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.
Each country or each region can boast with his own national values, which help to know and to understand the people of that region, their life and their culture. One of that values that is defined as a symbol of a culture of particular region is culinary. Different nationalities have different traditional foods, which distinguish them from each other and if we look attentively to the ways of producing, acquiring and preparing of that foods, it will give us a chance to gain deep understanding about the culture of a particular country. Let’s see every of these processes separately and find out from which parts they consist.
The first process that is difficult and at the same time very important for almost everyone is producing. According to the research that have been made by Economic Research Service (USDA)- "Food market structures: Overview" and Food Standards Agency (UK)- "Industry" , it can be said that majority of foods that we use on daily basis are raw at the first stage, therefore, producing process includes the methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for human consumption. Almost all products that we see in markets, before being available for sale, are converted into marketable food items. Beginning from the minimal processing, such as cleaning and packaging, the production industry is responsible for more complicated processes, involving lots of additives and ingredients. In addition to all of these stages we also have to mention the popular method called “Canning” and adding artificial colors and flavors for making foods more appealing.
The second thing that comes after producing, is acquiring. In nowadays, there are many different markets in developed countries, where you can get roughly everything whatever you want. Take for example the Kroger in the USA, which is the country’s largest supermarket chain with the abundant and various departments, where even the rarest things concerning the different industries can be available. On the other hand, there are some countries where supermarkets are not so much popular and people in these countries prefer acquiring foods in alternative ways, such as hunting and fishing.
Finally, the first question that people ask after tasting some delicious food is the method of cooking. Therefore, first of all it will be most appropriate to talk about preparing, that including various steps, is the most interesting part of making food. Having a long history, the process of cooking of some traditional dishes passed on from generation to generation. Imagine you ate one food a century ago and can eat the same thing after one hundred years. For instance, the Chinese traditional meal the Dumplings, with the history of more than 1,800 years are widely popular in the north region of China. The food, which can be cooked by boiling, steaming, and frying, is made on Chinese New Year’s Eve and include five steps of preparation. The first stage is the Dumpling Wrappers that are made very carefully and already in the next step are filled with the special Dumpling Filling, which contains pork, eggs and cabbage. At the same time with this process, depending on one’s own taste, the dipping sauce also can be made. On the final step the Wrappers are cooked in the pan with the boiling water.
Taking into consideration all these facts, it can be concluded that there is no one way of producing, acquiring, and preparing food; it differs from country to country depending on one’s culture or nationality.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243722304284 0.240241500013 101% => OK
Verbs: 0.152141802068 0.157235817809 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0930576070901 0.0880659088768 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0324963072378 0.0497285424764 65% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0280649926145 0.0444667217837 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.11964549483 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0635155096012 0.0406280797675 156% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91116712789 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0162481536189 0.030933414821 53% => OK
Particles: 0.00147710487445 0.0016655270985 89% => OK
Determiners: 0.0945347119645 0.0997080785238 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0147710487445 0.0249443105267 59% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0221565731167 0.0148568991511 149% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3590.0 2732.02544248 131% => OK
No of words: 577.0 452.878318584 127% => OK
Chars per words: 6.22183708839 6.0361032391 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90110439584 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.36568457539 0.366273622748 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287694974003 0.280924506359 102% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.214904679376 0.200843997647 107% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.161178509532 0.132149295362 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91116712789 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 302.0 219.290929204 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523396880416 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 65.5637674416 55.4138127331 118% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0869565217 23.380412469 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.265001268 59.4972553346 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.086956522 141.124799967 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0869565217 23.380412469 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.608695652174 0.674092028746 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.21349557522 211% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 53.8564539221 51.4728631049 105% => OK
Elegance: 2.00694444444 1.64882698954 122% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.320590014283 0.391690518653 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0974650092373 0.123202303941 79% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0614659239664 0.077325440228 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.543284346627 0.547984918172 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.155434893323 0.149214159877 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122650964222 0.161403998019 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625152632942 0.0892212321368 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.33043490695 0.385218514788 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.101809570341 0.0692045440612 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20677321182 0.275328986314 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0729300972413 0.0653680567796 112% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88274336283 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.