15-Final Reflection

 During this project I had learn a lot about my culture, my country value and how important is to represent where you coming from and also how important traditions are. For me tradition is what makes your family different from every other family and make your family unique. Some traditions keep family together and some don’t there are also people from the same family that would not agree on the type of tradition they have and will try to get rid of it. This project did not change the way I eat but it make me reflect about the food i'm use to eat and how those type of food represent my culture a lot of people would not know about some type of food that I eat that I think are just regular food but for other people might not see like regular food because they not use to it they only use to their food and might see it like I see their food. I think that food have an important role in culture because food is a way to tell where you coming from or who you are and it’s also mark social differences. Some of the food that you might find in different country might have different meaning for all of them for example I don’t know another country that define itself with Mangu or Rice, Beans and Meat they might eat those type of food but it doesn't mean anything for them.    

14-If I Were....

If I were a food I would be Rice,Beans and Meat. Why I choose this food? well rice beans and meat typically represents Dominican people and also some people say that this food have our flag color and how much I like  to represent were are coming from and my beautiful country and culture. Im very proud of my country and culture even though is not a perfect country and no country is but for me my country is the most beautiful country is topical it have beautiful beaches and many beautiful places that not even me that were born over there had experience this wonderful places and now that I leave out of the country I realize my country value .I would never  realize this if I would still leave over there there are many beautiful countries but for me my country is the most beautiful. Another food that I would like to be is mangu  because mangu is also one of our culture food and I would be any food that represent my country.

13-Holidays

Some of the holidays that I celebrate with my family are Christmas, New Year, Three Kings, The Holy Week  and some many more. Almost all of this holidays are related with food the one that are not related a lot with food is the Three Kings. When I was little I used leave cookies, milk and candy the day before the Three Kings now I don't actually celebrate the Three Kings because only little kids can celebrate it but the Three Kings is almost the same thing as here when they open the gift in December 25 but we don’t celebrate it in December with celebrate it on January 6 or 7. In the Holy Week when its come to the holy friday some people don't eat meat I don't know why but i think that they don't eat meat because of their religion I think they do this because the meat represents jesus body or something like I don't really know because my family don't follow this tradition my family is christian but they don't stop eating meat because is holy friday what we really do is that we prepare Habichuela Con Dulce on this day. Christmas is the most Holiday that is related with food like I say before my mom cook a lot on this day and make a lot of different type of food the most important part of the food that cant ever miss is the chicken or the pernil.