Help me : Some one from Argentina?

Question

What foods are indicative of your culture? What foods items are needed to make a meal for you?

How many meals do you eat every day? Do you snack?

Who usually shares the meals?

Who prepares the meals?

Where is food normally consumed?

How is food normally consumed?

How do your food habits differ from your family norms? In what significant ways do they differ?

What are symbolic meanings of food known to your culture?

Do either you have any food ‘taboos’?

What are the major holidays you and your family celebrate each year?

What special foods are served for these holidays?

Do you fast? If yes, when? What, if any, foods are avoided and/or consumed?

What foods (if any) do you eat to improve strength, endurance, and/or vitality?

What foods do you avoid to prevent illness or disease?

What foods do you eat to stay healthy?

What foods did your mother (or caregiver) feed you when you were sick?

What foods do you desire now when you are sick?

What foods do you eat to cure illnesses or disease?

What (if any) home, popular, or traditional therapies involving food, herbs, and/or vitamins and minerals do you utilize?

Why? Or why not?

What outside influences impact your consumption of your cultural foods?

What outside influences impact your beliefs of therapeutic uses of food?

How has the American culture influenced your cultural habits and traditions?

How do you feel your cultural habits and traditions have influenced American culture?

Answer 1

What foods are indicative of your culture? What foods items are needed to make a meal for you?

Parrillada, that is a barbecue but we eat every part of the cow, brain, kidney, etc. Dulce de leche, empanadas, chipas(cheese flavored bread), mate

How many meals do you eat every day? Do you snack?

4 and yes

Who usually shares the meals?

Who prepares the meals?

my mother, my uncle when we are celebrating something

Where is food normally consumed?

kitchen, dinning room, my bedroom

How is food normally consumed?

with knife and fork? on a plate

How do your food habits differ from your family norms? In what significant ways do they differ?

none

What are symbolic meanings of food known to your culture?

mm i think somewhere in the country they bury the food for some godess of fertility or something

Do either you have any food ‘taboos’?

no

What are the major holidays you and your family celebrate each year?

Christmas, new year

What special foods are served for these holidays?

Parrillada, Fish, Pork, "sweet bread"(with dried fruits), mantecol, fruit salad

Do you fast? If yes, when? What, if any, foods are avoided and/or consumed?

we are mostly catholic so on holy thursday and friday we don't eat red meat

What foods (if any) do you eat to improve strength, endurance, and/or vitality?

the same as you do

What foods do you avoid to prevent illness or disease?

tea

What foods do you eat to stay healthy?

the same as you do

What foods did your mother (or caregiver) feed you when you were sick?

soup, lentils

What foods do you desire now when you are sick?

soup, lentils, anything hot

What foods do you eat to cure illnesses or disease?

you are being repetitive

What (if any) home, popular, or traditional therapies involving food, herbs, and/or vitamins and minerals do you utilize?

none, i don't believe in such things, i do what the doctor says

Why? Or why not?

already answered

What outside influences impact your consumption of your cultural foods?

don't understand

What outside influences impact your beliefs of therapeutic uses of food?

well, i never believed on the therapeutic uses of food

How has the American culture influenced your cultural habits and traditions?

it hasn't, i was born with globalization so i wouldn't know if it was different and what was

How do you feel your cultural habits and traditions have influenced American culture?

well i heard dulce de leche is popular there

Answer 2

Hey! Too long and I'm a vegetarian, so ...

Answer 3

Wow!! what a survey!! hehehe...

I'm Argentinian, here are my answers:

In Argentina, meat especially red meat is consumed far more than any other food. In fact, we are the biggest meat consuming Country in the world! Food items which are needed to make a meal for mysel would be:meat, dough, onions, eggs, oil, pepper and salt.

I eat 3 meals every day. I tend to snack usually a fruit or yoghurt.

My husband and I usually share the meals.

I prepare the meals.

Food is normally consumed at home, however, every second weekend we usually go to a restaurant.

If at home, we consume lots of vegetables, home made meals, if it's out we consume barbeques or pastas or fish.

Our foods differ from our family in two ways:time and variety. We tend to (especially at weekends) not have a particular time to eat as we get up quite late and I tend to include variety such as vegetables, meat, and any left over meal from the day before or lunch if eating dinner.

Symbolic meanings to food here in Argentina, would be the traditional Argentine Barbeque, it is quite symbolical as it is cooked and prepared in a special way.  It's tradition for us on a sunday to eat a barbeque. It is also considered a great social event where family and friends gather and eat, talk and enjoy a nice barbeque made by the host.

My husband's taboos in regards to meals are:Vegetables...he can't stand them! says it's like eating grass!! hehe...as for me a definite taboo would be eating Pork, cannot stand the smell!

Major holidays we celebrate each year are: Christmas, New Year's, Holy Week,Easter, Tribute to Falkland Vets, Spring Day, Flag Day, Virgin Mary's Day, the day for the Dead.

Foods that are consumed during these holidays is meat except during Holy Week where on Good Friday meat isn't allowed. Usually eat Argentinian Empanadas, Barbeque, Locro (made with corn, sausage etc...)

Fasting doesn't exist in Argentina.

To improve strength, endurance and vitality I consume, milk products, dairy products, meat, fish, vegetables, dry fruits, fruits, grains, and fats.

To prevent illness or disease I avoid consuming too much fatty food, junk food, fried food.

To stay healthy I eat grilled meals, lots of vegetables, fruits, fish, pasta, wheat bread and biscuits.

When I was sick my mum would feed me soup or home made meals with vegetables.

I desire the same thing now, when I'm sick.

If one of has a cold, we consume chicken or vegetable soup, the same if we have a tummy ache. Grilled chicken and vegetables are also on the menu. As well as, puré such as pumpkin or potato.

I use mint, basil, rosemary, cinnamon in foods. I use them to give a meal taste and have read of its properties which I find interesting for our well being.

Outside influences that impact our consumption of our cultural foods would be tradition and family.

Therapeutic uses of food is influenced by reading about the properties of such meals and how they affect our well being.

American culture has influenced us in a negative way as we tend to consume much more junk food thanks to Mc Donald's and Burguer King. It has made us more lazy, as we go in, choose a meal, pay for it and eat in or take it away.

I think or at least I'd like to think that our cultural habits has influenced the American Culture to eat more meat especially bbq's and to eat in family something that is being lost in the American Culture.

take care.......bye!

Answer 4

Too much questions!

I am from Brasil, and we have "a difference" with argentinians, but only with the ones that we do not know... Meeting an argentinian, we eill welcome him/her and laugh a lot of the behaviour. When we go there, they do the same. The departure is always filled with tears... (almost it...)

Our main difference is who plays the best football in the world. Enough for hate our neighbours, mainly when they win... Also, they think they are the South America's best (so do we, brazilians).

Famous dish is the barbecue; going there, you must prove it. Do not know more about them, except the phrase that defines them:

"They are italians speaking Spanish and thinking that they are Frenchs"...

Un Abrazo,

Answer 5

I will tray respond, I´m argentinian but my eenglish is very bad...

The the Argentine  traditional food is the cow beef. You say "Barbacui" or similar. In spanich is ASADO.

We eat four times in a day. We snack as well.

Who usually shares the meals?

May mother

Where is food normally consumed?

Do either you have any food ‘taboos’?

Not. But we dont eat dog!!!

in my home

How is food normally consumed?

in the same forms of you.

What are symbolic meanings of food known to your culture?

We haven´t symbolic meanings of food.

What are the major holidays you and your family celebrate each year?

Chirstas

What special foods are served for these holidays?

Asado, "suit bread", depend on the family.

What special foods are served for these holidays?

Do you fast? If yes, when? What, if any, foods are avoided and/or consumed?

What foods (if any) do you eat to improve strength, endurance, and/or vitality?

What foods do you avoid to prevent illness or disease?

What foods do you eat to stay healthy?

The same of the American

How do you feel your cultural habits and traditions have influenced American culture?

The fast food (Mac Donals and so) is grow in argentina.

We have a trdicional infusion, EL MATE, is like a tee, but we drikf with a BOLBILLA.