Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities

Do you agree with"You are what you eat"?
- Yes, I do agree with it. Before I didn't believe this statement, but now I do. I used to eat a lot of meat and less vegetables for 20 years. My health was great. My shape was good until I had the job that I had to sit in front of the computer more than 5 hours a day. My body has changed. I had a little belly. I gained weight. I looked bad.
So I changed the way I ate. I ate more veggies, less meat. I tried to balance between them. Now, I'm still doing that. I believe I'll be the way what I eat. If I eat fat stuff, I'm fat. If I eat heathy, I'm heathy.

6.Yes, I can stop to eat meat. if you want to become vegetarian health reasons, there are numerous benefits. If you normally eat meat everyday, eliminating all meat overnight will be a drastic change. Instead slowly remove meat from your diet over a period of weeks or months. Planning meals in advance and experimenting with new foods should also help to make the transition smoother.

Could you stop eating meat?
- No, I could not because it's hard to find the vegan or vegetarian food and very expensive. The tast of foods are differnt. I think the protien from bean is lesser than protien from meat.

My sister had the same situation in her life. She was very think and small when she was young, but then she began to eat "bad" food, or as I call it "dangerous food" and she got larger. I agree with you 100%

Do you respect food? How?

Yes, I do.
My parent has taught me about respect food especially rice because it is very difficult to grow rice. So, we should know how much we are going to eat rice and don't waste it. Another reason is if we cook or order too much food and don't finish it. My parent have shown me about people who doesn't have food to eat. After that I have never waste my food. I have tried to finish or order enough food.

My name is Asel.I watched the video how food shapes our life.I think I could not stop eating meat.Because I'm from Central Asia where we grow up eating meat from the childhood.The country where I'm from almost 90% is mountain.So you can't imagine people living in such a countries not eating meat .
The animals eat an organic staff.Our grand parents used to eat even fat, not only meat.But they didn't have an any problems.When you eat an organic staff you never think what could happened with your stomach.It's easy to digest the organic food.I never think becoming a vegeterian.
Now I live in America where you are not always find an organic food/meat.But it doesn't make me become a vegeterian.
I think if I you don't eat meat you feel weak. While you might focus on meats as a good source of protein, they also contain a number of essential vitamins and minerals. The vitamins and minerals found in meats help boost your energy, balance your blood pressure and keep your immune system healtY.
We can try to limit little bit eating meat if we think it's not organic,or even the organic too.
An alternative way to get protein is beans.

How do you value food ?

Mongolians traditionally have turned to foods that are high in protein and minerals, relying less on more seasonable foods like vegetables and fruits. This means a diet heavy on meat and dairy products, the latter when sour in the summer time thought to clean the stomach. It isn’t just about meat though. Mongolians do also eat cereal, barley and natural fruits and plants native to the country.Out of necessity Mongolians have found creative and ingenious ways to use the milk of all five of the domestic animals in the country: sheep, cattle, goats, camels and horses. Orom is the cream that forms on top of boiled milk; aaruul are dried curds and can be seen baking in the sun on top of gers in the summer; eetsgii is the dried cheese; airag is fermented milk of mares (female horses); nermel, is the home-brewed vodka that packs a punch; tarag, is the sour yogurt; shar tos, melted butter from curds and orom, and tsagaan tos, boiled orom mixed with sometimes flour, natural fruits or eesgii. The method of drying the dairy products is common in preparing them. The Mongolians prepare enough dairy products for the long winter and spring.

you will probably have an opportunity of tasting buuz, khuushuur and bansh. These Mongolian national meals are made with minced meat seasoned with garlic or onion (it can be anything from mutton to beef to camel to horse to gazelle) covered with flour and steamed in boiling water, fried in oil and boiled in water. For many visitors to the country the vast quantities of meat consumed can at first be surprising.

2.Do you expect food ?

Yes , I do
Food like all other things in existence has energy, a vibration. When you are eating try and visualize the energy of the food you are eating entering your body and carrying out it’s function. Sometimes we do this subconsciously; when we are really hungry and finally sit down to eat some of mum’s Sunday dinner, we really feel the food going down and appreciate the wonderful tastes and smells sliding through our body’s and filling our tummy’s.

When you know that you are about to eat a good meal, you start salivating, this is important for the digestion process the begin, if the food tastes good, you feel happy and your body will naturally relax allowing a proper follow of blood to your digestive system so that you digest it properly. Most people who are able to get a good satisfying meal a day find that is all they really need, snacks are few and far between, if they are necessary at all, they are normally of a good standard.

Respect your body enough to give it the best at all times. Restrictions of money will not last forever unless you want them too. Don’t use lack of money as your continuing excuse for not improving your health because medical bills will be more expensive. Health doesn’t always mean you buy the most expensive foods, you simply by the best quality, this can mean you grow your own vegetables, herbs and fruit if you can so you know its organic, this is also cheaper. Make your own juices, eat foods that have the vitamins and minerals you need instead of buying supplements, put your energy into preparing you meals.

3.How does your culture see food?

Breakfast and lunch are the most important meals of the day, and they serve the usual collection of national staples.

4. Do you celebrate food ? How?

]Tsagaan Sar - Mongolian Lunar New Year!!!

Tsagaan Sar or White Month is the Mongolian New Year. It has been celebrated for centuries with other Asian nations during the end of January, February or beginning of March, though it usually happens in February. Tsagaan Sar is one of the two main holidays celebrated by Mongolians, and so it needs lots of preparation.

Mongolians cook three important dishes for the event. During the long evenings all members of the family and their relatives gather together around the stove, which is in the centre of the ger, to make literally hundreds of buuz (steamed dumplings made of beef, onion and fat). Buuz are kept frozen until they are steamed for the guests. My family is used to making thousands of buuz because my grandparents were old and respected people, and expected many visitors. Boov – biscuits made of flour – is the second main dish to be on the table. The biscuits are about thirty centimetres long and four centimetres thick, and they are stacked on a plate with each level laid out in a triangle or square shape. Layers have to be odd numbers – three, five, etc – as the odd numbers represent happiness. The older the family members, the higher the stack of boov. During the summer months families would have already prepared many dairy products such as cheeses and hard curds (these are white foods, to match the White Month) which would decorate the stack of boov, interspersed with small sweets. Lastly, almost a whole sheep’s back, particularly with a big fatty tail – uuts – would be cooked for the Tsagaan Sar. Mongolians try to cook a sheep with as big a tail as possible, wishing the family wealth and prosperity.

5.How does food shape yoir life?

6. Could you stop eating meat?
No,I can't

7.Do you agree with you are what you eat ?
i like to eat everything .