The person I’m interviewing used to live in the East Coast, who grew up in an Haitian culture. I chose this person to interview because I want to know more about their culture. I wanted to learn the different types of cultural food that this person grew up with and the different traditional food habits that they still do. I wanted to observe the effects of growing up with influences around them and how the changed their eating habits.
Me: What was the culture you were raised in?
Person: I was raised in a Haitian culture.
Me: Being from the East Coast, what were some foods that was part of your childhood?
Person: Pate. It is like if you had a bunch of different layers of breading and put meat in the middle of each layer; it can be chicken, beef, or fish.
Me: Who usually cooked for you when you were younger?
Person: My grandma and she still cooks for me now because we live in the same house.
Me: How is the cultural food that you grew up with different from the food that you’re eating now?
Person: Cultural food feels more familiar, but they are different and there isn’t really one better than the other.
Me: What was the a traditional eating habit you grew up with?
Person: Eat breakfast at 10:00 am and eat lunch at 3:00 pm together every Sunday. I don’t know exactly why my family has been doing it even before I was born.
Me: What was your favorite food when you were younger?
Person: It was Mac n Cheese and it’s Mac n Cheese
Me: Do you know any restaurants that reflects the culture you grew up in?
Person: I don’t know any restaurants.
Me: Is your food choice now influenced by food ads?
Person: Yeah, because I remember I was drinking sprite cranberry because the commercial was funny.
Me: If there’s one food in the world you would eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Person: Mac n Cheese. Because it’s my favorite and I like it a lot and it just tastes good every time.
Me: Do you plan to keep eating the foods you grew up with as you grow older?
Person: Yes, because it tastes good.
Me: If there’s one food in the world you would eat for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Person: Mac n Cheese. Because it’s my favorite and I like it a lot and it just tastes good every time.
Me: Do you think the foods that you grew up with affected your taste buds in choosing what foods to eat now?
Person: Yeah, because the meat in pate it’s also used in foods that I eat now so it might’ve carried over.
Me: What is your idea of a perfect meal?
Person: Having mac n cheese, breaded chicken, fried rice, pate, and artichoke
Me: When you realize you’re hungry, what is the first food you think about?
Person: I don’t think of a certain food, I just look for food.
Me: What’s your favorite dessert?
Person: I really like golden oreos, because I’m not really a chocolate person most of the time. However, I really like the oreo filling and with vanilla cookies it tastes really good.
Me: What is your go-to late night snacks?
Person: Sometimes it golden oreos, but if I want something salty I have cheeze-its because they’re good by themselves, but you can also dip them in stuff.
I like the diversity in the type of questions that you asked. It made it feel as if you got to know more about the person almost getting inside their head when you asked about the first food item they think about when they are hungry and how food taste can change depending on what they ate earlier due to the taste still lingering on their taste buds.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that there is no restaurant that reflects the culture.
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