Eat a dish with American style

Author: Rongrong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is my homework assignment while living in the United States. It starts with ordinary things and reports my real life in the overseas life to my family and friends across the ocean, one step at a time. In fact, when I truly developed feelings for this land from the bottom of my heart, I realized I had brought my hometown along with me. This is not only because, in the eyes of Americans, I represent a different culture, making them feel unfamiliar and curious, but also because I am constantly, whether actively or passively, comparing these two cultures, thereby enriching myself. This book about food actually uses food as a medium to tell stories beyond eating, offering a new perspective to my friends back home. On the streets of the United States, if you ask what Chinese culture is, 85% of Americans will answer Chinese food. This shows that food carries the important mission of cultural exchange between the East and the West. Similarly, through Western cuisine, we can also get a glimpse of foreign cultures. A Taste of American Cuisine is not a cookbook, nor is it simply an introduction to food culture. Instead, it vividly portrays the collision and fusion of two cultures through the contrast and acceptance of dietary habits between Chinese and Americans. Every dish in the book has been personally tried and tested by the author, blending the understanding and "innovation" of Easterners toward Western cuisine. Each piece of writing is both about food and about reality, filled with the warm love and tenderness between people regardless of nationality.