Dissertation Title! Comparison of Chinese and Western food culture!

Comparison of Chinese and Western food cultures

1. Dietary concepts and taste and nutrition

Because of the difference in philosophical thinking between China and the West, Westerners in the dietary emphasis on science, emphasis on science, that is, the pursuit of nutrition, so the Western diet to nutrition as the highest norms, eating is like adding fuel to the machine for a living creature, especially on the nutrient content of the food, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and various types of Whether the content of protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and various inorganic elements is appropriate, whether the supply of calories is appropriate, and whether these nutrients can be fully absorbed by the eaters, and whether there are other side effects. These issues are the big questions in cooking, while the color, aroma and taste of the dishes, is a secondary requirement. Even in the West's premier dietary power - France, its food culture, although in many ways similar to us, but once in contact with the nutritional issues, the two sides will be pulled away from the distance.

China's five flavors and harmony of the cooking techniques aimed at the pursuit of delicious, its processing of hot oil frying and a long time of the fire attack, will make the dishes of the nutrients are destroyed. French cooking is also the pursuit of delicious, but at the same time always forget the "nutrition" as a major premise, one-sided nutrition and the pursuit of delicious is what they do not take. Especially in the 1960s, the emergence of modern culinary trends, with particular emphasis on health, weight loss, and thus the pursuit of light oil, emphasizing the use of fresh raw materials, emphasizing the cooking process to maintain the original nutrients and the original flavor, so vegetables are basically eaten raw. Therefore, the Western diet of heavy nutrition is with universal.

In all fairness, the issue of nutrition also touches on the biggest weakness of the Chinese diet. Although we pay attention to food therapy, dietary supplements, food nutrition, and emphasize the diet to health, but our cooking techniques to the pursuit of delicious as the first requirement, resulting in the loss of many nutrients in the processing. In recent years, our chefs to participate in the World Cooking Contest, people served on a dish with a clear list of nutrients, we can not get this material. After people ask questions, but also jaw-dropping not know what to say, greatly ate a dumb loss!

We have never put the pursuit of delicious as the primary purpose of eating. There is a folk saying: "People eat for days, food is flavor first." Although people in the praise of food, always love to say "color and flavor are excellent", but that is because we feel the color and flavor of the sensory organs "eyes, nose, mouth" of the upper and lower order. People's hearts in the "color, aroma, taste", never is "taste" word "commander-in-chief". The western cooking pay attention to nutrition and ignore the flavor, at least not to taste enjoyment as the primary purpose. They to cold drinks with meals, chilled cold wine and then add ice, and the surface of the tongue all over the gustatory nerves after the chilled, will be a great loss of taste sensitivity, and gradually can not discern the flavor; that with the blood of the steak and large white fish, large white meat, raw vegetables, boiled beans in white water, boiled potatoes, although there is a "flavor" and not into the "Road", all of which reflects the Westerner's neglect of the sense of taste. Their refusal to use MSG is more proof that these people are not aware of the taste of the people, not "know the taste of the view" of the guests!　

2, based on the importance of nutrition, Westerners eat raw vegetables, not only tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, lettuce, that is, cabbage, onions, green cauliflower (broccoli) are also eaten raw. Thus, their "salad" is like a plate of rabbit feed, making it difficult for us to accept. Modern Chinese people also talk about nutrition and health care, also know that once heated, green vegetables, vitamins will be destroyed, so we advocate the use of high-flame stir-fry. This also reduces the vitamin content, but not completely lost, but the flavor is much more delicious than rabbit feed. Modern Chinese cooking techniques therefore aim for the best balance of nutrition and flavor, which is of course a "middle way".

Western cooking, on the other hand, focuses on nutrition at the expense of flavor, or at least not at the expense of taste. They to cold drinks with meals, chilled cold wine and then add ice, and the surface of the tongue all over the gustatory nerves after the chilled, will be a great loss of taste sensitivity, and gradually can not discern the flavor; that with the blood of the steak and the big white fish, big white meat, raw vegetables, boiled beans in white water, boiled potatoes, although there is a "flavor" and not into the "Road", all of which reflects the Westerner's neglect of the sense of taste. They refused to use MSG, more proof that this generation are not aware of the taste of the people, not "know the flavor of the view" of the seat guests!

3. Dining and tableware

In the dining style. In China, no matter what the feast, are all sitting around the group, *** enjoy a seat, delicious food in the middle of the table, it is not only a table of people to enjoy the object, but also the medium of exchange of feelings. At the table, the Chinese people like to persuade each other to drink, pinch the food, raise the cup *** happy, very harmonious and interesting. But the West is different, when they get together to eat or invite guests, to persuade wine, pinch the food is not as enthusiastic as the Chinese, and the guests and hosts are not so polite to each other. Westerners pay more attention to the independence of the individual, each eating their own, without the Chinese chat happy **** fun. Chinese food on the table dishes pay attention to the abundance of variety, usually 8 or 10 dishes, 12 dishes, a variety of varieties, from the main dish to soup, to dessert, to the fruit, the order also pay attention to. The westerners, on the other hand, are known to serve beef, lamb, pork chops and other staple foods. In terms of tableware, the difference is even more obvious. As we all know, Chinese people, including some yellow countries in Asia, use chopsticks, spoons, and bowls to serve their meals, while Westerners use plates to serve their food, knives and forks to cut and eat their food, and special spoons to drink their soup. Chopsticks and knife and fork as the two most representative tableware of the East and West, chopsticks and knife and fork have influenced the different lifestyles of the East and West, representing the different wisdom of the two

4. Dining etiquette:

In terms of etiquette, the two sides are more different. In modern China, during a meal, one must not eat by oneself. If you are eating with others, you must check that your hands are clean. Don't put extra rice back into the pot, don't monopolize the food, and don't bump up the hot rice. After eating, the guest should get up and move forward to clean up the plates and dishes on the table and hand them over to the host, who follows, asking the guest not to labor before the guest sits down again. In the western banquet, the host generally only give the guest a clip of food, the rest of the guests eat independently, if the guests do not want, but also not hard to let people eat again, and do not frequently to the guests to persuade the wine, clip the food. When eating, do not make loud noises, but the guest should pay attention to appreciate the meal prepared by the host. If you talk to people, only with the neighboring conversation, do not talk with the distance.

5. Prospects for the future of Chinese and Western diets:

For Chinese people, we have been savoring Chinese diets since birth, and are therefore more or less tired of them. At the same time, we are now in the form of economic globalization, the entry of Western food makes us feel fresh, and begin to get used to going in and out of Western fast-food restaurants, taste different from the Chinese diet of Western food or Western fast food. However, after all, Chinese people's dietary concepts and habits are very different from those of the West, which determines the basic status of Chinese food in the minds of our people, and it will never be changed because of the intervention of Western food. But with the development of society, the gradual improvement of living standards, Western food will become more and more prevalent in China, but it can only be the majority of people living in the "seasoning", there will never be Chinese people will be Western food as a staple of the day.