Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Alcoholic Beverage

                             Substance called Ethanol contained in any drink is known as Alcoholic beverage .Alcoholic beverage are classified into three classes :  Beers , Wines and Spirits . Beers and wines are the soft alcoholic beverage . Spirits are too hard alcoholic Beverages . They are legally sold . Generally , Beer contains 4 % to 12% of alcohol . Wine contains 9% to 16% of alcohol . Spirits contains at least 20% of alcohol .

                     Most of the alcoholic beverage are matured from 10 to 25 years of age . Mostly alcoholic beverage are taken in festivals in all part of the world . All cultures and traditions do have their own alcoholic beverage . Maturation of an alcoholic beverage varies from cultures and traditions . Alcoholic Beverage are prepared from various grains , fruits , vegetables etc .

                   Alcoholic beverage are prepared from Distillation and Fermentation. Beers and wines are prepared by fermenting and spirits are prepared by Distillation .

               Generally, wine is prepared from grapes .  France is popular for grapes wine . Wine can be made from other fruits too. Beer is prepared from maize, wheat, malted barley etc . It is prepared by brewing it .And spirits are produced by Sugarcane , potato , cactus, maize etc .

              We can prepare cocktail from various spirits . 










FOOD

       Any substance that gives nutritive value is called food . Food origin from plants and animals . Both plants and animals contains nutrition  such as vitamin , carbohydrates , fats , proteins , minerals. 

     Hunting and Agriculture are the two methods of gathering the food from history . People used to eat same as we eat now . But the methopds of preparation is different . In past , people used to eat food without cooking but now we eat by cooking in various methods .

     Now a days many people eat the industry prepared foods . In present context , people are awared about about food nutrient , food safety and food security . Food came from plant and animals . The types of Plant are Maize , corn , rice , wheat etc . There are lots of  green vegetables  and fruits . Vegetables and fruits are to nutritive .

     Animals are also the food source . Meat is the example of the food substance from animals . Meat comes from muscles of animals . Some animals produce milk too. We can get cheese , ghee , butter etc.

    Traditionally , most of the food are obtained from agriculture . For agriculture people in past used some of the small tools but now there are heavy tools . Lots of foods are obtained from agriculture .

     Cuisine differs from many cultures and traditions . All cultures and traditions have a unique cuisine and its taste differfrom every culture .Hot , cold , spicy , sweetness is the taste of cuisine that differs from culture . There are lots of cuisine such as Italian , French , American , Chinese , Thai , Indian etc.

     Now a days all of the people eat the Packet food . We should be aware while eating the packed food. First of all we should check the date of the preparation of food and expire date . And then we should check the ingredients in it and nutrient quantity . If there is less nutrient quantity we should avoid it .

      Food has its own taste preparation and they are sweet , sour , salty , bitter and umami .Example of sweet ,sour , salty , bitter , and umami are sugar , lemon , salt , caffeine , mushrooms respectively . Generally Umami came from Japanese word .