Of Sugar and Snow Chapter2

During seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France set the style in upper-class European dining and in the making of ices and ice creams. The first book completely dedicated to ice cream was written by Frenchman, Monsieur Emy, and published in Paris in 1768. French cookbooks were being translated and distributed in England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy.
Francois Massialot was one of the most influential French chefs of the time. He was born in 1660 and cooked for many of France's nobles. He had to contend with the realities of ice cream making. Nearly every ingredients that was needed presented a problem of one kind or another. The ice business was not yet widly established, so obtaining and storing ice was still expensive, in addition, salt was costly. Moreover, in an era, there was no refrigerator, so milk and cream often curdled and eggs weren't always fresh.
I was very surprised that the first book was written in France. I thought the first book was written in Italy, because Italy is famous for gelato. And now, it is very natural that there is refrigerator in each house, but in older days, that was not natural. However people living in that era tried to make ice creams. I was very surprised  that point.

Reading book

I started to read the book I chose. The title of the book is "Of Sugar and Snow~A History of Ice Cream Making~" I read the part of Early Ices and Iced Creams. At first of this parts, it was descrived some patterns of dinner in the seventeenth century. For example, the foods feasted on a dozen or more courses, possibly spit-roasted pork topped with a crown of lemons, fresh strawberries bathed in wine and served atop a mound of snow, lasagna sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, and dishes of fresh fennel,pears, grapes, and artichokes adorned with snow and flowers. Then according to this book, scientists had mastered how to freeze something, the ice cream began to make. Cooks had for many years been making the drinks and creams that were the precursors of ices and ice creams.

Fast Food Revolution: Taco Bell

I watched the video about fastfood restaurant in America, especiallt "Taco Bell".
This shop is  6th largest fastfood chain store in America. This shop's concept is that
everyone can eat easily and the selling points is shape, quality, or something. The first shop was
opened in 1960. This fastfood shop only sell Mexican cuisine.
When I went to California, I went to "TACO BELL" for the first time and ate something Mexican
cusines. At that time, I ate Mexican cuisine for the first time. I thought it was good thing to eat
ethnic cuisine easily. However it is not good thing to eat fastfood every time, because these foods
are high calorie. So sometimes using is better.

URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_oaz7ZBbI

Book about food

It was too difficult for me to choose the book written about food.
Last week, I chose the book about the women's position in agriculture.
However my teacher said that this book is too difficult. So I decided to choose a book again.
I went to library and there are so many books. So I can't find the book suitable for my English
level. Next, I tried to find the book on the Internet cite, Amazon. I don't know the book is
suitable for my English level, but I found the interesteing book written about the history of ice cream.
I decided this book late, so I haven't have this book yet. But I want to read this book soon.

Food Aphorisms

I'd like to introduce food aphorisms which I agree with and disagree with.

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and Food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.-Joss Whedon
I agree with this, because I sympathized this thought. Eating food is important to live a healthy life. And I  can't go a week eithout having food. To be alive, the most imoirtant thing is to eat something.

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star."-Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
I disagree with this, because of course it is important for human race to discover new dish, however I think that it is more important for us to discover a star. It is because if ancient people didn't discover stars, we might not live on earth now.

Reflections on the picnic

   On the October 4th, we went to the Yoyogi Park to go on a picnic. It was a little bit cold day to go on a picnic. We gathered in front of the main gate, and walked to Yoyogi Park. On the way to the park, we were talking with each other. I hadn't never talk with most of this class members, so I thought that day was a good opportunity to talk with this class members.
   By the way, this class is the class learning "food and culture". I'm very interested in this field of studying. And I like cooking. So I wanted to cook something complicated dishes, however, now I live in Tokyo by myself so I couldn't prepare enough ingredients to do so. So I made some riceballs. The dishes cooked by my classmates were very delicious. I wanted to know how to cook these dishes and cook by myself someday.

　For me, this picnic had very important meaning, because I became friends with class members and the opportunity to exercise and think about healthy foods.