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.