Recipe History

1. Pick a recipe that you are interested in and find out its history.  What is the history of this
recipe? When was it first recorded as a written recipe?

The recipe that I am interested in is American chicken salad. One of the first American
forms of chicken salad was served by Town Meats in Wakefield, Rhode Island, in 1863.
The original owner, Liam Gray,[4] mixed his leftover chicken with mayonnaise, tarragon,
and grapes. This became such a popular item that the meat market was converted to a
delicatessen. Early American chicken salad recipes can be found in 19th-century
Southern cookbooks, including Sarah Rutledge's The Carolina Housewife: Or, House and
Home (1847) and Abby Fisher's What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking
(1881).

2. What culture does the recipe come from?  What cultures have changed this recipe over
time or because the ingredients are not available during the time it was originally started?
The recipe comes from American culture. The cultures have changed this recipe over
time as the modern people are richer and want to eat healthier. The old-fashion chicken
salad is typically made with leftover cooked or canned chicken. Mayonnaise is also used
in the American chicken salad. However, new receipts are created to use fresh chicken
and eliminated the usage of Mayonnaise as people are trying to eat heathier.

3. Find a recent version of this recipe?  If you make this recipe how do you make it?  Did
your family make this recipe and has it changed over time?  Why did this recipe change
from the original?

A recent version of American Chicken Salad Recipe:

 ½ cup plain yogurt

 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
 1 teaspoon olive oil
 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
 1 teaspoon minced lemon zest
 ½ teaspoon salt
 ¼ teaspoon black pepper
 ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
 2 cups shredded cooked chicken
 ½ cup thinly sliced celery
 ¼ cup chopped scallions
 ¼ cup chopped parsley
 2 tablespoons raisins
 2 tablespoons toasted sliced almonds

1. Make the dressing.

 To make this chicken salad recipe, start by whisking together the sauce ingredients in a
large bowl. Add the yogurt, lemon juice, oil, Dijon, zest, salt, black pepper, and cayenne
to a large bowl and combine.

2. Shred the chicken.

Use two forks to shred the cooked chicken into bite-sized pieces, then toss into the bowl
with the dressing.

3. Get chopping.

With any chicken salad, there’s a bit of chopping involved. Luckily for no mayo recipe,
we kept the knife work to a minimum. Thinly slice two ribs of celery and roughly chop
scallions and parsley, add all three to bowl with dressing and chicken.

If I make this recipe, I will swap the raisins out for diced apples or even grapes to add a little
more crunch. I will also add some avocado because I like the taste of avocado. My family did not
make this receipt since my family like to eat Chinese food. The receipt changed from original
since this receipt is easy and anyone can personalize this receipt and add the food, fruit and
seasoning into the receipt as they like. Furthermore, the changing of lifestyle of modern people
and economics status also changes the receipt. People want to eat even heathier than before.

Food Idioms 
1.  What is an idiom?
Idioms are a type of figurative language, which means they are not always meant to be taken
literally. Idioms express a particular sentiment, but they do not literally mean what the individual
words themselves mean. An idiom is a saying that is specific to a language.

2.  What is a food idiom? Why is a food idiom a common expression in one's language or
culture?
Food idiom are idioms based on food and foods. A food idiom is a common expression in one’s
language or culture because everyone loves food, and can relate to foodie phrases, but remember
that food idioms do not literally mean what they say. For example, if you say someone is a "bad
apple" this implies that the person is a negative influence on others or is troublesome in nature.
3. Name at least 3 different food idioms from your culture or from American Food Culture
Food idioms from American Food Culture:
1) Apple of his eye
2) As sour as vinegar
3) Go bananas
4.What is the meaning of each one?
1) Apple of his eye - A favorite person of someone.
2) As sour as vinegar - Disagreeable person
3) Go bananas - Excited or crazy.

5.  What does the meaning tell us about what is important to the culture who uses these idioms?
The meaning tells us that using these idioms require us to understand the culture they come from.
If we don’t understand the culture backgrounds of these idioms, it is hard for us to understand the
true meaning of these idioms and might make mistake when using it.