Iron Chief Cook-Off

To the people who are reading this,

The pictures posted below are a pretty good illustration for
this blog, so if you're a visual person I'd look at the
picutres. And just if you want to put a face to this blog,
I'm the blond in the pictures. So, for our Ethnic Studies
class we are discussing how food is very important to culture
and it how food has changed can tell you how that specific
culture has changed. For this assignment, each group
had to come up with a truely Asian-American dish and then
present it to the class. For our dish, the Awesomeness made
a dessert that we named the Triple S (Sticky Strawberry Sweet).
Basically this dish consisted of a Num Treap with Coconut Sauce
a coconut, chocolate covered strawberry on top. And for those
of you who are wondering if it was good, yes it was very good.
And in true Iron Chief Fashion, we were competeing against
another teams dish and I dish won (naturally). Besides it just
being fun to bring food and eat in class, it really was educational.
While trying to figure out what dish to cook, the group and myself
learned a lot about different Asian traditions. For instance, did
anyone out there realize that Cambodians classify fruits into
a royal hierarchy-like system? Yeah, I know, I was shocked too.
Apparently the coconut is the commoner. Poor Mr. Coconut. Also, in
Cambodia, they really don't eat dessert, they just have sweet treats
(hehe, yeah I got a little chuckle out of my funny too). All in all,
I have to say that my brief visit to the world of Asian-American
Culinaries (not sure if that's a word?) was fun, but it also showed
me that I am definetly not a Chief and I am sure the rest of the
world is happy that I made that discovery now as well.