Differences in food culture between China and the West:

(A) Chinese food culture

China has a history of more than 5,000 years, forming a splendid and rich, profound food culture.

The Chinese people emphasize the "unity of heaven and mankind".

The Chinese diet is characterized by food and emotion.

The Chinese food culture is very impressive and pleasing to the eye.

This pleasing to the eye refers to the perfect unity of the formation and content of Chinese dietary activities, and refers to the aesthetic pleasure and spiritual enjoyment brought to people.

The traditional Chinese diet has four main features:

1. Food: The ancients said, "Food is the God of the people.

We often ask "have you eaten?", which shows the status of food culture.

People are used to expressing their feelings of farewell and welcome at the dinner table when friends are separated from each other, and when they are sent to and welcomed by each other.

Emotional turmoil, people also tend to borrow wine and food to calm down.

This is the dietary activities of the psychosocial regulation function.

2. Nutrition: the "five grains" to support the "six organs", the diet attaches importance to the health of the human body.

The Chinese diet pays attention to the matching of various foods, and guides cooking with the rational understanding of yin and yang harmony, such as mutual reinforcement and complementarity.

3. Taste: Chinese diet pays the most attention to the taste of food, paying attention to "color, aroma, taste, type".

Mr. Sun Yat-sen said, "If the taste is not exquisite, the cooking is not good", the aesthetics as the first importance of cooking.

4. Reasoning: For the emotional culture of food activities, there is a guide and enhance the issue of taste.

The Chinese diet advocates a healthy and beautiful, upward cultural mood, the pursuit of a noble sentiment.

(B) The food culture of Western countries The main features of Western-style dining are: one is raw, such as steak with blood; two is cold, such as all drinks with ice; three is sweet, no sweet meal, no meal is not sweet.

In addition, Western-style dining does not pay attention to fine, the pursuit of fast and convenient, and not luxury, more popular.

In addition, Western food has the following significant features:

1. Attention to all kinds of nutrients with the combination, according to the human body on a variety of nutrients (sugars, fats, proteins, vitamins) and calorie needs to arrange the dish or processing and cooking.

2. Selection of fine materials, with a wide range of materials.

Western cooking in the selection of materials is very fine, exquisite, and very wide selection of materials.

Such as American cuisine commonly used fruit to make dishes or meals, salty with sweet; Italian cuisine will be all kinds of pasta dishes: a variety of pasta, noodles, pasta flowers can be made into delicious delicacies on the table.

3. Pay attention to seasoning, seasoning varieties.

Western cooking seasonings are mostly different from Chinese food, such as sour cream, cinnamon leaves, lemon, etc. are commonly used seasonings.

4. Focus on color.

In the color of the collocation is concerned about the contrast, bright, and therefore bright colors, can *** appetite.

5. Rigorous process, cooking methods.

Western food pays great attention to the process, pay attention to scientific, procedural, rigorous procedures.

Western food cooking methods are many, commonly used frying, braising, baking, stewing, baking, deep-frying, smoking, iron steak and so on more than a dozen, of which the iron steak, grilled, baked and baked with the most characteristics.

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Cooking utensils and tableware are different from the characteristics of Chinese food.

Especially tableware, in addition to porcelain products, crystal, glass and various types of metal tableware accounted for a large proportion.