Lesson 1

What is foodways?

- A pattern of food behaviour. - Food getting, preparation, meal patterns, items considered suitable as food, attitudes, taboos, religious significance and social meaning.

What is Food Patterns or Habits?

- A pattern of food use. - Fulfils physiological, social and psychological functions. - Common pattern of eating within a group.

Food Culture Change in developmental perspective:

- Consumerization - Commoditization - Delocalization - Acculturation

Structural Change of food culture:

- Globalization - Modernization - Urbanization - Migration

Food System Today Compared to 50 years ago:

- Greater variety of raw foods, from different parts of the world - New cooking styles and cultural foods - More diversity of prepared foods - Reduced availability of locally grown items - Standardization in agricultural products; homogenization of foods from different regions - Increased interest in local cuisines, regionaldishes - Growing public concern about food and health

Socialization - Enculturation -

- Socialization: transmission of culture - Enculturation: transmission of a specific culture

What is Nutrition?

- The act or process of nourishing or being nourished. - The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and uses food substances.

What is Food?

Food is any substance that provides the nutrients necessary to maintain life and growth when ingested.

What is Assimilation?

People shed their ethnic identity and fully merge into the majority culture.

Migration -

Shift from home‐bound, culture‐bound to one in which global travel is prevalent.

Urbanization -

Shift from rural to urban living = worldwide.

What is Culture?

The knowledge, beliefs, values and practices that a group has learned and shared through generations

What is Health?

The state of complete physical, mental and social well‐being, not just absence of disease.

Delocalization -

connection between growing, harvesting, cooking, eating is lost

Acculturation -

the process by which groups and individuals adapt to the norms and values of another culture

Influences that Change our Food Patterns:

• Changes in structure of the family • Eating away from home • Environmental issues • Health and fitness • Television: 3 impacts on nutrition - Provides info - sometimes educational - Exhibits social norms (body image) - Encourages sedentary lifestyle and snacking

Globalization -

• Integration of local, regional and national phenomena into unrestricted worldwide organization. • Parallel change in cultural food habits is consumerization - Societies are now consumers of mass乚produced foods.

Modernization -

• New technologies result in economic shifts such as industrial revolution and the information age. • Results in commoditization - shift from homemade to manufactured foods, shopping over the internet.