{"id":12722,"date":"2015-07-02T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12722"},"modified":"2015-07-02T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T12:17:02","slug":"alien-food-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/alien-food-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Food In China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070215_1208_AlienFoodIn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Cleaver Quarterly took a look at how fruits, vegetables, and spices are referred to in Chinese:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several food items first arrived in China at a time when China believed it was the epitome of civilization and everything outside of China was an uncivilized wasteland.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore foods brought in from abroad were given names that signified their foreign, barbaric origins.<\/li>\n<li>While they may be widely used in Chinese cooking today, linguistically they are still referred to as alien foods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some foods with more interesting Chinese translations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomato: Barbarian Eggplant<\/li>\n<li>Potato: Foreign-Devil Mercy Root-Tuber<\/li>\n<li>Sweet Potato: Barbarian Yam<\/li>\n<li>Walnut: Foreign Peach<\/li>\n<li>Carrot: Foreign Radish<\/li>\n<li>Black Pepper: Foreign Pepper<\/li>\n<li>Honeydew \u2013 Wallace Melon \u2013 this is because US Vice President Henry Wallace played a role in first making them popular in China in response to a drought.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See how these food items are now used in China, and read more of their individual histories over <a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/a-guide-to-the-barbarian-vegetables-of-china\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/a-guide-to-the-barbarian-vegetables-of-china\/\">Lucky Peach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleaver Quarterly took a look at how fruits, vegetables, and spices are referred to in Chinese: Several food items first arrived in China at a time when China believed it was the epitome of civilization and everything outside of China was an uncivilized wasteland. Therefore foods brought in from abroad were given names that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/070215_1208_AlienFoodIn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12725,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions\/12725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}