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Dayuan Zhao

WRIT-1133-27 MWF 12-2

Prof. Eric Leake

04/25/12

Research of Food and Value: Different Climate Build Different Diet Habit

         We used to read two articles which are talking about the food in the jailhouse and in Shenzhen, those two articles really inspire me in some way. I think the part of reason why different places have different diet habits is because of climate condition and custom.

         My home is located in Liaoning province, at very high latitude of China; the climate there is similar to Minnesota. When winter is coming, the temperature is extremely low. That leads people’s diet habit changes. We like to eat sour pickled cabbage in the winter to proof cold. Sour pickled cabbage tastes very special. Almost Chinese who live in south part of China cannot even try it; they think it tastes very terrible. It tastes very sour, and the mouth feeling of Sour pickled cabbage is crisper than plain cabbage. It is a fabulous material to make soup. Because pickled cabbage has to make in a very cold environment, thus, southern part of China cannot make it since temperature is too high to make it there. That makes eating pickled cabbage became our unique custom.

         Another place I want to talk about is colder than Liaoning – Russia. Because Russia is almost the coldest place in the world, so the soil in Russia is not good at plant almost crops, this leads food source is fish. Because Russia has an unusual long coastline, the fisher industry in Russia is very significant. When I mention the Russia food, caviar cannot be ignored. Caviar is one of the “three best foods in western world” (another two are Foie gras and Truffles.) “Traditionally the designation caviar is only used for sturgeon roe from the wild sturgeon species living in the Caspian and Black Sea” (from Wikipedia) Russia and Iran monopolize the ninety-five presents of the Caviar market in the worldwide.

         The following country I want to talk about is not as cold as those two places; I will talk about a country which is located in tropic region.

         Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America, and the food style in Brazil is very unique. Profit from the big arable land, Brazil can feed the fifth biggest group of population in the whole world. The most famous dish in Brazil is Roast beef. This dish is the most popular one in Brazil; the dish is also an essential element of the banquet when Brazilians want to entertain their superior guests. This kind of Brazil roast beef is different with the regular barbeque beef what we always eat, it doesn’t add seasoning, they just sprinkle some salt on the beef surface, the grease are seeping outside, charred outside and tender inside, this dish has a unique flavor. You can order different parts of the beef, such as thigh, before the haunch, the haunch, cattle peak, steak and tenderloin, there are more than 10 parts are ready for choose. Which part you want to taste, the waiter will cut it and put it into your plate.

         All in all, different climate will totally changes the regional food style. Profit from this issue, the types of food around the world can be this rich and we can taste all of them in different regions. If there is just one type of food existing in the world, people’s daily live will become so boring and desperate.