Response to Text: Kai (Food) (Tuesday (W8, T3)

 Response to text:

Māori Kai

Highlight the correct answer or write down the appropriate response.

1. A hangi is… 

a) a way Maori greet each other b) a type of food

c) an earth oven d) a way of storing food

2. Māori brought these animals with them as a source of food.

a) Pigs b) Cows

c) Dogs d) Sheep

3. Explain how Māori boiled their water

→The hāngī or earth oven is a traditional Māori method of cooking, especially suited to preparing food for large numbers of people. Hot rocks and water are used to create steam in a shallow pit dug into the earth. ... In regions such as Rotorua hāngī have for centuries been cooked using geothermal steam.

4. True or False: rua kūmara is an elevated storage platform

a) True b) False

5. Which of the following is NOT a species of whitebait?

a) Inanga b) Kōaro

c) Pikopiko    d) Kōkopu

6. Why do you think it was important for Māori to store their food underground, or above the ground?

→The significance of whenua – or earth – as the giver of all life and a source of all kai (food) is embedded in the Māori culture. And our people have turned to the whenua for cooking for hundreds of years. ... A Maori hangi is cooked for three to four hours, depending on the quantity of food being cooked.

7. In your own words, explain how to build a hangi.

→you dig a deep kinda square and then sack big sticks like jenga then put thin long sticks on top and add small rocks then your done but maybe you want to put some foil all around it