Hi,
Winter Camp is approaching and an idea came to my mind. I'm pretty sure it's been done. I want to ask if anyone has done this before and offer me some suggestions.
I want to do an International Food project where students choose a country and the national dish of that country, design a poster and then make the dish (in class) and share it with everyone else.
I imagine this will take about an hour a day for 3-4 days.
Suggestions much appreciated :)

My co teachers said students can just bring gas cookers from home (they would only need it for one day). Our school usually gets a nice budget for Winter camp so we would buy the gas, ingredients and plastic forks, plates etc...
I think just choosing simple cultural dishes that is easy to make and using ingredients that are easy to buy.
I haven't really thought it through. If I do it, I'll post my lesson plan up :)

I know this is an old post, but I did this activity just last summer with my kids. I chose a country for each day and each day we made a food unique to that country and did a craft that was from the country.

One day was the Ukraine and we made blinis and dyed eggs to simulate the special egg dying tradition they have. One day was Africa where we made mandizis, and made drums. It worked really good. I controlled the cooking that involved fire and hot oils. I just made sure to choose foods that had a lot of prep so it could be hands-on. bread and fried pastries worked. for the blinis/crepes, the kids stood in line so they could swirl the batter. Since crepes are thin, they didn't spend a lo of time swirling the batter in the pan.

As long as you organize everything down to the letter, and set up ahead of time, you should be alright.