Food : An Introduction To The Introduction Of American Food

Around the globe there are many different types of unique and delicious food. In America it’s extremely diverse, people around the world come to America to share and spread their cultural food so that Americans can enjoy. There are several Vietnamese restaurants in America that Americans love to visit once or twice every week. Vietnamese food are usually defined as inauthentic in America. Vietnamese food in the U.S are highly different than the ones in Vietnam. In Vietnam, the food texture, taste, and color are authentic because the ingredients are freshly made. Moreover, in America the spices and recipes are not like the original ingredients. The taste and color of the food is exceedingly essential because if people come in and eat, they wouldn’t want to pay for foods that are plain boring, colorless, and tasteless. That would be awful.

The food is never just a food in the sociological perspective. The language of Food and the eating habits of an individual reflects his/her culture and background identity. Indeed, some cultures like Chinese, Mexican, Thai are well known for their food and the status of their religion. Through the lens of the first reading by Fischler (1988, p. 275) “Food is central to our sense of identity”. The following journal shapes the significance of phenomenological basis to understand the food and ideas of an individual. In contemporary world, we can relate food and the background where it comes from. The relationship of cuisines and human beings involves complex cognitive processes. According to my understanding to identify a cuisine, we need to recognize

Many people have grown up around school lunches without knowing much about them. With these people trusting the schools to serve healthy lunches to students, not many people care to worry about what they are eating. Growing up ignorant about food is easy to do, but why settle for convenience if it harms the body? In Melanie Warner’s novel, Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food took over the American Meal, she goes over the history and science of many well-known food companies and the products these corporations sell to individuals. Warner explains how food science became popular to study and how progressive America’s food technology has come. Pandora’s Lunchbox is a remarkable read through its personal stories and demonstrations. Despite her fruitless comments about the science of food, Warner’s approach shows that her writing style and personal testimonies connect with the reader.

In American culture, we typically center our food choices around american options such as burgers, fries, chicken fried steaks, and chicken tenders. However, I decided to seek out a food from a culture that differs than my American background. I sought out a restaurant that served and Indian cuisine and one that I wouldn’t usually try. I decided Indian for the reason that I love spice in food and the spice that the Indian culture uses in their food should really compliment the food. The restaurant that I found was called Taco Naan, which combines cultures and serves food that cater to Mexican and Indian cultures.

Racial and cultural appropriation has become increasingly significant in society within the past 30 years. “The idea of “cultural appropriation” has recently entered mainstream

In The Culinary Seasons of my Childhood, Jessica B. Harris- the author- attempts to help readers understand the relationship between food and identity. Harris gave a detailed, but relevant, description of how how food portrayed different cultures in her life and how it taught her many lessons about her family history and who she is; she also described how food brings people together as one and creates a connection that nothing else can. The author helps readers initially understand her ideas by showing examples of how food, even in the same culture, can reflect different social classes.“ Even though chitterlings might be on the menu, they could equally likely be accompanied by a mason jar of corn liquor or a crystal goblet of champagne”( Harris

Ruth Tam's article, "How It Feels When White People Shame Your Culture's Food- Then Make It Trendy" (2015) effectively demonstrates the extent to which how immigrants feel when their traditional foods become the scorn of white people through telling personal narratives, and using of primary sources as evidence.

There was no typical meal for a colonial Americans, as the diets between a rich and a poorer citizen would have depended on what they could afford. This was also the case because of the different food sources that each of the colonies had. The breakfast of the typical colonial American consisted of bread, cornmeal mush, milk or tea, and possibly an alcoholic beverage. The poor would eat dinner midday while the rich would have it midafternoon. Dinner may have consisted of one or two meats, pudding, cheese, pickles, vinegar, salt, roots, and vegetables. The evening meal was called “supper” and consisted of foods similar in content to breakfast. Butter, spices, sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate, and alcohol were considered luxuries and were only consumed

So with the introduction of a foreign symbol into a host country like a new McDonald’s restaurant, the impact is not so dramatic and the host country does not fully take in the American culture but shapes it in a way to suit their lifestyle and tastes. For example, the food and names of the food at McDonald’s in Tokyo is slightly different to those in America. In India, it serves lamb burgers and in Germany beer is available. This shows that the American formula was not as international as had been hoped, and local cultural practices had to be acknowledged.

While the food given to slaves were mostly leftovers or undesirable, the style of food that slaves ate has become known as soul food and has become quite popular in today’s society.

There are so many more food that relate to other cultures. I just discussed the one I have seen. I have African and Native American friends and I have tried their cultural foods. I would think the food are delicious. Plus, they are quite similar to the food I grew up with. This assignment helped me to see the cross cultural between all the cultures especially in

During the creation of the visual essay, there was a great deal of thought and several choices made. After coming up with a topic, localizing the food industry to keep Americans healthy, thinking of ways to visually display that the current food industry was harming Americans was a challenge. Being so passionate about the topic, it gave motivation to finish the project in the best way possible.

In ‘A Short Essay on Being, Jenny Boully focuses on the ideas of how power and stereotyping are the driving factors that feed into Adichie’s view on the danger of a single story. Everyday, we are surrounded by headlines and events occurring around the world, though unsurprisingly the majority of it is predominately American news. Our cultural and economic power is remarkably influential that we flood our American ways of doing things onto the shores of others through many aspects, one in particular is having the ability to drastically alter cultural foods and still labeling it as it’s original formula . In many ways, Boully uses her love for native food in her stories to show how self-righteous and powerful Americans can be when she hears one of her friends say, “Oh you haven’t had Thai food?

What is cultural appropriation? It’s a term that has been used a lot in the past few years but also not enough. It’s lack of usage in everyday conversation leads to many misconceptions about what it really means. When you hear those words, you may think of angry social justice warriors who want to tell you want you can and cannot do. And while you have the right to do what you want, those “SJWs” have every right to be angry about appropriation. Though you may think we’re being “too sensitive” about what classifies as appropriation, it’s important that you know why we’re so upset over it. So, what is cultural appropriation?

To begin, I found what she spoke about for a majority of the article was unrelatable. “It’s no longer a foreign concept to lunch at a banh mi carryout and then settle in for a dinner of Filipino sisig and end a night at a gelato shop, splitting an affogato.” No one I know is going out of there way to “lunch at banh mi” or to “settle in for a dinner of Filipino sisig”. I am sure she could have used more relatable examples so her audience could better relate. That being said I can guarantee I am not her target audience, with this in mind I cannot speak on behalf of her audience. Then again if she would like to expand her target audience to a larger crowd she should speak about more relatable foods that still support her main