The
most useful thing that I learned is how to use the online Penrose Library to
find resources. I think this is very important, because in the future’s classes
I can find anything I want online, it is useful and convenient. I think from
the online library can not only help me to find resources, but also can enrich my
knowledge.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
P9
Having a good eating habit
After
reading the two articles, I found some information for a question which is what
will we eat is good for our health? In Pollan’s article, he said some things
about this question. Maybe these suggestions are not suit you very well, but to
be honest his ideas about eating habits is healthier than most people’s eating
habits. He first said do not eat the things which the oldest people wouldn’t recognize
as food, because he thought some food come up in the recent years are not
health for people. I totally agree with Pollan, because some new “food” come up
this years have so much additives or trans-fatty acid. The food may look nice
and tasty, but the additives and trans-fatty acid are really bad for people
health. He also talked about do not eat so full when you have meal. For this l
would like to say my mum always telling me “Eat 80 percent full when you have
meal”. At last the author said “Eat like an omnivore”. I think this is the most
important suggestion in the article. By doing this you can have all the nutrition
you need and with some exercises you will have a good figure.
In
Dupuis’ article, he told people should eat fellow your heart which means eat
whatever you want. I will say I totally disagree with this author, because if
you eat just you like you cannot get enough nutrition from just one or two
kinds of food. When people eat something they do not like, they may feel
unhappy. But this is really good for your health. If you want to live a long
and a healthy life, Dupuis’ idea is not a good choice.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Some ideas for the Eater's Manifesto
For
now I always eat hamburgers pizzas and drink some soda. I choose to eat this
kind of junk food is because I have a lot of classes and homework to do. As an
international student, the language is the most difficult part for me, so under
the big pressure of the homework and lectures I do not have time to cook some
health meal by myself. I want to change the current eating habit, because it is
not healthy.
Interesting Points
Yuan's blog also talked about the the breakfast. In his blog I found an interesting point, he said eating breakfast is good for our mental health. The breakfast will help you feel less stress and less depressed. And another interesting point I found is in Deng's blog. In his blog he said the vegetarians eating habits will be more healther then the other eating habits. But in my opinion, the vegetarians are not that health, because we need a lot of nutrition from all kinds of food, but not just in the vegetables.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
SE5
Name:
Zechi Zhang
WRIT
1133-27
Professor:
Eric Leake
05/17/2012
Skipping Breakfast
Last
week we recorded our four days’ meals and posted to our blogs. After I read
other people’s post I found a very interesting thing which is most classmates
in my class always choose to skip the breakfast. I think they just want to
sleep a little longer and do not want to get up so early. But I think breakfast
is the first meal of a day and it is a very important meal for beginning a new
day. In order to improve my thought, I did some research for “Skipping the
breakfast”.
In
my opinion, people skip the breakfast for two reasons. The first reason is if
you skip your breakfast you can sleep a little longer, by doing that you can
rest well and can have more attention during the class time. The second reason
is if you skip the breakfast you can lose some weight and keep a good figure.
But skipping the breakfast can really help you on these two things? The answer
is NO. From my research on a web site called WebMD-Better information Better
Health said that “Skipping breakfast is often a big no-no if you are trying
to lose or maintain weight because it leads to high-calorie cravings later (Skip Breakfast, Get Fat).” The
researchers which came from Imperial College London, found 20 healthy,
non-obese people to have a test. The test is to let these people not having
breakfast at first and then showed them photos of high- and low-calorie foods.
Then the researchers will observe how the brain’s reward center changes. And
they found “The brain's reward center lit up more vividly, or became more
active, when the person saw a high-calorie food as opposed to a low-calorie
choice (Skip Breakfast, Get Fat).”But
when these 20 people ate the breakfast the result is totally opposite. So we
can know that skip breakfast will not help you lose weight, instead you will
gain some weight easily.
For those people who think skip breakfast can save some
time to sleep longer and can help you pay more attention, I also found some
evidence to prove it wrong. From my research it said “Breakfast helps wake you up (Top
10 Reasons not to skip your breakfast)”. Studies show that “Eating breakfast helps
improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of
new information. Conversely, a hungry child can be apathetic, disinterested,
and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Breakfast is the key. No
doubt adults need breakfast as much as kids do (Top 10 Reasons not to skip your
breakfast)”. So it is show that skip breakfast cannot help you pay more
attention but will distract from your class.
All
in all, not matter what reasons you skip breakfast is not a good choice.
Actually even I always skip the breakfast, but after reading the articles which
I found on the internet will help me to get rid of the bad habit. So from now
have a good breakfast and get a better health.
Stacy,
M, Keli. (2009, June 15). Skip
Breakfast, Get Fat. WebMD. Retrieved From http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20090615/skip-breakfast-get-fat
Author, A. A.
(Year, Mon, day). Top 10 Reasons not to Skip Your Breakfast. Woman Fitness. Retrieved
From http://www.womenfitness.net/top10_no_skip_breakfast.htm
Monday, May 14, 2012
Three days meal journal
People like to
drink soda and tea during their meal. In the journals which I read, people like
to eat noodles and hamburgers. Two of my friends have a disordered meal
schedules. In my perspective, they ate too much meat than vegetables.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Post 8
May
9th Breakfast 9:30 ------ A glass of milk. Two pieces of toast.
Lunch 2:25 ------ Pho
Dinner 7:00 ------ At home some noodles.
11:30pm ------ Made a hot dog by
mydelf.
May
10th Breakfast 10:00 ------ A glass of milk and an egg.
Lunch 1:30 ------ Cheese steak and a
cup of coke
3:00 ------ A cup of iced Caramel Mabinogi Duo
Dinner 6:00 ------ At C-hall a hamburger
and a cup of chocolate milk
12:00pm ------ Ramen noodles and
a can of Arizona ( Green tea)
May
11th Breakfast 8:00 ------ A glass of milk and two eggs.
Lunch 2:20 ------ Pho
4:00 ------ A cup of iced Caramel Mabinogi Duo
11:45pm ------ a glass of milk and
some toast
May
12th Breakfast ------ Nothing
Lunch 12:30 ------ A can of 7-up and
some chicken nuggets
Dinner 7:00 ------ Hot pot at home.
Beef, lamp, fish ball, beef ball, sea food, vegetables, noodles and son on.
Drinking some beer and some orange juice.
Friday, May 11, 2012
SE4
Name: Zechi Zhang
WRIT 1133-27
Professor: Eric Leake
Word: 735
05/10/2012
Milk
Every day in the
morning before I go to the university, I will have a glass of milk and two pieces
of toast. When we were young, maybe from four or five years old, we begin to
drink the milk and people all around us always said that milk is good for your
health. But I think none of us will find when we started to drink the milk and
how the milk was produced. In order to figure out these two questions I did some
research through the internet.
From the
research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the human history of
drinking is less than 7,000 years. The interesting thing is about 7,000 years
ago which is the Neolithic age, the human ancestors cannot digest the milk. If someone
had some milk, he or she will be got ill. Today there are about 90 percent
people in Nordic can digest the milk and there are still some people in African
and Asia cannot drink the milk because their body cannot provide enough lactase
to digest the milk. A doctor from London University called Mark Thomas claims
that in the recent 7,000 years the ancestors of Europeans started to feed cows
to get milk. After a long time their body can make lactase to help to digest
the milk and get nutrition from it. And then these people past their DNA
generation by generation. So nowadays most Europeans can digest and get
nutrition form the milk.
When it comes to
how to produce the milk, I searched in google and find a short video about it.
At first the video showed us a lot of cows feeding in a large farm. The farm
feed the cows use special food which can help the cows make more milk. When the
cows are ready to make the milk, the cows will send to a machine which can automatically
squeeze out the milk from the cows. And then the staff will collect all the
milk and send to another place to do some test to make sure the milk is clean
and no harm for customers. After testing the milk is perfect to sell, the
staffs will put all the milk into another machine to do the disinfection. At
last the milk will be packaged in battles and ready to sell.
During my
research I found a web site called PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, in this web site I found a short article tells people how the cows
treat when they produce milk for humans. They claims “Calves are generally taken from their mothers within a day of being
born—males are destined for veal crates or barren lots where they will be
fattened for beef, and females are sentenced to the same fate as their mothers”. By
reading these I think people may really treat cruel for the cows and I really
started to think about to stop drinking milk. This short article also mentioned
that “A cow's natural lifespan is about 25 years, but cows used
by the dairy industry are killed after only four or five years. An industry
study reports that by the time they are killed, nearly 40 percent of dairy cows
are lame because of the intensive confinement, the filth, and the strain of
being almost constantly pregnant and giving milk”. I can hardly
imagine if the cows have thought and can speak, what they will say to humans
and how can they get though the tough time, and in the middle of their life the
cows will face the death.
From my
prospective, even though I drink milk every day and we all knows milk has a lot
of nutrition and good for your health, but I think if anyone know how the
companies to produce the milk and know what kind of things the cows struggle
with, the person will think about am I doing it right by drinking milk every
day? Still, people will say through Darwin's theory of evolution:
Survival of the fittest law of the jungle. Human
is in the top of the food chain, so whatever the human do is no right or wrong.
Thinking about the two attitudes for the milk, I would like to say both aspects
are right base on what your thoughts are. Maybe I wake up tomorrow morning and
still have glass of milk.
Work
Cite
“The Dairy Industry” PETA, 10 May 2012
“How
to produce milk” Xiaowanzide Yongquan, 2009, 10 May 2012
“The
history of milk” Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8 April 2012, 10 May 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The Reasons Cause the Eating Disorder
In
the article “Our National Eating Disorder”, the author Pollan talks about what
cause the national eating disorder. In order to illustrate his idea he gives us
two reasons. In the article he claims that “A scientific study, a
new government guideline, a lone crackpot with a medical degree can alter this
nation’s diet overnight”, so we see the government can
influence people’s eating habits. Although the government guideline is based on
some data, but obviously this is not good for everyone. So when you fellow the
government’s guideline but not considering your own habit, then the eating
disorder may occur. The other reason is the food from outside of the country.
America is a nation of immigrants, so there are a lot of different cultures which
means different kinds of food. Then whatever kind of food the American have is
not strange.
The
interesting part for me is the second reason cause the eating disorder. In my
last essay I also talks about almost the same thing. I think the immigrants and
other countries’ food can not only cause the eating disorder, but also may
change a country’s whole food culture. As the developing of transportation, our
world is becoming smaller and smaller. The new can eat different kinds of food
only stay in one place. That is why I think the second point from the author is
interesting.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Draft EE1
Last year, in order to have a better
education I came to American. When I first got here I cannot adapt to the new
food and new eating habits. After seven months being in the USA, I have a whole
picture of the American food and culture. From my prospective, this is because
China and American have different culture which can cause the different food
and habits things. For this reason, there are a lot of differences between
Chinese food and American food. But there is still something in common between
these two countries.
As we know,
China has a very long history which means the food history is also very long.
And due to the large area of territory, people who come from different part of
China have different food. In north part of China, people prefer to have flour
more than the rice, but in south part of China is totally opposite, people more
like the rice. This is because in north the rice has slower process of growing
than in south. For the American, I think this kind of different is not that
obvious. In my university’s dining hall the main food are the hamburgers and pizzas.
During the winter vacation I been to the west part of America (My university is
in the middle part), California, the normal food in there is also pizzas, hamburgers
and hotdogs.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Eating Habits
In Hortwiz’s article “Eating at the Edge”, the author talk about the eating habit and eating time at the modern society. It is turn out nowadays people like to eat alone and eat at on their own mealtime but not the regular time. In order to illustrate the author’s idea, he gives an example which is the soup. At before people put the soup into the big pot and by doing this people can eat together and share with the same pot of soup. But nowadays, lots of people have the soup in a single package which means everyone has their own bowl of soup and have the meal all by their own. For the eating time thing, the author write that “the increased significance of grazing, not eating at fixed meal times in the same place in the company of one’s family or workmates” (qtd. in Hortwiz 42) which means people also eat not at the regular meal time and even do not eat with the same person, instead they will eat the meals whenever they want.
For me, I would like to eat with my friends or family,
because I am not the kind of person who can eat or stay alone. Also when I eat
with my friends I can talk to them and get large information from them. I am
not alone in the society, so I must communicate with others. But when it comes
to the meal time, I must say I am not a regular time “eater”. I am a university
student now, so I always eat meal between the break of the two classes. I
believe this happened for many of the university students. But if it is not in
hurry, I would like to eat at the regular meal time, because eat at the right
meal time can help me have a good healthy body.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Essay 3
Name: Zechi Zhang
WRIT 1133-27
Professor: Eric Leake
4/18/2012
The
restaurant observation: South Philly Cheese Steak
Last week I went
to the South Philly Cheese Steaks. it is a very good restaurant with great
delicious food. The cheese steaks are made from thinly-sliced of steak and
melted cheese in a long bread roll. In the combo meal you can get a cup of
drink and some French fries. I usually put some ketchup in my cheese steak,
because in this way I will not feel the cheese steak so fatness. The reason why
I went to this place is because this restaurant is located near our university
and almost anyone who ate it before, will introduce this place for me.
When
you get into this place you can see a bar table at your right hand and on your
left there large and small tables there. You can order your meal at the bar
table and also you can order it in the cheese steak window. Next to the cheese
steak window, there is a pool table over there, sometimes there will be some
people play it. At the cheese steak window where you can buy the food, you can
see part of the kitchen though a big glass window. I think the big transparent
glass window can give the customers a message which means the restaurant’s
kitchen is very clean. There are three televisions in the restaurant, two are
near the bar table and the other one is on the opposite wall. The channels on
the TVs are always the sports channel, such as football or basketball.
In
order to make a good observation I went this place twice, one in the day time
and the other in the midnight time. In the day time, there are few people go
there and they often eat at the outside table. People like to chat when they
are eating. If someone eats by their own, they will play with their phones or
laptops. Most people go there choose to make the order and then take the food
to go. So there are not so much people in the restaurant. Also there are few
people order some wine or beer and then sit at the bar table to relax themselves.
The whole atmosphere is under some pop music and in this way it can let
customers feel relax and delightful.
The
second time when I went to there is midnight. The restaurant is completely
different from the day time. There are lots of people in there and they all
drink wine or beer. The most interesting thing is the cheese steak is still
sell and you can also order at the bar table. When I went into this place I saw
people were all drinking, dancing or playing the pool table. The music was
becoming more like the nightclub’s style. If someone wants to get high or wants
to find some beautiful girls, I highly recommended them to come to this bar.
Though
the different time of the day, we can see the situation in this restaurant is
totally different. What I am really interested into is that the restaurant with
the bar combination thing. I think this is a very good idea to make the whole
place for fully used. In China I do not know any restaurants or bars do the
same thing.
Not
only the great layout and the great time arrangement in this place, but also
the delicious food are very important. In my opinion people go there expected
the meat and cheese because there are a lot of meat in one cheese steak. The
other thing which why people like to eat at this restaurant is the fast cook
process. When I was eating there in the day time, I always see some people drop
by and but some food to go. Maybe a person who has class or has work to do wants
to cheese steak, because is fast and delicious. And if someone wants to eat
chicken wings, he or she can definitely come here. In this place they have 3
different sauces for the chicken wings; in this situation you can find your own
suitable taste. When we want to talk about the culture thing, there is only one
thing come up with my mind. The thing is the fast food culture in American. I
know lots of fast food in American and for me the cheese steak is the most interesting
and delicious one in American.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Different food Different Meanings
In the article “’Breaking Bread with a
Spread’ in a San Francisco County Jail” written by Sandra Cate, he talks about
the food made by the prisoners. In the afternoon about 4:00 the prisoners will
have the dinner, so they always fell hungry. Because in the jail there are not
so many food materials to use or eat, the prisoners save some resources from
their meal to cook. In their meal the dishes are very sample which only have
some potatoes. Because they will share the food which they cooked to other prisoners,
the food is not only the food itself, but also the mean some relationship between
the prisoners.
In the article “The culture Politics of
Eating in Shenzhen” written by Mary Ann o’donnell, she introduce us some of the
eating culture in Shenzhen. Shenzhen is a very bustling city, but at the
beginning it is just a small village. Nowadays, there are lots of people go to
there to have job or study. So there will be two kinds of people, one kind of
people is the local people and others are the new comers. The local people
prefer to eat in open-air restaurants but the new comers prefer to eat in
better environment restaurants. Food for the local people is kind of like the
old Shenzhen spirit.
From these two articles I can tell
different countries have different food and even in one country different part
have different food. Sometimes food is not only a thing which can make you feel
comfortable or make you full of energy, but also can represent one culture or a
kind of spirit. These are all I learned from these two articles.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Zhushu Li
Essay From Zhishu Li
In Zhishu Li's essay he talks about the milk advertisements just like mine. In the second paragraph he writes about the "Te Lun Su" milk advertisement which has almost the same content with my essay. We all talk about the healthy food and the safety food culture in current China. I think we have the same thought when we write something about the milk advertisements in China.
In Zhishu Li's essay he talks about the milk advertisements just like mine. In the second paragraph he writes about the "Te Lun Su" milk advertisement which has almost the same content with my essay. We all talk about the healthy food and the safety food culture in current China. I think we have the same thought when we write something about the milk advertisements in China.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Advertisement
Advertisements
After the
reading food and culture articles in our writing class, we start to find these
kinds of things in the daily advertisements. In order to analysis the
advertisements I find two Chinese advertisements to be compared. These two
advertisements are all about the milk. The first one is called “Wang Zai Milk”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxcJu0Nesc).
In this advertisement the cute little boy uses his cute voice and his joyful
emotions to tell the audience the milk is good and also delicious. Apparently,
the audience for this advertisement is the children. But why the children, they
do not have money to buy the milk. Here we must say something about Chinese
culture. In a normal family of China, there will be only one child. So if the
children influenced by the advertisement, then they will let their parents to
buy it. Because there is only one child in the whole family, the parent will
but it for their child. When we talk about the values of this milk, we can say
the delicious taste and the cute logo of the products are the things we look
for. Because we will not consider the how much calories the children will have,
we just care about what the children like. Some children have some problems
when they drink the milk, so if the children start to like to drink the milk,
then their parents will set their mind at rest.
The
second advertisement is called l “Yi Li Jin Dian milk” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdkiKhsnkbw).
At the start of the advertisement we can see a beautiful lady with two cute
little girls in wild grassland. They were walking around the grassland and even
find a ladybug. At the end they drink the milk near the cows which were eating
grass, on the grassland. The whole atmosphere of this advertisement makes the
audience feel comfortable and the green color let the people think the food is
healthy. As fellow the lady says the milk is organic milk and there is no pollution
or additive, the milk is best for your family members. So we can say the
audience is the upper-class people (This milk sells expensive). Because the
advertisement focus on the healthy things and use the beautiful lady which is a
very famous singer in China to tell the audience if you care about the health
choose this milk. Nowadays, there are lots of milk safety issues in China, such
as “San Lu milk”, “Sheng Yuan milk”, and “Meng Niu milk”. So, healthy milk is
what the audience wants. In China, not only milk, the safety and healthy food
is becoming to the new food culture now. So if there is a food is not only
healthy, but also have more nutrition, it will become popular.
There is another great advertisement can be analyzed which is the Nescafe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NYTUmGSKLM). In this advertisement we can see there are a handsome young man and a young beautiful lady work late in a company. Before they drink the café the whole color of the background is dark and the young man looks like tired. But after he drinks the café the background’s color becomes bright, also these two young men are full of energy and they even dance after drinking the café. We can easily find out the audience are the white-collars which always work late and feel tired and sleepy. And they want the easy and fast food or drink to save their time. In this advertisement the café is very easy and fast to make which are all the white-collar people want. The fast food culture is now popular in China. It is not only cheap, but also fast. China is a developing country, as the country’s developing the pace of the life is becoming more and more fast. So, fast food is becoming popular.
All in all, the advertisements can obviously show what are the consumer group and some food culture. Maybe different countries have different ways to perform the advertisements, but they have a same goal which is to attract the audience to buy the products. So the advertisement producer must know the food culture and what the audience wants.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
What is the difference
In the article “Authenticity in America: Class Distinctions in Potato Chip
Advertising”, written by Joshua Freedman and Dan Jurafsky. I can see that the
culture, food and language are all connected to each other.
At the beginning of
the article the authors talk about the different language habit between the
upper-class and the lower-class. After the language, the authors use the
expensive and inexpensive potato chips’ advertisements to illustrate their
ideas. In order to attract the customers to buy the product, the expensive
chips use the long sentences and hard words which the upper-class people preferred.
On the opposite, the cheap chips use simple words in their advertisements’
language which can make the lower-class comfortable. Also, the upper-class will
be care about the health problems more than the lower-class people, so in the
chips bag the expensive one have more words to talk about the health.
At the beginning of
the article the authors talk about the different language habit between the
upper-class and the lower-class. After the language, the authors use the
expensive and inexpensive potato chips’ advertisements to illustrate their
ideas. In order to attract the customers to buy the product, the expensive
chips use the long sentences and hard words which the upper-class people preferred.
On the opposite, the cheap chips use simple words in their advertisements’
language which can make the lower-class comfortable. Also, the upper-class will
be care about the health problems more than the lower-class people, so in the
chips bag the expensive one have more words to talk about the health.
After
reading the article, there is a perfect example for the authors’ ideas. We can
always see the wine advertisement on TV. When the advertisement is about the
beers, the people in the advertisement will be in any kind of clothes and the
back ground music will be in fast rhythm and cheerful. When it comes to the red
wine, the people in the advertisement will be all in the suits and the music will
be more elegant in a soothing rhythm. Because the red wine is more like the
upper-class people’s thing and the beer is for the lower-class people. I do not
know what it will be in American, but this is all in Chinese TV.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Traditional Food
Christmas
is a very an important festival in American. The families get together and
enjoy a great dinner. In China we have a similar festival called Spring
Festival. During this festival every family will go to the children’s
grandfather’s house and have a delicious dinner. In this meal we usually have
chicken, duck, fish and pork. Because is it the beginning of the year, we
should have a great start. The most important food in this festival is dumpling
which is the traditional food in the Spring Festival.
The dumplings have a folk
story about why we should eat dumplings. Long time ago, there are no people on
the planet. A beautiful lady called Nvwa want to let the planet full of
vitality, so she uses the loess to make human. But the weather is very cold, so
the humans ears are fell off from their heads. Then Nvwa uses the thread
through a little from the ears and put the other end of the line in to the
humans’ mouths to stable the ears. In China the word “thread” and the dumplings’
filling are the same pronunciation. In order to commemorate the Nvwa’s merit,
every year people dumplings. We can see the shape of the dumplings look like
the gold ingot in the ancient China, so it is a very sign for the new year. Sometime
we also put a coin in one of the dumplings, anyone who eats the dumpling with
the coin will have luck for the whole year.
In this year’s
Spring Festival, I stay in American because the winter vacation is a little bit
short. Even though I am not with family I still cook some dumplings with my
friends. Because this is the first time to cook the dumplings by ourselves, the
taste is not very good and the dumplings’ shape looks strange. But this is a
great meal for me because I can feel I am at home. For every student who studies
abroad, it is the first time to far away from home and you should do everything
by yourself. In this Spring Festival, the students get together just like a
huge family. This “family” can make people feel warm and comfortable.
Besides the
festival there is an other important event in one year which is the birthday. When
I was nine years old, our family celebrated the 84th birthday of my
grandfather. I can still remember at the end of the meal my grandfather had a bowl
of noodle and the noodle’s shape just like a word “life” in Chinese language.
I
asked my mother why my grandpa ate noodles at his birthday. My mother told me
the long noodles represent a long life, so when we had our birthdays the Chinese
people always had a bowl of noodle to wish had a long life. I also notice the
age number on the birthday cake is 83 but not 84. I asked my mother why this
thing happened. Is it because someone not good at math? Of course not, my mother
told me when old people had their 73 or 84 years old birthday, they usually put
72 or 83 number on their birthday cake. Because there an old saying which is
when the old people in their 73 or 84 years old they will have a tough year.
Though these two things we can say the food and culture are inseparable. We can see the culture though a country’s food. If you know the country well you can tell which part the country a person comes from. Take China for example, in the north of China people like the cooked wheaten food and the south part people like rice. In Sichuan Province and Hunan Province, people like to eat the spicy food, but people from Shanghai Province like the sweet food. These are all the proofs that the food and culture are related each other. So if you want to know a country’s culture, go to their country’s restaurant and “taste” their culture.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Food and Culture

After
reading the two articles, Eating White
and Home Run, we can see the food in
the articles is not just food. It can represent a country’s culture. In Eating White, Nicholson talks about his
mother’s eating habit which is like to eat white food, and tells us some
reasons why his mother likes to eat type of food (The World War II). And he always
compares his mother’s food to the American food, because he lives in California
now. In the other article is more obviously, Ahn talks about his family’s attitude
about the food. His parents grew up in South Korean and then move to American,
so the author was born in American. In his family they got two refrigerators,
one for the American food and the other for the Korean food. His mother always
cooks the Korean food and sometime speaks Korean at home. It is not the author
parents like to eat the Korean food, but they want Ahn to know their own
country’s culture (because he was born in American). At last, Ahn says he has
only one refrigerator in his home now which means his parents’ work do not waste.
Ahn can know and feel the important of the culture from his own country. And these
all come from Korean food.
Now
I know the food is not only the food itself, it can have a kind of culture and
a kind love. I always compare the American food and the Chinese food, and always
find the Chinese restaurant to eat Chinese food. If my son will be born in American,
I will do the same as Ahn. I will have only one refrigerator in my house just
for Chinese food and teach him Chinese. In this way our own culture can spread
to the next generation.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Last Meal
The last meal I had is yesterday's dinner. I went the South Philly Cheese Steak. I had a small pepper cheese steak, some french fries and some drink. It is just like this:
The eating place is near Chase and this place is more like a bar, because we can order some beers in there. Yesterday I went this place by myself, because almost all of my friend think that the cheese steak is not very delicious. But for me the cheese steak is not only delicious but also very substantial. When I was eating the food I figure out a question which is why many of the Americans get obesity. In my meal we can see the cheese, french fries and the drink have so much calories. If someone eat this kind of things and do not want to go to the gym, then all the calories will turn to be the fat. Fortunately, I love sports, so I can enjoy the meal whenever I want.
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