The specific combinations of foods in a cuisine and the ways they are prepared constitute a deep reservoir of accumulated wisdom about diet and health and place. In Latin America, for example, corn is traditionally eaten with beans; each plant is deficient in an essential amino acid that happens to be abundant in the other, so together corn and beans form a balanced diet in the absence of meat. Similarly, corn in Latin America is traditionally ground or soaked with limestone, which makes available a B vitamin in the corn, the absence of which would otherwise lead to a deficiency disease. Very often, when a society adopts a new food without the food culture surrounding it, as happened when corn first came to Europe, Africa, and Asia, people get sick. The context in which a food is eaten can be nearly as important as the food itself.


같은 종류의 채소라도 재배 지역에 따라 영양소가 다르다.

음식 문화의 전파는 문명의 전파 경로와는 관련이 없다.

지역 특산물 재배는 지역 경제 활성화에 도움이 된다.

채소를 곁들인 육류의 섭취는 다이어트에 효과적이다.

전통 음식 문화는 지역의 재료와 환경적 특성의 소산이다.


*limestone: 석회암
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