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FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD.

There are many festivals around the world, each festival has its own traditions and food. In this blog we are gonna talk about carnivals and festivals, based on this we are gonna answer the following questions: Are main dishes from this festivals sustainable, healthy and considered eco-food? to solve this question we need to analyze all the components of each dish.The second question is How can we go to a festival, carnivals or holidays without eating unhealthy, unsustainable and don't considered eco-food? to solve this question we need to do a deep investigation about festivals, carnivals and holidays. 

BORYEONG MUD FESTIVAL:

It takes place in South Korea.Manufacturer Stores started this festival in 1998 because they can promote their product, and mud has lots benefits for the skin. People have fun in the mud. In this festival, you can find mud slides, mud pools, mud inflatables, mud skiing competition and a mud prison. The festival ends with a fireworks show.

If you don't want to play in the mud you can also take a mud massage or watch the mud parade. At night you can go to Daecheon beach mud square special stage; in this stage, you can find Hip Hop music and fireworks. This festival is celebrated between July 21st and July 30th, is located around all Boryeong. In this festival you can find different types of fair food, this food is delicious but isn't sustainable, eco and healthy at all. Some examples of food you can find there are hamburgers, sandwiches and hot dogs. 

HAMBURGERS:

We can find them everywhere with everything for example in the corner of your house with french fries or in "el corral" with many toppings and drinks, but are hamburgers sustainable healthy and considered eco-food?. Some people say burgers aren't healthy but is this true? because, if we think a little bit hamburgers are made of vegetables, protein and a flour.

 

The correct answer to that question is hamburgers can be healthy depending the ingredients you use, for example, if you use healthy meat instead of cheap fatty meat and if you prevent adding unhealthy toppings like cheese and mayonnaise also you can prevent eating them with fries and soda, if you take into account this tips your hamburger can turn in healthy food.

KIMCHI:

Kimchi, a staple in Korean cuisine, is a traditional side dish made from salted and fermented vegetables, most commonly napa cabbage and Korean radishes, with a variety of seasonings including chili powder, scallions, garlic, ginger and jeotgal (salted seafood). There are hundreds of varieties of kimchi made with different vegetables as the main ingredients. In traditional preparations, kimchi was stored underground in jars to keep cool, and unfrozen during the winter months. With the rise of technology, kimchi refrigerators are more commonly used to make kimchi.

Kimchi can be considered as sustainable, healthy and eco-food because of the ingredients and the characteristics of it.

    

LA TOMATINA FESTIVAL:

Is a festival held in Bunol, Spain. A truck arrives at the main street and throws tons of tomatoes. People start to step on the tomatoes and to throw them to other people. This festival is really fun, if you go to this festival you will get very dirty. No one exactly what is the origin of the festival but a popular legend is that the ancient people celebrate this festival because of the good crop of tomatoes.



The typical food from this festival is tomato, people make all kind of food with this vegetable. From tomato sauce to tomato soup. Some of this dishes are sustainable, healthy and eco-food because they don't have fat in big quantity, they are cheap and they are made of tomato (a vegetable that contains lots of vitamins and proteins). But others aren't because they contain sugar, they have too much flour and they are a little bit expensive. These dishes are healthy because they have lots of benefits for our body. For example, tomato soup helps a lot on blood circulation; and also tomato jam helps to prevent cardiovascular diseases.

                          
Tomato Jam                            "Tartaleta de Tomate"        Chickpea in curry tomato sauce 

BARRANQUILLA’S CARNIVAL:

In this festival, people dance with beautiful and colorful masks on. Everyone likes to see the parade on the street. The pet from this festival is called “marimonda”, is like a colorful elephant. This festival is celebrated on February. People on this festival eat “Bollo Limpio”, it is a mix of corn and yucca. Food from this festival isn’t sustainable, eco and healthy. Because it uses a lot of oil in its preparation and it has lots of flour.






The origin of this carnival comes from a Spain carnival that came to America. This festival is celebrated to pass a really good time before Easter. They celebrated because those days are the last days which in they can get crazy before entering to the lent.  

BOLLO LIMPIO:

                               

The bollo limpio is a food of indigenous origin based on corn dough, banana, sweet potato or cassava that is wrapped in leaves of cane, corn or skirt, and cooked in boiling water. It is typical of the Colombian Caribbean Coast and of Panama. The bollo limpio is healthy, sustainable and eco-food because the ingredients are natural.

REFERENCES:

http://www.colombia.travel/es/que-hacer/caribe/barranquilla/experiencias/carnaval-de-barranquilla

http://www.mycolombiancocina.com/recipes/appetisers/467-bollo-limpio

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_6.jsp?cid=1924113

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FDMutuESyE

https://www.google.com.co/search?q=hamburger&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw-su-8OvXAhVI4yYKHaAvA9wQ_AUICigB&biw=1093&bih=516#imgrc=4LAJOrg4OKZoFM:
https://www.quora.com/Is-a-hamburger-really-unhealthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FDMutuESyE

http://www.latomatina.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimchi
https://www.google.com.co/search?q=bollo+limpio&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiByf_j-uvXAhVCJCYKHTPtBA0Q_AUICigB&biw=1093&bih=516#imgrc=Z6067ZLq660lBM: