HW 4

My family is semi-traditional when it comes to food. At least a few times during the week we all sit together and eat dinner. One or both of my parents cooks and we set plates, forks, and knives down on the table and we all eat together. The same thing when I lived with my grandmother she would cook and we would eat dinner together. This was a tradition since I was little and that my parents also had and we still do it today. However, other meals such as breakfast and lunch we don't eat together. No one cooks for every, everyone just makes their own meal and usually eats doing their own thing, such as watching t.v or using the computer, etc.

My family's cuisine is pretty diverse. My parents cook many different types of meals. Even when we order food, we order indian food, or mexican food. There is alot of variety in my families diet. We don't have a particular way of eating our food. When we sit together people talk throughout the whole meal. My mother makes sure people have good table manners usually when we all sit to eat, pretty typical for the most part. However there is no one way we eat or food is approached. The most important thing is taste and then health is considered as well but not to emphasized.

I can see how my ways of eating are similar to my parents. I enjoy sitting down with my friends to eat rather than eating on the go but at the same time I enjoy it not being formal. Ways to eat or approach food is not strict in my household and therefore I am pretty flexible with how I eat and my main criteria is taste. My food ways are heavily influenced by my parents.