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WEEK 3 - EATING TO LIVE OR LIVING TO EAT

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Assalamualaikum guys! It's my pleasure to meet you again on my blog. I hope that you are not going to be bored reading my blog. Now, I will share with you all what I had learned in my Food Industry class. For this week,  we had debate session between two groups. The topic given is 'Eating to Live or Living to Eat'. My group got the topic of 'Living to Eat'. Personally, I guess both are correct because we need to eat for living and we also living to eat. Basically, nowadays we need food to ensure that we have enough energy to live. Food also can provide nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals and lipids for growth, maintenance and normal functioning of the body. Oh! Before we had debate session, we had a discussion about food trends in the future. Besides, we were introduced to a new term called umami. Umami is one of the five basic tastes together with sweetness, sourness, bitterness, and saltiness. Before our class ended, Dr Fare...

WEEK 2 - FOOD TRENDS

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Assalamualaikum and hi everyone!!  This time I will share with you all about what I've learned in my second week class with Dr Fareed. Dr Fareed had shared with us the video from youtube titled "History Harvest". Honestly, for me the video is quite bored. Hehehe~ In addition, we also got knowledge from an article about The Top 10 Food Trends For 2015. Here, I will share briefly about the article: 1. Poutine Poutine is a Canadian dish, originating in the province of Quebec, made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy like sauce 2. New Burger New burger puts ingredients such as duck, lobster, pork belly, scallops and squid centre stage. 3.Brinner (Breakfast for dinner) There simply aren't enough Saturdays and Sundays to try all those wonderful breakfast and brunch recipes, so they're making their merry way to weeknight dinner tables. 4. Lituanian food One tradisional dish and quite simple but offers a w...

WEEK 1 - INTRODUCTION OF FOOD INDUSTRY

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                                                                              HELLO WORLD!  Assalamualaikum everyone! Welcome to my first blog! Honestly, I have no idea how to begin. But as much as everything that is a "first" in one's life, this is less intimidating and more exciting! Now I want to introduce myself so my name is Faiqah Binti Md Jamil. I am a graduate student from Food Technology Department of Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Polytechnic, Kuantan. I have three years experience in this course. But, now I get a degree in Food Studies Program. At first, I was a bit disappointed but it's okay because I can learn something new, right? Besides, it is still related with food. For my first blog, I guess I should begin with food. Food, what is food? I am sure everyone kn...