spirit and food

In Cate’s article, the author showed the life and diet in a San Francisco Country Jail, the food is very simple there without any extra meals night even their dinner starts very early in the afternoon. All the people there are having the same food and just eat for survival. They learn to cook for themselves and share food with each other. They have leader there and saved food for people who need. This kind of mind and behavior becomes a spirit and had a beneficial influence on the further development like the economy and the society.
In O’Donnell’s article, I found that the author pointed out the differences of the requirement of food between different groups of people. Because of talking about the food in Shenzhen, a city near the sea, some people like eating fish instead of meat. Also, the author mentioned a kind of spirit in this city, the spirit of the old Shenzheners. As one of the developed city in China, Shenzhen was set as one of the center of business and economy. It attracts people’s attention to work in Shenzhen because as developing, the environment of working is getting better. By the appearance of the immigration, the citizens are grouped into two classes, the old citizens and the immigrants. The old Shenzheners prefer the atmosphere of the spirit of the old Shenzhen; they paid more attention to the tradition which can remember their feeling and their effort of work in the past. But the immigrants don’t, the only care about the best restaurants and go for the enjoyable food and service. In Suzhou, they are also a lot of immigrants and they did not pay any attention to the local traditional food at all. Instead, the just go for the newest or the most famous place to eat.