ITALIAN 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Food Studies, Peer Pressure, Health Food
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Food studies observes intricate relationships among food, culture, and society. It is the study of food and its relationship to the human experience. Food choices made by people, either as individuals or as a group, can reveal views, passions, background knowledge, assumptions and personalities. Tell stories of families, migrations, assimilation, resistance, changes over times, and personal as well as group identity. It can help debunk stereotypes and promote acceptance across individuals and groups. Feeding: when most animals feed, they consume foods needed for their well- being and do so in a similar way at each feeding. Eating: humans gather, hunt, cultivate plants, and raise livestock for food consumption. Humans also cook, use utensils to eat and institute a complex set of rules following a code of etiquette to govern how to eat appropriately. The human trait of sharing food is exclusive to its species. Humans, however, do not feed, they eat.
