Being the inquisitive one amongst my peers, I often have random questions run through my head so though it may seem weird to someone else, It did not seem totally out of place when I started to ask myself questions about where my breakfast of General Mills Corn chex with 1% milk and sugar, Columbian coffee, two hard boiled eggs, some pieces of bacon and a banana on this beautiful Sunday morning could have originated from.
The first thing I did was look at the ingredients on the cereal box. Corn chex made from whole grain corn, corn meal, <basically more corn>, corn starch <from the corn kernels>, sugar, brown sugar syrup, salt, baking soda and a chemical called BHT <CORN CHEX, 2013>
Taking into consideration the fact that my father grows
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The milk however had to have been refined since it is impossible for fresh milk straight from cows to be just 1% milk fat so it makes perfect sense to say it was refined at a refinery such as the one located in Middlebury Vermont before it ended up in the gallons at the grocery store.
Quite obviously my pot of Columbian coffee doesn’t require much research to be done since as the name suggests, it is from Columbia in South America. <Coffee production, 2013>.
The two eggs of course would come from a poultry farm known mainly for eggs and not for cultivating chickens for their meat such as the one located in Ohio, one of the five states that produce the most eggs for the U.S. <Poultry Farms, 2013> while the bacon which is derived from pigs would be the product of an expert butcher who specializes in slicing bacon from pig hides like the one located in Los Angeles, California with his farm somewhere in the California countryside. <McCall’s Meat &Fish, 2013>.
The banana on my menu this morning which is probably the most healthy thing on my plate, would also have foreign origins and the closest country to mass produce and export bananas to the United States would most likely be Dominican Republic. <Banana link, 2013>
In summary I would say my breakfast is more worldly than I am and even though I have visited Mexico and South Korea, my menu has origins from different states in the country as well as countries like India and the
External Environmental Analysis We chose Kellogg’s cereal category because Kellogg’s has over 100 years history and we have14 kinds of breakfast cereal products. Our products sell to 180 countries across the world. Our mission is still to provide you and your family with better breakfasts that lead to better days, and now you eat flake corn is the same way W.K. did back in 1898. It just tastes better that way. Kellogg’s cereal provides a variety of nutrition’s cereals that deliver the benefits of grains, and provide important nutrients like iron, B vitamins, zinc and fibre.
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Paula J. Johnson, a curator at the National Museum of American History, says that foods such as wasabi, Sriracha, and hummus would have been considered “foreign foods” 50 years ago, but today they are common, everyday staples for many people across America. Ramanathan briefly states before this that the only constant in American foods is global influence and then goes on to say that it’s not uncommon in modern times for people to eat, for example, Thai food for lunch and then Italian for dinner. She writes that America has people from all backgrounds, cultures, and countries and their influences are present everywhere, especially the food. In America today, there are so many influences on our foods that using the term ethnic to describe them makes it sound foreign when the food is something people eat every
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The two meals that I have chosen are breakfast and dinner. We will discuss breakfast first. This morning I had two fried eggs with salt and pepper, a piece of toast with blackberry jam, and a diet coke. The origins of the Kroger brand eggs and the Kroger brand black pepper were from Cincinnati, OH, the Morton’s kosher salt is from Chicago, IL, the Nature’s Own bread was from Thomasville, GA, the Kauffman’s blackberry jam was from Montezuma, GA, and the Diet Coke was from Atlanta, GA.
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The late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century trends towards the continuing integration of the world economy have attracted the attention of geographers who seek to assess the impacts that globalization processes have at various geographic scales.1 The banana has a rich history of globalization, and for this reason, this essay will explore the commodity chain that shows the trajectory that the banana takes in order to be produced in the Caribbean, Latin America and elsewhere, then transported through the sea, next entering grocery stores throughout the world and finally consumed in the homes of millions. Commodity chain analyses allow modern day geographers to understand the process in which a resource is
Kellogg’s cereal provides a variety of nutrition’s cereals that deliver the benefits of grains, and provide important nutrients like iron, B vitamins, zinc and fibre.
You are what you eat, is a common phrase characterizing the idea of food and identity. Several questions that discuss the notion of using food as a cultural clue will be addressed, such as: What do food choices represent? How do food choices represent cultural identity? Is it important to recognize the difference between what you eat representing what you are and what you eat constructing who you are? Our identity
The coffee industry has proven there is a never-ending shift of global power through the global economy. Thus, through the history of coffee, it is apparent that factors involving the globalization process such as absolute advantage and comparative advantage have had an impact
“Historically, the banana trade symbolized economic imperialism, injustices in the global trade market, and the exploitation of agriculture-dependent third-world countries”(2). However, they remain to be one of the most profitable items in grocery stores. Making bananas crucial to economic and global food stability for countries all over the world. They are the third largest staple crop, coming only after wheat and coffee. Since bananas are such a sought after fruit, many companies have gone to extensive lengths in the to fight for a share of the market. Chiquita Brands International was one of the pioneer companies to try and globalize bananas. They took a risk and made some very critical mistakes along the way.
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There’s not clear information about how coffee arrived in Colombia. The historic archive says that the Jesuits brought the seeds around 1730. The tradition says that the seeds arrived threw the east of the country, and the harvest where registries in Giron, Santander and Muzo, Boyacá. In 1835 the first commercial production produced 2560 bags and they were exported from Cucuta’s custom. Then the coffee extended to the center and west of the country in the departments of Cundinamarca, Antioquia and the zone of old Caldas. The consolidation of coffee as a product for exportation was from the second half of XIX century. The great expansion of the world economy in that period made that the Colombian peasants find an attractive opportunities in the International market. Between the end of 70s of the XIX century and the start of the XX century the annual production of coffee passed from 60.000 bags to 600.000 bags, this was made in the main big farms of the departments of Santander and Cundinamarca, having at the end of XIX century, 80 percent of the total coffee national production. There was a decline in the international prices in the first years of the XX century; this made a big change in the Colombian coffee cultivation. It can be concluded that in the period between