Steemit challenge application for season 31: My taste, My culture.

Thank you Steemit team for the opportunity to apply for this season’s challenge pitch, and this season, my pitch is what I titled “My Taste, My Culture” (Expressing culture through taste)”.

About me

I joined the platform in 2021 and have served in different capacities in the system and still look forward to serving more and give my best, I am presently a moderator in steem fashion and style community, ladies universe and traveling steem community and also acted as a community curator on different occasions. My experience has helped me to build my reputation and influence in the platform.

My statistic

Items	statistics
Reputation	75.785
Steem power	12,049.22
Country	Nigeria

Challenge Concept

Food is more than nourishment , it is our identity, history, memory, heritage, and culture served on a plate.

This challenge is a global cultural journey that will help us explores how tastes are powerful expressions of our human identity.

Across civilizations, cultures, and continents, food has always been a language, a way we express who we are, where we come from, what we value, and how we live.

My taste, My Culture is more than a cooking competition.
It is a cultural documentation challenge that uses food as a lens to explore our;

• Traditions
• Beliefs
• History
• Migration
• Identity
• Community
• Family
• Heritage
• Lifestyle and
• Unity

Each week, the participants will explore one taste and one culture, how it is prepared, and what it represents. This challenge connects our tastes to tradition, and our recipes to our roots.

The objectives of this challenge

This challenge is designed to:

• Help to Promote global cultural awareness and appreciation.
• Encourage cultural storytelling through food.
• Makes for Preservation and documentation of traditional meals and heritage recipes.
• Will educate participants on the cultural meanings behind meals.
• Build empathy and understanding between cultures
• Will Encourage quality content creation
• Strengthen our Steemit ecosystem through creative engagement with other cultures.
• Support the use of Steem Atlas and Steem Video
• Encourage originality, depth, and cultural research
• Transform food posts into cultural archives

Weekly Structure (6 Weeks)

Each week, we will focuses on ONE taste plus ONE Culture, explored deeply through storytelling, cultural explanation, and personal reflection.

Participants are expected to:

• Cook the meal
• Eat the meal
• Document the meal
• Experience it locally
• Present it through pictures
• Narrate it through writing
  Our goal is taste and cultural expression.

Weekly Themes

🖋️ Week 1: Roots & Identity
Theme: Food as Cultural Identity
Participants will explore a taste that represents their own culture, tribe, or ethnic group. This is a personal cultural reflection week.

For example:

Egusi soup: A Golden Taste of Igbo Heritage and Identity

Task

• Prepare a meal that represents your root and identity and show us the recipes and procedure of preparation.

• Why is this food important to your people? When is it traditionally eaten? (Is it festive, ceremonial, daily, or symbolic?). What does it represent culturally? How does it reflect the lifestyle, values, and history of your people?

• What memories do you personally associate with it and the price of the ingredients in steem and local currency?

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week focuses on identity, roots, belonging, and personal heritage.

🖋️ Week 2: Across Borders
Theme: Discovering Another Culture
Participants will explore a culture different from their own and focus on one traditional food from that culture.

Amala: A Dark Delight That Carries the Soul of Yoruba Heritage

Task

• Prepare a food that belongs to another culture and show us the recipes and procedure of preparation.

• What is the origin of the food, the cultural background and the people who eat it.

• List the prices of the ingredients in steem and your local currency.

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week encourages cross-cultural learning, curiosity, respect, and global exploration.

🖋️ Week 3: Festive Foods
Theme: Celebration Meals

Participants will explore foods eaten during:

• Cultural festivals
• Religious celebrations
• Weddings
• Naming ceremonies
• National holidays
• Cultural rituals
• Traditional rites

Celebration on a Plate: The Festive Harmony of Rice and Chicken Stew

Tasks

• Prepare a food that you eat during a festive or celebration season, showing the recipes and procedure for preparation

• Why this meal is sacred or special, what event it is connected to and the symbolism behind it

• List the prices of the ingredients in steem and your local currency.

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week focuses on food as a carrier of joy, spirituality, celebration, and sacred meaning.

🖋️ Week 4: Street Food Culture
Theme: Everyday Cultural Meals

Participants will explore street foods or everyday meals that define their daily life.

Akara: A Bite of the Streets, A Taste of Daily Culture

Task

• Prepare a street food that represents your daily life, showing recipes and procedures.

• What lifestyle does the food represent, how affordable and accessible is it? What is the cultural importance of this street food?

• List the prices of the ingredients in steem and your local currency.

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week reflects real-life culture, not luxury culture.

🖋️ Week 5: Home & Heritage
Theme: Family Meals and Cultural Transmission

Participants will explore meals passed down through:

• Families
• Generations
• Lineage
• Ancestral traditions
• Oral history
• Cultural inheritance

“Abacha: Where Family Tradition Lives in Every Bite”

Task

• Prepare a meal that shows your family culture and heritage showing the ingredients and procedure.

• Who taught you this recipe, what is your family history behind it and why it is preserved.

• List the prices of the ingredients in steem and your local currency.

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week focuses on legacy, memory, inheritance, and preservation.

🖋️ Week 6: Unity Through Food
Theme: Food as Global Connection

Participants will explore:

• Meals shared across multiple cultures
• Fusion meals
• Migrated foods
• Adapted cultural meals
• Globalized dishes

Goat meat Pepper Soup: A Spicy Bridge Between Cultures

Task

• Prepare a meal you know that connects at least three or more cultures, show recipes and procedures.

• Which Cultures does the food connects (at least three cultural
  Connections)

• Explain the ingredients they share in common and the Shared traditions.

• List the prices of the ingredients in steem and your local currency.

• Present your recipe with a name tag and date and a selfie

This week focuses on unity, connection, globalization, and shared humanity.

Steem Ecosystem Integration

Participants are encouraged to actively use:

• Steem Atlas Location pinning: cultural mapping, community representation
• Steem Video :Food preparation, storytelling, cultural narration, visual documentation.

Grading

The tasks would be graded thus;

Items	Grades
Ai check	✅
Plagiarism	✅
Task 1	5
Task 2	2
Task 3	1
Task 4	1
Compliance with instructions	1
Total	10

Thanks for this opportunity again. I do hope to bring in my best in this challenge season if granted.

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