Food Cultures- Home and Corporate

At home my mom makes alot of asian dishes when she cooks, ones that her mom have taught her before. There's many different dishes and when she does cook she cooks vegetables, soups, beef, chicken, and of course rice, things you've probably seen in other restaurants except cooked with my culture's flavorings. My mom comes from sichuan and the people there are known for their taste for spicy food. Like there would be spicy tofu mixed with some kind of spicy sauce or during hot pot there will be a side for spicy food and a side with plain water. When we eat hot pot we usually have friends over. There's be stuff like fish balls, beef slices, shrimp, pigs blood, cow intestine, dumplings, vegetables, etc. My mom has also made pasta since one of her coworkers taught her and now she makes it when she feels like it, with fresh mozarella and tomatos, the sauce she does buy canned. In the summer she makes cold congee, which is rice porraige and its pretty refreshing. Oh, and when she doesn't cook, she buys takeout. She tells me that some of the stuff put on the menu is for white people because its not authenthic asian food, like beef and brocolli or Gerneral Tsao's Chicken which I thought was kind of funny, they're making food to suit American taste so it makes sense. Well when we eat dinner, we have conversations, but we also tend to do our own things. The tv isn't on because my family doesn't watch much tv except in the morning before school or work. We eat at a table and talk. So that's basically it for my family dinners.

I think with American food there's alot of junk food and fast food and also foods that has been Americanized from other cultures. McDonald's is a wellknown example of fastfood known all over the world, as well as KFC. Americans seem to be in a rush many times and the faster the better, which is how fast food came into being. On tv or movies, we'll see people saying grace over a huge dinner. Potatoes and meat is a common in American meals. I think alot of different cultures have meat in them, except Americans just tend to eat more meat like steak or hamburger or something like that. Now I think there's a health movement because of the obsietity epedemic in America alot more magazines are touting a more healthy lifestyle. So what foods are good for you or not has become something more Americans think about. I think a typical American dinner is shown on tv as a t.v. dinner like the show Married with Kids, or as a meal at a table where the people make nice conversation, things like how was your day. I think pizza, hotdogs, onion rings, and chocolate chips are American food as it is part of what the typical American will eat.

I'm a pretty simple person, or maybe just a pretty lazy person but I'll eat whatever is in front me pretty much. At school I go for the cafeteria food, because its free and I'll have whatever's there BUT there's one exception, I won't get pizza. Because I am tired of eating pizza and the pizza at the cafeteria is not always the most appealing thing in the world. I have what some may call "quirky" food habits. I think I'm open minded about diffent foods because I've been exposed to so many different kinds of foods. I like all kinds of food from every culture. Anyways with food, I tend to eat anything and everything and when I find something I really like I will eat it nonstop for weeks until I don't even want to see it anymore. I've this with quite a bit dishes like ma po tofu, egg and shrimp over rice, beef and peas over rice and I even went vegeterian for awhile. Yes, I do know that eating too much of a certain food will cause me to go allergic to it but thankfully this is not a common occurence, just every once in a blue moon. I don't eat much fast food anymore because I just don't...I've been scared off by my friend who told me the McDonald's french fries would never expire because they have the same perservative as the one people use to perserve dead bodies at funeral homes. I haven't eaten fries at McD's since or much other food. That's basically how I do food.