Families Foodways

When asking my mom what she was accustom to food wise when growing up it seemed to me that there was some significant differences and some similarities. The food that my mother grew up eating is similar to the food I eat today because were apart of a strong Hispanic culture. For example if I were to think of one food that is usually cooked at my household I would have to say its rice and beans. Usually in a household the mother or female figure is the one stirring up the pot in the kitchen for the family at the dinner table just like now in days. But eating at the dinner table every night and having a rich traditional family dinner isn’t something that’s instilled on us as a family today.


I remember hearing stories my grandmother use to tell me about how she grew up. She told me that back in Puerto Rico before she came to the United States the food use to taste better. Everything was made around her, that life wasn’t simple, life wasn’t great but it was good. Their was no buying from the local supermarket, their was vegetables, chickens and more in your backyard and all you had to do was take your time and prepare it. If you were to go to another country you would see that lots of money can be also seen as having a lot of crops. These crops are what many survive on because money isn’t something that can be spent on food when it can be grown. This is very different from how we are today as a family and modern day culture.


As generation passed on the amount of food, variety of food and how it’s eaten has changed due to present day culture and economic class. There’s no need to proportion the food or the meat or whatever to each member of the family because now were financially able to do so, unlike my grandmother growing up. We could just go to the supermarket and look to feed again.  we could also stoop to just buying an occasional or regular day meal outside on the sidewalk and buy Chinese food, Thai food, Wendys or any type of food were accustomed to seeing and wanting a new taste and most of all BUYING.