Blog 7

Candied Yams

sweet Potatoes- are vegetables that are high in starch and vitamin B,C,B6, and A, they are tuberous roots grown in the ground.(farm location unknown but I find them in Pathmark)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato

Marshmallows- is made by Kraft foods in Northfield, IL, a northern suburb of Chicago, Mashmellows are made from an actual marshmallow plant( the inside gelly is used to make actual marshmallows) but due to money issues gellitain is actually used to make mashmallows.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmallows, http://www.kraftfoods.com/jetpuffed

Recipe for Rice crispy squares:
3 Tbsp. butter or margarine
1 pkg. (10-1/2 oz.) JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
6 cups crisp rice cereal
MELT butter in large saucepan on low heat. Add marshmallows; cook until marshmallows are completely melted and mixture is well blended, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
ADD cereal; mix well.
PRESS firmly into greased 13x9-inch pan. Cool completely. Cut into 24 squares to serve

Brown Sugar- is sucrose sugar with contents of molasses to make it, its actual brown color. Splenda is located in Chicago,Ill.http://www.splenda.com/page.jhtml?id=splenda/products/bsb_blend.inc

Blog 6

Fried Chicken-Perdue Chicken Wings come from Perdue farms in Horsham, PA.
Tips For Cooking Chicken- To cook poultry to its optimum quality and safe temperature, we recommend using a thermometer to ensure doneness. This should be placed in the thickest part of the cut without touching bone. Refer to the below chart for appropriate endpoint temperatures by poultry cut.
180° F
Whole Chicken, Turkey, Cornish
180° F
Drums, Legs, Thighs, Boneless Thighs, Wings
170° F
Breasts, Boneless Breasts
165° F
Ground Chicken, Ground Turkey
140-165° F
Foods held warm to serve
http://www.perdue.com/handling/tips.html

Pepper, Salt, Garlic-McCormick and the company in Maryland 21031 animal origin, which is liquid at room temperature.
Flour-Is located in the General Mills Factory in Minneapolis, MN. flour is s a fine powder made by grinding cereal or other edible startchy plant seeds suitable for grinding. http://www.bettycrocker.com/Products/Gold-Medal-Flour/
Eggs- From Horizon Organic are from cage free hens, that eat vegetarian feed, and they are located in Boulder, Colorado. www.horizonorganiceggs.com

Blog 5

Macaroni and cheese

Kraft Shredded Cheese comes from North America by a company that produces tobacco products. They are located in Northfield, Illinois( an northern suburb of Chicago).
Taken from the Kraft website, Shredded Cheese is made of: REDUCED FAT CHEDDAR CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES, ANNATTO [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), CALCIUM SULFATE, POTATO STARCH AND CELLULOSE POWDER ADDED TO PREVENT CAKING, NATAMYCIN (A NATURAL MOLD INHIBITOR).
How to make Cheese: cheese is made from the milk of cows, goats and sheep and any other mammal that produces milk.
http://www.kraft.com/default.aspx
Butter
Land o Lake butter comes from and agricultural marketing corp. in Arden hills Minnesota(dairy industry).Butter’s Ingredients: Pasteurized Sweet Cream, Salt. CONTAINS: MILK
http://www.landolakes.com/ourCompany/
Milk
Milk comes from Tuscan Dairy Farms, in the metro part of New York.
The ingredients in milk are Milk, Vitamin D3. The milk actually come from cows on a local dairy farms.
Salt
Diamond crystal salt comes from Cargil salt corp. and they have various amounts of corps in different cities. No ingredients because salt is a natural resource, its made from rocks.
http://www.cargill.com/products/crop/ps_crop.htm
Maccaroni
Ronzoni comes from a macaroni company; Ronzoni pasta is prevalent in almost every state and in Puerto Rico. Pasta is made by About 200g (7oz) semolina flour or strong plain flour 2 eggs pinch of salt or salt substitute 15ml (1tbsp) olive oil
http://www.ronzoni.com/cooking/CookingPasta.asp

http://www.wikipedia.org/ (for all of them)

www.cottageliving.com (picture)

Nature as Media

Justin, Richelle and I visited the Veterbrate Orgin exhibit and watched a documentary.

The synopsis of the exhibit was about: Animals with a backbone and a braincase. the first one which originated 500 million years ago fish arose, 150 million years ago animals walked on land and 360 millions years ago moved on land.

Pathos: the emotion I felt was that I was intrigued by everything I saw, they had every veterbrate evoulution dated back as far as 500 million years ago. They had an exhibit (that you can touch) for the back bone veterbrate to the model like egg with the amibion tight membrane. this exhibit was very interesting.

Ethos: The exhibitshands on feel to it really built up its ethos, it had many diagrams and models that we were able to touch and move around. They had the touch screen computers which allowed us access to any information about what was in front us. we actually felt involved with the exhibit and that s what made me like it so much!!!!!

Facts fom the movie include(Logos): PreHistoric Veterbrates were discovered by fossils(they included the characteristics of having brain cases, backbones, new jaws, four limbs, ambion which is water tight membranes. The first fish with a backbone was called a placoderm. they also spoke about the harsh destrutction of dinosaurs and that only birds have survived since that time. one fact that wasreall striking was that humans are worst than the dinosaurs when it comes to destroying the earth.

Answer to question 4:

The media form I chose is movies. Each and exhibit had a type of film or documentary to state a fact or an opinion about an exhibit. In my opinion movies influence museums by giving the audience a visual aid to an informative source. Since my group saw a lot of exhibits today

I chose the film on Veterbrates because it was the one that was most interesting. It showed actual 3d like forms of prehistoric land and sea animals. Ehey described what they looked like, how they evolved and what eventually caused their extinction. without the movie I do not think that an exhibit like Veterbrates would have really caught my eye. The movie was actually fun to watch. The film included special effects, and of course a good illustrtor to characterize each animals trait or description to a tee.

My Day At the Museum

Today at the Museum was very fun!!!!!! My group included Richelle Hudson and Justin Henderson(just two of my close friends at La Guardia so FAR........) At the museum we found a lot of facts that support Al Gore's theory!!!!!!!! While visiting the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth we saw all of the evidence, they were supported by Movies,Touch screen computers, and exhibits that allowed us to actually TOUCH them!!!!!!

Some of the facts included:

• Greehouse gases-solar radiation warms the earth's surface. Some of the heat is radiated back to the atmosphere, where it is trapped by greenhouse gases. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor. Without it, the earth's average temp. would be below freezing. With it, the planet is warm enough to support life over most the surface.



• The atmospheric layers are: Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Trophosphere.





• Climate recorded in Ice- Glacial ice records the climate of past ages. The Composition of ice itself and of the air bubbles and dust trapped in it record changes in temperature, humidity, atmospheric circulation,volcanic activity,extent of sea ice and even atmospheric pollution by human activity.





• Evidence from trees- Tree rings are sensitive indicators of annual climate. Thick rings indicate rapid growth during warm,wet years. Thin rinngs represent slow growth, indication of cold dry years. By matching the overlapping sequences from progressivley older trees, a complete tree-ring chronology can be extend back thousands of years.





• Flood Basalts- Among the major out pourings of lava are huge plains as flood basalt provinces. The enoroumus amounts of volcanic gases injected into the atmosphere may have led to climate changes that cause global mass extinction events.




• Earthquakes are where plates collide. Suduction zones are places where two of the earth's plates collide, with one descending beneath the other. many earthquakes occur along these zones, usually near the top of the decsending plate, where it meets the overlying mantle.

Blog four

My products come in Styrofoam cups and plates, aluminum foil, tin cans, Plastic bottles and utensils.

The makers of the syrofoam cups I use is of the pathmark brandand the plates brands are Hefty, aluminum foil brand is Reynolds Wrap,Campbells made soup can, Pepsi plastic bottle. and pathmark plastic brand utensils.



All of the plastic goes in the regular everyday garbage, plastic bottles go in blue garbage and tin cans, aluminum foil go in the green garbage can.

Blog three

My Favorite Meal's Recipe:


My Fried Chicken Recipe includes: Eggs, Flour, oil, Chicken (Duh!),Seasoning include Garlic, Pepper, Salt, Paprika

Chicken wings are $1.89 a pound,a pinch of pepper, garlic and salt all a $1.99 each, about the size of the pan much of oil is $6.99, a ziplock bag of flour is $2.49 and two eggs is $2.49.

My Maccaroni and cheese recipe includes: 1 cup of Milk, 1 whole box of Maccaroni (make sure it is Rozoni), , a bag of Grated Cheese, dashes of salt, and a glob of butter

Milk is $3.99, Grated Cheese is $3.49, salt is $1.99,butter is $2.99, Rozoni box of maccaroni is $1.19

My Candied Yams recipe included: Can of Yams, Marshmallows, Brown Sugar

Can of Yams are $2.49(two cans), half a bag of Marshmallows are $.1.59, and two and tablespoons of brown sugar is $1.19

The Last Day for What I Ate Today

For Breakfast I had nothing, For lunch I had Tuna on a Wrap with pickels and a bottle of water and for dinner I had Baked Ziti with a Sierra Mist, snacks in between those meals were chips and cookies