What do westerners eat

Besides chopsticks vs. Chinese usually eat communally and share their dishes with others. Westerners usually enjoy individual servings. Chinese cooks chop everything into bite size pieces , thus people don't need knives to cut it, and just pick up their food with chopsticks. Westerners cook food in big pieces and serve it with knives and forks for cutting it up. Chinese usually don't remove bones , and just cut them and the meat into pieces.

They cook fish whole. Westerners usually eat filleted fish, and meat with whole bones, or no bones. Chinese always cook vegetables — frying, stewing, boiling, and steaming — sometimes with soy sauce, ginger, and garlic. Western salads, or just boiling vegetables in water, are virtually unknown in China. Ingredients: Chinese cuisine uses many ingredients rarely seen in Western cuisine, like winter melons and yams, tree fungi and lotus pods, frogs and dogs, feet, tongues, ears, and all manner of internal organs, etc.

Western cooks usually use processed spices like pepper powder, ketchup, etc. Seasoning bottles: You usually won't find any salt, pepper, tomato sauce, or mustard on the table in a Chinese restaurant. But if you have breakfast at a dumpling and steamed bun shop, you can enhance the flavor with soy sauce or vinegar from a bottle poured into a dipping dish. Pigs, for example, could root around in the forests for free, before being topped off with corn and slaughtered. That included everything from pork to muskrats.

Colonists found similar conditions in the endless expanses of Australia and Argentina, Horowitz adds. Our reputation as a flesh-eating paradise persisted as successive waves of European immigrants arrived on its shores.

But by this time, many Americans were getting their meat from a neighborhood butcher. Instead of hunting or farming themselves, urban dwellers sourced their chicken and beef from outlying farms. New Jersey farms, for example, provided meat for people living in New York City. Unlike contemporary grocery stores, where only choice cuts are sold, butchers of this era would have hawked as many parts of the animal as possible.

Offal, or organ meat, was still on the menu often at a reduced price ; recipe books even advised home cooks on preparing brain. Meats were also prepared in different ways. Before people had refrigerators, they stored food in a cold basement or, if they were wealthy, kept an ice box stocked with imported ice. Preservation challenges meant many people opted for cured meats, like barrel salted pork.

Things continued to change as the industrialization of the food industry picked up steam. Meat was shipped in from distant production hubs like Chicago and Cincinnati, rather than being slaughtered by local butchers.

Lindsay likes to eat vegetarian black bean chile, salads with kale and avocado, and other light dishes for dinner. I really appreciate it, and have got some ideas about meals in the restaurants in the city. Thanksgiving meals seem more complex, but those are for special occasions. Make sure you understand every word you hear on All Ears English.

Bring your English to the advanced level with new vocabulary and natural expressions. However, more and more now you can order Indian food or any other international food through Foodler or another food home delivery service or you can order take out and go into the restaurant and carry it out.

We could throw out some dishes that seem American but this is much too shortsighted and almost stereotypical. Many Americans do not eat the junk food that you see them eating on TV. Try a diner to get a true American dining experience and try Couchsurfing so that you can maybe eat with a local at home! Go here to learn more about the different regions and what they eat.

View Full Bio. March 20, Your browser does not support the audio element. Do they always eat hamburgers, french fries, and heavy junk food? Everyone is different. Today we are going to try to answer a question from a listener.