1. AMERICAN REGIONAL CUISINE
AN INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTANT VOCABULARY -MS. HARPER

2. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Culture: The beliefs, attitudes, values, customs, and habits accepted by a community of individuals.

3. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Culture is learned, not inherited. It is passed from generation to generation through a process called enculturation.

4. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Cultural membership is defined by the term ethnicity.

5. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Assimilation occurs when people from one cultural group shed their ethnic identity and fully emerges into the majority culture.

6. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Acculturation: When people from one cultural group moves to an area with different cultural norms, adaptation to the new majority society begins.

7. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
Bicultural: When the new cultural group is a complementing, rather than competing with ones; ethnicity.

8. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
An ethnic group: A race or nationality of people with common characteristics.

9. Roles of Culture in Food Habits:
The foods and food traditions that belong to an ethnic group are called Ethnic Foods.

10. Components of Culture
Material Culture: Anything made, grown or harvested from nature by people
Made: cheese, processed foods
Grown: corn, fruit, vegetables, domesticated animals
Harvested from nature: game, water, herbs, spices, fungi, salt

11. Language: The means of communication people use with one another.
Components of Culture
Language: The means of communication people use with one another.
Slang terms
Terms associated with cooking
Menus

12. Components of Culture
Symbols: Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by members of a culture.
Example: Golden Arches

13. Components of Culture
Values: Our judgments about the world around us. Judgments meaning: good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, beautiful vs. ugly, fat vs. thin.

14. Beliefs: Our judgments about what is true or false. Religion Science
Components of Culture
Beliefs: Our judgments about what is true or false.
Religion
Science

15. Norms: the rules, which guide our behavior. Use of Silverware
Components of Culture
Norms: the rules, which guide our behavior.
Use of Silverware
Order of meal / Course

16. Symbolic use of food: Food is more than simply nutrients.
Bread: “Staff” of life
One “breaks bread” with friends
Represents the body of Christ in Christian Communion.
White bread = Wealth (traditionally)
Dark bread= poor
Wheat bread= concerned with health
“lots of money” = lots of money