Food

Since we recently did the Iron Chef challenge in class, it would be the perfect time to talk about food and its importance. I feel kind of bad that in my family the cooking tradition may be coming to a halt soon. Seeing as how very old fashion and traditional my parents are. My mom thinks that it is weird for guys to want to learn how to cook. She believes that knowledge should be reserved for girls only, the only problem is that she has two sons and not one daughter to pass on her knowledge of the ways of the kitchen. However, I am gradually getting her to break down the barriers of traditional old ways and learning a few new things about cooking.

To me home food is just food that you cook at home. Rather than going out to a restaurant and having someone else do the cooking for you. You choose to take the time and effort to make your own dish, not to mention decide what goes in it in case you are a picky eater. Also home food is really good quality food because you don't use the cheapest most cost effective things to put in it. It all translates into love, you put love into your home cooked meals. You don't get that at a restaurant, it's an ingredient that they cheap out on.

The way my mom cooks is very much unique. She will for sure make sure there is a heaping amount of vegetables in the dish. Her philosophy is that you can never have enough vegetables, heck sometimes the dish could be considered vegetarian and still taste like it had meat in it. My mom is very health conscious when it comes to cooking, so she will always make sure to use the healthiest ingredients even though it may cost more. My mom will cook her fair share of Asian meals, but her skills as a cook go further than Asian meals. She will look at other dishes from other countries and then make them at home with her own twists to it. She will add something that she thinks would make the dish taste really complete. She is constantly reinventing her own dishes, so going home and getting a cooked meal is always a nice surprise. Her cooking could some what be used to talk about Asian American culture. It is similar how we are taking what we know and are used to about it, but as time goes on we are adding our down twists to it. Asian American culture is constantly reinventing itself as well.