Cooking Tips For Immigrants
By Mistonty Carmeaclen
It happens all the time when a person moves from one country to a new one, he must adjust to the customs and to the way of life in the new nation. The first problem of adjustment which immigrant faces almost immediately is cooking style. The immigrant is accustomed to certain foods in their motherland and served at several times during the day. In a new country, immigrant may find himself having to eat foods he never heard of, prepared in ways he knows nothing about, and eaten at times when he is unaccustomed to eating. Here are some cooking tips for the immigrants.
As we known, the basic methods of cooking are boiling, baking or roasting, frying, and broiling. Boiled foods are cooked in water or some other liquid such as oil at a boiling temperature. Baked or roasted foods are cooked by dry heat in an oven. Fried foods are cooked in hot fat or oil until brown and tender and broiled foods are cooked by direct fire or heat.
People who work must either take lunch with them or get it near the place where they work, and children in school take sandwiches, fruit, and cookies along with them or eat in school cafeterias. Coffee, tea, or milk are served, and dessert. Breakfast normally consists of eggs, some meat, toast, fruit or fruit juice, and coffee. Lunch is likewise a light meat and is normally eaten away from home.
Dinner is ordinarily planned around a meat course, which may be the flesh of pigs (pork), sheep (mutton or lamb), and cattle (beef), or various fowl such as chicken, turkey, and duck. These animals are cut into steaks, chops, and roasts, the latter being large portions of meat for cooking in an oven. Ground beef is called hamburger and ground pork is sausage. Ham comes from the leg of a pig. In addition to meat, an American dinner often includes potatoes or rice, or some other starch food, and green or yellow vegetable or a salad.
Comments