DIFERENT KINDS OF FOOD.

KINDS OF FOOD.

Raw Food

Certain cultures highlight animal and vegetable foods in their raw state. Salads consisting of raw vegetables or fruits are common in many cuisines. Sashimi in Japanese cuisine consists of raw sliced fish or other meat, and sushi often incorporates raw fish or seafood. Steak tartare and salmon tartare are dishes made from diced or ground raw beef or salmon, mixed with various ingredients and served with baguette, brioche or frites. In Italy, carpaccio is a dish of very thin sliced raw beef, drizzled with a vinaigrette made with olive oil. A ceviche is a Latin American dish made with raw meat that is "cooked" from the highly acidic citric juice from lemons and limes along with other aromatics such as garlic.

                                              Japanese Food

 Soba and Udon- They can be eaten hot or cold. Soba noodles are made of buckwheat and thought to have originated in China. Udon noodles are made by mixing flour with salt water, then kneading, stretching, and cutting the dough into strips.

Sushi is one of the most popular dishes in Japan. The two main types of sushi are nigiri-zushi and norimaki. The nigiri type has slices of raw or cooked fish on sushi rice. Norimaki has pieces of fish and/or vegetables rolled with rice in nori (dried seaweed). People eat sushi at a sushi-ya or some prefer to eat at a kaiten sushi-ya which has plates of sushi that pass in front of the customers on a conveyor belt.

 

 

German Dish

Currywurst, a large-format fried or grilled sausage cut into thick slices and seasoned with spicy ketchup and generous amounts of curry powder, usually served with french fries — a popular snack originating in early 1950s Berlin. ) Currywurst remains one of most popular fast foods in Germany, especially in Berlin the Rhine-Ruhr area, but the Döner kebab is gaining rapidly in popularity.



Korean Dish

Samgyetang (삼계 탕): a soup made with Cornish game hens that are stuffed with ginseng, glutinous rice, jujubes, garlic, and chestnuts. The soup is traditionally eaten in the summer.

 

United State.- New Mexico

Refried beans is a dish of cooked and mashed beans and is a traditional staple of Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, although each cuisine has a somewhat different approach when making the dish.

Brazil- Tapuru

It is a very common species of worm in the Amazon. Some people use the "Tapuru" as food. Some people eat the worm raw (with olive oil and lemon) or cooked. Very rich in nutrients, "Tapuru" is ideal for a healthy diet.

China- Insects

The Chinese diversify and experiment with tasty dishes with various insects that we find disgusting, but for them, are juicy. Eating fried insects is fun in China. Many insects highly nutritious, scientifically evaluated, have been cataloged. Already exceed 1,000 species edible insects, including cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and centipedes. Researchers want to popularize the practice of food consumption by the high nutritional value that has the bugs and also to combat hunger in the world. In the future, scientists say, the insects will be used to feed all of humanity.

 

 

 

 

 

1 - Have you ever tried any of these foods? If yes, which one?

2 - What is your favorite  kind of food? Why?

3 - If you would go to China, would you eat cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles and centipedes?

4 - Write a different food from a country that was not spoken.