Culture&SocietyinSoutheastAsia_FoodPractices.pptx

Food practices in Southeast Asia.

1. FOOD PRACTICES JOVANNE TANUDRA

2. Food Practices In social science, food practices or foodways are the cultural, social, and economic practices relating to the production and consumption of food. Foodways often refers to the intersection of food in culture, traditions, and history. Food practices are here defined as any activity in which food is involved, ranging from food preparation, gifting food, sharing meals, or cleaning up, referred to by Symons (1994) as the human food cycle. 20XX FOOD PRACTICES 2

3. Focusing in Southeast Asia 20XX More than ¾ of the Southeast Asia population is agriculture-based . Twice as much fish is consumed in this region compared to other forms of animal protein, reflecting the long coastlines and river environments of Southeast Asia. The staple food throughout the region is rice , which has been cultivated for thousands of years. Rice serves as the basic staple food for more than half of the world’s population today. FOOD PRACTICES 3

4. Simple daily meals and elaborate feasts characterized all Southeast Asian culinary cultures. Cooking is economically efficient as people use wok cooking , which requires a low amount of fuel and makes deep-frying easy. Southeast Asian Culinary Cultures WOK COOKING

5. Southeast Asian Culinary Cultures Also, meat and vegetables are typically chopped into small pieces prior to cooking, which mean that food cooks very quickly. Most food is cooked by quick blanching or stir-frying and steaming . Southeast Asians are concerned with nutrition , economy , and ease of preparation as it relates to their food. 20XX FOOD PRACTICES 5

6. Rice is the basis of Southeast Asian food, and in many languages a common greeting is “Have you eaten yet?” The verb for “to eat” is often the same as the verb “to eat rice” . Rice is used for fuel oil , rice-paper , alcoholic drinks , tea , all manner of foods , cosmetics , medicines , and magical potions . Rice in Southeast Asia

7. Food’s uses and importance 20XX A small portion of food is offered to the gods , ancestral spirits , and other beings during ritual sacrifices at major ceremonies or even before common, everyday meals. Food can even have an importance in peace relations between neighboring countries, such as is the case in Thailand and Malaysia. FOOD PRACTICES 7

8. The Muslim Malays raise pigs for the Thai Buddhists, who in turn raise cattle for Malays. Although, differentiation in culture and religion exist throughout this region, the cooperative food trading system has helped attain peace and forge alliances between neighboring peoples to the present day. Food’s uses and importance

9. Popular Meals in SEA consist of rice, fish, vegetables, fruits, and spices. Curry, “satay” (spiced or marinated meat on a stick that is barbecued), “sour fish soup”, noodles, and soy products are popular. Southeast Asian(SEA) Cuisine CHICKEN CURRY SATAY “SOUR FISH SOUP” NOODLES

10. Flavorings that are common include ginger, pepper, chili peppers, onions, garlic, soy sauce, fish sauce, fermented fish paste, turmeric, candlenut, lemon grass, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, as well as tamarind and lime (for sour taste). Coconut milk is often used to bind sharp flavors, while palm sugar is used to balance the spices. Southeast Asian(SEA) Cuisine

11. Southeast Asian(SEA) Cuisine Unique combinations of sweet and sour, or hot and sour, hot and sweet, are common in various regions. Fish paste and prawn paste is spicy-sour, and is popularly consumed with green mangoes, fresh fish or in stews. Fish sauce is used in almost all SEA curries as well as in various forms of cooking fish and pork. 20XX FOOD PRACTICES 11 HOMEMADE ASSAM FISH PASTE PRAWN PASTE FISH SAUCE

12. Popular vegetables are sweet potatoes, maize ( mais ), taro, tapioca, legumes, blossoms, and the leaves of many green plants. Popular fruits are pineapple, coconut, star fruit, jackfruit, papaya, bananas, rambutan, mangosteen, and the somewhat odorous durian (“king of fruits”, according to aficionados). Tea and coffee are abundant throughout the region, although the popular drink with a meal is water . Southeast Asian(SEA) Cuisine

13. SEA is a diverse and fascinating cultural crossroads that forms both a geographic a culinary link between Asia and the Indian subcontinent . Traditional Southeast Asian recipes incorporate the organizing principals of Chinese cuisine and the complex flavors derived from Indian herbs and spices . Exploring the Culinary Crossroads of SEA

14. Food can be sweet, sour, salty, spicy and bitter all in the same bite. Through modern influences, the area has also embraced certain aspects of Colonial French cuisine , and to a lesser extent, Spanish and American cooking . Exploring the Culinary Crossroads of SEA

15. 20XX Although the foods of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia share core similarities, there are also significant regional differences. While Thai food, for example, is often characterized as sweet and spicy, Vietnamese food is considered light and refreshing and Filipino cuisine is heavy in comparison. FOOD PRACTICES 15

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