饮食文化英语

The Differences of Cooking Culture

Between China and Western

Abstract

According

to the different area, different climate and environment, and different

custom,

Cooking

Culture

has

the

differences

of

material,

taste,

cooking,

and

habits.

The different culture influences the Cooking Culture between China and Western. The

roots

of

these

differences

are

the

minds

and

values.

Chinese

pay

attention

to

“the

Theory That Man Is an Integral Part of Nature

”

, but Western advocates

“People first.”

Key words:

different cooking value, different food, different environment

摘

要

饮食文化由于地域特征、气候环境 、风俗习惯不同的影响，会出现在原料、

口味、

烹调方法、

饮食习惯上的不同程度的差异。

中西文化之间的差异造就了中

西饮食文化的差异，

而这种差异来自中西方不同的思维方式和价值观。

中国人注

重

“

天人合一

”

，西方人注重

“

”

。

关键字：不同的饮食观念

不同的饮食对象

不同的饮食环境

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Ⅰ

.Introduction

Bread

is

the

staff

of

life.

Diet

is

a

popular

essay

in

past

and

today

.

Different

minds and values lead to the difference of diet between Chinese and Western. Chinese

food

is

a

broad

and

profound.

We

always

understand

the

meaning

by

dishes.

But

western

food

has

its

own

system;

it

stands

for

health,

nutrition.

Since

antiquity

,

the

two

cultures

slowly

are

integrated.

In

modern

society,

many

western

materials

are

added into Chinese dishes, such as steak, pizza, onion, cheese, and so on. The same of

western,

many

Chinese

elements

also

blend

into

their

family.

More

and

more

foreigners

would

like

to cook Chinese

food by themselves, especially

the Mongolian

food, Hotpot, and Sichuan Dish. As a result of communication, cooking culture attains

great-leap- forward development.

There are strengths and weaknesses

in Chinese

food

and western food.

China

has

a

long

history

about

5,000

years.

And

western

also

has

five

or

six

hundred

years.

The

Chinese

cooking

culture

is

famous

for

its

rich,

broad,

and

profound

dishes;

and

western

food

is

known

as

its

manners,

nutrition,

and

health.

China

has

her

own

special

cooking

culture.

There

are

many

traditional

snacks

in

China;

nevertheless,

western

food

is

found

everywhere.

For

example,

KFC

and

McDonald’s

are

the

two

favorite

restaurants

in

children.

And

cafes,

higher

western

dinner rooms also have their customers---------white collars.

Ⅱ

.Differences

1. Different cooking value,

Chinese

pay

attention

to

“taste”.

“

Taste

is

the

most

important

to

us.

”

The

delicious food is the former goal of eating. As the saying goes,

“

People regard food as

their heave for the common people food is heaven. T

aste is the essence of food.”

Even

we would like to say that food is perfect in color, aroma and taste when we commend

it,

we still

think

“Tasty

is

first.”

The key

to

the tasty

is one

reason

why

it attracts so

2

many

people.

And

how

to

make

delicious

food

that

is

cooking.

“Five

flavor

harmonies

” is the root of Chinese food. The food natural tasty is mix with condiments.

The shape and color are the surface material, but the tasty is the soul of Chinese food.

This is the important part of cooking culture in China.

On account of different

mind,

western

notice scientific dinner. It

means

western

has more sights to the nutrition. They seriously notice the proportion of nurture. They

like having natural vegetables. Not only they have the same tomato, cucumber, lettuce

to us, but also they

eat onion, broccoli,

and other

vegetables without cooking.

That’s

why

they

like

salad.

They

also

eat

beef

or

fish

with

blood.

They

refuse

to

use

aginomoto.

In

western

society,

they

lose

their

weight

not

only

by

going

on

hunger

strike, but also to absorb low heat food. If they eat enough heat food, they hardly have

more heat food. Because of health, they pay more attention to the microelements, such

vitamin, calcium, zinc etc.

2. Different food

The

materials

of

Chinese

food

are

various.

Some

materials

which

westerns

regard as garbage but we think they are good ones.

According

to

botanists

researching,

Chinese

have

600

kinds

of

vegetables.

We

actually

have

vegetarian

diet

except

festivals.

But

westerners

eat

more

meat

in

their

daily

lives.

This

phenomenon

leads

to

westerners

are

much

stronger

than

Chinese.

Recent years, especially from 1990s, more and more youngsters would like to eat junk

food. We always

see they eat

unhealthy

food

in the street. Due

to students

having to

be at school so

late that they only

will

have dinner

with junk

food or

fast

food.

And

different education system, westerners have an enough time to have dinner.

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