Yi-ting Chung

Taipei Medical University | TMU · Center for general education

Since the 1980s Taiwan had adopted liberalism economic policy and given up the principle of food self-sufficiency. The importance of agriculture had decreased and the land had been seen as valuable asset rather than the means of production. These changes together contribute an over-dependence on imported food in the local market and the loss of foo...

Concern about the meaning of rice in Taiwan has been increasing in the recent decade. Meanwhile rice has become a product that satisfies more than the subsistence demand. The question of what constitutes demand involves the food choice of people; that is to say, by which criterion people decide to consume what food? This paper analyses the processe...

Food is not merely the thing that maintains our body. Food always carries the culture, tradition and symbolic meaning. As the changing of the culture of consumption, the forms of food consumption and taste preference changed dramatically. In the process, the types of food increased, the restaurants expanded as well as the taste diversified. Under t...