FOOD CULTUREÂ DIVERSITY
Why is it necessary to consume a diverse range of foods from various cultures? We examine the definitions of diversity and how it affects individuals, communities, and the environment.
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Cultural diversity refers to the consideration and representation of all experiences, regardless of social, political, gender, class, or race.
Food and culture are inextricably linked. The steps involved in preparing, serving, and sharing such foods and beverages may seem straightforward, but they also have significant social and cultural implications. Recipes and eating habits can be used to pass down wisdom from generation to generation.
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Certain foods, when prepared and consumed as part of a celebration, may strengthen social ties. Getting to know the local food scene and participating in culinary traditions is one of the best ways for travelers to broaden their exposure and enrich their experience.
Unity in Diversity
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1. Carbo: Pasta, Bread, Potato vs Rice, Rice, Rice.
2. Round table vs Square table
3. Restaurant Design and Architecture
4. Cutlery: spoon, forks, chopsticks, hand
5. Tips or No Tips
6. Luxurious dinner or simple brunch
Rice is the most valuable food crop in the developing world, and more than half of the world's population eats it as a staple food. Rice is consumed by nine out of ten people on the planet. Rice is the fastest-growing staple in Africa, and it's gaining popularity in Latin America as well. Therefore, western people often consume pasta, bread, potato as their nutrition completeness while eastern countries have cultures to eat more rice.
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Few of restaurants in Eastern countries have round table so they can share their meals to people in the table. They will spin the round glass on the table and foods come easier to them. Another side of world, square table does not allow their people share the meals together easily.
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Worldwide design and architecture along the way you can see. Of course, hundreds countries, thousands culture and billion styles of their creativity based on their identity. Look at that glamour restaurant in the US and traditional restaurant in China.
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Cultures affects to a restaurant cutlery difference. When it comes to sushi restaurant, there will be a chopstick. Spoon, forks, knife on appetizer. or just by hand instead, mission complete to the waitress!
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Tips culture growing through US to eastern countries. Aimed to appreciate the servers work and as a simple way to pay the service unless people will got more payment on the bill for service. So the existence of tipping allows restaurants to pay their servers less. And because restaurants pay their servers less, they can also charge lower prices on their menus. And customers, will be happy to see lower menu prices. On the eastern area, there is still a stereotype "customer is king," so they are less interest on giving tips.
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Depends on people lifestyle, there will be luxurious and simple restaurant to go. Socioeconomic gaph revealed on where restaurant they would go.
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"Food is not just a quantity of proteins or vitamins; it is a variety of foods that forms the foundation of our various civilizations," Graziano da Silva said.
However, he cautioned that this diversity is in jeopardy. Currently, only a few foods account for 80% of our diet, such as wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans, despite the fact that humans have used over 7,000 items throughout history.
"these are the foundations of our various diets and cultures."
