[CH] Re: REPLY/ FROM LUKE IN OZ
Lukasz Electronics (lukasz@midcoast.com.au)
Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:35:49 +1000
Wai Chung Lam wrote:
>
> Hi Chile-heads,
>
> I'm a college student writing an anthropology paper on Spicy food for a
> class called "Food and Culture". I want to address the issues of
>
> 1. why human being would have adopted chili peppers (or anything
> spicy) as a type of food given its pungency.
> ONE GETS SICK OF EATING MILLET/WHEAT/CORNMEAL...
> 2. what so special about chili/spicy food that make some people so
> crazy about it.
> THE ENDORPHINS
> 3. how people in different cultures view spicy food. Do people treat
> it with awe, as something "sacred"? or is it just like a normal diet? and
> do people in different classes eat different types of spicy food? are
> there things like upper-class spicy food and lower-class spicy food?
> ONLY IF ONE IS A CARD CARRYING CHILE-HEAD
> I'm originally from Hong Kong, a place where spicy food isn't too common a dish. So I'm really interested in why some people in different cultures
> will like spicy food so much.
>
> I'd really appreciate it if you can take a little bit of your time to
> share with me your thoughts on spicy food by answering some simple
> questions below. Any information or opinions that you can provide will be
> truly appreciated and very valuable to my paper!
>
> 1. What's your ethnicity?
> POLISH
> 2. Where are you from? Did you spend most part of your life there? If not,
> where?
> POLAND TILL 6.5YRS NEW ZEALAND TILL 14,5YRS , AUSTRALIA TILL NOW 46.3 YRS
> 3. Do you like spicy food?
> YES
> 4. Why do you like/dislike spicy food?
> THE RUSH
> 5. How did you develop your taste in spicy food?
> HORSE-RADISH/TABASCO/ THEN THAI CHILES/THEN HABANEROS/THEN TEPINS
> 6. How would you describe spicy food?
> ONE OF MY BASIC FOOD GROUPS "TO BE EATEN DAILY"
> 7. What is your favorite spicy dish(es)?
> BELIZIAN HABANERO SAUCE/CHIPOTLES IN ADOBO 2 ITEMS
> 8. Do you observe any roles/functions that spicy food play in your
> culture or your society, e.g. does it represent/symbolize anything? Do you
> only eat spicy food, or eat certain type of spicy food, at certain
> occasions? Are there any myths/tales about spicy food in your culture? Do
> people in different classes eat different types of spicy food? etc
> NO,NO,NO,?
> 9. Do you have any idea why your culture would have started eating
> spicy food?
> BLANDNESS AND PRESERVATION OF FOOD
> 10. Please feel free to give any of your thoughts on anything about
> spicy food.
>
> Thank you so much for your help!
>
> Hopefully, I can start a discussion on this topic in this mailing list as
> well!
>
> Judy Lam
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