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Exoticism Unwrapped is an exploration of the concept of exoticism while working through the lenses of representation of different cultures through food. Using cooking as our medium, we explored the origins of the Mediterranean diet—a diet used to encourage heart health-- and upon uncovering it misrepresents the actual diet of the Mediterranean, chose to create a meal that both follows some of the key parts of the “Mediterranean diet” while also sharing a meal that is found in a wider amount of places. Sarma, our dish, which features rice, onions, and meat wrapped in grape leaves and seasoned with allspice, is found all over the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and comes in a lot of different forms. The dish also follows the Mediterranean Diet’s general rules of being low in red meat and high in other fats, with a healthy balance of grains and vegetables.

We haven't done G4G for so long, but reflecting on my goals from last time, I think we collaborated well enough in the end, and some parts went well! we successfully cooked together and we made decent food, and that went well, there were minimal disagreements.. but i think overall this project it was not organized enough to be a successful collaboration-- we all knew what we generally wanted to do but our ideas never really got refined and our project really suffered from it. Our final project did somewhat come together but we weren't refined by pencils down and our concept just, doesn't hold up (as we learned during the final presentation).