In my personal opinion however, although our nation may not have a set of foods that we build a diet around, I believe that the compilation of all different cuisines from different areas around the world create a unique culture apart. By mixing and matching influences we have been able to create a diet that is somehow completely different from anything else in the world. For example tex mex and "soul food" are mixes of many culture but at the same time a completely new cuisine.
Monday, March 8, 2010
American Identity
If you were to ask a person off the street what the cuisine of the United States consists of, you would probably hear things like hamburgers, apple pie, and barbecue. However when you sit down and think about it, the national cuisine of the United States may not even exist. When compared to the cultures like italian and french who set food in the center of their lives, the Mc Donald's just doesn't seem to be on the same level. This question plays to the main argument of the articles that we read for class today.
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Nice job responding with your own analysis of the main question raised by Mintz's article. We might have a hybrid cuisine as you suggest, but the examples you give point to Mintz's observation that we have regional cuisines (people associate tex mex with the southwest and soul food with the south), but not a national cuisine per se. How is your point different from the point that Mintz makes in this regard?
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