Italian cuisine

Yesenia’s Yummies “Local food is about getting the freshest and best tasting food. Its also about connecting your community.”- Anna Lappe. No one would have said it better than the way Anna put it, I am proud to say have found a community space in my town. Restaurante de Tangamandapio has become a treasure, the most well ran mexican restaurant in Modesto. Modesto is full of mexican food sold from trucks, shops, carts, you name it we have it in Modesto. Although there are so many options…

Food, dances, beliefs, activities, social norms, holidays, and ethnicity. These are all a part of an invisible bond shared by many people in a culture. You may not even realize what yours is, because of how you are molded to the cultural norms of your society. Most people don’t even realize how drastically different each one is until they see they see another culture go entirely against their beliefs and expectations of society. Personally, I am an Asian-American who may have a completely…

used is the music in the background you listen to when you are eating your meal. The music at the restaurants are usually based on the culture of the restaurant. It is playing the music so you get exposed to the culture while you eat that culture’s cuisine. An example is if you were going to a Mexican restaurant you will hear Mexican music but if you got to an American restaurant you will hear American music. A similarity between both cultures is often times when people go out to restaurants…

I have a very large Brazilian tight-knit family and we have many traditions. One of our traditions can be traced all the way back to our Portuguese descent. When the Portuguese settled in Brazil, Festa Junina was a celebration that the indigenous people would have for the beginning of the winter and harvest season. Later it grew into a celebration of three Catholic saints. Around Brazil and even here in America, there are public parties celebrating Festa Junina. Festa Junina takes place from…

Jennifer 8. Lee was on a quest to find out how authentic American Chinese food is. In her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, she uses multiple themes to illustrate her findings and her research, such as diversity, food, race and history, but I think her book is mostly about the culture aspect of American-Chinese and Chinese people. I think the author’s purpose of writing was to inform people about the American-Chinese food and its origins. I also think she wanted to inform people about the…

as Halal, Taco, Chinese, Thai. A Jamaican food Truck was not in sight. Research shows, over the past five years, the Food truck industry has seen experience tremendous growth. Driven by budget conscious customers who are looking for unique gourmet cuisine. Based on recent data the industry has grown 12.4 % of the past five years with an annual revenue of 1.2 million (Brain, 2016). Based on the growing trend in the food truck industry my family and I decided to open our own food Truck call Irie…

What exactly is a tortilla? Well, a tortilla is a food and is made by corn in different manners, sometimes they are high and round, or thin and round, and also you can make them in several sizes. Whit this variety, you can do tacos, quesadillas, flautas, burritos and more. 2. List the functions - both practical and whimsical – that tortillas serve. Tortillas whimsical, you can play with them, you can use them as a mask, fork or spoon, you can do art with them, and some people worship them,…

My parents left India many decades ago and moved into the New Jersey suburbs so my brother and I could grow up in America and receive an American education. When it came to our education my parents never had any restrictions to what they were willing to do or what they were willing to give up; I was sent to Saturday school, tutoring sessions, summer camp, SAT prep, anything that bolstered my college resume. It’s because of this selflessness that I grew up in a town that can only be accurately…

and there are tortilla shops at every corner, especially here in San Diego, California. These shops have big machines that make tortillas all the time which is enough to feed the whole city. Mexican cuisine comes down to us in ancient times. Its ancestral roots are still the essences of today’s cuisine and the ingredients are still corn, beans and chili peppers. Mexico’s generous biodiversity has…

Stretching all the way from the Bosporus Strait in the west to the Diomede Islands in the east, Asia is not only the planet's largest continent but also it's most populous with 4.4 billion people calling it home. Following Marco Polo’s epic tale of an overland journey to China in the late 1,200’s and the marvels he encountered upon the Silk Road before arriving at the great market in Peking , the Venetian travellers exploits spurred a new wave of explorers to find a safer, quicker way to the…