Lesson plan / CULTURE AND CUISINE

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 6.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator Prof. Dr. KAMİL BOSTAN
Instructor (s) Instructor MURAT ÖZMEN
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course The aim is to inform students about the cultural phases and variations of nutrition and catering dating back to Ancient Ages; to make students of gastronomy know general features of particular world cuisines as well as countries’ cuisines, factors affecting cuisine and to make them notice relationship between culture and kitchen by moving from the fact that nourishment is the most fundamental need and also it is evaluated as one of the social identity’s forming elements.
Course Content Concepts of culture and cuısıne; culture and perceptions of taste; historical, sociological, economical and technological factors on cuisine; Historical evolution process of food production & consumption including economical, social, political and cultural perspectives; discovery of food and the changes they have gone under till today, different phases of classical cuisine from Marie-Antoine Careme to George-Auguste; evolution of food production systems starting from industrial revolution; world cuisine, Turkish cuisine, Anatolian cuisine; Nouvelle cuisine and fusion cuisine which came out in recent past; present day eating-drinking habits and the situation in the future

Weekly Course Subjects

1CULTURE, CONCEPTS OF CUISINE; RELATIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND EATING-DRINKING HABITS
2EFFECTIVE FACTORS RELATED TO CULTURE OF KITCHEN AN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL VIEW TO THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF FOOD
3CUISINE AND WINE
4GENERAL ASPECTS OF TURKİSH and OTTOMAN PALACE CUISINE
5GENERAL ASPECTS OF ANATOLIAN CUISINE ACCORDING TO REGIONS
6GENERAL ASPECTS OF MIDDLE EAST CUISINE
7GENERAL ASPECTS OF ASIA CUISINE
8GENERAL ASPECTS OF EUROPE CUISINE
9MIDTERM
10VEGETARIANISM AND OTHER TYPES OF EATING
11DIFFERENT PHASES OF CLASSICAL CUISINE FROM MARIE-ANTOINE CAREME TO GEORGE-AUGUSTE ESCOFFİER TO THE PRESENT
12THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS STARTING FROM INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
13INSTITUTIONAL FOOD AND CATERING SERVICES
14NEW EATING HABITS; TRENDS AND CHANGES OF CUISINE IN RECENT YEARS

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