Food culture between china and america

Do you know how chicken feet taste? Can you image that there is a country can make andything delicious? Different country has different culture, which also lead to different food culture. With the develop of globalization, we have more chances to attempt the food from different country. All these foods are used almost the same food material from earth, such as crops, meet, vegetables and fruit. However, there are many differences between these two kinds of food culture that as a results of the differences in their different ways of thinking and living style: Chinese people pay attention to the exquisite, while americans focus on people oriented; Chinese uses food to express feeling and emotion access the food cooking, while americans are more like the free style. I wil illustrate these differences from three aspects: cooking standard, diet and the way of having dinner.

Firstly, the cooking standard is different. Americans emphasize science and nutrition. This is why their whole procedure of cooking is in strict accordance, and the use of recipes is an good example. In American recipes, measurement is calculated by grams and the recipe seems to be scientific and accurate. They are always totally accroding to recipes to buy food material and make dishes, and there always an electronic scale in kitchen to accurate measurement according to the recipe. However, Chinese is always cooking at will. They cooking with what they have, and almost anything can be cooked together, such as pumpkin and sweetbell redpepper, pig’s intestines and celery. In Chinese recipes, the amount of material added as a vague concept, such as: “a spoon”, “two bowls”, and “a little”, there is no specific criteria. This lead to an interesting effect that with one same recipe, ten people will make ten kinds of flavors.Some of them are tastely; some are strange.

Secondly, the differences of the diet content between the Chinese and the Western are also reflected in that the westerners like to eat cold dishes, from the cold dish platter, salad to cold drinks, the table strewn with cold dish. However, the Chinese people like hot food, in addition that a few samples in the front of the main dishes are cold, the main course is always heated. In Chinese view, the hot food getting cold will lose much flavor.

Finally, the way of having dinner is also in two patterns. In America, there is always a process during the meal, like appetizers, soup, entree and dessert. Also the dinnerware is accroding to an exace order. Moreover, westerners pay more attention to the independence of the individual that everyone has their own dishes, which is different from china that everyone share the dishes in a big circle table. In China, no matter what the banquet is, people tend to sit around the table to enjoy the food placed in the middle of the table which always has an turnplate to make sure every person can eat any one dish,which is not only for enjoying the food but also for sharing their feelings. They always share food from one dishes to have more variety of dishes. While between the guests and the host, the atmosphere is more politeness and respect, contrast in America, it’s more casual.

From the above comparison and contrast, some great differences are found between China and America. Personally speaking, we can not say which is better, because everything is different in different places. And it is all these diversity make the world so fascinating.