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Nadim Barakat4/6/18Professor Santos

When we learn about other cultures, it is not surprising for us to encounter new foods. For example, when you learn about Chinese culture, you may discover that they eat foods that we do not normally eat in America. Every culture has its own foods and this is something that can even be studied to understand the cultures of the world. To my surprise, there are there are some subsets in American culture of food that I never knew existed. 
Last class, we watched a PBS episode where we went into a rural American town. They had a cook off where instead of using traditional meats such as beef or chicken, they cooked squirrels and possums. To me, this actually seems eccentric and I wouldn’t eat it, but it is something important to their culture. I think something especially interesting was how the Asian family combined their culture with that specific American culture and even won with their dish. 
I felt that this episode even connected with some part of the book. With this type of coexistence of culture it reminded me of this quote. “The ones who live peacefully in a world of no contradictions and no distinctions are infants. They perceive light and dark, strong and weak, but make no judgments (175).” Food is the perfect way for not discriminating between cultures.