Gastronomy is another expression of culture. If you don’t believe me, look outside and you will see how food is everywhere and how it represents the people that cook it. Here in Santiago, because of immigrants, we can discover venezuelan, colombian, peruvian culture only because of what they cook.
You can discover a lot of a country if you analyze the ingredients and the type of food they produce. For example in recipes from Venezuela and Colombia you can find a lot of beans, rice, and banana. That explains the weather they have there, it is hotter than here in Chile.
Also in Brazil they have a typical dish called Feijoada. The story tells that it was created in places where people didn’t have a lot to eat, so the mixed different ingredients in a common cooking pot so everyone can eat. The result of that was a delicious dish that mixes rice, beans, different types of meat like pork, bovine, lamb, etc. Also it has a typical ingridient called “farofa” that is a kind of smashed bread, but better.
Feijoada is an example that a dish is not that simple, it represents a part of history of a country and because of that we can say that it is culture.
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