Arroz Con Habichuela

Enrique’s mother’s decision of leaving couldn’t have been any worse, “She walks away. Donde esta mi mami? Enrique cries, over and over. Where is my mom? His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate” (Nazario 5). His mother leaving without saying a word to him was heartbreaking because he had no idea she was leaving forever. Enrique became unhappy and had to grow up with this feeling inside him which later caused him to make poor decisions. Being left by his mother, Enrique had to stay with his grandma and “every year on Mother’s day, he [made] a heart shaped card at school and [pressed] it into her hand. “I love you very much grandma”… but she is not his mother” (Nazario 12). The growing love for his grandma caused him to consider her as his mother. Since Enrique was young and didn’t understand why his mother had left him, he blamed her for not being there for him. Nazario hopes to persuade readers to feel like they need to dwell on the topic of immigration and notice that it is still happening

My mother was delicate. She arrived home from the packing plant, tired and pale to prepare the tortillas and reheat the beans; every night, we gathered in a coat of faith to say the rosary (prayers for the Virgin Mary) before a painting of Virgin of Zapopan (image of Virgin Mary particular to Jalisco, Mexico).

In Jessica Harris’s “The Culinary Season of my Childhood” she peels away at the layers of how food and a food based atmosphere affected her life in a positive way. Food to her represented an extension of culture along with gatherings of family which built the basis for her cultural identity throughout her life. Harris shares various anecdotes that exemplify how certain memories regarding food as well as the varied characteristics of her cultures’ cuisine left a lasting imprint on how she began to view food and continued to proceeding forward. she stats “My family, like many others long separated from the south, raised me in ways that continued their eating traditions, so now I can head south and sop biscuits in gravy, suck chewy bits of fat from a pigs foot spattered with hot sauce, and yes’m and no’m with the best of ‘em,.” (Pg. 109 Para). Similarly, since I am Jamaican, food remains something that holds high importance in my life due to how my family prepared, flavored, and built a food-based atmosphere. They extended the same traditions from their country of origin within the new society they were thrusted into. The impact of food and how it has factors to comfort, heal, and bring people together holds high relevance in how my self-identity was shaped regarding food.

The Happy Death of Alborada Almanza is a story designed for older Cuban women. Taking into account several years of life, giving us a view of what can be a peaceful death. What the author is trying to illustrate is an unpleasant Cuban reality that took place during the special period. The financial crisis that was happening in Cuba drove their own people to suffer, making them go to bed without any food. However, the central point of the story is Alborada Almanza. An old women who spend several years living by herself, suffering from malnutrition and living under extreme poverty. The story talks about how death came to get her, but before dying she wanted to spoil herself. Asking San Rafael Archangel to let

During the 1950s, the Dominican Republic was suffering under the confining control of the dictator, Rafael Trujillo. In her essay, “My First Free Summer”, poem, “Exile”, poem, “All-American Girl”, and short story, “Antojos”, Julia Alvarez utilizes stylistic elements to convey her life experiences. Alvarez’s strong sense of figurative language, sensory images, and strong characterization ties in to her overall purpose of bestowing culture, grasping imagery, and insight on her life experiences to incorporate the struggles of all immigrants feeling a loss of identity.

Another obstacle is the food. I miss my mom’s cook, she always cooked me my favorite food; eggs, beans, chicken, whatever she cooked I love her too much. Here I found many differences between the food of the United States and the El Salvador’s, I think it is by the culture of American people who are used to eat that kind of food. The first time to eat here I just ate one thing during a whole week: Pizza. Maybe I was afraid of the food because I knew it tasted different and some other factors such as I was really hungry. I tried to overcome this obstacle imagining that the food is made by my mom and I guess I will taste very delicious the food. The results were a little better but it is still an obstacle because I don’t feel too much delicious

Food is essential in sustaining good health and strength. However, this was a major concern for the Sanchez family. Consequently, this family existed in a more modern time when so social workers and welfare embraces a more modern systematic nature. However, if one should picture this said family in a different era such as the centuries below 19. This family would have fallen into the

One of the notable aspects of Matsumoto’s history of Cortez is a sentimental relationship that she has established with her subjects in the course of her studies. On the first page, she has named and thanked almost a hundred members of this community, for contributing their time in sharing memories, personal experiences, institutional records, and their warm hospitality. Hospitality of the Cortez community members also shines in Appendix C where she mentioned twenty-four recipes that she got from Japanese women. These recipes ranged from traditional Japanese foods to more conventional zucchini bread to some cross-cultural cuisines like Jell-O mocha.

I had walked into the kitchen, and all my aunts turned around and saw me standing there. My aunt Diana told me in Spanish “Come over and sit down and help us make tamales for Christmas dinner. It’s about time you start learning our Mexican traditions.” So I went and washed my hand before being able to sit down next to her and she told me to help knead the dough with

Arroz con leche, or rice pudding is a big part of all Hispanic cuisines. Being made with base items such as milk, rice, and cinnamon, other flavors can be mixed in to appeal to one's area of origin or taste. It is widely accepted that the original rice pudding was introduced to Spain by its original occupants, the Moorish. This dish, along with much other cultural heritage would be left over from its centuries of development. From Spain, it would travel across the Atlantic Ocean and soak into the meals of most central and south Americans.

A soul in distress is always looking for a mean to escape through a difficult situation. In the story Like Water For Chocolate, Tita De La Garza who suffered like no other, isn’t the exception. This young woman since birth was instilled with a very deep love for cooking. When the people who she loved most betrayed her, cooking eased her pain. All of the intense emotions that she felt while preparing food, were unknowingly added to the recipes. The author, Laura Esquivel through the use of symbolism, she demonstrates that the role of food in the story isn’t there just to sustain life, it also transmits strong emotions such as desire, sorrow and healing felt by the

Rodriguez does not comfort whose mother even though he feels something is not right. Richard thinks that his mother is “sad” and wanted to approach her and ask however claims they are “questions of paradise.” if someone's mother felt sad or upset, usually there children would try to comfort them and understand what they are feeling, however richard feels his mother’s pain but does not even try to ask what the cause of it is. Richard compares his mother too material objects. Richard thinks that his mother “seems very small,” when compared to the “expensive foreign cars” behind her. Richard instead of notices his mother, notices the expensive foreign cars more. Richard also does not even recognize what his parents are doing. He didn't realize that his father “has” only said one thing to him all evening. Someone would notice if their father had not spoken to them all day, however richard does not realize this to the very

Abandonment is hard for any individual family to cope with, whether it’s one family member, or several. However, for Enrique and his sister Belky, abandonment had ridiculed their family. When they were both of very young ages, their mother, Lourdes, had decided to emigrate to the land of the free because of the opportunity to give her children a better life. Although initially her intentions were all good, she had then left her two children there with their irresponsible father.

The Deadly Migias cooking program is enabling the Indigenous women to not only develop healthier lifestyles, it is changing their perspectives and attitudes of nutrition. According to Brimblecombe (2014 pp.392) traditionally knowledge about food is passed from adults to children in their community. Children grow up learning from their families and the strong influence of the family environment. Through these relationships they were able to develop their knowledge on food, food preferences and eating, and this was generally the role of the mother and grandmother in the family. The Deadly Migias cooking program the women are able to become confident again in their knowledge of these “new foods” and once again be able to take this information

One of the families assessed for this assignment was a first generation Mexican American family originally from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The family consists of a young couple and two young children. Religiosity plays a big part in the lifestyle of this Mexican American family and this was evident in the rosaries worn by the couple. The couple regularly attends a local Roman Catholic Church for spiritual renewal and to pray for good health. Like other Catholics, they believe sickness is a sign of spiritual weakness and whenever individuals are sick members of the family pray for them (O’Brien, 2011). The family strongly prefers to prepare its own food, and its favorite dishes are traditional Latin American cuisines such as Chile, tamales and tortillas. Latin American cuisines are high in calories, high in salt, cooked in grease or deep fried, and contain lots of flour. When the family cannot cook they usually eat out, mostly in Mexican restaurants. Mexican Americans have a strong attachment to their families so they talk to their parents and siblings on an almost daily basis. Members of the family interviewed also communicate with their cousins, uncles, and aunts back in Mexico through online social media such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Communication between the couple and with other family members is almost always in Spanish.