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Alejandro Irusta

Eng. 101

                             The traditional dish from my country Bolivia is chairo

paceño has changed through history. The way my ancestors would eat

around the 1900s is far more healthier compared to the way my family its it

today. As the years gone by the dish chairo paceño was changed on , its

produced, and cooked. As well as how it was eaten. These changes of the

chairo paceño have effect on health. Chairo paceño is a “Vegetable And 

Meat Stew”.

          The ingredients of the dish chairo paceño were typically lamb meat

and some vegetables. In this dish not only does it contain lamb meat and

vegetable , it was also pepper , wheat grains , white corn, ground cumin,

green onion, crumbled oregano, and minced mint. That’s the ingredients

that my ancestors would use to cook the dish chairo paceño. As the years

past my family changed the ingredients of the  dish chairo paceño. My

grandmother taught my mom to cook it with out the green onion , crumbled

oregano ,wheat grains, and ground cumin. Instead they added yucca and

regular potato.  The effect in this is health wise. The healthy part to this

dish was the wheat grains, crumbled oregano green onion, and the ground

cumin. Reasons why they took those ingredients out was for the taste. My

mother would tell me eventually the taste was far more important than the

health. They even added more salt into the dish.

          Every ingredient in the chairo paceño dish was produced by farm.

Every farm had sections into where each vegetable , and grains would

grow. They would grow naturally depending the weather. That’s how it was

when my ancestors were alive. Everything was hand made. They would

wait until everything would grow. Now in my days my mom buys some of

the ingredients of cans. Now we can cook this dish at anytime , get it

anywhere as well. No matter what season it is. Reason for this, its because

they use chemicals to increase the speed in growth into the vegetables and

grains in every farm. The air isn’t as fresh as it use to be around the 1900s

, which does effect the farms. They even use machines ever since the

industrial revolution. All these changes effect the vegetables , and grains in

every farm. Its not naturally grown, its artificial. In health wise my ancestors

ate this a lot more healthier. Everything as was fresh and natural.

          Chairo paceño was as well cooked different back when my ancestors

were alive ,compared to how my mother cooks. My grandmother told me

that her grandmother would have a specific order into the stew. And it had

timing for every vegetable that was cooked. The lamb was cut into portions

according to the number of people who are eating the dish. Reasons for

this order and timing was for the quality of the stew. Now they way my

mother makes it she just dumps every vegetable into the pot. Then after a

while she puts the lamb meat. This again changes the quality of the chairo

paceño.mty mom would just add salt to make it taste better. The pots my

ancestors would use were made out of rock. My mom uses metal pots. The

major health issue into the cooking this dish, would be the order and quality

into the cooking. My mother would also tell me that instead of spoons they

would eat with a small dented rocks. Someway it would maintain the chairi

paceño hot and fresh. We now use spoons that are made out of metal.

The chairo paceno dish has changed from how my ancestors would

traditionally cook ,produce, and eat . cooking the dish had timing and order.

The production into every ingredient was naturally and not done artificial or

by machines, it was done by hand. Even eating was different not that

health matter but traditionally. Everything now is depending on technology

and chemicals. Everything is now artificial and not natural. All of this takes

away the real goods and health in any dish from any country and culture.

Many people don’t even cook anymore and depend on outside food. As

years go by nobody seems to care about where the food we are consuming

comes from. This is how we destroy our health. We should pay more

attention into what we eat the history of our dishes and what changed since

then.