ITAL376 Noodles

This is an article about the small country of Taiwan's famous noodle dish, niu rou mian. Get it whenever you can

Looking down the aisles of an Asian market, one thing's clear: there's no shortage of noodles. There's a noodle for every cuisine, country, dish, and texture. Whatever the category, there's a perfect noodle for the job. With that in mind, allow me to introduce a brief taxonomy of Asian noodles.

This article shares some interesting point about Chines eating culture. Read through it and you could learn more about Chinese culture

We started as hunters and gatherers. Now we go through the McDonald's drive-thru. Might still be beef, but the methods of cooking and definitely of obtaining the food have evolved dramatically.

Like how the sentences we say and write are influenced by underlying rules of grammar, so too is the food system influenced by underlying constructs.

I learn best in analogies and infographics so here are a few that i found with regard to the functionalist, structuralist and developmental approaches to the human food system.