My mom does all the cooking (unless my uncle comes to visit) and she cooks for about an hour everyday. The food my mom cooks does not really have any taste; I think that is just how Fujianese people cook. While my mom cooks, she would tell the kids to eat first, even though she values family eating together. She is not really that strict about eating together; she would never make any one of us wait if everyone is not at the table. What she does is force us to eat during family dinners or on special occasions like celebrating a holiday. My mom would disapprove my eating near my laptop because she believes that dinner is when you spend time with your family. So after my mom cooks the food, she would sit down to start eating and the older kids would join her. While we eat, we leave the TV on so we are not just staring off into space and the silence does not fill the air.
I feel that I follow more of my family’s foodways rather than American foodways. One reason is that I am currently living under her roof so I have to go by her rules. The other reason is that I grew up with my family’s foodways so I sort of inherited my family’s foodways. But, I do believe that I, someday, will start to order out instead of cook like my mom does. I also feel that most Americans do not know how to cook; so they order out. This is better for the economic and the rich people because they can make money off of people who do not have the skills to cook. I also believe that those who constantly order takeout are more likely to develop health problems because they are eating unhealthy foods most of the time. So since many people do not know how to cook, others (including descendants who values eating at home, like me) are not pressured into learning how to cook.
From what people said in class, corporate Americans order takeout most of the time and they do not eat leftovers after two days.
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Yeah its interesting how this generation does not cook so much.
I had an experience with my family where on good friday my mom and I think my aunt were cooking together and my uncle walks in and asks, Why aren't you cooking? when you grow up you're going to have to cook for you and your family. And it sort of made me think for a second how much I depend on my mom to cook. Although this is true I do think I would be able to cook on my own if given instruction.
Especially since my family values cooking so much, during the summer my grandmother makes me cook once or twice a week, I don't always necessarily do it for whatever reason but when I do cook it is normally the same thing I cook repeatedly.
I think I should learn how to cook like the things my mom cooks for my advantage in the future so that I won't be consuming such unhealthy overpriced take out food.
It is also interesting how we almost don't even really need to cook if we don't want to, we can very easily order out and it looks to me that that's where our generation is headed but for me I would like to learn how to cook on my own.
We should learn how to cook together. It would be an interesting class project.
-Sandy
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