UT Knoxville From Leftovers to A Salad Fattoush Contextual Analysis Essay

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The point of primary document-driven historical research is actually fairly simple: what does an artifact we can actually experience now tell us about how someone else experienced it in the past? The “stuff” of our experience becomes in the small form of what the French historian, Pierre Nora refers to as a “place of memory”—a thing that becomes a symbolic connection of our experience to the past.

The focus of this project will be one of the following artifacts:

You may choose food or meal (I would prefer a Middle Eastern food/meal) that is important to your family (the artifact, in this case, will be a recipe, an interview with someone who makes the dish, or a photograph of the meal being prepared). Now you need to figure out what larger familial, community, or cultural concerns it represents, and where it came from.

Another option is a household item or technology that was once part of your family’s everyday life but is no longer. This might be a piece of equipment or technology that is now obsolete—like an 8-track cassette player or an old-fashioned TV set or stereo, or a butter churn, or a potato ricer, or a washboard, or a corded phone, for instance. All of these items were once indispensable items in many homes, but newer technologies have replaced them.

Tracing a History

The big difference between working with primary sources vs. secondary sources is that tracing history from a primary source usually includes looking at objects that are intimately connected to a person who has somehow attached value to it. What you’re looking for is how that value became attached. What’s the story leading to that?

Think about the things that are important to you, for instance, the things to which you have the greatest emotional attachment: you probably already have a personal or family history connected with it. A-game because you played it with siblings or friends. A song someone sang for you. A tool because someone taught you how to use it. A kind of food or recipe because someone you liked made it for you.

But such items also likely have a broader, community or cultural value. Maybe the game taught your coordination skills and numbers. Maybe the song has a long history and tells something about the culture whose people still sing it. Perhaps that tool was something necessary for harvesting crops or building furniture. Perhaps that recipe mattered because it was a way of celebrating a holiday or preparing fresh ingredients to last through the winter season.

  1. Research
  2. Once you identify your primary source (the artifact), you should decide on your remaining sources. You may include one additional primary source if you wish; this might involve an interview with a family member, or a photograph or letter.   Then, you will set about doing your secondary source workshop. You’ll need to learn about this object you have chosen, and you may need to search books, encyclopedias, and older newspapers to accomplish this.

You should use at least two secondary sources in this search and should quote and/or summarize from both, with special attention to correct documentation.  

The Essay

The essay will trace the history and significance of this object in its own time, and that time may come up to the present, or not, depending on the object and whether it is still a part of your life.  

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From Leftovers to A Salad; Fattoush

Growing up, Fattoush has probably been in most of my meals. Whenever my grandmother
added salad to the menu, everyone almost knew she referred to Fattoush. It was my grandfather’s
favorite; it was the only thing he would eat more often than not. My mother cultivated the culture
of making Fattoush whenever visitors came around; whenever we visited, my parents would carry
Fattoush; I translated it as a token of love and sometimes appreciation. You can already guess I
learned how to make Fattoush the first time I helped my mother make a meal.
The beautiful thing about a Fattoush salad is that it is never the same; you can add almost
anything to suit the purpose, disclaimer; do not substitute sumac and pita chips; they are the heart
of Fattoush. You cannot go wrong with Fattoush as a main meal or a side dish. It is a cultural meal

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that has been passed down through generations. Sweet and affordable, you can never miss a reason
to prepare Fattoush. Fattoush is a functional meal.
The artifact -recipe
As mentioned above, the recipe varies according to the preferences, function, and even
time. I will give the recipe for the common Fattoush; I will also list the substitutes. The following
ingredients are essential; pita chips, sumac, Roma tomatoes, cucumbers, salt, black pepper, olive
oil, green bell pepper, and green onions. The lemon juice, romaine, and mint l...


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