中西方饮食文化(英文版)

Food culture is differences among differences countries

Food is necessity for every one. The people all the world consume great of food, but what they are so different. There is a huge difference among different countries on food culture. There is abundant food in the world. Every country has its characteristic course. And people live in different area are fond of different food, they also use different tableware to eat dinner, what’s more they even have different table manners. We call different is food culture.

Where does the food culture come from? I think there will be several reasons: Firstly, what people eat will influence what they can eat. For instance, farmer may eat more vegetable, and fisherman have more chance to eat aquatic product. Secondly, the nation culture will affect food culture.

In this paper, I’d like to make a comparison among different food culture to see their differences, and at the same time I’ll try to give a tentative explanation to the differences. From the comparison, maybe we can know

some helpful functions the play in their own society. The cuisine system of world can be divided into three parts: eastern cuisine, western cuisine, and Arab cuisine. And in the three parts, the china cuisine, the turkey cuisine and the French cuisine are the famous.

China is a large agricultural country, with grain-based diet, plant-dominated, mostly vegetables and grains. Chinese like eating hot food, they think that if the dish becomes cool, the taste becomes bad. According to the survey, Chinese food is more than 600 kinds of vegetables, six times more than in the west.

The history of the western cuisine is 3000 years. Because of the animal husbandry and fishery, western cuisine is based on animal product, such as, meat, eggs, milk, etc. Beef is proportion of meat ware. And westerners are fond of black bread, marine fish, chocolate, cheese, coffee, cold drink.

The history of Arab cuisine is 1300 years. Because of local economy, the cuisine is combined with animal products and plant products. Arabians eat more mutton than people other areas. Essential to any cooking in the Arabian Peninsula is concept of hospitality. Meals are

generally large family affairs with much sharing and great deal of warmth over the dinner table. Formal dinner and celebrations generally entail large quantities of lamb, and every occasion entail large quantities of Arabic coffee.