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The Global Kitchen

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The Western cuisine and The North America cooking influences What is Western Cuisine? this is for sure a hard question to answer, since food is always cross with culture and that means diversity. We can give different answers to our main question, on one hand we can say that is related with the strong influence of French Cuisine that made rules about cooking with the Auguste Escoffier’s modernization of classical French cooking techniques. On the other hand, we also can say that is related with main ingredient, flavors and spices this part of the world uses (pasta, mother sauces, meats, plating, salt and pepper, etc). At the same time, many countries in the Western have some of this influences but other are stronger, like the case of Latin American countries cuisines that are mixed with local tradition, like the Mexican mole or the Japanese influences in Peru that blend with local ingredients and are far from French tradition, the corn as main ingredient in many dishes (something no
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Narda Lepes and social activism in the culinary industry

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A little about Narda Narda Lepes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. She lived in different countries with her family and developed the loved for cooking from an early age, deciding finally to dedicate her life to this profession. Her first approach was with the Japanese cuisine where she discovered cooking practices, valuable to develop habits to improve healthfulness. She led two Japanese restaurants and then, in 2008, published her first book called "Comerla y pasarla bien" (Eat and have fun) that is a manual to enjoy food and built good habits, with a plus of nutrition and shopping tips and how choose the ingredients. After that she also published, in 2017, "Ñam ñam. Manual para alimentar a un pequeño omnívoro" (Ñam, Ñam, manual to feed the little omnivore) orientated to develop good practices in food since an early age. Her Activism Her motto in Spanish is "comer rico" (eating well, or literally, eating richly) but this not is a reference on
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Cows, uses and issues

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Domestication of animals is one of the features of human civilization, when our ancestors started to settle, and abandoned nomadism. They learn how to breed animals and plants, to have secure sources of food, this practices replaced in many centuries the practice of hunt and gathering. Cows were the first animals to be domesticated, together with pigs, sheep and goats. Cows were domesticated in the dawn of civilization, 10.500 years ago, in the Fertile Crescent, and in the next millennia they were introduced in Europa, Africa and east Asia, becoming an important source of meat, dairy and leather. They also were used as currency, to exchanges goods, pay taxes and ad a fixed price in the first civilization, before metal currency became popular. My reason to choose this animal is because in my native country, Argentina, cows are important in our economy and our beef has a high reputation. In most parts of my country, cows are grass-fed, and that contributes to its quality. Sustainable or
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Carbohydrates and Added Sugars

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 Carbohydrates are easy to find in many foods, potatoes, quinoa, oats, and beets. During the last years, carbohydrates had had bad press, however, humans need carbs for their organism, they are a source of energy and many food that are high in carbs also provide fiber.  On the other side, added sugars are a serious issue in nourishment. Much of the food industry rely in sugars, like cookies, sodas, sauces, candies, and pastry, it is cheaper but unhealthy. Nevertheless, there are a difference in Carbs and added sugars; while the first is something we can find naturally in food, sugars are added intentionally in products to enhance the flavor.  Today, it is recognize that eat big amounts of products with added sugars, damage our health. "Eating a diet that’s high in added sugar is bad news for your heart, according to a major 2014 study. The researchers found that eating more than the recommended amount of added sugar may increase your risk of dying from heart disease".(Domon
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