Wednesday, November 28, 2007
BLOG 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
BLOG 9
My favorite food can be healthy and unhealthy, you have to take of your body and make sure your body have little bit of everything. For example try to balance everything, don't have only starch. I say a good healthy soul food meal is nice, light season chicken, vegetables, and cornbread.
BLOG 8
Many people say, "to fully understand the concept of soul food you must learn the traditional foods from Africa." I am sill learning the concept of soul food and I think everyone should as well. It is very interesting and as you learn, not just the African Americans was only affected by this creation.
Another comment that was said was by scientist William Bascom, found that a large portion of tribal Africans shared basic cooking techniques. Until this present day the same techniques are still is at use.
Also others believe that, "soul food developed to simply illustrate both graphically and literally how to unify our concept of god and love." When we pray for this dinner beside you it is shared to you and god, because it is a blessing to have a hot food to eat, which you should be thankful for.
Health issues in the 1400s African Americans ate healthy, but on those long journey from their homeland, there food started changing. One in particular was this sauce that affected their normally healthy diet, it was made from old beef,rotten fish, and salt, which filled their stomach.
Now many people make there food spicy or salty, don't get me wrong it is so delicious, but at the same time you can't eat as much as they did in ancient times.
source...."A History of Soul Food, Soul Food"
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Museum of Natural History
My pale, Chavon and I group together and some evidence we found was the forces that affect climate, how the sun's brightness and the earth's orbit and tilt relative to the sun influence the amount of solar energy that reaches earth. Also, we discovered that scientists believe that due to human activities the atmosphere, carbon dioxide has increased, meaning the atmosphere is getting warmer. Many factors influence climate such as the atmosphere, the ocean, the solid earth, and life itself. Some elements of life are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and phosphors.
After learning about the earth, we walked around the museum and stopped at the African People , which we really had a connection to. So we focus on every installations and pointed out logos, ethos, and pathos. One installation was the Spirit World:
Logos= Focus for religion life in traditional Africa, explained the world of the living and offered hope, encouragement, promise of afterlife, affirming a power greater than man's
Ethos= Night blue, with mask , sculptures, chair symbolizes African cultural in the spirit world.
Pathos= When i was analyzing the window I had goosebumps because just thinking about people contacting the afterlife is scary.
Another was the Pokot Women, this installation was about how the Pokot Women was defined and their lives turning into a women.
Logos= At puberty they undergo a clitoridectomy, in public to show there strength and there new found statis as a women.
Ethos= It had belt and apron, which the women wear during their pregnancy. Red necklace which symbolizes the uncircumcised girls and a charm necklace that represents good luck to married women. A special knife to cut the clitoris and aluminum bracelets.
Pathos= Even though this is the Pokot Women's religion, I felt disturb because just thinking about pain is unbearable.
Learning history can be interesting, at the same time breath taking.
Monday, November 5, 2007
WEEK 3...........BLOG 7
Sunday, November 4, 2007
BLOG 6 Week 2
My second food, which is Cornbread. Cornbread contains cornmeal, it is Native American. The founders who discovered cornbread were the Europeans, during the Europeans Exploration of North America. Popular during the American Civil War, because it was cheap and was made in different forms, such as high rising, fluffy loaves,steamed and mushy. It is enjoyed by many people, because of its sweet scent and great taste. Many different types are Baked Cornbread and Huskpuppies.
Cornbread arrive in rural areas like the country side (down south). When the Europeans came from Europe to the U.S.it spread throughout the coast. Now cornbread is sold in local areas like Pathmark and Key Food. It is serve in a box, where it says add water.
source.... Illustrated Magazine,Baking Illustrated. Brookline,
MA;America's test Kitchen, 2004, Wikipedia.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
WEEK ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLOG 5
So far, my first research on where one of my favorite food come from,which is Meat. Everyone knows that ham and pork comes from a pig. When I was researching this, my pathos of it made me feel bad ,because I am actually eating a warm blooded animal. The other kind of food is hamburgers, which is mostly every one specialty, only if you eat meat.To some people it can be drastic to eat an animal but i am sorry to say, I can't resist my hunger of this juicy food
Source,(2Cents Davin Granroth's blog)
http://davingranroth.com/blog/2006/09/where_does_chicken_come_from.html
Thousands of years ago before there was a chicken they was an egg. I know it sounds crazy but its true(laughing). Sometimes when we eat we don't notice what we actually eating but hey, eating what we like is good to us. A professor name John Brook Field, who is a specialist in evolutionary genetics at University of Nothingham stated that,"the living organism inside the eggshell would have had the same DNA as the chicken it would develop into." This statement is to prove that chickens first develop inside of an egg.
source....Panel,Danel "The Q&A Community" Debate Unscramble.
Many would like to know where we get our own chicken from, but first I would like to share some information on where Pakistan get their chickens from. Pakistanis get their chicken from the side of the road, cut the head off in front of you, then hand you the chicken, while it is still warm.
Source.....google.Tara blog "My Journey", Where does your Chicken come from.
The United States get our chicken from many places, but the one I found interesting is, that 43% of our chicken come from Brazil. This was the last place I thought the United States get our food from, it just wasn't in my mind. While reading an article from Brazil magazine, i found that, "earning in dollars from Brazil's chicken exports rose to 44.2% in 2004 and made 2.595 billion"and exporting food to the Untied States help Brazil international market.