Food is an integral（构成整体所必需的） part of everyone's culture. Everybody eats. When you leave home, to go to another country, or to go to university, you think about your favorite food and who you ate with. Since eating is more than just nourishing（滋养） your body. When I think about my favorite food, I think about the sleepy town of Port Royal Jamaica, a restaurant called Glorious（光荣的）. My order is fried fish and festival.

  The wait time might be long, but it's worth it. The crispy skin of the fish, the tender（嫩的） flesh（肉）, melts（（使）融化） in my mouth. Festival, nice and crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, is a perfect side to go with the fried fish. It's absolutely delicious. Now think about your favorite food and imagine that you could no longer have it as often because of the cost or accessibility（易接近）. How would you feel about that?

  This happens when persons migrate（移动） to another country. They may no longer have a traditional diet as often because of migration（迁居）. People migrate for a number of reasons, for career opportunities, education, and leaving war-torn（ 撕裂） countries. When this happens, traditional diets may not be as often as before. So how does migration affect your dietary（饮食的） habits? The researcher, Satya Abbota says that dietary acculturation is when migrants（候鸟） adopt（采用） the eating habits and food choices of the host country.

  It doesn't happen overnight（一夜） with the complex factors that impact dietary（饮食的） acculturation-- socioeconomic, demographic（人口统计学的）, and cultural factors. So imagine you've left an African or Caribbean（加勒比海） country to come to the UK. Back home, you could get your traditional diets and your foods quite easily. The supermarkets, the markets, friends, family, and restaurants, you had no issues with accessing your traditional foods. But now, you've moved to Leeds. The larger supermarkets don't have your traditional foods.

  Or if they do, it's quite costly（昂贵的）. You might work different shift patterns. You might not have time to go to the market. You might not live close to an African or Asian supermarket. So there are challenges in obtaining（获得） your traditional diets. This is dietary acculturation.

  So let's look at Ghanaian migrants and Nigerian migrants in the UK. They're the largest number of West African migrants in the UK. Their diets are typically composite（合成的） dishes, which means it's foods from different food groups and it's normally one pot meals. For example, soups and stews（炖）. Vegetables like onions, peppers, tomatoes are the key ingredients for these soups and stews. Roots（根） and tubers, like yam（山药）, sweet potato, coca yam, are a side to these soups and stews.

  They're boiled, pounded, and formed into a dough（生面团）, pounded yam, normally eaten alongside（ 在旁边） these soups and stews（炖）.