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02-03-2024, 06:03 PM
UNESCO Food Culture: 30 Amazing Culinary Traditions Around the World.
How does culture impact food?
Food culture around the world is influenced by factors such as the local landscape and weather. For this reason, they can even vary even within a single country.
For instance, the food in northern part of Italy is often enriched with butter made from the milk of local dairy herds, while in the olive-growing south of the country, butter is hardly used and there’s a preference for cooking with olive oil instead.
The history of the country also has an impact on the food culture and traditions of the people living there. Taking the United States as an example, you can easily see how layers of food culture have created the melting pot of cuisines that exists in the USA today.
It starts with the rich history of Indigenous food cultures, then between 1492 and 1800, colonisation brought European ingredients and cooking styles to the Americas. Later on, cultural influences on food from 20th century immigration led to an influx of new cooking styles and foods to choose from.
Food is so much more than just fuel, and sharing food with those we love is part of what makes us human. As the world grows smaller, it’s become easier to enjoy food from different countries, and many cultural traditions have developed around the celebration of food at religious holidays and family gatherings.
And yet another different food culture has developed as more people recognise the importance of slowing down and enjoying seasonal ingredients.
Why is food culture important?
Food culture embraces local and seasonal ingredients, using them to create distinctive recipes and flavours. It involves sharing food with friends, family, and the wider community and has an impact on all of these:
FOOD AND IDENTITY
At the individual level, food plays an important role in each person’s own identity. Preparing, sharing, and eating cultural foods is both a physical act and also a symbolic act that links the individual intrinsically with their personal family history.
For many people, eating the food that we enjoyed as a young person transports us back in time to our childhood. It might be the soup that your mother cooked when you were feeling ill or the special dessert you shared on a religious holiday, but food can evoke a bitter-sweet sense of nostalgia alongside warm feelings of comfort and belonging.
This is why food traditions are so important for immigrants as they are an easily transportable piece of the homeland they left behind.
FOOD AND COMMUNITY
People also use food as a way to connect to their community and its cultural practices.
It is not about the Originate of the food.
It is all about the Culture of a country whereby, the food was largely celebrated, enjoyed, shared commonly, customised and developed into a Heritage of the Malaysian or the people in a nation.
Bak ku teh, pork serving, cannot be not consumed by about 70% of Malaysia Malay Muslims.
Therefore the Muslim leaders raised objection it to be a common Food Culture of Malaysian. Widely enjoyed as a Heritage.
How does culture impact food?
Food culture around the world is influenced by factors such as the local landscape and weather. For this reason, they can even vary even within a single country.
For instance, the food in northern part of Italy is often enriched with butter made from the milk of local dairy herds, while in the olive-growing south of the country, butter is hardly used and there’s a preference for cooking with olive oil instead.
The history of the country also has an impact on the food culture and traditions of the people living there. Taking the United States as an example, you can easily see how layers of food culture have created the melting pot of cuisines that exists in the USA today.
It starts with the rich history of Indigenous food cultures, then between 1492 and 1800, colonisation brought European ingredients and cooking styles to the Americas. Later on, cultural influences on food from 20th century immigration led to an influx of new cooking styles and foods to choose from.
Food is so much more than just fuel, and sharing food with those we love is part of what makes us human. As the world grows smaller, it’s become easier to enjoy food from different countries, and many cultural traditions have developed around the celebration of food at religious holidays and family gatherings.
And yet another different food culture has developed as more people recognise the importance of slowing down and enjoying seasonal ingredients.
Why is food culture important?
Food culture embraces local and seasonal ingredients, using them to create distinctive recipes and flavours. It involves sharing food with friends, family, and the wider community and has an impact on all of these:
FOOD AND IDENTITY
At the individual level, food plays an important role in each person’s own identity. Preparing, sharing, and eating cultural foods is both a physical act and also a symbolic act that links the individual intrinsically with their personal family history.
For many people, eating the food that we enjoyed as a young person transports us back in time to our childhood. It might be the soup that your mother cooked when you were feeling ill or the special dessert you shared on a religious holiday, but food can evoke a bitter-sweet sense of nostalgia alongside warm feelings of comfort and belonging.
This is why food traditions are so important for immigrants as they are an easily transportable piece of the homeland they left behind.
FOOD AND COMMUNITY
People also use food as a way to connect to their community and its cultural practices.
It is not about the Originate of the food.
It is all about the Culture of a country whereby, the food was largely celebrated, enjoyed, shared commonly, customised and developed into a Heritage of the Malaysian or the people in a nation.
Bak ku teh, pork serving, cannot be not consumed by about 70% of Malaysia Malay Muslims.
Therefore the Muslim leaders raised objection it to be a common Food Culture of Malaysian. Widely enjoyed as a Heritage.
