Food and culture.ppt

Listening and extended reading Read the text and answer a question Homework Signal Words As a result… One…another… First…second…third… In addition… Read the summary of the text and fill in the blanks. We all have ideas about what kinds of foods are good to eat and what are bad to eat. People from one culture often think the foods that people from another culture eat are disgusting or . Food likes and dislikes do not always seem related to . In some cultures, certain foods are . In India, are regarded as taboos, because they can help farmers fields. In America, are considered as protection and people do not eat them. dont eat pork with such explanation that pork that is not cooked sufficiently may spread . So, people from different places have different food taboos. Anthropologists believe that most food likes and dislikes are the ways of life of different people. nauseating nutrition taboos cows plow dogs Egyptians disease a result of Key: Food taboos What the video talks about? Today, on Spotlight we will look at foods that are taboo. In any culture, taboos are very important. A taboo describes something that is set apart - it is held away from other things. A taboo food is a food that most people will not eat. But a food that is taboo in one culture may be acceptable in another.People have strong opinions about what is good to eat. People also have strong opinions about what is not good to eat. This is true in every country. Fugu comes from Japan, but food taboos exist all around the world.For example, in some countries people do not eat dogs. This is because people keep dogs as pets - as their animal friends. Or it may be for religious reasons. This is not the case in many countries. For example, in some parts of China, people eat dog meat. In these places, eating a dog would not be a taboo.So where do food taboos come from? Some food taboos co