Unit 5 Food and Drink? 飲食— ?Passage (1/4)

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"You are what you eat." Nutrition experts often use this saying to promote better eating habits. What we put in our mouth does become a part of us. But we can look at this statement another way. What we eat reflects who we are - as people and as a culture. Do you want to understand another culture? Then you ought to find out something about its food. As a foreign traveler can prove, the relation between food and national identity is close and strong. Not only do citizens of most nations come to perceive some aspect of their cuisine as distinctive, but nations themselves are typically associated with particular food. Countries are what they eat, or at the very least, people tend to think of nations in culinary terms. Thus, learning about American food can give us a real taste of American culture.
"你吃什么就成為什么樣子"營養(yǎng)專家經(jīng)常使用這句話來倡導(dǎo)更好的飲食習(xí)慣，入嘴的東西確實(shí)成為我們的一部分。但我們也可以從另一個(gè)角度來看這句話，我們所吃的反映出我們自己——不論就人或文化而言。你想了解另一種文化嗎？那么你應(yīng)該去認(rèn)識(shí)他們的食物。就像外國旅游者能證明的那樣，食品和國家性質(zhì)之間的聯(lián)系是緊密而堅(jiān)固的。不僅大多數(shù)國家的民眾認(rèn)為他們的烹飪?cè)谀撤矫娴呐c眾不同，就連國家本身也總是典型的和某一特色食品聯(lián)系在一起。一個(gè)國家的飲食代表這個(gè)國家的特征，或者至少可以這么說，當(dāng)人們想起一個(gè)國家時(shí)腦海里浮現(xiàn)的是些烹飪名詞。因而，了解美國食品能讓我們品嘗到真正的美國文化。