Wednesday 6 February 2013

Food: Part of The Culture

  The way to a man's heart is a full tummy. It is a common phrase used for centuries. Food is in fact the way to a man's heart. Good food is what a man needs. It is what he desires the most.
  Food is a necessity for every human being. Young, old, men or women, every body needs food. Every living thing needs food. Abundance of food is what makes a society happy. A community's health depends on the food it eats. Men work the whole day to put food for the family on the table. It is what a simple being would desire, and most middle class and lower class men's top priority is to provide enough food for the family. Seeing his family have enough food is what really makes his heart happy.
 Different part's of the world have different types of tastes. Societies have their own cuisine. You definitely would have eaten Chinese, Thai, Italian e.t.c. These are all different kinds of foods which are associated with different cultures and societies. It shows the taste of the people and what they prefer to eat. It is a way of showing their culture. Food, it's preparation and it's presentation are a work of art. Cuisines show the most beautiful food and colours their artistic minds provide to the world. How wonderful and vibrant the culture is can be shown by the type of food they eat.
  Foods are based in each culture on what the land provides them with. Arabian culture has abundance growth of dates and as traditionally nomads and owners of herds in the past, they have many  meaty dishes and dishes which include dates. Malaysian and some other countries from that part of the world use a lot of chillies and the food they prepare is spicy. Whereas Thai and Mexican food has a blend of all four tastes.
  India on the other hand has too many cultures. Each culture having a completely different set of cuisine. In Madras you'd find DOSA. In Gujarat you'd find DHOKRA or THEPLA's and so on...
  There is virtually no end to the types of foods this vibrant world has to offer. From East to West there is a very wide variety of flavours and dishes to fill our tummies and our mouths with everlasting flavours. Each of them showing the beauty of their culture.
  

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