me how do you make the dough? Like which kind of flour you choose, and the ratio of flour to water.<\/div>\n
7. How long do you let the dough rest?<\/div>\n
8. Can you summarize the steps?<\/div>\n
9. If you don’t have enough time to make wrappers yourself, which brand do you recommend?<\/span><\/div>\n
10. Can we use seafood instead for people who don’t like pork or beef?<\/div>\n
11. Can we eat Wontons with noodles, vermicelli, or just by itself?<\/div>\n
12. How do you cook the soup?<\/div>\n
13. Can you tell me in detail how to cook Wonton SOUP step by step?<\/div>\n
13. For people who don’t like soup, can we fry it?<\/div>\n
14. Are there any differences between the soup Wonton and fried Wonton?<\/div>\n
15. Which one do you prefer? Soup or fried and WHY?<\/div>\n
16. How does this dish connect you to culture?<\/div>\n
17. What does food mean to you?<\/div>\n
18. Is there anything you would like to add?<\/div>\n

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The essay will include the following:<\/b><\/div>\n
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1. Intro paragraph – explain your food dish and why you chose it<\/p>\n

2. Second paragraph – talk about your interviewee (personal and biographical details)<\/p>\n

3. Third paragraph – discuss what you learned about the food dish from your interviewee<\/p>\n

4. Fourth paragraph – talk about what you learned about the life and culture of your interviewee<\/p>\n

5. Fifth paragraph – add some further historical details, using sources, to build out the story<\/p>\n

6. Sixth paragraph – add some further historical details, using sources, to build out the story<\/p>\n

7. Conclusion paragraph – sum it all up!<\/p>\n

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Cite your sources within the paper AND include your bibliography at the end! Use each source at least once. You must have at least two citations per paragraph. If you do not include in-text citations, you will get a zero (because that is plagiarism<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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Bibliography<\/b><\/p>\n

For the bibliography, you need the following:<\/i><\/p>\n

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1.  One monograph (non-fiction, written by a scholar)<\/p>\n

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2.  Assigned Textbook ( <\/span><\/span>Brinkley, Alan. The Unfinished Nation: a Concise History of the American People. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000<\/b><\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n


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3. Book<\/span><\/p>\n


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4. One journal article (from the library database) <\/font>check Attach Files and ZOOM IN or ZOOM OUT to read it clearly<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n


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5.  One reliable website<\/p>\n

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6. Any additional sources of your choosing<\/p>\n


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You will write an essay that uses the sources you chose in your bibliography. Remember, you are weaving information from your interview with information from your approved sources to create a unique look at American history Write about Wonton’s history and  Link the dish to the US History. For example: -The story of Wonton. ( add some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1303],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/33823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=33823"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=33823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}