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    Globalization has led to the widespread availability of foods from around the world. Many common foods like potatoes, coffee, and tomatoes originated in different parts of the world than where they are now widely consumed. The potato originated in South America but is now one of the most widely grown and consumed foods globally. Coffee was first cultivated in Ethiopia but is now popular worldwide, especially in Brazil which is the largest producer. Tomatoes first grew in Peru but are now iconic in Italian cuisine, though they were slow to gain acceptance in Europe initially. The globalization of foods has exposed people to diverse cuisines and ingredients from various cultures, making available a greater variety of healthy options worldwide.

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    Globalization has led to the widespread availability of foods from around the world. Many common foods like potatoes, coffee, and tomatoes originated in different parts of the world than where they are now widely consumed. The potato originated in South America but is now one of the most widely grown and consumed foods globally. Coffee was first cultivated in Ethiopia but is now popular worldwide, especially in Brazil which is the largest producer. Tomatoes first grew in Peru but are now iconic in Italian cuisine, though they were slow to gain acceptance in Europe initially. The globalization of foods has exposed people to diverse cuisines and ingredients from various cultures, making available a greater variety of healthy options worldwide.

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    Globalization has led to the widespread availability of foods from around the world. Many common foods like potatoes, coffee, and tomatoes originated in different parts of the world than where they are now widely consumed. The potato originated in South America but is now one of the most widely grown and consumed foods globally. Coffee was first cultivated in Ethiopia but is now popular worldwide, especially in Brazil which is the largest producer. Tomatoes first grew in Peru but are now iconic in Italian cuisine, though they were slow to gain acceptance in Europe initially. The globalization of foods has exposed people to diverse cuisines and ingredients from various cultures, making available a greater variety of healthy options worldwide.

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    Globalization theories

    Globalization of Foods
    Globalization of Foods

    According to scientist every person should have at least three meals a day, but for a
    healthy life is better to have five meals a day, three main meals and two little ones. Nowadays
    we can see or hear everywhere that we should have a better, a healthier life putting much
    more attention on our everyday routine, this means moving as much as we can and eating
    healthy foods the most varied form is possible.

    For having varied meals and different foods in our homes or on our plate we need
    different kinds of foods like: fruits (orange, banana, kiwi, grapes, apple and plum), vegetables
    (tomato, potato, carrot, parsley, pepper, and sweet corn, eggplant), meat (chicken, pig, cattle,
    duck and turkey), coffee, tea, different types of drinks (wine, whisky).

    Have you ever thought about from where you have all these foods? I mean the origin of
    the foods, because we all know that most of the foods we eat like banana, orange are ripen in
    other countries. Common foods that are so much part of our everyday life, our everyday meal
    they are originated from other country. The foods we are used to eat in nowadays are product
    of globalization. The food globalization started years before the word of globalization was
    ever known.

    For example according to Yale Global online (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/potato.jsp)


    the potato which is the most common food, used especially as garnish all around the word,
    once was grown only in Africa, in South Africa. The same source indicates that the potato
    was domesticated 10.000 years ago and first was introduced in Europe in the 1500s, more
    exactly first appeared in Spanish. First potato was used as food in 1840`s by Irish people.
    Further on from the same source we find out that now China is the largest producer of
    potatoes, they produce 75 million tons in every year. In the whole word people uses yearly
    like 324 million tons. Our country has the necessary aptitude to grow here potatoes here as
    well and we use it very often as every nation in the world since we know it.

    Coffee, mocha, latte, cappuccino seems to be everywhere. Most of the people all around
    the world start their day with a coffee and they drink later at least one more. Most of us
    cannot even imagine waking up without a good tasting, fresh prepared energizing black drink.
    If it were not for the globalization we would never know about this amazing drink which
    makes our mornings better.
    As is written in the article Understanding Globalization through Chinese Food
    (http://edblog.hkedcity.net/te_tl_e/wp-content/blogs/1685/uploads/
    Enriching_FST_Web_based/10_01_Outline_Food%20Culture.pdf) the home of our favorite
    drink is Ethiopia, it is easy to confuse the origin because of the legends, which say that coffee
    is from the Arab countries. The same source says that coffee beans were brought to Columbia
    first by the Jesuits in the 16th century. Yale Global Online
    (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/coffee.jsp) presents us that coffee first arrived to Europe in
    1453 to Turkey. As arrived in Turkey the coffee seeds were roasted, mashed and mixed with
    water and finally was something similar to the coffee we know now. In Italy the coffee
    arrived in 1600 by Pope Clement VIII, who blessed the beans to help people to get out of their
    alcohol problems. Coffee had sailed to India and Indonesia in the 18 th century. The same
    source indicates that in 1675 in Vienna was opened the first coffeehouse, coffee getting in to
    the city by the Ottoman Turks. Thinking on coffee the first country which appears in our
    minds I think is Brazil. Coffee gets to Brazil in the year of 1727 than spread through Latin
    America and even in Hawaii. The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization says that today
    the largest producer of coffee is Brazil and in the year of 2001 they produced 1 billion
    kilograms of coffee. The two types which are the most popular in the all world are Arabica,
    for its origin and Robusta, being from Asia, Africa and Indonesia.

    Thanks to the food globalization Italian food has a very good reputation and is known
    almost everywhere. How does not know pizza, spaghetti? I think everyone knows them and
    eats it frequently, they are much loved dinners. Could you imagine you pizza or your
    spaghetti without the tomato sauce? Do not think so. According to Yale Global Online
    (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/tomato.jsp) not only Italian food is a part of food
    globalization but the tomato is as well. Our very beloved summer vegetable can be grown in
    our country but the country of its origin is Peru. The great tomato is the symbol of Italian
    cuisine and its presence in all over the world is undeniable. According to the same source it is
    unknown exactly how came tomato in Europe but it looks like first arrived to Spain in the
    year of 1520. From Spain tomato went to Italy and France. Southern Europeans like very
    much tomato but the Northern people were hesitating to try it because of its belonging to a
    poisonous vegetable. By the end of the 18th century tomato has won to be one of the most
    used ingredients in European kitchens. In the 1600`s appeared the famous sauce made from
    tomato, the ketchup in China. Nowadays the top countries which are preparing ketchup are:
    United States, China, Turkey, Italy and India.
    The globalization of different foods mostly we can say that has a positive impact on
    people`s life. As I presented earlier, most of our everyday used foods have their origins very
    far from us, in different countries. By trying and using this ingredients or even the all different
    kitchens from all around the world like Italian, Chinese, Indian we get closer to different
    cultures and we can eat varied this helping us to have a more healthier life than eating just
    according to our traditional foods. Maybe if it weren’t for the food globalization we wouldn’t
    know about the existents of coffee, tomato, potato we wouldn’t miss it but I think know as we
    all know all this foods and drink even those I didn’t mention we could not imagine our lives
    without these foods, no morning without coffee and no lunch without vegetables or potato as
    many ways we can imagine.

    Thanks to food globalization we can buy anytime of the year from everywhere seasonal
    foods, in winter time we have access to fresh fruits and vegetables without any kind of
    difficulties. Today, people travel all around the world, when they travel they tend to take the
    way they live with them, that’s why eating habits move in and out with us. Using internet is
    usual in everyday life and it offers a platform for us to know people`s eating culture from
    different countries. Above all this restaurants and food companies set brunch all over the
    world. All of us should pay attention on eating from everything, eating any kind of foods but
    with moderation.
    Bibliography

     Yale Global Online, accessed 6th of January

    http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/potato.jsp

    http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/coffee.jsp

    http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/tomato.jsp

     Understanding Globalization through Chinese Food, accessed 6th of January

    (http://edblog.hkedcity.net/te_tl_e/wp-content/blogs/1685/uploads/
    Enriching_FST_Web_based/10_01_Outline_Food%20Culture.pdf

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