This lesson is designed for Culinary Arts, Family and Consumer Science, Life Skills, and Executive Function classes. Learning to read and analyze a recipe is a foundational life skill that will prepare students for post-secondary success and engage them in opportunities to practice task analysis, peer engagement, and personal goal-setting and growth within the classroom. The assignment in this lesson can be used many times as students practice with various recipes of interest.

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Lesson Plan

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“According to my calculations, about 30 percent of dishes prepared from written recipes go wrong because the cooks concerned didn’t actually read said recipe.”

-Chef Alton Brown