Course title: Plants for People : Beverage Crops
Instructor: Dr. H.C. Skip Bittenbender, presented in Fall 2011, UH Manoa
Teaching assistant and camera work: Ping-Fang Wu
Production & Editing: Dr. Joe DeFrank
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Date |
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Activities |
Lectures |
Slide show as pdf, open prior to starting lectures |
Lectures as Window Media Files |
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Aug 23 |
Intro |
Photo, student expectations , taste bitter, sweet, acid, salt |
Intro
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Aug 30 |
Temperate fruit and veg. Juices discussion/tasting |
Taste tomato, cranberry purchased juice apple, 2 vars juiced, sweet and sparking cider, hard cider |
Lect. on history, production stats, and uses. Various forms to taste |
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Sep 6 |
Tropical and subtropical juice discussion and tasting |
Taste orange juices, guava, pineapple |
Lect. on history, production stats, and uses. Fresh squeeze, frozen concentrate, canned, chilled from conc., chilled not from conc. |
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Sep 13 |
Smoothie |
Taste two banana smoothie recipes |
Lect. on history, theory, and practice |
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Sep. 20 |
Coffee- history and origin |
QUIZ 1-temperate and tropical fruit and vegetable beverages; Start wet and dry process
Taste brew concentration |
Lect.- history, origin,
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Oct 04 |
Coffee -growing, processing, roasting and brewing |
Dry mill and winnow, taste roasting level |
Lect.- harvesting, processing, roasting and tasting |
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Oct 11 |
Kava –history and origin |
QUIZ 2, Coffee, Taste fresh kava – ‘Papaeleele |
Lect. – history, physiology |
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| Oct 18 | Kava –growing, processing, tasting | Taste dry kava – roots and stump of Papaeleele | Lect. - production processing, future | ||
| Oct 25 | Cacao history and origin |
QUIZ 3 kava, Taste Mayan drink, hot chocolate, Break pod, start ferment |
Lect. on history and production of cacao |
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view lecture |
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Nov 1 |
Cacao production and processing |
Roast and Taste generic cocoa nibs and milk vs dark chocolate |
Lect.- processing |
Slides 13 thru 26 |
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Nov. 8 |
Chocolate making, tasting |
Taste different origin chocolate, roast, grind taste cocoa mass of initial cacao |
Lect.- on chocolate making |
Slides 27 thru 31 |
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Nov 15 |
Tea history and origin |
Quiz 4, Taste English, Chinese, Japanese style teas |
Lect.- history and production |
Slide 01 thru 42 |
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Nov 22 |
Herbal teas |
Taste Herbals |
Lect. on production and processing herbals |
Slide 43 thru 54 |
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Nov 29 |
Fermented fruit juices |
QUIZ 5, Taste red & white wine |
Lect. on grape production, wine making, distillation |
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Dec 6 |
Fermented grains and distillation |
Demo beer making Taste 2 beers |
Lect. grain, hop growing |
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Dec 15 Thursday |
Final Exam |
9:45 to 11:45 am |
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