Meat is still a staple of food culture today. People who don’t eat meat try to find various different alternatives and substitutes for it. They do this to not only get the nutritional benefits of meat, but to also because they enjoy the way meat tastes. Humans have a biological desire for meat. Our tongues are able to detect the presence of glutamic acid and it creates a savory taste in our mouths called umami. Meat also contains a significant amount of fat. We have identified 3001 olfactory sensor associated with fat. Fat is a carrier of the sweet and salty tastes that we crave and enjoy. It also lingers in the mouth giving it a lasting flavor.
B) The other most significant constant theme in our eating habits is that Americans like to adopt food and then Americanize it. We tend to make food our own by making more of it, adding something meat/fat/sweets to it, and making it blander. In the 1700s, the colonists grew crops and hunted game. This is what began our obsession with overabundance. The crops in America grew taller and the game was bigger. This abundance drew more people to come to America. Calvinists in New England shunned fancy foods …show more content…
It was also difficult to find ingredients for their traditional food in America. This all aided in the home economists’ efforts of getting immigrants to adopt a more American diet. After World War II ended, the men came back home, many of them to immigrant families. They wanted to eat the meat and potato diet that they had eaten during the war. This helped blur the ethic, regional, and class lines. It also helped to cement the American diet because the father was the head of the house and the family ate what he ate. After the war Americans did not want to eat carbohydrate heavy diets. This was seen as the food of the poor people, because many ethnic dishes were rich in carbohydrates and they were general not as
B) The other most significant constant theme in our eating habits is that Americans like to adopt food and then Americanize it. We tend to make food our own by making more of it, adding something meat/fat/sweets to it, and making it blander. In the 1700s, the colonists grew crops and hunted game. This is what began our obsession with overabundance. The crops in America grew taller and the game was bigger. This abundance drew more people to come to America. Calvinists in New England shunned fancy foods …show more content…
It was also difficult to find ingredients for their traditional food in America. This all aided in the home economists’ efforts of getting immigrants to adopt a more American diet. After World War II ended, the men came back home, many of them to immigrant families. They wanted to eat the meat and potato diet that they had eaten during the war. This helped blur the ethic, regional, and class lines. It also helped to cement the American diet because the father was the head of the house and the family ate what he ate. After the war Americans did not want to eat carbohydrate heavy diets. This was seen as the food of the poor people, because many ethnic dishes were rich in carbohydrates and they were general not as