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PBS Programs: Summary and analysis of a relationship to global enterprise
Lidia's Family Table
Despite the popularity of the Food Network, many popular cooking programs still remain on PBS. Lidia's Family Table is one of the most successful. Over the course of this program, the Italian-American chef Lidia Bastianich cooks various Italian delicacies of her homeland, often with members of her family, including her own mother, son, daughter, and grandchildren. However, what is so remarkable about Lidia is the way she has generated interest in authentic Italian regional dishes, versus the standard spaghetti and meatballs and pizza that have become accepted staples in so many households. Lidia has been known to cook meatballs but with a much wider variety of other meats than is traditional for Americans to eat. She has made lasagna with peaches, homemade gnocchi, and even cooked with rabbit. Lidia makes genuine Italian cuisine accessible...
By showing her grandchildren roll gnocchi dough she also shows how even children born in America can enjoy foods outside of the standard American school cafeteria repertoire of chicken nuggets and tater tots.
Lidia has exposed American audiences to the regional diversity of Italy. Lidia herself, as she has mentioned over the course of the series, hails from a province of Italy very near Croatia, versus Sicily or Florence. The foods she grew up with were very different from those of more familiar Italian dishes to Americans and are highly influenced by the cuisine of Eastern Europe. However, she cooks dishes from all provinces of the country. She does inject some Italian-American influences into her cooking, a reflection of the tastes of the younger generation of her household. Lidia makes it clear that a global cuisine like that…
references this when she notes that dishes with butter and cream and not nearly as bad as we might thing. She also always ends her meal with a class of wine.
PESTLE Analysis Country's Profile Political Perspective Environmental Perspective Legal Perspective Economic Perspective Cultural and Ethnic Issues Technological Perspective Billabong is a leading name in the apparel industry of Australia. The company specializes in casual wear, wet suits and accessories. This report is intended to analyze the feasibility of setting up a manufacturing facility in Karachi, Pakistan. It is also intended that this manufacturing plant will be used as a regional office and will be used to introduce the
These were confirmed by the changes in the longitudinal (0.20 to 0.14 G), lateral (0.05 G. To the left) and normal load factors (1.0 to 0.6 G). [NTSB ] The data also showed that between the critical time of 0915:52 and 0915:58.5 five separate rudder movements (1.7 inches right to 1.7 inches left, 1.7 inches right, 2.0 inches right, 2.4 inches left, and 1.3 inches right) were noticeable. The FDR
Authenticity and Legacy of the Black Panther Party Authentic is when someone is true to their heritage and culture and a growing number of modern observers agree that despite their otherwise militant activities, the Black Panther Party was an authentic representation of the blacks in America at the time. To determine the facts, this paper reviews the relevant literature to provide a background and overview of the Black Panther Party,
State education agencies and local school districts needs to work to incorporate the major provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (U.S. Department of Education, 2004a). The evaluator feels it is imperative that as teacher preparation programs, along with state and local education agencies, address the training, recruitment, and retention of highly qualified teachers and conduct counseling sessions for every American classroom. Teacher education programs can prepare future teachers
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United States is in the middle of a war on drugs, and has been for several decades. Yet, many believe that we are losing this war, often because of the impractical approach legislation has taken in response to curb growing rates of addiction in the United States; however, drug addiction continues to be a major social problem in the United States. Research shows that there is a direct correlation