Columbian Exchange Menu

Directions: Create a menu that combines European food with American foods. You will do this using the provided list of each area. There needs to be 3 sections – appetizers, entrée, and dessert.

Appetizers – using only foods found on the European list.

Entrée – using a combination of foods from Europe and America.

Dessert – using only foods found on the American list.

There should be 2-3 in each category. Menu items can be foods you already know of or they can be made up meals that you create. The menu items must have each of the following:

1.  The name of the dish

2.  Ingredients of the dish

3.  Innovation – in at least one sentence tell how the dish is innovative, new and exciting and how it features foods from the old world, new world, or both.

Name your restaurant and decorate the menu. The name and decorations should reflect the Columbian Exchange in some way.

Old/New World Menu Project Rubric

4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Analysis / Student uses
ALL THREE CORRECTLY (1)only ingredients from the OLD WORLD for the appetizer. (2) ingredients from BOTH for the entrée, and (3) uses only ingredients from the NEW WORLD for the dessert / Student uses
TWO CORRECTLY (1)only ingredients from the OLD WORLD for the appetizer. (2) ingredients from BOTH for the entrée, and (3) uses only ingredients from the NEW WORLD for the dessert / Student uses
ONE CORRECTLY (1)only ingredients from the OLD WORLD for the appetizer. (2) ingredients from BOTH for the entrée, and (3) uses only ingredients from the NEW WORLD for the dessert / Minimal effort is made in this category
Content / Student creates 3 choices in each area (1) appetizer, (2) entrée, and (3) dessert; innovation / Student creates 2 choices in each area (1) appetizer, (2) entrée, and (3) dessert; some idea of innovation / Student creates 1 choice in each area (1) appetizer, (2) entrée, and (3) dessert; incomplete/missing innovation / Minimal effort is made in this category
Presentation / ALL of the following are present: (1) Cover with name of restaurant, (2) color used on each page of the menu, and (3) Neatness / TWO of the following are present: (1) Cover with name of restaurant, (2) color used on each page of the menu, and (3) Neatness / ONE of the following is present: (1) Cover with name of restaurant, (2) color used on each page of the menu, and (3) Neatness / Minimal effort is made in this category

Before Columbus:

In Europe
Bananas / Barley / Cabbages / Carnations / Chickens / Coffee / Cows
Crabgrass / Daffodils / Daisies / Dandelions / Horses / Lemons / Lettuce
Lilacs / Olives / Oranges / Peaches / Pears / Pigs / Rice
Sheep / Sugarcane / Tulips / Turnips / Wheat / Grapes / Onions
In America
Avocados / Beans (kidney, navy, lima) / Blueberries / Black-eyed Susan’s / Cacao (for chocolate) / Cashews / Cassava (dried = tapioca)
Marigolds / Papayas / Peanuts / Bell Peppers / Petunias / Pineapples / Poinsettias
Potatoes / Pumpkins / Quinine / Rubber / Squashes / Sunflowers / Sweet potatoes
Tobacco / Tomatoes / Turkeys / Vanilla beans / Zinnias / Chili Peppers / Pecans