Staple food

One breakfast food has traveled across the sea and into the hearts of Americans. The Belgian waffle was not always a breakfast food though, and was not always mass produced. It has single handedly revolutionised breakfast over the past half-century. The Belgian waffle has become a staple of modern breakfast food, and for good reason; the famous breakfast has a history and culture as rich as it’s flavor. In 1958 Belgian waffles were introduced at the Brussels World’s fair. Then, Walter Cleyman,…

spicy variations of chicken and beef, as burritos or enchiladas, and not your traditional American grill food. Since, I have lived on the East-Coast for over twenty years, I have become accustom too many different style of food. For example, Southern, Cuban, New York Pizza, Chicago Pizza, and Philadelphia, are many of those types of cuisine that I have enjoyed. Now, the Philly-Steak is a staple of Philadelphia, on a visit to the City of Brotherly Love, I stopped by Geno’s Steak, which is a…

legume with its thin firm shell creamy interior and sweet buttery flavor was just another staple she and her family planted harvested and cooked. This red pea which originated in Africa and is the original ingredients in the region's quintessential rice and beans dish Hoppin John is just one of the many heritage crops from the African continent receiving new attention from farmers, chefs, scientists, and food historians. Red peas are a tangible connection to her own African heritage Bailey says…

I am very fortunate to have everything I do. I have access to as much food as I want, the healthcare I need, modes of transportation, more than adequate shelter, and much more. In Mawi Asgedom’s memoir Of Beetles and Angels, he faces many struggles in the refugee camp that he lives in before he and his family moved to America, many of which I can’t even conceptualize having to deal with. Mawi struggles to have adequate food, transportation, and shelter in the refugee camp, while I take all of…

It is correct what they say in Aruba, it is “One Happy Island”. Aruba is famed as a vacation get-away, where you can have picture-perfect Aruba vacations and relax on the beach without distressing about work or anything else. Popular places that you can reconnoiter in tours Aruba include:  Oranjestad city tour  Wilhelmina Park  Fort Zoutman  Aruba Historical Museum  Willem III Tower  Archaeological Museum Aruba  Numismatic Museum  Natural bridge  Hooiberg Mountain  Fontein, Guadirikiri…

cooking styles, and hunting strategies. When comparing the Western Industrial diet and the diet of the early ancestors, there are some big differences but also some similarities. The diet of our ancestors relied largely on the hunting and gathering food getting strategy. Unlike many beliefs, the ancestors’ diet did not rely solely on meat. According to National Geographic, the people usually got thirty percent of their annual calories from animals (Gibbons, 2014). With the lack of weapons and…

Globalization’s Impact On My Plate At first thought, the food my family ate didn’t seem all that interesting. In fact, I couldn’t think of anything more boring to do than talk about a diet of pasta and potatoes for three generations straight. But the more I thought about this topic, the more I realized that my grandmother growing up couldn’t say her favorite food is a mango like I can. Being from rural New Jersey, she had to watch her mother walk to the nearest grocery store once a week, a long…

Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes: Exploring Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives is a study by Alison Krogel that analyzes the food-landscapes that are present in different Andean art forms. She states that “This book is about the relationship between food, cooks, and power in the Andes. More precisely, it explores the ways in which indigenous female cooks use their roles as food preparers, marketers, or purveyors to access otherwise elusive socioeconomic (and sometimes political) power…

Established in 2011 and with a TripAdvisor Award of Excellence since, BurgerFi, a fast-food chain located in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, has grown a sizeable following for its eco-friendly design and menu. After spending a long rainy day inside, my family and I decided to beat our boredom by visiting BurgerFi, a new burger restaurant that had opened a while back in our neighborhood, for lunch. We were all enthusiastic and hungry to finally try out the new burger restaurant after having to…

The topic of Week nine is the foodways of Japanese-Americans, and how they differ from Japanese traditions. To learn more about this, we were assigned four readings. The first one, “Japan: Japanese Food”, by Ayako Yoshimura explains the diffusion of Japanese foodways into America. She starts by describing how Japanese people entered the United States, which occurred when the Edo seclusion policy was nullified, allowing people to migrate in order to find work. A large percentage flocked to…