Food and Festivals
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Introduces the land, climate, industries, home life, schools, and recreations of France.
Discusses some of the foods enjoyed in Japan and describes special foods that are part of such specific celebrations as Shogatsu, children's festivals, Setsubun, and Obon. Includes recipes.
This is an introduction to Buddhism, Shintoism and other Japanese folk traditions and their respective festivals such as Shoatsu (New Years Day), Setsebun (Bean-throwing ceremony) and the children's festivals of Hina Matsuri (Girl's Day) and Kodomo-no-hi (Children's Day) and Shichi-go-san (seven-five-three festival). The book is one of a series which explores religion and food through festivals. There is a farming section which introduces geographical information , the major food products of each country and how they are produced. There are also four simple, illustrated step-by-step recipes in each book for use in Food Science lessons. The series aims to support the Literacy Strategy, develops numeracy and can be used for cross-curricular teaching.
Find out about typical French foods and how these are used in French celebrations and festivals, such as Christmas, Mardi Gras, Easter, Snail Festival, Strawberry Fete, Lemon Festival, the Pig-squealing festival. This book includes illustrated recipes for Yule Logs, Crepes, Provence-style kebabs and Lemon Delight.