Arab Food Essay

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ARAB’S CULTURE: FOOD Since ancient times, food has gone through many evolutions. Some of them are acknowledge as a must have menu in every international restaurant, regardless if it is a 4 or 5 star restaurant. One of them is the Arab’s cuisine. The Arab’s cuisines mainly derived from their ancestral food. According to the Reader’s Digest Great Dictionary of The English Language, cultural is defined as relating to the culture of a society. Meanwhile, food is defined as any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb to maintain life and growth. Cultural food, on the other hand means food that is passed down through generation by one’s own culture. The Arab’s food dates back hundreds of years ago with various influences from its vast land. Originally, the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula relied heavily on a diet of dates, wheat, barley, rice and meat, with little emphasis on yoghurt products as their daily consumption. Poultry such as meat and chicken are mostly used, with beef and camel used to a lesser degree. Other poultry for example birds are used in some regions, and in coastal areas, pork is completely prohibited-for Muslim Arabs, being both a taboo and prohibited under Islamic law. Even the Christian Arabs avoid pork as they have never acquired a taste for it. Nevertheless, other food such as bread is considered as staple food for the Arabs. There are two basic structures for meals in the Arab world, one regular and another one is specifically used in the month of Ramadhan. Breakfast is the first and most important part in their daily diet. Usually during breakfast the food consumed is Labneh. Labneh is actually cream cheese that is served with black olives, olive oil and bread. The preparation of making Labneh starts by adding cream cheese with salt. Later, the mixture

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