Sustainability
What is the percentage of global freshwater used for agriculture?
70%
What step in the food supply chain involves cleaning, cooking, and packaging food?
Processing and manufacturing
What is the main purpose of fusion cuisine in modern food culture?
Blending cultural flavours and techniques
What food guide uses rainbow arcs to display food groups?
FNMI Food Guide
What flavour change is commonly caused by Westernization?
Milder, sweeter, or creamier flavours
What is the definition of sustainability?
Meeting present needs without harming future generations' ability to meet theirs.
What is the term for water stored between soil particles and fractured rock underground?
Groundwater
What global force often leads to the creation of new fusion dishes when people move to new places?
Migration
What FNMI food originated from government-issued ration ingredients?
Bannock
What is Westernization?
Changing cultural foods to fit Western tastes, ingredients, or cooking methods.
What sustainability pillar is most impacted when soil, water, climate, and biodiversity are harmed?
Environmental sustainability
What farming practice grows a single crop repeatedly on the same land?
Monoculture
Cultural adaptation
What traditional FNMI practice is central to food sovereignty and involves obtaining food from the land?
Harvesting practices
What two ingredients make Canadian Alfredo different from traditional Italian Alfredo?
Heavy cream and chicken
What global issue wastes land, water, energy, and money while increasing methane emissions?
Food waste
What agricultural method produces large quantities of fish but relies on wild fish for feed?
Aquaculture
What FNMI ingredient adds sweetness, colour, and cultural meaning when used in fusion dishes such as glazes or sauces?
Saskatoon berries
What FNMI ingredient protects biodiversity and reflects cultural sustainability?
Wild rice (manoomin)
What term describes selling paddy rice as "Indigenous wild rice" for profit?
Food colonialism
What major sustainability risk occurs when only 30 crop species dominate global food production?
Reduced biodiversity and vulnerability to disease and climate change.
What is The Green Revolution?
A mid-20th-century movement that increased global crop yields by using fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation.
What sequence of changes transformed butter chicken into "Canadian Indian cuisine?"
Added dairy to make it creamier and milder which leads to a higher carbon footprint, resulting in a new Canadian identity.
What three areas does food sovereignty restore control over?
Land, culture, and food systems
What three actions define food colonialism?
Changing foods, controlling foods, profiting from foods