Culture & Food

Food. We all eat it and we all enjoy it. But we don't all enjoy or eat t he same food from country to country. Why is Chinese food different from Mexican food? What is it that makes their food so different from ours and makes us wrinkle our noses when we come accross a foreign dish?

The answer to these questions is simple: most countries cuisines include the foods they do because of where they are in the world. An example of this would be how Japanese cuisine incorporates a lot of fish because they are an island and fish are easy for them to get. Sometimes the food that is eaten by a certain culture is not pallatable to other cultures because they are not accustomed to it, it might be too spicy or perhaps it is a type of fish or plant that would be poisonous to us but doesn't harm them.

Here is a photo essay that offers a wonderful look at how the food that we eat differs from country to country: What the World Eats, Part I