Paul Jones culture

Growing up in my early childhood years I was mostly raised with a southern culture. This was due to majority of my family being from the state of Texas, mostly from the cities of Austin and Houston. With family form the South the food that I was accustomed to and still to this day is soul food. Food such as fried chicken, greens, corn bread, yams, and baked macaroni and cheese are some of the dishes that be at family dinners. On every holiday especially Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter are holidays were there are big family dinners. Also with being mixed with black and white I was exposed to the American Culture. Majority of my family is African American so that’s what I was basically limited to and must say there were a lot different myths and superstitious things that I hand to deal with. For example sweeping someone’s foot is said to be back in the Southern culture. My mom would also tell me to never cross a pole and if I did to go back and walk by it.
Now that I am older I do seem to eat certain foods that I didn’t when I was younger. For example I never really liked vegetables as a kid and differently wasn’t that open with eating food from other cultures. This was because everything I ate was mostly what I was fed but now I am able to go out more and even make my own food. So now I am not just limited to just a certain culture, I am open to try certain things from a lot of different cultures in fact. Like I have tried Somalian food, Indian food and many different Asian foods. Although there are still foods I won’t eat, I definitely feel that I have grown from my younger years and have discovered that there are a lot of other good cultures out there I can relate to.
Encyclopedia of Southern culture, Charles Reagan Wilson;University of North Carolina Press, c1989.

Food and culture in America : a nutrition handbook ,Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn P. Sucher; West/Wadsworth, c1998.