Talking about family cooking, the first person I thought about is my mother. She’s no professional chief, but I do enjoy her food very much. My mother doesn’t work; she drives my sister to all kinds of classes and cook delicious meals for us. Because my sister goes to private school without school buses and my step father’s busy work schedule. I’ve been eating my mom’s cooking since I move in with them five years ago from China. For this assignment, I interviewed her about the recipe of the Yangzhou fried rice. Most Chinese people won’t consider fried rice as any delicacy; the ingredients are extremely simple and common. My mom said, “In China, most people don’t eat fired rice, because they consider its peasant food”. Chinese people love the …show more content…
China’s old economy was purely based on small agriculture. The weather has huge effect on the harvest of the small patches. If the harvest is bad, it means a family of five needs to starve entire year. After a day of hard labor in the field, a quick meal is required to recover. There’s only some leftover food scrapes and rice. Those are not enough dishes for everyone, but it’s too wasteful to give it to the pigs. Just toss everything in the wok to heat it up, add a precious egg for the extra protein and fat. A quick and nutritious meal is completed. Also there’s no strict recipe for fried rice. “There are a lot of different types of fried rice without any strict formula” (Mother). Every Chinese province has its own unique ingredients. Bay area’s fried rice often has shrimp or shell fish in it. Mountain region often add egg or bamboo in their fried rice. It is a great way to use what is …show more content…
This may sounds very bizarre for other people, but I rarely dislike her cooking even I’m the pickiest eater in my family (according my Grandmother). Actually most Chinese dishes don’t have any exact recipe, everything is very vague. In all Chinese recipes, there are general guide lines without clear measurements. I have seen many people cook Chinese food before; measuring cup has never appeared in the kitchen. Every measurement is made from past experience and continuous tasting. This may has connection with the long history of Confucianism. Confucianism believes that all human are teachable and improvable with proper teaching techniques. Setting exact measurements for cooking is limiting people’s creativity. I eat in many restaurants in China before. Now when I think about the dishes I had, the same dish tastes a little different in different restaurant. Every chief enjoys different flavor profile; recipes without clear measurements allow chiefs to add their creativity and twists in to the common
Fresh ingredients are a vital part of Cantonese cuisine. The dishes that are prepared are cooked in the absolute minimum time possible. Seafood such as fish goes from the tank to the table in a short amount of time that sometimes they are served while the fish is still alive (Huffington Post; 2014). It is called Ying Yang fish. It is a great delicacy in Cantonese cuisine.
Originally the narrator admired her father greatly, mirroring his every move: “I walked proudly, stretching my legs to match his steps. I was overjoyed when my feet kept time with his, right, then left, then right, and we walked like a single unit”(329). The narrator’s love for her father and admiration for him was described mainly through their experiences together in the kitchen. Food was a way that the father was able to maintain Malaysian culture that he loved so dearly, while also passing some of those traits on to his daughter. It is a major theme of the story. The afternoon cooking show, “Wok with Yan” (329) provided a showed the close relationship father and daughter had because of food. Her father doing tricks with orange peels was yet another example of the power that food had in keeping them so close, in a foreign country. Rice was the feature food that was given the most attention by the narrator. The narrator’s father washed and rinsed the rice thoroughly, dealing with any imperfection to create a pure authentic dish. He used time in the kitchen as a way to teach his daughter about the culture. Although the narrator paid close attention to her father’s tendencies, she was never able to prepare the rice with the patience and care that her father
In the essay " Rice for Thanksgiving " by Jocelyn Fong who is a full american, partial asian young girl is a young girl who admires her untraditional thanksgiving, and meaning. Fong loves thanksgiving, due to her Grand mothers special dish " Rice and Gravy " as said in the essay Her Grandmother always celebrated the American way, She even never got around to teaching Fong's father their native language. " I believe in rice and gravy, I am half Asian and completely American. " by Fong saying that, she completely accepts the mix she is by referring to the mix of food that is a tradition. You should celebrate holidays the way it makes you happy, with your very own culture regardless the fact if it is different.
My mother was a simple cook. She prepared foods she'd been raised on, plain Southern fare-rice, gravy, sliced tomatoes, turnip greens, cornpone, grits, eggs, chicken and dumplings, pot roast, ham, field peas, lima beans, potato salad, stewed okra, pumpkin pie, salmon balls. We didn't have fancy casseroles or lasagnas or spaghetti, and nobody had ever heard of a burrito or an egg roll. I didn't know what an artichoke or a parsnip or kiwi or papaya was-certainly had never taste them. We drank sweet iced tea and sometimes lemonade.
Regulations and rules are made meant to protect us from harm. There are rules for everything, even food. For instance, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA). The FSMA aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus from responding to contamination to prevent it. Many food service operations do not always follow the rules and that can be very harmful to the consumers, if it is serious, it could even lead to death. The rules for food consists of regulations, common practices, and court cases.
America is a capitalist society. It should come to a surprise when we live like this daily. We work for profit. We’ll buy either for pleasure or to sell later for profit. It should come to no surprise that our food is made the same way because we are what we eat. We are capitalist that eat a capitalist meal. So we must question our politics. Is our government system to blame for accepting and encouraging monopolies?
China has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers and a coastline of 18,000 kilometers (Network Center of MOFCOM, 2004). It has a population of 1,401,586,609 people as of 2015 (Worldometers, 2015). In China, they tend to eat a lot of the same foods. Some of the local food consists of rice, noodles, fish, vegetables and meats (Parkinson, 2011). “China is described as a collectivist country because it “emphasizes the needs and goals of the group as a whole over the needs and wishes of each individual ().”
On the contrary, Chinese parents will help their children to arrange everything, preparing a delicious meal and saying things like "You can't eat such good dinners any more. Eat more! If you aren't accustomed to the life there, just come back home."
I was born in one of the countries in Asia, and our staple food is rice. Rice is always at the center of the table, and the rest of the viand surrounds it. Here in the United States, my household still eat rice every day, accompanied by cooked vegetables and meat. My food choices are influenced by culture and family. Vegetables and fruits of my choice are abundant at the International Market and other Asian grocery stores. Vegetables are also available for a cheaper price at the farmers market. I myself buy these foods to ensure its freshness, prepare and cook them for my entire family. Inspired by Asian and American cuisine, our food is prepared with variety of cooking styles; such as dry like barbecues, baked and fried, with sauce
American culture is changing dramatically. In some areas it’s a good thing, but in other areas, like our food culture, it can have negative affects. It is almost as if our eating habits are devolving, from a moral and traditional point of view. The great America, the land of the free and brave. The land of great things and being successful, “living the good life.” These attributes highlight some irony, especially in our food culture. Is the American food culture successful? Does it coincide with “good living”? What about fast and processed foods? These industries are flourishing today, making record sales all over the globe. People keep going back for more, time after time. Why? The answer is interestingly simple. Time, or in other words, efficiency. As people are so caught up in their jobs, schooling, sports, or whatever it may be, the fast/processed food industries are rapidly taking over the American food culture, giving people the choice of hot
Have you ever tried to cook a delicious meal to impress your friends or family members? Most Americans cook despite the challenge associated with it. It takes courage and bravery to be a chef. An individual must have a passion for cooking and preparing meals from recipes. An experienced chef must have a lot of creativity on the plate and knowledge on the field. However, being a professional chef comes with many obstacles such as, standing in the kitchen for long hours can cause health problems, or the amount of stress a chef deals with can be overwhelmed, and the unhealthy eating habits that leads to overweight and over-eating.
Food matters. Nevertheless, food safety in China is worse than what you thought; you can never imagine how toxic it is. Although there are variety choices of restaurant for us to eat nowadays, many people still choose to eat at home. Not only to save money, but also be sensible for their own health. Think about our situation now, we can constantly buy meats that we think is fresh and yummy, but who knows if it’s healthy and safe? Is it truly what you want? What materials will the restaurant serves you? Food safety affects people a lot. Nowadays, especially in China, many citizens are already despair in this affair. Food safety is one of the most principal issues to the entire world; as one of the most important feature in everybody’s life,
My favorite meal is the chicken fettuccini pasta. I chose this dish because I can never stop eating it. The meal is made up of warm tenderized chunks of chicken, delicate smooth creamy white sauce, and many varieties of sliced up vegetables. However, when I was a child vegetables has always been difficult to eat. It prevented me from enjoying my favorite meal because I would always have to take out the mixed vegetables in the meal. As a child I 've tried avoiding vegetables, but was found throughout the school cafeteria 's food, my mother 's cooking, or many fancy restaurants. There was nowhere to run. Over the years, my mother knew I was struggling to eat vegetables. She worked very hard by coming up with her own recipes in order for me to eat healthy. From mixing in the vegetables into the meals I usually eat or to trick me into eating meat but was actually vegetables. Soon later I came to realize how much effort she has put into the meals. All those hour and hard work my mother put it allowed me to enjoy my favorite meal again.
We are all superheroes in our own way, so what is your super power? I can tell you what your kryptonite is. It is the food you are eating. Have you ever wondered why you feel tired or unfocused, have a lack of energy for completing simple tasks? It can all be traced back to your diet. All superheroes have one thing or another that weakens their super powers. Such as, Super Man and Kryptonite, or WonderWomen and the loss of her bracelets. Every real superhero is affected by their diets which can work against them similar to the loss of a superheroes power. We want to ensure that all students are aware of how to minimalize the effects of their diets by incorporating Super-foods into their diets to get the most health benefits.
Collected and dumped not eaten foods that means remains of a hot meal after the meal is over, and everyone has finished eating is called leftover food. West materials and food scraps also conceder as leftover food(Cho et al., 2004a). The ultimate fate of leftovers depends on where the meal was eaten, the preferences of the diner, and the prevailing social culture.