Food Culture
It’s what happens when people from different cultures interact and influence each other, leading to changes in both.
What is "Acculturation"?
Hearty Italian classic layers wide pasta sheets with meat sauce, béchamel or ricotta, and melted cheese, then bakes to golden perfection.
What is "Lasagna"?
A cooking method where food is first browned (usually in a little fat) and then slowly cooked in a covered pot with a small amount of liquid.
What is "Braising"?
The practice of sharing a meal with a group of people, where food is often served from shared dishes and eaten together.
What is "Communal eating"?
Direct connection between food producers and consumers.
What is "Farm-to-Table"?
The ability of food systems, cultures, and communities to adapt, survive, and thrive despite challenges such as environmental changes, economic hardships, or social disruptions.
What is "Culinary Resilience"?
It’s when people start to blend into a different culture so much that their own culture becomes less visible or changes a lot.
What is "Cultural Assimilation"?
This is considered comfort food for many Indonesians. It is Indonesia’s version of fried rice, made with leftover rice stir-fried in a wok with sweet soy sauce, garlic, shallots, chili peppers, scrambled egg and may be topped with chicken, beef, shrimp and a fried egg.
What is "Nasi Goreng"?
Preserving food (meat/fish) with salt, drying, smoke, etc.
What is "Curing"?
Food that provides a sense of emotional well-being, nostalgia, or happiness, often reminding someone of home, family, or special memories.
What is "Comfort Food"?
The practice of using resources like energy, raw materials, and human labor in a way that preserves them for future generations.
What is "Sustainability"?
It’s using food as a way to tell meaningful stories about identity, heritage, community, and traditions.
What is "Culinary storytelling"?
It is cultural, social, and economic food practices.
What is "Foodways"?
This is culturally significant to the Philippines as it represents the country's history of resourcefulness and adaptation. Originating as a pre-colonial method of food preservation using vinegar and salt in the tropical climate, it evolved with the introduction of soy sauce and other spices from Chinese and Spanish influences, becoming a versatile staple that embodies Filipino identity and is central to daily meals and celebrations.
What is "Adobo"?
The chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria or other microorganisms typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat.
What is "Fermentation"?
Food that is prepared and consumed during celebrations or holidays
What is "Festive Foods"?
An area that has limited access to food that is plentiful, affordable, or nutritious
What is "Food Desert"?
It’s when foods from different cultures mix together to form something new and unique, combining flavors and practices from each.
What is "Culinary Syncretism"?
The right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food, produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, with the right to define their own food and agriculture systems.
What is "Food Sovereignty"?
This is fermented vegetables (most often napa cabbage or radish) mixed with chili pepper flakes (gochugaru), garlic, ginger, scallions, and fish sauce or fermented seafood for flavor.
What is "Kimchi"?
Gathering wild foods.
What is "Foraging"?
Foods that a large community in a region regularly consumes and that's a major source of energy and nutrients.
What is "Staple Foods"?
Equal access to healthy, affordable, and culturally relevant food.
What is "Food Justice"?
Culinary traditions are the food habits and ways of cooking that families or cultures keep alive because they hold meaning, history, and identity.
What is "Culinary Traditions"?
The process of adjusting food systems to better cope with and benefit from changes in the environment or social conditions
What is "Food Adaptation"?
This is a dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the Imperial era. The meat is characterized by its thin, crispy skin, with authentic versions of the dish serving mostly the skin and little meat, sliced in front of the diners by the cook.
What is "Peking Duck"?
It refers to the study and appreciation of food, cooking, and culinary culture, including the origins, ingredients, techniques, history, and cultural significance of cuisine.
What is "Gastronomy"?
It refers to abandoning colonized traditions and returning to the native food of the land.
What is "Decolonizing Diets"?
A system of segregation that divides those with access to an abundance of nutritious food and those who have been denied that access
What is "Food Apartheid"?
It’s when people start to blend into a different culture so much that their own culture becomes less visible or changes a lot.
What is "Cultural Assimilation"?
It's the range of traditional foods, recipes, and agricultural practices passed down through generations.
What is "Food Heritage"?
Dressed in a base of lime juice, salt, chilli, and onion, with the citrus, in particular, getting to work on the proteins in the fish. It is a symbol of national pride for Peruvians.
What is "Ceviches"?
Unique flavor from a food's environment.
What is "Terroir"?
Food associated with a particular ethnic group that reflects their cultural identity
What is "Ethnic Food"?
Promotes local, traditional, enjoyable food.
What is "Slow Food Movement"?
It’s how people balance their own food traditions with new or different food cultures they encounter, finding ways to fit in, adapt, or keep their identity.
What is "Cultural Food Negotiation"?
It's the movement of food elements across borders.
What is "Food Migration"?
In Spanish, this word means “barbecue” or “roast,” which is how it is commonly used in Spain and Latin America today. Argentinians use the term to describe their nation's unique cooking style, originating from the times of the gauchos – nomadic cowboys who cooked their meats over open fires.
What is "Asado"?
It refers to a refined, elegant style of cooking that emphasizes high-quality ingredients, precise techniques, artistic presentation, and complex preparation.
What is "Haute Cuisine"?
A system where consumers buy shares of a local farm’s harvest in advance, supporting the farmers directly and receiving fresh, seasonal produce throughout the growing season.
What is "Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)"?
Prohibitions or restrictions on certain foods within a specific culture, group, or society
What is "Food Taboos"?
The merging of cultural identities leads to new identities.
What is "Cultural Hybridity"?
Sentimental longing for foods of the past.
What is "Food Nostalgia"?
This term literally means "sour-tasting", as the overall dish has a sour and umami or savory taste. Fermented fish using rice, such as narezushi, originated in Southeast Asia where it was made to preserve freshwater fish.
What is "sushi"?
The savory, meaty, or brothy flavor that's often described as a "fifth taste," alongside sweet, salty, sour, and bitter.
What is "Umami"?
Food of a kind traditionally associated with African Americans of the southern US.
What is "Soul Food"?
This eating philosophy encourages consuming foods grown or produced within a close geographic radius to support sustainability and local economies.
What is "Locavorism"?
This refers to how a culture views itself or describes itself in terms of food.
What is "Cultural Identity through Food"?