Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)
(d) Explain what you completed.    
(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   
(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

a) I, Anthony Clark, affirm that I completed my Independent Component which represents 30 hours of work

b) During my Research checks, I came across a website called The CulinaryCook.com which taught the basics of many cooking techniques and concepts  in a simple and understandable way. Below is the link to this website.

http://theculinarycook.com/

c) Done

D) For this second Independent, I proceeded to create a food blog using the Blogger software under Google. I included many techniques, recipes, lessons and helpful tips to aid any beginner take the first steps the need to kickstart a lifetime of cooking experience. This blog is named Golden Springs Cooking and can be found by clicking on the link below: 

Anthony Clark's Cooking Blog

E) The significance of this blog was to teach or provide enough basic cooking information to make my audience see how easy cooking can be with the right motivation and examples. The issue with my topic is that laziness and fear with past experiences can lead to a life not spent in the kitchen but out dining and buying unhealthy meals. This blog tries to remedy that by taking my research and experience and use such information to help others realize how important a life of cooking is and how easy it can be to attain the knowledge I possess.

As for proof, I believe the blog itself is proof of my work.

F) This blog created a human and understandable vent for my knowledge to be passed on to others. Food Blogs are a common and famous medium for learning culinary skills and can be a healthy and relatable source for a generation of individuals looking to the internet for sources of information. As such, Food blogs can be one of many answers for my EQ, "What is the best way to teach a beginner to cook?" because it provides an easy-to-reach and interactive source of basic information regarding the art of cooking.

Blog 21 - Interview 4 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

From this interview, I realized how much of a physical and non-concrete subject cooking really was. Cooking isn't a quantifiable topic such as mathematics or engineering but a more human subject, with lots of impulse and guess-work to become proficient. This came as a tad shocking because I like using my mind more-so compared to my hands but it can be anew and exciting idea to tackle.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

For the final lesson, I plan to focus more on the hands-on experience side of cooking compared to the research and writing portion of cooking. Cooking, as stated before, is more hands on than most subjects and can be better expressed, learned and enjoyed by actually cooking than reading a book or searching for recipes online.

Link:

https://soundcloud.com/anclark98/interview-with-juanita-4112016