Food has many symbolic aspects: it can transmit and reinforce ethnic traditions either regularly or on special holidays. It can be used at lavish dinner parties as an expression of economic success: it can denote worldliness and sophistication in the form of complicated gourmet dishes of obscure origin.
Great deal can be learned about a person by knowing something about his attitudes toward food – not only what, how, when, and where he eats, but also how the groceries are bought, how the refrigerator and pantry shelves are stocked, how the cooking is organized and how the dishes are cleaned up. In many significant ways, all of us are not only what we eat: we truly express who we are by how we eat.
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