Eating The Hyphen: A Short Story

Knowledge is sometimes passed on, learn by experience, or sometimes by curiosity observed. As a Mexican-American part of my knowledge of Mexicos- food, music, and exotic places has been passed on to me or by my travel experience. Different experiences thought me about my cultural background and in this essay we shall be discussing my knowledge of the foods eaten during the holidays to the beautiful state of Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Food is ubiquitous. Every individual requires its nutrients to live their lives. It chemically provides the human body with the needed glucose in order to convert ATP to useable energy in cells. This means a person literally cannot live without it. Though an immensely important aspect of food is a nourishing supplement; it is not the sole significance of food in human’s lives. Food is symbolic. Food connects people. It is a collective activity everyone must experience; thus meaning it allows people to relate more easily between each other. There is no universal type of food in each society due to the fact that the world is multicultural. Many different styles of food spawn from this diversity. Thus

An Edible History for Humanity was written by Tom Standage which emphasis the history of food and farming used by man throughout history. This book takes us through different parts of the world and gives us examples of how food has changed their way of life. The first civilizations had to go on very little for food. But in the early civilizations,Standage has thought me that food drew everything together. Food wasn’t there just to eat,but was the driving force for the life style of civilizations. Through the book,Standage tries to emphasize the importance that food played in the role of history. He takes us through different parts of the world and shows us the different values that food plays in different locations. Reading this book has helped me gather the questions that I’v been wanting to know.

In the modern industrial society, being aware of what the food we eat come from is an essential step of preventing the “national eating disorder”. In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he identifies the humans as omnivores who eat almost everything, which has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream unhealthiness, gradually causing the severe eating disorder consequences among people. Pollan offers his opinion that throughout the process of the natural history of foods, deciding “what should we have for dinner” can stir the anxiety for people based on considering foods’ quality, taste, price, nutrition, and so on. In order to establish a stronger relationship between humans and food, and allow the humans to know what they are actually eating, Pollan uses different rhetorical analysis includes different appealing strategies and various literary devices, which contribute to persuade people to comprehend the deeper meaning behind the

As many Chinese-Americans grew up in the 1960’s, one women described it best in her multiple literary works. Bestselling, Chinse-American writer, Amy Tan in her autobiographic essay, “Fish Cheeks”, illustrates her humiliating experience at a Christmas Eve dinner at the age of fourteen. Tan’s purpose is to interpret the idea of how her mother cared for Tan deeply and wanted her to be proud of her Chinese heritage and family. She adopts a nostalgic tone in order to engage relatable thoughts and feelings in her adult readers. Even decades after the essay had been written, readers can still relate to the embarrassing situation that Tan had to face.

The relationship between Fred Wah Jr. and his father Fred Wah Sr. is a complex and fascinating family dynamic. In the novel Diamond Grill , Fred Wah reflects on his past experiences and relationships. Fred's father grew up in China and did not know much english when he came back to Canada. Fred both reflects and rejects his fathers ways of life, however, his view of his father shifts from the different times of his life. As Fred tells the story of his life as a Chinese- Canadian his father shows him how to survive in the predominantly white world they live in. Fred finds him self trying to fit in by playing off his Asian heritage and settling into the white role, however, the food part of his life shows the culture his father raised him in

“Why Everyone Should Stop Calling Immigrant Food ‘Ethnic’” by Lavanya Ramanathan (features reporter) and “Stop Thinking And Just Eat: When ‘Food Adventuring’ Trivializes Cultures” by Ashlie Stevens (food and culture writer) are articles published in the American daily newspaper “The Washington Post” and British daily newspaper “the Guardian”, respectively. Both articles aim to communicate to readers on the connection between food adventuring and culture. Through application of personal experiences, experts’ views and pathos, Ramanathan argues on how the phrase “ethnic food” is labelled to foreign cuisines and the discrimination that revolves around it. Stevens points out how people tend to summarise entire culture of a country to a particular cuisine or food trend through the use of pathos, ethos and credible evidences. Although there is credibility to both authors’ view, Ramanathan’s argument focuses more on emotional appeal while Stevens’s is more logically inclined.

Food is important in everyday life; it is what fuels the body and mind. There are many different types of food based on where one is from; and this can be used as a learning mechanism. For example, depending on the location, the types of food available to be produced vary, and even culture. This is because of many reasons like weather, type of environment, and what can be grown. For example, I believe that there is a surplus of corn in Mexico which makes corn cheap to buy for the consumer. Therefore this is why there are so many corn dishes, like tamales, tacos, and elotes. For Asian countries, I believe it is the same idea why they eat so much rice. It is affordable and versatile.

General Tso’s chicken is a Chinese-American deep-fried, chicken dish served in a sweet and spicy sauce. This movie follows the titular dish, proposing hypotheses for the origin of the dish. Additionally, the movie follows the invasion of Chinese food in American culture and the acclimatization and modernization of the cuisine into American lifestyles. The General Tso’s dish is unrecognizable by native Chinese, but is somehow ubiquitous in Chinese restaurants in America, with pizza being the only dish more pervasive than it. In the 1850s, due to xenophobia and the Chinese Exclusion Acts, the Chinese had a tough time fitting in the American culture: white mobs destroyed Chinese lives and forced Chinese out of labor. Eventually, as a result of

I was five years old in kindergarten at the West Farm School, when I learned to makes soups, cornbread and cut up vegetables with a sharp knife. I ground the corn kernels until they were as soft as a duckling.The cornbread smelled the room with a sweet aroma.You could hear the chopping of the knives slice each vegetable carefully. The Stone soup we made smelled as a good as your mom’s home cooking. If it was not for my kindergarten teachers at the West Farm school, I would not have found my love of cooking with a flare.

There is couple example show the acceptance of culture. Food is the way that reflected culture. In the United States people are coming to China town and Japanese town to eat food. Wherever food choices are varied. There is so many different selections we can make. In Grand Rapids, we

Belasco, the author of The Food Concepts wrote, “To avoid disaster we need to predict it.” Food is a part of everyday lives. Many people see food as a way to fuel our bodies and nothing more. I see food as something that has the power to change the world. Something that has that much power should not be able to have an adverse affect on society, but it does. I agree with the quote from Belasco, and want to get the information on the food being consumed out to the people who are eating it. I had a lack of information at the beginning of this school year and started out with a different opinion on fast food. After learning numerous things about the fast food energy I quickly did more research on the topic of what are food is like

More than anything else, rice is the iconic symbol of Vietnamese culture because it plays a prominent role within the country. As a result, rice is found in most dishes making it the staple food of Vietnam. In addition, not only is rice is deeply rooted into the foundation of Vietnamese cuisine, but of its culture as well. Throughout this paper, I will describe the role that rice plays in my cultural background and the he way it is viewed within Vietnamese culture.

In the movie, "What's Cooking?" directed by Gurinder Chadha, there are four families from four different cultures. Everyone's habit and way of thinking is sometime very different from each other; however, even though the cultures are different, the characters in the movie face similar problems that create tensions among family members.

Food, a substance which is consumed to provide nutrition to the body. It is usually obtain from plant or animal and contain many essential nutrients, which includes fats, vitamins and minerals. The food ingested and assimilated by organism and its cells respectively, to provide energy, maintain life and to stimulate growth.