Food contributes not only to our physical survival, but to the quality of our family, cultural, spiritual and national life and celebrations as well. We all have different beliefs and traditions, and often different foods play important roles in them.
Food is important for living life with dignity because...
As humans, we need to live, think, and practice our daily lives, without food we cannot concentrate and we cannot live normal lives...our main concern will be how to get the minimal ammount of food that will keep us alive, doing that will took our attention from more important things in life.
Food in Family Life
Food contributes to family life by...
Mealtimes with Families
According to me, I and my family have three meals a day; breakfast, launch and dinner... we usually gather on Launch..chatting about our day, how was it at work, school, or home, telling jokes and nice stories, we usually have great time during launch, espeacially if Mama cooks delisious food and she usually does!!
Special Family Traditions
• Mama makes delicious food and everybody talks about how good she is. As for me, I’m really not very good with cooking, but I always try to learn from her. However, I like to make desserts and some kinds of cake!!
• My favorite foods are Mansaf, Maklouba, Pea beans, ouzi (rice with chicken.)
• We like those traditional meals but, I prefer to eat pizza, hamburger and pasta J when we gather around T.V to watch our favorite shows
• I cannot imagine my life without food!! And without these meal times!!
Food in Cultural Life
Food contributes to our cultural life, since we have many occasions in which we serve certain types of food... we cannot imagine those occasions without food
Special Cultural Traditions
In many cultural events we have certain traditions that we follow, for example, Weddings are on two days; in the first day, we have Henna night (women from the groom's family bring Henna to the Bride to die her hands with it), in the second day we have the wedding it self in which the bride wears the white dress ( groom's family come to pick up the bride) while men at the groom's house have traditional launch like Mansaf or Musakhan depending on the area they are from.
Solaces, people from the town visit the relatives of the dead peron, to show their sadness and sorrow, while the family of the dead serve them Arabic Coffee and dates
Our Parties now become more westernized; our birthday, engagement, graduation parties we celebrate them by serving sweets, cakes, Kunafa and Bakloava. We celebrate these occasion by singing and dancing.
Cultural Foods and Their Significance
Food contributes alot to our Cultural life as we showed before, we have many occasions in which we practice many traditions, and food plays the most important role in these traditions.
Food in Spiritual Life
Palestine is a multi-religion country; Muslims and Christians have their own spiritual occasions which they celebrate by certain habits and traditions, and food has a major role in those occasions
Special Holidays
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As Muslims we have Friday, Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha.
As Christians we have Christmas, easter and New Year.
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> Holiday Foods and Their Significance
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Friday: In Fridays, and after Salat Aldohr ( Afternoon Pray) every family gather arround the launch table which is usual full of various meals and dishes, we always chat about our day, telling religious stories, sometimes jokes and puzzels, my favourite Friday dish is Grape Leaves.
Ramadan: In Ramadan month we feast, to feel with poor people, every night we have a special dish, soup and salad, and certain type of sweets, mainly Qatayef
Eid AL-Fitr: Which we celebrate by barbecues (cooking red meat), Maftoul (Hulled Wheat), making Ma'moul bel- Joz
Eid Al-Adha: Which we celebrate by barbecues (cooking red meat), Maftoul (Hulled Wheat), making Ma'moul bel- Joz
Christmas: We celebrate by cooking Mansaf, Maklouba, Ma'moul bel- Joz and Cookies
Easter: We colour eggs with make Ma'moul bel- Joz and Cookies
Food is important for living life with dignity because...
As humans, we need to live, think, and practice our daily lives, without food we cannot concentrate and we cannot live normal lives...our main concern will be how to get the minimal ammount of food that will keep us alive, doing that will took our attention from more important things in life.
Food in Family Life
Food contributes to family life by...
Mealtimes with Families
According to me, I and my family have three meals a day; breakfast, launch and dinner... we usually gather on Launch..chatting about our day, how was it at work, school, or home, telling jokes and nice stories, we usually have great time during launch, espeacially if Mama cooks delisious food and she usually does!!
Special Family Traditions
• Mama makes delicious food and everybody talks about how good she is. As for me, I’m really not very good with cooking, but I always try to learn from her. However, I like to make desserts and some kinds of cake!!
• My favorite foods are Mansaf, Maklouba, Pea beans, ouzi (rice with chicken.)
• We like those traditional meals but, I prefer to eat pizza, hamburger and pasta J when we gather around T.V to watch our favorite shows
• I cannot imagine my life without food!! And without these meal times!!
Food in Cultural Life
Food contributes to our cultural life, since we have many occasions in which we serve certain types of food... we cannot imagine those occasions without food
Special Cultural Traditions
Cultural Foods and Their Significance
Food contributes alot to our Cultural life as we showed before, we have many occasions in which we practice many traditions, and food plays the most important role in these traditions.
Favorite Cultural Recipes
Weddings:
Mansaf
Musakhan
Solaces:
Mansaf
Arabic Coffee
Parties:
Kunafa
Baklava
Food in Spiritual Life
Palestine is a multi-religion country; Muslims and Christians have their own spiritual occasions which they celebrate by certain habits and traditions, and food has a major role in those occasions
- Special Holidays
>> We have many holidays;
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- As Muslims we have Friday, Ramadan, Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha.
- As Christians we have Christmas, easter and New Year.
>> Holiday Foods and Their Significance
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- Favorite Holiday Recipes:
- Ma'moul bel-Joz
- Grape Leaves
- Qatayef
>Food in National Life
National Celebrations
- We here in Palestine and since it is occupied country, lack the national celebrations, we only have what we call the Independence Day
>National Foods and Their Significance
- In this Day, we serve sweets like Kunafa, Baklava
>> Favorite National Recipes
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- Kunafa
- Baklava
>GCYP Food Heritage Sites
Food in the USA
Food in Afghanistan
Food in Bangladesh
Food in Tajikistan
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- External Links/Resources
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The Food Museum Online