http://bobbyflay.com/

Bobby Flay is a famous chef who appears on  the Food Network in a large amount of shows. A few of his most known  shows are "Worst Cooks" and "Iron Chef America". Bobby prepares a lot of classic American Dishes such as barbecue, desserts, salads and other original dishes like homemade fish tacos and Mexican wedding cookies. He is a very well-known, amazing chef who can make great, tasty dishes with random ingredients. 

Mentors

For this project, I have spoken with three people, my mom, dad, and grandmother. My mom loves to take pictures and although cooking is not her favorite past time, she's is still a reliable mentor. My dad loves to cook and often cooks dinner for our family. My grandmother enjoys cooking as well and is always excited about learning new recipes. One of my moms friends, Julie Lock and her daughter Jessica have been so helpful with my desire to learn more about cooking. Jessica works at Ariccia in the Auburn University Hotel as the event banquet captain. My mom spoke to Jessica and she is going to help me get an interview with the chefs at the hotel and the chance to take a few pictures with them and prepare some dishes. At the restaurant I will be watching and hopefully assisting the chef make one or two dishes. As he is making them, I will take pictures and videos. Then I will ask questions about the type of meals they prepare and other questions about the restaurant. There are three chefs and they are all fantastic. 

Project Proposal

[2/10/17]

[Elizabeth Merritt]

Proposal: Cook n’ Pics

[Pictures of Foods and Other Dishes]

Needs and Opportunities

The goal of my project is to be able to cook many different types of dishes and recipes with improved culinary skills. Hopefully, I will be assisting with the needs of my family because I can cook dinner for them if I am asked to. I hope that this project will enhance my cooking skills and better my skills as a photographer. I would like to learn how to take pictures from different, cool angles with neat lighting features and learn how to prepare multiple recipes will all different types of ingredients.

Audience / Clients / Users

My family can benefit from my project because I can introduce them to new recipes that we can prepare for meals and holidays. I can also show other people, such as friends, effective ways to take beautiful pictures and interesting ways that they can improve their skills as well. I think that my grandmother would follow my project because she really enjoys cooking and she is always interested in fun, tasty new recipes. I also believe my mom would follow my blog because my mom would like to take pictures with different views and she can learn effective ways to improve her photography skills.

Mentor

To help me with my project I hope to have a local chef allow me to watch him or her make a few dishes and take pictures of them before, during, and when they are ready to be served. After speaking to my mom, she will hopefully help me achieve this goal in which will help me with my project.

Timeline

What is your monthly timeline for this project? I want to see a list of deliverables with deadlines. You may find that the timeline needs adjustment during the course of the year, which may be fine. Check in with me if that’s the case.

February 17	Find two new recipes to cook. After cooking, take pictures of them. Create a blog to post the pictures on.
February 24	Find a good app to edit the photo’s with Find one new recipe Blog about the pictures I took.
March 3	Find two new recipes Blog about them
March 10	Blog about a two new recipes that I made this week. Talk about my favorite recipes that I have made so far.
March 24	Blog about the pictures I took of the two recipes I made.
March 31	Learn 2 new recipes Blog about them
April 7	Blog about two new recipes that I made. Talk about my favorite and least favorite recipes so far.
April 14	Find and learn one new recipe. Take pictures of the recipe I made.
April 21	Learn two more recipes. Blog about them.
April 28	Blog about all of the things that will be on my poster. Get all the supplies to make my poster. Learn two new recipes
May 5 (Prep for Presentation Day)	Make a poster with my favorite pictures of dishes I made. Describe how to make the recipes on the poster.
May 12 (Presentation Day)	Present my poster Bring samples of my favorite recipes.

Product

This spring, when we present our projects, I hope to have accomplished learning about 15 new recipes and have learned how to take artsy and creative pictures of them to share. During my presentation, I would like to bring samples of my favorite recipes to share with everyone and display some of my favorite pictures that I have taken.

Technology

Other than a camera, I believe that videos (Go Pro), laptops, apps, cell phones, and a digital camera will be beneficial in enhancing my project. The video camera will help enhance my project because I can take videos and time lapses of me preparing the food. My laptop will be beneficial in my project because I can use the apps already downloaded such as Movie Maker, to assist me in my project. Apps will be helpful as well because they can allow me to enhance my videos and pictures to a new level. Cell Phones will help advance my project by also allowing me take videos and pictures to display on my blog and during my presentation. A digital camera will also be helpful because it can assist me by increasing the quality of my pictures to present with my project.

Reality Check

Most of the equipment that I need I already own, but there are a few things that I may need to purchase to make this project possible. I have a digital camera to take pictures of the food on, but I will need to buy batteries and an SD card. Ingredients are another thing that I will need to purchase to accomplish baking the recipes and dishes that I would like.

Possible Roadblocks

One possible roadblock that I could face is time. Time is an important element in this project because I need time to make the dishes and give them time to bake. If I do come to this roadblock, then I will find extra time on the weekends or during the weekdays for me to bake the dishes.  Another roadblock that might affect my project is messing up the recipes because if I do that then I have to make them again and that may affect the time that I have to make them.

Conclusion

I think that this project is going to be a very exciting and enjoyable. This project will benefit me in many ways because it is going to teach me how to cook better and learn how to be a good photographer. This project can also benefit me in my adult life and a future career as a photographer or a chef.