Nimen hao! Hello world wide interweb!
Within the next few months to come I will be using this online blogposting website to compose and structure a directed independent study project (DISP) in China. The broad topic for my project is food, particularly Chinese food (I think it would be a bit more difficult to study western food in Beijing because providers are far and few). Through the use of historical review, personal recollections, the process of learning to purchase and cook traditional family style meals, interviews of the old and the young as well as of restaurateurs I hope to gain a better understanding for how the production, purchasing and consuming of food has shaped the culture in Beijing/China. Since the early 1980's the picture of food culture in China has changed drastically with a boom of options and restaurants around every corner. By understanding how food shapes the culture I believe I will gain a deeper appreciation for China and how it functions.
Using this online blogposting website I am confident I can retell some fascinating stories and provide readers (friends, teachers, family members, randos, and Internet stalkers) with some knowledge of real Chinese food and Chinese culture. Feel free to leave comments, stories, personal opinions, constructive critiques, crippling critiques, or anything of the liking to help me figure out how food can shape a culture. Relations to the way things are in your home culture are always interesting as well.
I promise this will be entertaining, so if you follow it until perhaps some good conclusions will be made and you can actually learn something. I sure hope to.
A bit of a disclaimer, my Chinese language skills are minimal at this point, but getting better, so I apologize in advance for butchering names, names of dishes, names of restaurants, recipes, directions, and most importantly my use of the English language (I blame my American status for the majority of this...).
Anywho, I hope you enjoy. zaijian for now!
-dèng lín lín (abigail rebecca darin)
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