American Food Culture Essay

Synopsis/Executive Summary The aim of this report is to explore food culture base on the the Food Safari Field Trip in week 3, through looking at the evolution of a dish and its history to the three periods of change using sources from the Gastronomy lecture, relevant website and field trip personal experience.

Introduction

Food is a vast and important part of every humans daily and ongoing life. Food not only provides nutrition for our bodies but can also represent a country, city or a family’s culture and beliefs. This vast importance of food within peoples lives is evident as food has always developed and changed overtime due to its mass importance to the world. This report will focus on Lebanese and Syrian food most importantly

The Columbus Grand Exchange has brought population growth and diverse new crop varieties and livestock for both hemispheres. After the explorers at the time brought them back to Eurasia such as corn, potatoes, rubber, pepper that were originating from the America, has become the important crops of Eurasia and further Africa to West India via Middle East area. Although, the original place that hummus was found or invented is still a unsolved mystery. Despite the fact that the exact known origin of hummus is unclear, we do know that the chickpeas, the main ingredient of hummus, were known to be cultivated in the ancient Mediterranean and the Middle East. (TopFoodFacts,2013). Chickpeas are extremely important and they always were, in ancient Egypt and Palestine and the greater Syria where they all have chickpeas, chickpeas is the most important part of the

Due to these nutritional factors hummus is getting more and more popular amongst a lot of countries. Chickpea is the world's second largest production of beans, originating in Western Asia and the Mediterranean coast. Within nutritional context, it is the highest in the beans, known as "the king of beans” and also as "longevity beans.” It is said that Middle Eastern people eat too many high-calorie beef, milk, high sugar fruit, but surprisingly the rate of diabetes and high cholesterol disease is not high, which is thought to be because of the regular consumption of hummusSince the chickpeas and the sesame seed are really good for human body, and that it has been apart of the human diet for thousands of years, it is no wonder hummus has become known as a nutritionist’s