Eating hot and spicy food for healthy

Every time my friends and I went to restaurant, I must order spicy food and one small dish of chili sauce. That because eating spicy food can not only keep healthy but also make me refreshing. My friends are shocked on my enthusiasm on spicy food. So, they gave me a nickname: “pepper oil” which can reflect my favorite taste, as well as my food values.

In recent decades, more and more people start accepting and having spicy food. According to a report, “overall spice consumption in the U.S. rose by 107 percent between 1983 and 2003 to 947.9 million pounds, or 3.3 pounds per person, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture” (Karen Robinson-Jacobs). Like those people who are falling in love with spicy food, I love it for reasons. To be specifically, I found that I started to lose weight when I took more portion of spicy food in my daily meal. I did some research that showed spicy food could help metabolism, as well as losing weight. Moreover, I found many more benefits of taking spicy food according to my research, such as fighting cancer, drying dampness and cooling heart in the body.

The fat people will ask if any foods help burn off calories, my answer is to eat hot and spicy foods. I found there are so many researchers did surveys which prove that “eating hot, spicy foods such as mustard and hot peppers can speed metabolism, burning off calories” (Jean Carper). A British researcher did a test to prove that average metabolism in 12 subjects to shoot up 25 percent, burning off 45 extra calories in the next three hours if you add about three-fifths of a teaspoon of hot sauce to a meal. The result displayed the “hot sauce caused one person to burn off 76 calories – or 10 percent of the calories in a 776-calories meal” (Jean Carper). A new Australian study indicated that the hot and spicy taste in ginger may promote metabolism. The biochemists used animals to do the text which shows that the spicy included tissues to use up about 20 percent more energy than normally. Personally, my figure can be keep so nice depended on I like eating hot and spicy food I considered.

What’s more, there is a piece of dramatic news shocked me a lot because the vanilloids in the hot and spicy food could provide compound to fight cancers. The news which showed that “the compound was made by spicy food hot and generates the heat in muscle strain remedies could be the key to a new generation of cancer drugs, which kill tumours with no side effects, a leading scientist has said” (Chemical Business Newsbase). Dr Timothy Bates, a medical scientist, use part of food compounds called vanilloids, was a regular part of the diet all over the world could help people overcome the problems of anti-cancer. In my opinion, I am so happy that the scientists who did the technical study on food which is the common part of our life.

Moreover, I will talk about the spicy food in Hunan province which is in southeastern China is largely influenced by the spicy cuisine of Sichuan city because people eat a lot of hot and spicy food to keep healthy. Otherwise, Hunan or Xiang food is hotter and spicier than that of its western neighbor. “The reason for this is Hunan climate is excessively hot and humid, and eating hot peppers is recommended to dry dampness and cool heat in the body” (Tan Bee Hong). When I was first come to Hunan province, I could not adapt to the humid climate, and my joints were painful. I told my friends how I did not like here when we met in a luxury hotel at night. My friends just smiled and told me the food in the hotel could remit my pain. We sited around a big table to talk about the Hunan food which is characterised by its hot and sour flavours, fresh natural aromas and deep colors. When the waitress came with dishes, you can see the red curd and pepper in the dish first, and then the fragrance also makes you become more appetitive. It was surprised because I felt better after we ate together. My friend told me people in this area always ate the spicy food to keep healthy after finding the piquancy can dispel the dampness in people’s body. For me, I respect the humanity and culture in this area because people can live better depend on their custom.

As we all know, Thai food is the spiciest all over the world. I went to Thailand two years ago, I found that if you are eating at a Thai restaurant, they can usually moderate or increase the spicy on request. The reason why they did this is to suit each customer’s taste and you may find yourself learning to enjoy it overtime. Many Thais believe that hot and spicy food has some healthy benefits. Certainly it can clear out the sinuses, and “chilies can also help to boost the immune system and fight off illnesses, and have been shown to improve cardiovascular health” (S.E. Smith). In Thailand, using heavy spices to keep meats and fish fresh is regular because the chilies will stave off rot. The reason why people in many hot climates have the spicy food to prevent food borne illness and travelers with minimal hygienic practices will eat spicy foods along with the locals is the chilies will prevent uncomfortable intestinal symptoms, and the chilies can kill organisms which cause food borne illness. Otherwise, the spicy food in Thailand is a part of traditional delicious culinary. You can learn how to appreciate the dishes, and increase the spices in your orders so that you can like the spicy food in the restaurant if you ask the cooks to reduce the spices. The most excited thing is that “it will also allow you to win chili pepper eating contests, a valuable skill in some nations” (S.E. Smith).

Furthermore, I am an international student in Denver, and I found that almost every restaurant would provide chili sauce. Chili sauce would be putted on the table. You even could ask the waiters to serve some if there is no hot and chili sauce on the table. I went to several cities in America. Similarly, the chili sauce is available in most restaurants too. Depend on my research, an academic resource mentioned that “Within the broad spice grouping, the fiery flavorings are red hot: Imports of dried capsicum peppers, a class that includes long red chiles and cayenne peppers, rose by 869 percent to 155 million pounds in that same period, the USDA said” (Karen Robinson-Jacobs). That means the chili became more and more important in America, and the citizens can appreciate the taste of spicy from all over the world. The data from the USDA indicated that the spicy food become more and more acceptable and popular not only in America but also in most countries.

On the other hand, I get some information which indicated that spicy foods will give people nightmares. Dr. Virgil Wooten who is a spokesman for the American Sleep Disorders Association said that “peppers and spices derived from peppers can stimulate more gastric acid and relax the valve at the top of your stomach, which can allow food to work its way up the esophagus when lying down” (Ad Hudler). The reason why people think bad dreams are created by spicy food is it can create discomfort, which leads to imperfect sleep I considered. But there is no certain evidence to prove that people eat spicy food can give people nightmares. I ate a lot spicy food for several years, and I never had a disease of my stomach. My best advice is to eat spicy food and other food regular. Do not eat and drink anything closer than three to four hours before bedtime.

Generally speaking, having spicy food would bring both negative and positive effects to human health. As the resources I mentioned above, spicy food could speed metabolism and burn calories. More importantly, the vanilloids in the hot and spicy food could provide compound to fight cancers. Otherwise, people in Hunan province eat spicy food to dispel the dampness in their body because of the pluvial period and the humid climate. Besides, I cannot forget the attractive spicy food in Thailand, which is depended on their humanity and culture. Also, as an international student in the USA, I can appreciate the spicy food from all over the world. It is amazing to have a long journey to eat all kinds of spicy food there. As I mentioned above, people cannot get any disease from eating spicy food if you eat spicy food and other food regular. So, I decided to keep this eating habit. Moreover, I would like to encourage my friends to take more spicy food for keeping healthy.

In a word, eating spicy food can keep healthy. I will encourage my friends to eat spicy food and I wish the spicy food as well as the spicy derivant polished by the scientists can give people more and more benefits.

Work sited

Karen Robinson-Jacobs. "Hot, Spicy Cuisine Sizzles." The Charleston Gazette: 1.D. Print. 2005.

Jean Carper, and Columnist. "SPICY HOT FOODS RAISE METABOLISM: FINAL Edition." Seattle Post - Intelligencer: c.1. Print. 1993.

"Spicy Food could Provide Compound to Fight Cancers." Chemical Business Newsbase (2007): 1. Print.

Tan Bee Hong. "Spicy Hunan: 2 Edition." New Straits Times: 24. Print. 2003.

S.E. Smith. “Why is Thai Food so Spicy?” 2003-2012 Conjecture Corporation. 16 May 2012

Ad Hudler. "Spicy Foods Will Give You Nightmares." Better Homes and Gardens 76.1 (1998): 60. Print.

About writing class 1133

After finishing Eric's writing class, I learned how to combine and edit my ideas with the resources I found and the materials Eric gave us. In fact, I worked so hard to learn the knowledge about the food from many countries and wrote a lot papers to express the combination of food and culture, even though the topic of the class is easy.Besides, I learned how to collect the resources I will use and add them in my paper. I appreciated that Eric taught me how to analyze the food and the food culture.

P 9: Healthy diet

From Michael Pollan’s article which was named “unhappy meals”. I learned that American people’s eating habits is not regular and healthy enough nowadays. The contemporary food issues are affecting people’s daily life, especially people’s health. The author mentioned that America faced “the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional” (2). Then the author mainly talked about the food problems about nutrition which has many unknown common senses we do not understand. Such as, the “French paradox” tell us “a population that eats all sorts of unhealthful is in many ways healthier than we Americans are” (4); not only the citizens but also the nutritionists have trouble discerning qualitative distinctions between foods; people do not realize the composition and the detriment about nutrients in food. Personally, I am interested in the topic which was “pay more, eat less”, I agree with the author who wants to tell us that “the quality may have a bearing on quantity” (16).

On the other hand, the “Angeles and Vegetables” which was written by Dupuis has the opposite point about the problems of people’s healthy diet. He strongly opposed the point, “as history has shown, unless we also want to return to our great-great grandmother’s enema bag, that may not be the best advice” (43) which was mentioned in Pollan’s article. So, Dupuis support to eat everything people want and people do not consider the health and nutrients of the food which means that he prefer to make our dietary choices to solve our personal and national problems rather than make political choices. Personally, I was surprised with Dupuis’s idea which was opposite with Pollan’s point. He used dauntless words and evidence to attack Pollan’s idea; it is so excited to read the evidence which mentioned that people can eat everything to satisfy our stomachs.

Works Cited

Michael Pollan."Unhappy Meals. " New York Times Magazine28 Jan. 2007:ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.

Melanie Du Puis, E.. "Angels and Vegetables: A Brief History of Food Advice in America. " Gastronomica7.3 (2007): 34-44. Research Library, ProQuest. Web.19 May. 2012.

Eating fruit and vegetables

The fast food is popular all over the world, especially in the USA. When I was first came to America, the restaurants like McDonald, KFC, Danny’s, subway and burger king were developed mostly. Now, I am studying in America, I can also witness how people like the fast food not only in the restaurant but also in the dinning hall. However, the fast food is also bad for our bodies. So, we should eat some vegetables and fruit to keep eating balance every day.

The fruit and vegetable area occupy about 1/6 space in dinning hall; there are more than 20 kinds of them offered there. The reason why the fruit and vegetable area were treated so important is the scientist pointed out that fruit and vegetables can protect against heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. As we all know, the fruit and vegetables have many colors, such as, blue/purple, green, white, yellow/orange, and red. A test about fruit and vegetables showed that the phytochemicals and antioxidants in fruit and vegetables are the main factors to protect themselves also give them their colors. Otherwise, “complete the color spectrum every day and not only will you transform your plate into “a box of crayolas” but also you will receive the perfect cocktail of phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, and fibre.” (Jones)

What’s more, our body needs several kinds of trace element. Eating several kinds of fruit and vegetables is the most easier and comfortable way to get the supplement. The UK Food Standards Agency site (www.foodstandards.gov.uk) make a good spread of eating fruit and vegetables which highlights the importance of variety—that simply eating five times your usual daily portion of broccoli doesn't count. The frequently asked questions section encouragingly points out that eating healthily can be greatly easy because things like olives, fruit juice, fruit jelly, baked beans, and raisins all count towards the daily quota (although unfortunately potatoes don't). (Jones)

Moreover, I got the information which means that eating fruit and vegetables can regularly prevent smokers from developing the disease of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Southampton researchers made a survey about 150 elder with smoking history who had COPD; there are 116 people who has no COPD but have smoking history. And then the researchers compared the result in two groups with body mass index (BMI), Smokers who ate more than two kinds of fruits and vegetables a day were approximately ½ to develop the disease as the smokers who ate less (Anonymous).

Perhaps it is so difficult to encourage children to eat fruit and vegetables because they do not like the green and fibrous when they were young; it is like an instinct everyone have.  There is a survey in rural China which indicated that the risks of asthma and wheeze in relation to fresh vegetable. With all residents (n = 38109) in three townships in three cities, there are only 218 cases of doctor diagnosed asthma were in 16460 children aged ≤ 14 years (prevalence 1.32%) and 290 in those aged 15-84 years (1.34% prevalence). Overall, 31.5% (160/508) of those with asthma had a history of allergy (Chen, Ruoling, Zhi Hu, and Anthony Seaton). The result pointed that the risk of asthmatic symptoms develops with low fresh vegetable consumption in young Chinese people.

Personally, I prefer eating fruit and vegetables in the morning because it is good for my mental health about vitamins and it can also decrease the depression in the morning. Otherwise, I have some experience about eating fruit. Such as, if you get an astriction, you can eat a banana. If you have a sore throat, you can eat a pear, celery. If you get inflamed, you can eat balsam pear, watermelon or grape, and so on. So, keep eating fruit and vegetables, it is good for our health.

Work Cited

Jones, Giselle. "Eating Fruit and Vegetables." BMJ : British Medical Journal 326.7394 (2003): 888-. Print.

Chen, Ruoling, Zhi Hu, and Anthony Seaton. "Eating More Vegetables might Explain Reduced Asthma Symptoms." BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 328.7452 (2004): 1380-. Print.

Anonymous. "Eating Fruit and Vegetables can Protect Against COPD." Nursing Standard 17.1 (2002): 10. Print.

Thoughts on Eating Practices

Personally, I like eating spicy food no matter what I eat. there are more benefits, such as, it can defend the deficiency of vitamin B2, the vitamin E in soybean sprouts can protect the skin and blood capillary, it also can defend the hypertension. also, spicy is most tasty than any other  tastes.

What's more, I prefer eating with my friends than eating alone because it is a traditional and good way to make a communication with my friends to talk about not only study but also work experience.

Moreover, I prefer to eat wheaten food than others because it is more healthy than any others.

Two interesting posts

Ran's essay talked about eating disorder of local students and international students which indicated that each student has his own schedule about courses. Ran wants to change his situation to get his eating schedule nice.

Zechi's essay talked about skipping breakfast which is bad for our health, and I can realize the importance of the breakfast from the evidence he mentioned. And he wants to have breakfast as soon as possible to get a better health.

P 8 (group 3)

my group members talked about the healthy food about our daily diet.Such as, Joe focused on vitamin C in his favorite drink, Ying took care of the hot milk in the morning, Yupeng talked about that he eat depend on his schedule, and I eat fruit every morning. We all agree with that people should eat everything first or enjoy eating, then consider the healthy problems.

3 days food journal

11/5/2012 Friday

Breakfast 11:00 am --- rice porridge

Lunch 2:00 pm --- pizza (ingredients: flour, cheese, sausage, ketchup, green pepper), hamburger (ingredients: bread, meat pie, lettuce, tomato, cheese), french fries (ingredients: potato, salt), vegetables salad (ingredients: lettuce, celery, tomato, green pepper, broccoli, thousand island sauce), coke and ice cream.

Dinner 6:00 pm--- fried dumpling (ingredients: flour, meat, ginger, shallot), steamed buns (ingredients: flour, meat, oil, ginger), Sichuan noodles (ingredients: noodles, peanut, capsicol, minced meat), beef, kelp.

12/5/2012 Saturday

Lunch 1:00 pm --- apple, pancake (ingredients: egg, flour, strawberry and banana), Soda Water and cake.

Dinner 6:00 pm --- shredded potatoes, coilia ectenes, twice-cooked pork with chilli seasoning, rice and coke.

Night snack 11:30 pm --- chicken wings, pancake, steak, fried shrimp and lemon juice.

13/5/2012 Sunday

Lunch 12:00 pm --- cross bridge rice noodles (ingredients: rice noodle, bean sprout, rape, shrimp, fish ball and chicken)

Dinner 6:30 pm --- braised eggplant (ingredients: eggplant, meat, shallot), toothpick mutton, Maoxuewang (ingredients: duck blood, soybean sprouts, eel, ham, citron, agaric and lettuce.), sauteed cabbage with vinegar sauce (ingredients: cabbage, vinegar, meat), rice, coke.

Vietnamese Rice Paper

            Last weekend, I went to a Vietnamese restaurant with my friends, and we all like summer rolls there. It is made of a thin rice paper and the balanced ingredients, such as, meat, seafood, egg and vegetables. The owner of the restaurant told us that philosophical influences on Vietnamese summer roll which keeps Yin Yang balance. The principle of yin and yang implied that the summer roll is made in a special method which is good for the body.

            The healthy Vietnamese summer roll is packed with a thin rice paper which has a good elasticity and taste. At the beginning, I thought the material outside the ingredients was made by edible gums because the ingredients is packed with the very thin paper do not have any opportunities to go outside. The Vietnamese summer roll likes a whole, and also, the stuff in it is compact together. The reason why the summer roll can keep its appearance and does not change is the material outside is made of rice. The fat and fibre in the rice are the main ingredients for the stretch property. Otherwise, the rice paper is made by manual work in Vietnamese. People make the rice paper step by step, it is safe and healthy.

Following, the production of Vietnamese rice paper would be illustrated. Generally speaking, the edible rice paper is made by three basic ingredients: rice, water and salt. Most of the Vietnamese rice paper products are processed in factories. However, some rice paper products are still keeping the “hand-making” tradition. “She (a hand-making rice paper worker) had been practicing her craft for decades and sitting in the same position for hours, day in and day out hurt, she told me. Such level of culinary craftsmanship comes only from having done something tens of thousands of times.” (Viet World Kitchen). According to my research, hand-making rice papers are much more expensive than rice papers made in factories.

There are five steps to make a piece of hand-making rice paper. First of all, putting raw rice in a container with water and soaking rice for a while. Then, grinding soaked rice in a grinding machine until the mixture becomes rice slurry. Secondly, adding some old butter for a better and strong flavor and mix them. The third step is steaming rice batter into a beautiful semitransparent rice sheet. More importantly, this step is the key step of making rice paper. The thickness, color, elasticity and flavor would be strongly influenced by this step. Specifically, spreading the batter into a thin semitransparent sheet and stretch it a nice round rice sheet. When this step is finished, the rice sheet would be steamed for about half minute. The fourth step is removing the rice sheet and putting it on a cooling rack. Finally, dry the finished rice sheet under sunshine for a whole day (Viet World Kitchen).

Picking a good rice paper is a skillful thing. The one that has chewy texture and slight weight is the best one for making the summer roll or cook other dishes. Size, type, thinness and band are the main elements when people picking rice papers. 8.5 inches’ rice paper is the most suitable size for adding ingredients and rolling up ingredients. The one that is bigger than this size would be too fat to make a perfect shape’s summer roll. Secondly, Vietnamese rice paper could be divided in to 3 categories: all rice, tapioca and rice, as well as all tapioca. The main differences between the three types of rice paper are the thinness and rate of soft. The all rice one is much more thick and hard to become soft when soak it in water. On the contrary, all tapioca type is the thinnest one and it’s easy to be soft by little heat or less time soaking in water. The rice and tapioca one is someone between them. Each of them has their disadvantages and dis advantages in various cuisine makings. The third point is looking for some good brands of Vietnamese rice paper. The Red Rose Brand and Three Ladies Brand are relative good brands of rice paper products (Viet World Kitchen).

           Vietnamese rice paper should be stored in zipped plastic bags in order to avoid water vapor into the bag and make the rice papers humid and tasteless.

           Personally, the reason why I like the Vietnamese summer roll, especially the rice paper is that the main and unique wheaten food in my city is “Jianbing” which is very similar with rice paper. It is made of millet flour, and also, the tool to make “Jianbing” is the same to make rice paper. In my city, people usually put the delicious dishes on it and roll up the pancake to eat.

            About twenty years ago, there must be a set of tool to make “Jianbing” in each family because the main wheaten food can give people more energy than other wheaten food like steamed bun and rice. Nowadays, “Jianbing” still is people’s important wheaten food, but the new “Jianbing” which is made by machine cannot give people the nature feeling. It is taste not as good as it made by manual work. For me, I miss “Jianbing” which is made by my grandma very much because she keeps the tool for about forty years and she understands how to make “Jianbing” taste good and perfect. Otherwise, “Jianbing” as an important wheaten food in my city becomes a culture which stands for the sprite of “Yimeng” which symbolize Shandong province.

            The Vietnamese rice paper in Denver gives me the feeling about my grandma and my hometown. Also, I like it depends on the health and delicious.

Work Cited

Viet World Kitchen. " How Vietnamese Rice Paper is Made." Viet World Kitchen. 2009. Web. 11 May 2012.

Viet World Kitchen. " Vietnamese Rice Paper Buying Tips." Viet World Kitchen. 2009. Web. 11 May 2012.

P7

                                                       Response to the three articles

The article “Fowl Trouble” written by Christopher D. Cook was talking about the industry of chicken and its productions which was ruled by USDA to produce the larger type of chicken and its productions when the chicken was larger than before. And also, the workers in the American’s poultry plants were suffered the disease which was caused by the broiler chicken. Nowadays, depend on the demand of the chicken by people, the workers in the poultries should enhance the efficiency of processing chicken. Especially the worker who in charge of examining the carcasses, in order to finish the assignments fast, they did not care about the tools they used. So, they should fix the scissors and knives, “the workers often lacerate themselves or their neighbors when blades slip off the slimy carcasses.” (14). Therefore, the reason why people do not want to work in the poultry plants is the fact I mentioned above.

In Michael Pollan’s article, he mentioned Peter Singer’s article to correspond to the title“An Animal’s Place” which reflected that people need to respect the relationship with animals and people should eat animals to keep the ecological equilibrium. The author analyzed the circulate by using history about food to prove that “We'd probably eat less of it, too, but maybe when we did eat animals, we'd eat them with the consciousness, ceremony and respect they deserve.” (12)

The article “The introduction to Estabrook’s Tomatoland” talked about the tomatoes by different taste and the appearance in different places. The author did more researches to prove that the reason why tomatoes were not the same is the weather, altitude and soil can lead the tomatoes different. We should compare the appearance and taste about the tomatoes in different places in order to analyze its value and history.

The most interesting point is that we should respect the animals to keep the balance which can give us the benefits we do want.

P6

Eating disorder

“Our National Eating Disorder” written by Pollan pointed out three main problems with the American national eating habit nowadays which displayed the unusual prevalent about excessive apprehension. First, as the author mentioned in this article “this obsession has been recognized as a distinctly American phenomenon at least since the early decades of the 20th century.” (Pollan, 1) It is the main reason why the eating disorder has been occurred in America. Also, the Social Science Research can lead people to avoid one kind of food which will be bad for their health overnight. People just follow the trend about the scientific advice without consideration and analysis. What’s more, Americans are so careful to eat a piece of cheesecake or a chocolate cake because they can also worry about the health problems which can lead to fat disease. I can also find the problems with the food factories, they are expecting a new technology which “can readily re-engineer processed foods to be low-fat or low-carb or high in omega-3's” (Pollan, 3) because of the “eating disorder”. Moreover, as a country with a huge percentage of immigrant populations, America does not have his own food system for all the citizens. So there are always some problems with food system happens nowadays.

I can find that the French looks eating comfortable and disengaged from the article, they have their own eating scale, such as, every food can eat for fun if they enjoy them and they eat alone rarely. Personally, I am an eating freedom person, I also eat less my favorite food because I can always keep the feeling and enjoy it more (Pollan, 4).

Eating at the edge

       About “eating at the edge”, Horwitz talked about the people’s behavior in regard to when, where and how modern people eat their meal nowadays. The results reflected that people like eating on their own and eating conveniently in their own time. Then horwitz used a simple example of soup to prove his idea. The soup now is the single-serving instead of eating together with a pot or a big bowl (44). However, it should be a regular as people did before. People ate on time and liked eating with their friends, so, they can talk with their friends and share the valuable experience. On the contrary, people’s attitude about eating food changed a lot as the author mentioned in the article. They eat on their own time, "eating when facing computers and televisions. eating at the computer, or eating alone, or on the run, and why it feels increasingly special to eat together with family and friends" (Horwitz 42). There is no talking, no sharing, and even no sentiment with their friends I considered. So the title “eating at the edge” is very suitable with this situation.

              For me, I like eating with my family and my friends. When I first came to university of Denver, I felt lonely when I did anything especially eaten in the Centennial dining halls. I was eager for the time when I was eating with my family and my friends, we usually talked about our work and study experiences or interesting things that once happened to us. We also talked, laughed together and enjoyed our time of eating. Now, I make a lot of friends as I did in China, we can also use our leisure time to have a meal to promote emotion. Moreover, eat on time is a healthy habit because the metabolism is organized. So, my standpoint is to discard the point of “eating at the edge”. 

food leads development

           It was interesting to read the articles “The Cultural Politics of Eating in Shenzhen” and “ ‘Breaking Bread with a Spread’ in a San Francisco County Jail”. The author Mary Ann O’Donnell talks about the development and update of Shenzhen in China, as a Chinese, I am truly affected by the change of food and development by people and government, and also people play an important part in changing the food culture and the development situation. In addition, the author Sandra cate mentioned the food culture and business in a San Francisco County Jail which reflected the wisdom and imagination about people; also, I want to have a try the unique dish which put the pulverizing bread on the noodles.

           In old Shenzhen, people usually catch fish to eat because Shenzhen is in the south of China near the ocean. “Min Yi Shi Wei Tian” the author mentioned in the article direct reflects the main point which made the Shenzhen city developed today. The government supported the fisher and other people in Shenzhen when they met the questions about the fishing; also the business freedom in the full extent permitted by law is the important key to make an area developing. When Shenzhen got more and more developed, many people choose there as their survival place, which have freedom to take business and also can live depend on people’s ability. The reason why Shenzhen is in the lead in China is people in Shenzhen always catch fish, and they are so hard to get only if the fishers have a clever brain, it can also embody in business. To the contrary, people in the north always eat pork and beef; it is very easy to split about the pig and cattle.

          About the food in the San Francisco County Jail, It is amazing that the food the Chinese people made was very famous there. As the author mentioned, people always ate the same food there, the inmates made the unique food in jail because they can eat full by making the different kinds of food by using the remaining and the food in commissary.  What’s more, Spread became a favorite food and a kind of jail’s culture. The type of eating got more and more developed with people’s behaviors; the communication and activities were based on the food they made, such as, they shared food with people and gave their leader in jail. Finally, this behavior became a way to enhance the economics which cannot get across by people.

          Personally, I like the creative ability that the inmates had because it likes a master key to open any tough door. 

the significant food

 I found not only the same points but also the different points from the article "Home Run" and "Eating White" after I read them. The stories can also remind of my favorite dish Green pepper fried meat.

         

          The same points I got in the articles are that both Ahn and Nicholson talk about the experience about food which connect to their culture and affect their life. Ahn and Nicholson all use their article to express the ethnic root and culture. Then, I will talk about the different points about the articles. Nicholson mentioned that his mother like white food when she was alive; and his mother also made different kinds of white food to obtain her and her father’s appetite, such as, food with cream, food with white seasonings. What’s more, the reason why Nicholson always like eating white food even he moved to Los Angeles is she respects her mother’s attitude and the religionary belief. In addition, Ahn, a Korean-American, kept the Korean culture with the food when she cooked no matter where she is. In order to inherit the Korean culture, she taught her son progressively by cooking Korean food, the Korean culture, and dinning in Korean restaurants. Moreover, she used only one refrigerator to retain Korean and American food fresh, the ethnic root can also be reminded I considered.

          For me, my favorite dish is Green pepper fried meat which is the order dish I always make not only in the restaurant and home because I cannot forget the feeling that I first ate the dish when I was young which made by my grandma. Now, I can only have it when I have the summer vocation. 

Reading Ying's essay

YING's essay

In my essay, I emphasized that the picture of the food advertisement is very important to show their products and make more know well by people. When I finished read Ying's essay, I found that the first ad picture in her essay attract my attention as I made in mine. The effective ad pictures can also make the products more popular and  acceptable by people.

Positive effect about food advertisements

    Advertisement became an important means to improve popularity of the products since the first commercial appeared in 1997. We can also see the profits and positive effects after the advertisements about the products which were showed on TV, newspapers, broadcast, and other way such as picture on the remarkable place in cities.

        It is a fact that the food advertisements occupy a large percentage of the advertisements which were known by people. People will not stop paying for the food no matter what the price is because food consumption is the basic outlay of people. Nowadays, people all focus on the quality and value of food, so, the producer should pay attention to how to show more points which are better than the ordinary and similar food if they want to make more profits.

        I choose two food advertisements from different part of China. Both of them can reflect the culture and values on pictures when people see it. The first advertisement is some special local fruits products from Uighur Autonomous Region, such as, aromatous pine, Hami melon, grape, and raisin. Another is the lychee from Hainan province. The analysis is as follows.

         The first advertisement is about a natural fruit which comes from the tableland. The logo on the advertisement is the most famous cartoon character Afanti in China; he stands for the wisdom, optimism and humor about the people in Uighur Autonomous Region. So it is authentic for people to enjoy the natural fruit. Also the title on the top of the advertisement is obvious; they show the unique brand in order to explain that their products are also the particular in China. What’s more, the four circles by different colors display the natural fruit and the price can give people the feeling of credible. In a word, it is a valuable advertisement to show the special local products from Uighur Autonomous Region.

     Green is always regarded as a health and ecological color in China, the background color of the picture gives people a direct visual shock which can attract people’s attention on the advertisement. What’s more, the pulp of the lychee can show people what the fresh and pretty they are. Meanwhile, the beautiful lady on the right of the picture is the imperial concubine Yang of Shu in ancient times. The lychee is the most valuable fruit in north Shu in that time because people who lived in north cannot eat the fresh lychee with the basal vehicle. Even though people try planted the lychee in north, the dry weather broke their dream for eating lychee in north. In order to eat the lychee, Shu lost hundreds soldier and horses to transport the fresh lychee for Yang. That proves the love degree of the lychee by people. At last, the advertisement uses the Yang’s smile to attract people’s attention too.

        The reason why people like the fruits come from Uighur Autonomous Region is because the region has temperate continental monsoon climate, and it was surrounded by mountains. Also the region with abundant light in the daytime and the temperature is very low in the evening, so the fruits come from the region are all sweeter than any others in China. Otherwise, people come from other regions cannot plant the same fruits as sweeter and bigger as them in Uighur Autonomous Region, therefore, people like the valuable fruits which is from there. What’s more, there are several fruit’s festivals in this region; the purpose is to assess the quality and quantity in each year which can affect the market and export of the fruits. The fruits producers who win the game will get their own title and get more profits depend on their outstanding fruits. So, the fruits keep its own advantage so far, and the fruits from this region are always the most popular in China. Personally, the culture in this region makes a positive effect to their fruits.

        As I mentioned before, the lychee was the most valuable fruit in north China several years ago, even though people could spend a lot of money to buy it in north of China, the quality of lychee could not be retained well because of the transport which was not developed in that time. The reason why people cannot plant lychee in north is because lychee almost grow in tropic or semitropics places. In recent years, people studied out a new variety about lychee which can plant in north China even in some places with a little dry weather. Now, people in north China can eat fresh lychee depend on the new technology which change the value about lychee. When people eating lychee in north depend on the new technology, they always recall the story about Yang because the culture of lychee still affect the developing of fruit.

        At last, we can study not only the desire and rhetorical function but also the cultures and values from the advertisements.

Works Cited

1.      “Special local fruits products from Uighur Autonomous Region.”, 30 Sep. 2009. Picture advertisement. 8, Apr. 2012.

http://www.nipic.com/show/3/88/cc73ab22c8fac266.html

2.      “Feizixiao lychee”, 18 Sep. 2010. Picture advertisement. 8, Apr. 2010.

http://www.nipic.com/show/3/120/3554636k92099b52.html

The amazing Cantonese Cuisine

The amazing dinner I had was in a Chinese restaurant in Orlando FL with my friends during the spring break. We all like the Disney world, Universal Studios and the Island Of Adventure there, so my three friends and I made the plan to play in Orlando. Personally, I like play the roller coaster in the parks we went to, and the best one is the Incredible Hulk Coaster I considered, because it has more new rolling-over and turning. We found a Chinese restaurant near downtown on the first day because that day is my birthday, all my friends was more excited than me because we have a friends’ rule which says that someone will pay the bill when he/she is on birthday. We choose an authentic Cantonese Cuisine restaurant which has some famous dishes we heard in China, such as, egg drop soup, fired wonton, homemade dim sum dumplings, live Maine lobster, steamed spareribs, steamed barbecued pork buns, steamed rice flour rolls with barbecue beef, and so on. I liked the soup in this restaurant because people in Guangdong are good at making Clay Pot Soup, and the stuffs in the soup are full of nutrition. I expect for the opportunities to enjoy the Cantonese Cuisine.

Respond for Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising

In this article, the authors indicated that the language of the potato chips can also reflect the different level between people who choose different chips depend on the price per ounce or the quality and taste; People in upper-class will focus on the second point which is expensive, better and have more advantages for people to eat, otherwise, people in lower-class is almost care about the first point which is cheaper than others. Also, the advertising language is truly display that the natural authenticity which was partial by the people in upper-class who like natural, healthy, and not artificial or processed (53) and the traditional authenticity which was partial by people in lower-class who enjoy traditional, American, rooted in family recipes and family traditions, and located in the American landscape (53).

I found that the health part in this article is most interesting. I can easily understand the result which told us the expensive and inexpensive chips are essentially the same in several parts, such as, there are many grams trans fat in the two different chips, they are not objectively a healthy food, they all have the sodium, and the fat in chips cannot be ignored. People all know that the bad factors in potato chips will be more or less affect their health I considered, so, the advertising language of the potato chips divide people into upper or lower class; people who is in upper class pursue naturalness/ingredients in expensive chips, who in lower class like historicity/locality in inexpensive chips.

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                                   Healthy Eating

In China, there are more than eight kinds of food which were named by the name of province or the location in China, such as Shandong cuisine, Chongqing cuisine, Northeastern cuisine, Beijing cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Northwestern cuisine and so on. The Chongqing Style Boiled Blood Curd is my only favorite food in Chongqing cuisine; we call it Maoxuewang which is very spicy and healthy food in China. The picture as follows,                                   

Personally, I always like the spicy food, and there are several kinds of pepper from different countries in my refrigerator. When I first saw the Maoxuewang in Chongqing province, the appearance attracted my attention and the pepper in it also made me exciting. Although it is too spicy for people who cannot eat spicy food, people usually order it in restaurants.

When I was first come to Chongqing province, my friends took me to the snack street to taste their food; the deep impression is the food in there is all spicy. At the beginning in Chongqing, I could not adapt to the wet weather, and my joints were painful. I told my friends my situation when we met in a luxury hotel at night, my friends just smiled and told me the food in the hotel could remit my pain. It was my first time to saw the brighter and fresh food, when the Maoxuewang was served. You can see the red curd and pepper in the dish first, and then the fragrance also makes you become more appetitive. There are several stuffs in it, the major ingredient is duck blood, soybean sprouts, and the minor ingredient is eel, ham, citron, agaric and lettuce. In the second day after we ate together, I felt good and the pain disappeared. My friends told me people also got arthritis because of the wet weather in Chongqing, after finding the piquancy can dispel the dampness in people’s body, people in the area always ate the spicy food to kept healthy. Now it is become a culture there and the Chongqing food become more and more popular in China.

After the vacation in Chongqing, I searched the origin of Maoxuewang. There was a town near west Shaping dam, it was the most important place for people to trade around the Jialing River. It was so prosperous because most ship was berthed in there. Before 1970, there was a fat woman open a stall to sell the soup, such as pork soup, bone soup with lung lobe, intestines, and several kinds of spice in it. It was occasionally that the woman put the duck blood in the soup and it became more delicious, so it was called Maoxuewang. As time went on, people revised it to more bright and fresh than before.

The stuffs in Maoxuewang are all have their value. First, the soybean sprouts contains vitamin, people eat it can defend the deficiency of vitamin B2, the vitamin E in soybean sprouts can protect the skin and blood capillary, it also can defend the hypertension. What’s more, the citron can provide the microelement that people needed, and some elements can help people defer senility. Moreover, the agaric is a very health food which is warm in nature, nourishing liver and spleen, enriching the blood, fight against senium and agerasia. It contains vitamin K which is fighting against thrombosis and coronary heart disease, the most important function is that the pectin in agaric can remove the dust and impurity, the ability of cleaning is very famous in food. At last, the lettuce contains potassium which can release the pressure of atrium, and it has several benefits for the people who got hypertension and heart disease. Also, it contains iodine which helps people keep regular metabolism, growing and developing.

Generally speaking, there are five reasons why people in Chongqing like spicy food. First, the environment and weather make people change their custom about food. Second, the wet weather also give rise to people to get the arthritis, so people eat the spicy food in order to keep heath. Third, people can always have the appetite if they ate the spicy food. What’s more, the piquancy also has the function about hairdressing and it has positive effect for the breasts. Moreover, the spicy food has the ability to prevent cancer.

     In autumn quarter last year, I found a restaurant named China Jade which has the Maoxuewang. It is a little more different from Maoxuewang Chongqing, and the China Jade made a little reform about it. I can also recall the first feeling and the experience in Chongqing when I eat the Maoxuewang.