Last week, we had an interisting day at the IEP. We ate food from all over the world! All the international students and professors made a Potlock Lunch.At the beginning I wasn´t sure about cooking something for that day. As I´m the only one from Venezuela I thought it might be really difficult to cook without help. I started to call my mom like crazy: "Mom, what can I cook??, I´m really bad doing this you know it!" As she´s a VERY good cooker she gave me like 5 ideas, one was more difficult than the other! Then I said: "I know! I´m gonna cook this Christmas salad".
I don´t consider myself a good cooker because food is a very important thing in my country, just like in other places of the world. We use many fresh vegetables, beans of different colors etc. Almost in every lunch we drink natural juices, you can find fresh pinneaples, guavas, melons everywhere and make a juice.
In Latinamerica, food is very similar, although we have different dishes, flavors are alike. Here in the U.S, food has a lot of artificial flavors and condiments. In the South much of the time it´s spicy but good.
In the Potlock Lunch I saw a lot of Japanese food. That was interesting for me because I usually relate "Japanese food= sushi", but they had diversityof soups and other things I don´t know the names but tasted good.
The deserts were also very good. There were waffles and "dulce de leche", that´s very traditional in South America, it seems to be very typical in Argentina and Urugay but is eaten in the rest of the continent. Actually I like it more than chocolate!
I learned a lot from this activity, it was really fun and tasty!
In the picture: My chicken salad. It´s very traditional in my country for Christmas and parties.
Me too, I like potluck especially when there are dishes from different countries, because it's the opportunity to try something new that you never ate before. I never ate a dish from Venezuela before, perhaps can you teach me how to make one of your favorite dishes?
ReplyDeleteWow~! I envy you. I also want to have diverse country foods~! lol
ReplyDeleteActually, the food of this country is quite different compared to Korea. However, even though sometimes something food is not good, I like most America food~!
I'm glad to hear that you realized sushi is not the only Japanese food.lol
ReplyDeleteheh , just like me , i stayed with my mom on the phone for a long time ... yeah it was fun
ReplyDeleteIt´s true that a lot meals are almost he same in South America, for example the salad you prepeared we also eat it, and the same happended with the dulce de leche (we thought it was only from Arg-Urg ;P). Consequently, that was why Argentina and Uruguay cook together... otherwise we will have prepeared the same!!
ReplyDeletehahaha... "I'm glad to hear that you realized sushi is not the only Japanese food.lol" I can't stop laughing :D
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Liz, your salad was great! Did you taste it with Dulce de leche? hmmm yummy!!!