Studying foodways —what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them— is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture

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Studying foodways —what foods people eat and how they produce, acquire, prepare, and consume them— is the best way to gain deep understanding of a culture

"We are what we eat". Though partially true, the subject about how we can understand a culture by studying foodways and whether it is the best way to deeply understand a culture is highly debatable. Some would argue that since food is a major component of cultural identity, it is didactic to study and understand the food process in the cultural context. Others however, would support that there are numerous other things to consider in the list of significant factors in order to understand a culture and that the study of foodways is at the bottom of that list. After carefully weighting some soph...

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Sentence: Nevertheless, researchers have generated much information about their nutrition but they didn't actually make any use of these facts to conclude anything that could bring them closer in perceiving how they have build these magnificent monuments that are still preserved today.
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Sentence: Furthermore, another well known research in the same theme of cultural foodways was made by the Global Health Organization and took place in the mediterranean countries.
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Sentence: The study has shown that the mediterranean kouzine is the healthiest in the world, though, even this fact, was of little significance when the research team tried to answer the question of how it correlates with each country's culture.
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