I can assure that you have tasted one...

 Everybody has tasted a “French omelette” and everybody has called its name thousands of times but few people knows that “French omelette” does not really come from France...

 Its name has a very curious story that I could never have imagined. It has its origins in Cadiz, Spain and it was prepared for the first time during the first French siege of 1810. During war time there was food shortages suffered by the people of Cadiz and San Fernando. Thus, there were many cases in which the wit was able to overcome the deficiency that caused the war. One of this cases were practiced in the culinary world. Due to the lack of potatoes, people could not cook the famous Spanish omelette made up with that ingredient, so they invented the “Frangaise omelette”, as it would be known later. They just cooked the eggs the same way they did when they were cookking Spanish omelettes but without potatoes . Then they called that dish “ the omelette when French were here” and then it became the so called “French omelette”. 

 Now we can enjoy both types, the Spanish and the “French” one.

The Language of Food

Maybe it sounds strange but most of the times we can know how a person is by observating his or her way of eating.

When a person does not give up eating something that is no good for his/her health, we can suspect that the person has an impulsive personality and sometimes he /she cannot control himself or herself.

If you see somebody who fill the spoon till its limit, that person is posesive and most of the times it is a person with a strong personality. I am sure that all of us know a person who is very fussy by the time of eat and always have some kind of accomplishment with food or has to took any ingredient out of the dish. Well, it is a symptom of a vanid person who has always to have the reason when disputing and very controller with his/her couple.

The last one that I am going to explain is when a person is usually shy or nervous, that type of people eats with only a bit of food in his/her spoon.

I believe that although not by using words, food is a kind of language which show the main charasteristics of a personality and even sometimes can show the intentions that somebody has with you when you first meet that person..for example when somebody invites you to a coffee that person wants to have an intimate talk to you, probably about your life or problems...so after that think about what I have written here and know people a little bit more !

THE SO CALLED "SUSHI"

What is sushi and what are its types?

That is one of the question that we make ourselves when we hear about sushi.

Alot of people eat it and talk about it, but do they really know what is made of? or what kinds of sushi are there?

Well, Sushi is the most famous Japanese dish outside of Japan, and one of the most popular dishes among the Japanese themselves who usually enjoy sushi on special occasions.

The name of s is a generic name for different types. It's a combination of ingredients of a typical Japanese food and it is basically made of Japanese rice and different kids of seafood (fresh fish, shrimp, seaweed, etc.) and vegetables.

There are different types of sushi, and the most known are:

MAKI: Maki means "rolled". This kind of sushi consists of fish (or crab) and vegetables rolled in a sheet of nori (roasted seaweed) and rice. In some restaurants it will be listed as norimaki (seaweed roll) in the menu. Makisushi is an excellent choice for those venturing into the sushi bar for the first time, particularly if they are squimish about eating raw fish.

ROLL: Sushi rice and seafood, etc. rolled in dried seaweed sheets. There are countless varieties of sushi rolls differing in ingredients and thickness. Sushi rolls prepared "inside out" are very popular outside of Japan, but rarely found in Japan.

NIGRI: Te = hand. Temaki (literally: hand rolls) describes the hand rolls, something like a Japanese nori taco, that you bite into. Many of the ingredients you'll find in makisushi also exist in temaki.

SASHIMI: It's usually prepared with fish fresh from the water, refrigerated but never frozen. How to slice the fish for sashimi is one of the most rigorous skills to learn during the itamae's training. Fish cut too thick or too thin make a different impression on the taste buds, and different fish require applying different techniques.

Are we what we eat?

Some questions like this are questioned by people everyday.

We, the human beings, feed ourselves with two different types of food. One is the vegetable type and the other is the animal one.

There are some studies which confirm that human beigs can only survive if they eat.

Actually, live starts, when a living being begin to feed itself, so it is coherent to say that we are what we eat.

Because of all the culture and costums that food contains, people are formed and grown up in different ways, because each country has its own way to cook and eat.

Eating does not only implies feeding yourself, it brings us knowledge about how other people live all around the world, and also how people call some certain food with strange names.

Another question that I would like to leave is.... Why do we cook food? Just only to get rid of the bacteries and eat healthier? Or just because we like food fried/ baked/ steamed/ cooked ? Does any culture field have something to do with cooking the food?

Interview

Interview

Has malnutrition something to do with our language capacity ?

I have been reading articles written
about the bad feeding, malnutrition and I have found some information
about the consequences that this provokes in the subject who suffers
it.
The real fact is that malnutrition is
one of the main consequences of mortality in children but not only
affects to the person that is passing through this extreme situation,
it also affects to the whole community because of the person who
survives malnutrition keeps affected for his/her whole life and his
capacity of talking, moving etc is not the same than the capacity of
a healthy subject. Therefore those persons usually have difficulties
in order to make an ordinary life and to get integrated in a society
that requires qualified subjects.

There are antecedents which show that
malnutrition in the first periods of life affects and slows the
intellectual capacity of the subject, some brain biochemical studies
have confirmed that our brain needs protein in some cells to work
correctly and if it has not those protein the subject will be
affected, it is stated that those groups of people which have
suffered malnutrition present an IQ of less than 80 per cent while
the rest of the people have a IQ between 90% and 110%.
So I reach the conclusion that our
feeding actually affects our language faculty, a baby needs to be
well fed to get the maximum of his/her capacities and to get
integrated in our society in which there are, everyday, less places
for disable people..., malnutrition and underdevelopment are two
things that are very close each other because underdevelopment
brings as consequence malnutrition and at the same time,
malnutrition it is an obstacle to get out from underdevelopment

Ants on the tree

Have you ever heard about “Ants on the tree”?

Last Friday I went to a Chinese restaurant with my friends. I have been in Chinese restaurants before and I have always ordered almost the same dishes so that time I wanted to change my routine. Among my typical options of Chinese food as sweet and sour pork, spring rolls, etc., I found a dish which name sounds me very weird. It was called “Ants on the tree”! so, obviously, I did not ordered that dish, but I was wondering what would this dish looks like all night long, and the most important thing, would it be made up with ants?. Thus, as soon as I arrived home, I searched it on internet. It seems to be a very popular dish of the Chinese cuisine, particularly from Szechuan Province. It consist of meat cooked in gravy and soy noodles. After reading that I still did not know what this plate was named like that, so I kept on searching. It seemed to me very original when I found out that the name comes from the way that food looks when it is being cooked. As I have read, while cooking it, bits of meat cling to the noodles because of the heat of the preparation, so it evokes an image similar to that of the ants walking on twigs of a tree. I got relaxed after reading the explanation! So, maybe, the next time I try this dish.