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Intercultural Cuisine Website – School Project

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A .NET ASP.NET MVC website showcasing traditional dishes from France, Algeria, and Armenia. Features recipes, videos, and an interactive map to explore how food reflects culture.

# asp.net
# csharp
# sqlite
# fullstack
# school-project
# teamwork
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Intercultural Cuisine Website Project

Project Overview

For my Intercultural course project, our team created a website where users can learn about traditional dishes from different countries.
We focused on France, Algeria, and Armenia.

The website included:

  • Recipes (text + images)
  • Cooking videos
  • An interactive map to explore world cuisines

The goal was to highlight how culinary traditions reflect the culture of each country, while offering an engaging and easy-to-navigate platform.

Screenshots

Here you can see some results.
The website is fully responsive.

Homepage
Includes a hero section, country selection, a mini tutorial on how to use the site, and an interactive map.
Worldkitchen homepage

Search Bar on Mobile
Worldkitchen search bar on mobile

Dish Page (Example: French Gratin)
Features a visual presentation with quick facts, cooking video, ingredient list with checkboxes, preparation steps with checkboxes to track progress, and nutrition facts.
Worldkitchen Dish page gratin

Country Page (Example: Armenia)

Worldkitchen armenia page

Repository & How to Run

You can check out the code here:
👉 WorldKitchen GitHub Repository

To run the project, you’ll need .NET 8.0.0.

  1. Trust development certificates:
dotnet dev-certs https --trust
  1. Run with hot reload:
dotnet watch run

or simply:

dotnet run

Design Phase

  • We used Lunaci (instead of Figma) for the initial design mockups.
  • I collaborated on the design to make it clear, appealing, and user-friendly.
asssets overall design

Development Phase

I built the majority of the website in .NET (ASP.NET MVC with C#).

  • Frontend: Focused on making the UI clean, clear, and responsive.
  • Backend: The biggest challenge was working with controllers and injecting data from the SQLite database.
    • I chose SQLite because the project was not large enough to require a heavier option like Oracle.

Here’s the logical database model:

database model

 

To solve major bugs, I created several flowcharts to visualize the logic:

  • Controller logic flow
Controller logic flowchart
  • Data injection for dish pages
iData injection for dish pages flowchart

This was also an opportunity to apply skills I learned during my internship at Geves, where I worked with developers using ASP.NET MVC.

Team Contributions

April – June

  • Design
  • Writing

August – November

  • Finished design
  • Coding

October – December

  • Cooking videos (filming & editing)

Time Spent

  • 20% on design
  • 60% on backend
  • 20% on frontend

What I Would Change

Honestly, nothing. The project was very educational and rewarding.

What I Liked

  • Design: Strengthened my design skills.
  • Backend: Improved my knowledge of databases and .NET MVC.
  • Frontend: Enhanced my JavaScript and UI development skills.
  • Full-Stack: Valuable exposure to both frontend and backend development.

Conclusion

This project was a highly rewarding experience.
It allowed me to:

  • Strengthen both my frontend and backend skills
  • Gain valuable full-stack development experience
  • Overcome technical challenges while learning a lot

I’m proud of what we accomplished as a team and of the final website we delivered.