Is there a tradition where eating something sweet before something savory is the norm?
I have a preference for eating sweets before a main savoury. Are there any cooking traditions where this is the norm? Secondly, why has the tradition of having a main savoury followed by sweets arisen? Why not the other way around?
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Its pretty common in indian culture to eat sweets before eating savory stuff,
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In South India, before a traditional full meal(generally only on festivals and the like), people eat a tiny mouthful of some dessert first before the actual savory meal and then end with the same dessert in a larger portion.Why do people say sweet before Savoury?
According to food scientist Steven Witherly, our appetite fades after we eat too much of the same type of food. A dessert course tricks our brain into wanting more food. "As we eat the savory course, we rapidly reduce our hunger pangs and become full \u2014 the pleasure of the first course has passed (savory and hot).What country eats dessert before their meal?
The European Way According to Brandi Milloy, a TV host and apparent lifestyle and parenting expert, Germans eat dessert first. This claim refers to a time when her family was living in Germany. Her dad served in the US army and curious to adopt the European way of eating, her family often had dessert first.Why is sweet served first before the main dish?
\u201cThe sweet taste acts quickly on the taste buds and saliva. Eating the sweet item first enables the flow of digestive secretions,\u201c says nutritionist Supriyaa Nair. \u201cIf you eat sweets at the end of meals, you are slowing down your digestion.Why do we eat sweet food after Savoury?
Your body can't acclimatise to this dip in glucose levels and to get back to this soaring high, your body craves sugar. Dr. Sood adds, "simple carbs also digest very easily, which calls for more sugar for the fuel." The cravings can also arise as a complementary need to your very salty meal you just took.Can diabetic patients eat sweets? - Dr. Sharat Honnatti
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Note (jefromi) I've edited this to fix the English as best I can, guessing at the meaning of some parts. A few bits I couldn't really tell what was meant, and just left intact - those are marked with a ?.
Sweets were (a long time ago) very expensive, as sugar was. People never finished their meals with sweets, unless they were very rich or it was a an important holiday to celebrate with a special and expensive food.
Normal people ate sweets (if they were lucky) on Sunday. Otherwise, at Christmas, Easter and a few other anniversaries. On other "normal" days "normal people" ate soups seasoned, if it at all, with lard and a few other herbal ingredients. "Normal people" ate meat once a week, mostly chicken, and found the protein, mostly in legumes and cereals.
So I do not think the practice of eating sweets (not even across the entire western world) could have become a tradition. I think if anything, that an average life of a poor person has led to favoring poor food, and other hearty foods rich but unhealthy?. As if to say: "First we fill the belly, then later there will be little room for the sweets."
Finally, in India they cannot eat meat (at least the common people). That refer back with sweets is completely understandable.?
If we start with poor food, then when time for sweets comes, we are not so hungry, and have little room space for an expensive food.
If they may not, such as in India, eat meat, then maybe they prefer start from any few they have.?
I don't know other examples, and don't see any examples besides India, that have historical reasons.?
Historical reasons become tradition.
We had honey from before roman times.
"Only after the Crusades did it begin to rival honey as a sweetener in Europe.... The Spanish began cultivating sugarcane in the West Indies in 1506 (and in Cuba in 1523). The Portuguese first cultivated sugarcane in Brazil in 1532. ...Regardless of which century table sugar production was discovered, it was a luxury in much of the world until the 18th century. ... In the 18th century, the demand for table sugar boomed in Europe, and by the 19th century it had become a human necessity... Beginning in the late 18th century, the production of sugar became increasingly mechanized....During the same century, Europeans began experimenting with sugar production from other crops... However, the beet-sugar industry really took off during the Napoleonic Wars".
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