Course: WVA 104 Sauces, Condiments & Dressings

Cooking Laboratory Exercise

Tomato Based Sauces and The Americas

Tomato sauces can be traced through the travels of the tomato as it was introduced through trade, and exploration of new lands. Tomato sauces have many cultural influences and applications. In lecture, the instructor will discuss and review equipment needs, recipes, proper sanitation, and production processes and procedures prior to the cooking laboratory.

In the cooking laboratory, students will prepare a variety of foods based on local food sourcing, sustainability, and seasonality. In today’s class, students will prepare a variety of American and Latin based tomato sauces using various tomato products to understand flavor bases and use of tomato varietals, canned tomatoes, etc. In today’s laboratory class, students will prepare a variety of barbeque sauces and salsas.

Please download the Unit 4 Recipes and prepare yourself for the in-class lab.
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