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.
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