The Ghost Of Taste Analysis

When you are put in this life you don 't pick the situation your born in. In addition to that you don 't pick the types of food that are available to you. There are many factors that can effect the food introduced to you in a lifetime. There are two that really stick out with the first being heritage. Your heritage is how your going to be brought up. Each heritage has their different types of food, and what your parents eat may not, but most likely be what you are going to see in the beginning of your lifetime. Moving on, the second factor would be Money. To obtain anything in this world including food you need money. If you have an abundance of it you will be satisfied, but if money is scarce food may be limited. Growing up with the heritage I have and the money my family and I acquired throughout the years played a huge role in my life and changed my outlook on food. To begin The Ghosts of Taste: Recapturing the Flavors of Childhood opens up by saying “Food beings with your mother” I agree with this statement, because growing up with a Haitian mother I still eat like her to this day. …show more content…
Some foods I love till this day and others not so much. In my option each culture has their own type of “flavor” that they get used to and determines the types of foods they would enjoy. A few examples would be Spanish and African Americans. Spanish people love a little spice in their foods. In saying that you can make an assumption that most spicy foods they are going to enjoy because thats how they were brought up. African American love lots of flavor, so the same thing applies. In my case growing up in with a Haitian background, I enjoy hot foods. So most food I would put like more if they were either spicy or covered in hot sauce. My mother always made rice since it was cheap and filling. Plus she would serve the rice with hot sauce on it because that what her parents did for