This project made me learn more about what I eat in my culture and why we eat it. Also, I learned more about my culture and how to cook more and it made me view food differently and its connection to me as a person. Now I can see how food effects emotions and how we have favorite foods. Having a favorite food means that you love the food so much that it makes you happy when your're sad and it brings back memories of the first time you ate it. Also eating it part of our life's and it depends if it home made or store brought because home made is natural and store brought is unnatural. Meaning its not from you, it came from some one else and to have home made it have to be from your heart.
In my family we celebrate every holiday and we have as much fun as we can. However, there are not specific food we eat, we just eat whatever. But mostly my mom cooks jollof rice because every one loves it and then I make the salads and its the best! Mostly Christmas, new years, mothers and fathers day and more. The way we celebrate all of these holidays is by eating and having fun. However, it seems like jollof rices is really important in out culture for so many reason, and i don't know what those Ghanaian life's will be without a great food like that.
There are certain foods all round the world that goes with our culture and its important to us. For example, every countries have their favorite food they love and its always the food the family cooks at home which makes it the best. Moreover, everyone in my family loves jollof rice and its the best when my mom cooks it so word I. Also, the relationship between food, family, and culture is that everything is one. Meaning, our family is the same culture, we eat our culture food and that's the same into one. And also we love and eat the same food from our culture.
All these food will be my favorite forever and I will never stop eating it. In fact I learn from how my mom cooks and now I can cook it all the time if I have to. When I have a family of my own, I'll make sure they love it and they know how to cook it too and it will keep going and then they'll show their kids. I think its important to understand their own food culture. Furthermore, I learned how to cook fried rice by watching my dad and now I can cook it my self and that's how its going to be with my children.
If I was a food, I think I would be a jollof rice because everyone loves it and its tastes so good. Moreover, I would be eaten up very quick and that's crazy. I love this food so much because I have eaten it since I was a kid and also it depends and hows its cooked. Because sometimes it tastes good and the smell makes you feel emotional which is good because you love it. For example kids, this food makes them feel happy when they are sad so me being this food would be very helpful.
-- Home Made Banku
Banku
Banku /Akple: Fermented corn/cassava dough mixed proportionally and cooked in hot water into a smooth, whitish consistent paste. Served with soup, stew or a pepper sauce with fish.
How To Prepare Banku
- What you need
- six to eight cups of corn (maize)
- flour or cornmeal (ground corn or ground maize);
- (White cornmeal is preferred, it should be finely ground, like flour.
- Latin American style corn flour, as is used in tortillas,
- tamales,
- pupusas, etc. is the right kind); for Banku only: a similar amount of equal parts corn flour and grated cassava tuber may be substituted.
