First Peer Review: Ameliarate’s Dining Experience

Engaging in new experiences and leaving one’s comfort zone often leads to a great deal of realization of one’s own cultural norms and understandings of how culture and life experience can vary between individuals. Ameliarate’s critique of Anye Tsang’s Little Tibet presents a dynamic, enlightening view of a dining experience that illuminates cultural customs expressed within that given context. By conducting research on the reasons for certain foods being staples of Tibetan cuisine she was able to have more of an understanding of why certain foods and modes of preparation were authentic. This implies that the presence or lack of certain foods, such as rice for example, were indicative of conditions and the preferences of the populous of the nation being represented. This is greatly indicative of the fact that cultural norms can be greatly shaped by geographical environment and other such factors that result in a difference of life experience. This implies that food ways are greatly affected by environmental conditions and other such universal experiences shared by a cultural group, which results in a food type of tradition. Ultimately “ethnic foods” are characterized by the conditions of life of the people from whom they originate. Much of a culture’s past and present is therefore quite visible.

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This was my first peer review assignment.