Eater: What are American daily meals like?
Hallelujah Truth: As a
culture, I think that we citizens of the United States don't have similar daily
meals. What a person eats depends on his/her idea of what is healthy, tasty, and
convenient. My breakfast consists of cereal or eggs or fruit and yogurt. My
lunch is typically leftover dinner from the night before. Dinner in our
household tends to be vegetarian as we don't cook much meat in our home. We eat
a lot of vegetables, beans, rice, and pasta. We try to eat a green salad at
every night. Are we typical American eaters? I'm not sure.
Q: Do you have
a experience to use food as a surprise?
Hallelujah: I am not a
"foodie"--that is a person who enjoys the pleasure of food in multiple ways. I
don't care much about how food is presented, what it tastes like, nor the
expertise it takes to make it. I could eat the same food over and over again
throughout the week, the month. I think you are a "foodie," so I know you will
find my opinion about food unsatisfactory. Sorry. That said, it is nice to be
taken out to a restaurant to a nice dinner, but I weep over the cost of paying
for it. The value of good food just isn't worth it to me.
Q: What is the most
special meal you have ever eat?
Hallelujah: In recent years, I have
acquired a taste for Korean food. For my husband's birthday this past year, I
took him out for Korean barbecue at an authentic Korean restaurant here in
Atlanta. They cooked the beef and chicken at our table. The sauces and
vegetables we had with this meal were sensational.
Q: What do you think
about Chinese food? What is your favorite Chinese food?
Hallelujah: I
love to eat Chinese food. My husband likes to cook it, so I am lucky. Probably
what we eat in our home and call Chinese food, you might not! I love pot
stickers. Back in the late 1980s, I had a Chinese roommate from Shanghai, and I
learned a lot from her about eating Chinese meals.
Q: Does the meal always cooked by wife not husband ? How is your husband's
cooking skill ?
Hallelujah: My husband enjoys cooking, and it is his
pleasure to cook for me. He will read cookbooks and find new recipes. He will
also do the grocery shopping. Aren't I lucky? I think I am a good cook, but I
would rather spend my creativity and time on my art and not in preparing
food.
Q: What do you usually eat to celebrate some good
news?
Hallelujah: I'm drawing a blank on this question. We celebrate good
news with a good beer or wine. In Atlanta, there are a lot of local craft beers,
and they are delicious and fun to taste.
Q: What's your opinion about
food is a kind of art?
Hallelujah: I totally believe food preparation and
presentation fall into the realm of the arts; however, I am just plan bored by
food. I know others, like you, really enjoy it and I admire that. But please
don't ask me to get excited about it.
Q: Do you think different food is a
sign of some special meaning? Do you have some examples?
Hallelujah: Wow,
I know in your culture that you might eat long noodles at birthdays as symbols
of longevity and you eat the pot stickers for good luck ( representing gold and
silver coins). Here in the southeastern United States, some of us were raised
eating black-eyed peas on
New Year's
day for good luck. If you don't eat them, you might not be as
lucky as those people who do.
