Introduction
- You
are a famous chef about to make a fabulous meal for the newly elected
President of the United States, the First Lady, and the 10 guests they
will be inviting to dinner.
If they like your dinner, you will keep your high-paying,
prestigious job. If they
don’t like what you made, you will return to your old job of flipping
big Macs and making minimum wage.
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Task
- Search
the internet for recipes for an appetizer, salad, main course, and
dessert. Using your math
skills, modify the recipes so that they will serve 12 people. Design an attractive menu
for your dinner.
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Process
- Working
in pairs, decide on a theme for your meal. Will you serve typically American food, Chinese,
German, Italian, or some other exotic dinner?
- Visit
some of the following sites to find recipes for your dinner and copy
them into a word perfect document.
- http://www.allrecipes.com/
This is a great site for recipes, and it has an obvious search box when
the first page opens. Just type in what you are looking for and click
go.
- http://www.cooking.com/ Once at the site, go to the
recipes and more page. Then, under "browse departments",
choose advanced search for recipes.
- http://verybestmeals.com/
This is another site for good recipes.
- Go to Google and type in key words such as:
recipe Mexican food.
- After you have copied
your recipes into a word perfect document, note how many servings each
recipe provides for. Then
double, triple, or quadruple your recipe so that it serves at least 12
people. Next to the
original recipe, retype the list of ingredients with the amount needed
to serve at least 12 people.
- Use Word Perfect to
design an attractive menu for your dinner. Use one graphic and a variety of type fonts for your
menu to make it as professional looking as possible.
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Evaluation
· You
will be graded using the following recipe rubric:
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recipe rubric
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Your Score
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Recipe
selection
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Selects
no recipes
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Selects
1 or 2 recipes
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Selects
3 reipes or incomplete meal
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Selects
appetizer, salad, main course, and dessert
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Computation
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Makes
major computational errors.
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Makes
some computational errors and it is unclear if they are aware of proper
problem-solving procedures.
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Makes
minor computational errors in changing recipe to serve 12 people.
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Makes
no computational errors in changing recipe to serve 12 people.
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Menu
design
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Menu
dsign is very simple and without visuals
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Menu
design has one graphic, but poor layout
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Menu
design is attractive with one graphic, but contains spellling errors.
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Menu
design is attractive, has at least one graphic and no spelling
errors.
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Conclusion
· After
you have completed this assignment, you will have learned how to search the
internet for recipes, how to double, triple, or quadruple ingredients to
accommodate your guests, and how to design an attractive menu using a variety
of fonts. Hopefully, you will
also keep your job as chef at the White House.
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