Everyone sitting around me has the option to purchase a healthy meal because that’s what our cafeteria mainly serves, but mostly all chose to leave school grounds and purchase something absolutely unhealthy. I believe the problem here is that these people didn’t have the healthy option growing up. I remember when I attended River Grove school as a child and all the school served was fast food. Monday’s- Ravioli with marinara sauce Tuesday’s- Taco Bell Wednesday’s- Mc Donald’s Thursday’s- Dominos Friday’s- Chicken noodle soup Along with all of this we even had a snack bar filled with ice cream, cookies, chips and many other fatty options. There were even parents selling cupcakes every Thursday to help raise money for student council and school dances.
The different between whole food market and regular super markets are completely different. My group and I went on a journey to compare the prices of Whole Food and ShopRite market to feed a family of 4 for a Sunday of 3 meals breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 snacks. The reason of this experiences is to gather information to see which market have better prices and quantity to feed this family. In my group we have 4 African American girls 1 Nigerian and 1 Hispanic so we decide that each culture pick a meal to learn what each other eat and buy from the market. We learned that the Hispanic girl cooks every day and for a family of 8 so when she go to the market she buy a lot of meats and vegetables that last for a week.
I do feel pressure to improve my Spanish because in our culture we often have these huge gatherings where our distant relatives get together and I can barely communicate with them. I am more into the food in my culture. I could eat Cuban food everyday if possible; I love beans and rice, pork, and plantains. I feel like I’ve been eating that type of food since I was a baby, my sister’s dislike any type of Spanish food and opt for cheeseburgers. Although I eat like a Cuban I don’t particularly identify myself as one.
From my bedroom window I could hear the sound of children playing. I could also here, “three Naira for two, buy one get the other half off”, it was Hanu my neighbor carrying around his wagon with shoes. Hanu had a good way of persuading people into buying his cheap quality items. My wife was calling me, “Hayatt, come down and eat!”, I went downstairs to greet Shana, she greeted back and placed a bowl filled with beef stew on the table. Beef stew was my favorite and Shana made it even better then my mother used to.
This division has had long-term effects on African American families to this day, where often it is seen that a father or mother is lacking and children are raised by extended family. My family came to California from the East Coast over 30 years ago, thus keeping the ritual of Sunday dinner alive has been a crucial factor in maintaining our unity as a family. My family practices the ritual of having a large soul food dinner every Sunday at my Aunt Louise’s house. On October 26, 2008 I arrived at my Aunt Louise’s house in Los Angeles, California. Just before entering the house I was greeted by the smell of baked foods.
Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Córdoba also serve it with fainá, which is a chick pea-flour dough placed over the piece of pizza” (en.wikipedia.org). Argentina is particularly famous for its beef. The asado, an elaborate meal of grilled meat, is one of the most important culinary traditions in this country. During Asado, families gather in the late afternoon to grill a series of meats from sausages, to ribs, to steaks, and even intestines. Marian Blazes an author for About.com explains the process, “The asado begins in the late afternoon.
Some parents think that home-prepared packed lunches are healthier than school dinners because they can control the contents. Unfortunately teachers report that more often than not the opposite is true. In some areas children are sent to school with unhealthy lunches or their parents have quickly brought their lunch from the corner shop before school. On some occasions children are even sent to school with no lunch at all. Also, do the children actually eat the packed lunches that they bring?
Late in the year he tackled the informal essay and gave us a list of topics from where we had to choose one to write about. All topics seem to be almost as dull. The night before the assignment was due, I visually scanned the list of topics and my eyes landed on “The Art of Eating Spaghetti”. This topic brought me vivid memories of a night when my mother and other family members served spaghetti for supper, an exotic treat in those days. Suddenly I wanted to write about the warmth and good feeling of it, but simply for my own joy, and not for Mr. Fleagle.
In the Indian culture, she usually eats Indian food—“thin wheat chapattis, some vegetable curry and a bottle of buttermilk.” That is an Indian paradigm for food. However, after she goes to the Anglo—Indian school which is a British colonial school, she finds out that most of the children eat sandwiches there. At this moment, the English paradigm becomes a general pattern accepted by most of the children in the school. Therefore, Premila tries to conform to the English paradigm through changing her lunch because that is the other children usually do. One more example we can see she refuses to fit into English paradigm, when she watches the ill-fitting of Indian girl’s dressing.
Over time, the control of food sources, whether sustainable or not, has impacted human choices, behaviors, and, ultimately, cultures. In his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan explains how human beings answer the question of what to eat for dinner may determine our survival as a species as we enter the twenty-first century. The logic of nature and the logic of human industry are in constant tension with each other as people debate which plays a more important role in growing populations and the production of food. Anthropologists Gewertz and Errington follow the controversial trade of the inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb, known as “flaps”, to their markets in the Pacific Islands in their book Cheap Meat. Food like these mutton flaps has now become a factor in the way it impacts communities due to the lack of options available to people and it poses health concerns to the consumers.