Quiche

Symbolic Analysis

I chose a Quiche as my food presentation. This French dish reminds me of my mother, she is from Shreveport, Louisiana. I asked my mother who taught her this dish and she said one of her cousins. Quiche is a snack that we would eat around the holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Quiche is the perfect light dish to eat while we were cooking that big holiday dinner. We would get up early in the morning, heat up some quiche and hot coffee, began to cook dinner while we laugh and talk. This pie is fluffy, tasty, cheesy and savory with a crispy crust on the edges. My mom did not cook traditional soul food dishes, all her dishes were influenced by her creole culture. She would cook chicken etouffee instead of fried chicken and shrimp creole instead of fried shrimp. My mom has passed down many creole recipes to me and I love sharing them with my children.

History

Quiche is known as a classic French cuisine, it is originated in Germany, in a medieval kingdom named Lothringen. The German name for quiche is Kuchen, which mean cake. Under the French rule, they changed the kingdom’s name from Lothringen to Lorraine. The first quiche is called the Lorraine, this an open faced baked pie that contains an egg custard with smoked bacon. The crust was originally made from bread dough like brioche pastry. The crust is now made with short crust or puff pastry. The hardest techniques to master is preventing the custard from overflowing out of the pastry. The quiche became popular in England, then in the United States during the 1950s. In the 1900s, the dish was considered unmanly because of the small amount of meat in the quiche. Henry IV was served this dish at his coronation in 1399, his quiche had honey and saffron in it. A quiche contain many cheeses, eggs, cream, meat or seafood and a variety of vegetables. A quiche can be served for any meal breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or snack. It can be served cold, warm and hot. It can be cooked for parties, special occasions and holidays.

Nutritional Analysis

One of the main ingredient in a quiche is the eggs. Quiches contain vitamins, minerals, calcium, protein, riboflavin and selenium due to the milk and eggs. One egg contains 6.5 protein and vitamin b-12, which is good for your nervous system. The egg yolk alone contains calcium, iron and zinc. Eggs have been linked to type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, when you eat too much. One whole egg can contain 47 percent and a large egg could have 62 percent of cholesterol in them. Eggs have a large source of phosphahdylcholine (lecithin) which is converted to a compound linked to heart disease. The white flour, the crust contains unhealthy saturated fats that can clogged up your arteries over time. The cheese ingredient can be substituted with low fat cheese to cut down the fat intake.

Eggs have been one of our everyday foods, in many parts of the world. Since the eggs is in high demand, the chickens have been known to live in unhealthy conditions. These dirty conditions have contributed to the exposure of fecal matter on the shells. The pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella effects the outside and inside of a normal egg, resulting in making people sick. Eggs is also one of the most common food allergy in infants.