Just a few weeks ago I travelled to Leeds and went to Trinity shopping centre, on the very top floor was a massive food hall but it wasn't just any food it was street food from around the world e.g. Vietnamese pho, Mexican burritos, Indian etc. and it was heaving with people. Reading this article made me realise that there is a demand for specialist cuisine and it's growing.
This quote talks about the diversification and demand for world cuisine. Living in Carlisle my entire life I have seen so many street vendors and world cuisine restaurants come and go, in my opinion the most diverse trait of Carlisle is the continental market and over the years I have watched more and more people attend.
I do believe there is a difference in quality from street vendor food and restaurant and surprisingly its usually the vendor food thats better. Jess talked about how the global marketing of food has resulted in people suffering with life long illnesses I do think that the more available food becomes especially world cuisine could be a danger to peoples diets.
What do you think about street food as opposed to restaurants? Personally the grimier the place the better the food (but maybe that applies to foreign countries only)
http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Trends-Reports/Globalisation-of-UK-food-scene-drives-chain-operator-growth
I agree, I think that it's great that we've got all these different foods from around the world available. I enjoy eating it myself and can't actually imagine there not being any food from different cultures here! I think it definitely has its benefits but there is always going to be a risk of people eating it way to often and not getting the nutrients they really need. Is that the sellers fault though, or is it the consumers? With how easy it is to just grab a takeaway, it makes it super convenient for us especially when we're on the go and I do enjoy eating 'junk food' but couldn't have a diet filled with it and think that more should be done to make people aware of whats in the food (and more importantly whats not) and what kind of things we should be including in our diets everyday. I'm not saying that we should make the food healthier, it can stay as it is because lets face it, having a little bit every now and then isn't really going to hurt us, it's the people who's whole diet consists of convenience food who are at danger and maybe if the foods included nutritional information it might make people realise just how bad the food is for them on a daily basis. I remember seeing something on the news not so long back about wanting to put cigarette type warnings on McDonalds packaging and there were very mixed views about the subject! Personally, I think that it's a good idea as you don't have to listen to it and if you want to eat the food you're going to do so anyway but it might just make people think twice if it's a regular part of their diet. There's loads of people nowadays trying to become 'healthier' and lose weight and it's almost become a kind of obsession but most people aren't doing it in the right ways because foods they think are healthy aren't actually all they think.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree the diverse culture of food being available to us here is a luxury which some countries may never experience however growing up, my house always used to have a type of food from another culture as a treat so that we wasn't eating it all the time as, our English stomach's have become accustomed to the types of food in which we eat and adding another cultures food can do damage if consumed all the time, I think I will just leave mine as just a treat.
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