Ethnography Of Rodeo Food An Essential Component Of Many...

Ethnography of Rodeo Food Food is an essential component of many social events: it brings people from a wide variety of society together, it provides nourishment, and in modern and globally interconnected times in can even be used to share different cultures’ ideas of good food in a relaxed setting. Humans require food to survive, but the different ways that food is prepared and served is highly varied among cultures. Even how these cultures utilize food in larger social settings is widely variable. Sometimes it’s just a small gathering of families sharing food, other times it’s specialized food preparers providing food to a large number of people. Here we’ll look at one of the latter events where food plays a part. One of the larger and†¦show more content†¦One of the more classically ‘rodeo-style’ foods, barbeque, is served in huge quantities at this event, and there are many vendors that offer different styles of preparation. Barbeque is a type of food preparation that every person has their own special formula for doing, and they’re very different among various vendors. One of the vendors that’s been associated with the Houston Rodeo for a considerable length of time is Blue Ribbon Grill. They’ve participated in this event for a number of years, and because of this closeness and ability to bring in lots of customers, they’re allowed to set up their stall in a location that provides access to a large number of people; just outside the NRG Center, which houses a number of attractions, smaller events, and shopping. This location allows for a lot of foot traffic to pass by, and they’re also provided with a large shade tent that’s be en set up, which can be very appealing to people who have been walking around outside for a long portion of the day in the heat. Blue Ribbon Grill serves a variety of ‘classic’ barbecue foods: meat from the chest of a cow that’s been covered in a rub of various spices, smoked, and then sliced into thin pieces - brisket, the lower legs of turkeys that have been salted and cooked over a grill, simply known as turkey legs, and one of their foods that they’ve gained some