Sunday, March 23, 2008

American Food And Omani Food

Everybody eats food .It is one of the important things that give us life together with air and water. But the food gives us other things like health and energy. As we know many kinds of food give us protean and vitamin like vegetables, fruits, fish and eggs. As it has benefits it also has risks. But that risk comes when the people eat more than what they eat normal .For example sugar builds happen when people eat sugar or sweets a lot. Also, obesity is a very big problem the same as diabetes. Each country has his special food like Mexican people they love spicy food. Like in Marocco people love to eat sweet and they are famous for them. Also the Omani people they have them food as well as American people. There are many differences between Omani and American food. Many Omani Families eat at home on Weeknights and weekends as well as on special occasion. There are many kinds of Omani food there is sweet, spicy and delicious food. For example my family loves to eat spicy food the same as Mexican and Indian food. When lunching at home most older people eat traditional food. They drink coffee and eat rice at almost every meal. There are many kinds of food which have rice in it . Maqboos is one of our foods that uses rice in it. It is made with some of soup with meat or chicken.It is delicious with a salt.Other food that uses rice in it is to cook rice alone and eat it with fish or chicken barbeque .That food we eat it on a normal day.On occasions like Eid we eat one of the popular foods called Arosia that food also uses rice in it. It Cook by mixing some rice with chicken until it become like mashed potatoes. Then we eat with sweet soup or with oil. Every person loves to eat it with anything that he love .On other occasions like wedding people eat Halwa which is very sweet .They use a lot of sugar in it. Therefore it is one of the most famous traditional Omani foods . The problem is most older people get diabetes. Younger people As we know America has many cultures from the different people who live in it. So there are many kinds of American food. American people work long hours, so they don’t have too much time to cook food .They eat fast food most the time.So,American love to eat cheeseburgers and hot dogs. That is the most popular food in America. American use beef or meat to make fear wear cakes, which they put between 2 pieces of bread and add cheese or any thing that they love .Hot dog is almost the same as cooking a burger . Rods and superhighways are lined with establishments such as McDonald’s restaurants. Arabic people who live in America has special soup called Harira .Is a wholesome traditional soup of chickpeas and tomatoes, bursting with a heady mixture of aromatic herbs and spices. Flakes of lamb are added to the dish. American people same as the Omani people they have popular food in occasion like for Xmas they cook turkey .It is a very big kind of chicken they cook it in an oven and add vegetables .In America there are no different between what the younger people eat and what the elder eat

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