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.