Deck 9: Food, Cuisine, and Cultural Expression

Question 1

What is meant by eating "Salvadoran style"?

A) eating with family and relatives
B) eating festival foods
C) using tortillas to scoop up food
D) eating in a squatting position

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Each of the following was an important domesticated crop of Mesoamerica except:

A) potatoes
B) corn
C) squash
D) chili peppers

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Among the following European crops, which was the least well received bindigenous peoples?

A) fava beans
B) barley
C) oats
D) wheat

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is feijoada?

A) a Salvadoran dish of meat and potatoes
B) a Jamaican dish of bananas, rice, and tripe
C) a Brazilian dish of rice, black beans, meats, manioc, kale and orange slices
D) an Argentine dish of potatoes, beans, beef, and onions

Question 5

By the mid-1920s, many areas of Latin America and the Caribbean were importinwhat food from the United States?

A) corn
B) rice
C) potatoes
D) sugar

Question 6

What is juthaa?

A) a fermented corn drink
B) a food ideology
C) a festival involving guinea pigs
D) a Brazilian stew

Question 7

In Trinidad many food taboos and ideas about food pollution were introduced from:

A) Sri Lanka
B) Spain
C) England
D) India

Question 8

In Zumbagua, Ecuador, Weismantal found that serving food constitutes:

A) a gift
B) gender submission
C) female autonomy
D) a political challenge

Question 9

Which of the following best describes gender-inflected foods?

A) foods that are meant exclusively for one gender and not the other
B) foods that are grown and consumed only by one gender
C) foods that convey culturally construed notions of gender identity
D) foods that are representative of gender status

Question 10

In Brazil, what two animals are considered consumption metaphors associated witgender and sexuality?

A) piranas and chickens
B) piranas and cows
C) chickens and snakes
D) cows and chickens

Question 11

What is the "hot-cold dichotomy" of foods?

A) the attribution of gender qualities to specific foods
B) a thermal state associated with non-indigenous foods only
C) a symbolic temperature state that is associated with seasonal changes
D) the attribution of specific qualities to foods believed to effect overall health

Question 12

According to Matthews, each of the following are dimensions commonly associatewith the phenomenon of hot-cold states in food classification except:

A) classifications of food are context-specific
B) foods obtain meaning based on the way they are exchanged
C) foods change classificatory status according to the presence of illnesses
D) foods are classified in order to neutralize the states of individuals' bodies

Question 13

In Mexico, tamales are most frequently prepared by:

A) men
B) women
C) grandmothers
D) community specialists

Question 14

Tamales loom important in the migrant community in accumulating and investing in:

A) the hierarchy of taste and cuisine
B) reservoirs of memory
C) consumption metaphors
D) social capital

Question 15

One of the most important roles of food sharing in the migrant community is to:

A) expand social networks
B) alleviate hunger
C) create marriage alliances
D) gain competitive prestige

Question 16

The use of food makes a statement about class and ethnic relationships.

Question 17

Food serves as a reservoir of memory.

Question 18

Among many African slaves the greatest area of autonomy was in the realm of fooand cuisine.

Question 19

Pound for pound, guinea pig meat has a protein percentage that matches chicken.

Question 20

Juthaa is found in Trinidad.

Question 21

In Brazil, feij o with meat is believed to increase sexual potency.

Question 22

National cuisines are very stable and do not change frequently.

Question 23

Cuisines now in Belize considered "authentic" or "traditional" represent largely ainversion of the colonial hierarchy of taste and cuisine.

Question 24

Although there is some discrepancy on whether one food is hot or cold, tea ialways considered a hot food.

Question 25

Tamale production in Mexico is an excellent example of gender domination ansubmissiveness.

Question 26

Give an example of a class-based ideological association with food.

Question 27

Name three crops that had far-reaching consequences in the transformation of thpolitical economy and underdevelopment of the Central American nation-states.

Question 28

Give three reasons why rice and bread are so highly prized in Zumbagua, Ecuador.

Question 29

Why does food provoke anxiety in Jamaican culture?

Question 30

Describe communitas.

Question 31

Discuss the relationship between food and culture.

Question 32

Describe how the jaca tsariy is a ritual of resistance.

Question 33

Explain the statement by Pilcher that in Mexico there was the "formation of national community in the kitchen…." (1998:66).