Tracing the Origins of Foods

There is a saying, the reason that great differences exist between eating habits of various regions of the world is the result of a multitude of factors, including limitations in ecological environment, the population volume, level of productivity and others.

Most meat dishes are from areas where population density is relatively low and the soil is either not needed or unable to sustain agriculture. Reliance on meat has possibly stimulated economic activities of sharing and trade and. In comparison,a dietary habit of mainly grain, and plants’ roots, stems, leaves and less meat is usually associated with an environment where supply cannot meet demand.

The food supply in these places is more dependent on self-growing. However, dietary habits are not status quo, and with no classification as good or bad.

But with migration of people on a global scale, dietary traditions that are once fixed to a region might be accepted and adopted by more and more people; and the original regional dietary habit evolves to contain more new elements. People could possibly see from the long-standing Chinese food culture the footprints of the common development of humankind.

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