Why Food is the Best Way to Discover New Cultures

Why Food is the Best Way to Discover New Cultures 

It’s hard to detach food from people’s belief and culture because as the saying goes you are what you eat.

With food you can determine where people are from and their history and this is true with Filipinos and every country in the world. And all over Asia, the people have evolved as a strong and passionate folks and so have their food. Food is particular important when you are far away from home, from the comfort of your culture in a faraway land. It is most probably one of the ways to stay in touch with our background and culture and the taste often reminds you of home sweet home.

Food is important because more often than not they often change our look and traits in order to blend in but the food we eat is one thing people tend to hold on to. Food also gives you an idea on how people in a particular location live their lives, for example Americans have variety of foods because they never had to go through the famine that Japan went through. This is why the Japanese have noodles as a staple food while the Americans have a variety to choose from.

The same applies to the French where beans are a staple food because of their long relations to the food while right here in Philippines the staple food is rice. Food also plays a huge part in the occasions in the cultures of people so it’s often easy to attribute a certain food to a certain tribe like the New yam festival and the Eastern people of Nigeria.

Food also helps people to understand not just the culture of a people but also their status in the society and this became more prominent with the introduction of branded food items which has compounded food as a status symbol food for the upper class. Furthermore, the way and reason why you eat a food can easily point to your cultural heritage and beliefs which we should all be proud of.

In some countries how the people savor a food reveals a lot about how precious they value that particular food and we will make it easier for you to understand how important a particular ingredient is to them. In Italy for instance, Eating fast is not a part of their culture so patronizing take outs is not peculiar to them.

In Philippines people are beginning to gravitate away from bingeing on just rice to enjoy some satisfying snacks that make their taste bud feel great especially given the fact that they consume about 5 small meals each day and this shows that as a people they enjoy and embrace diversity regardless of the form that it comes in.