In Galicia, where I reside, the traditional food lives with firmness on the people and the restaurants.
In the Galician country, the main gastronomy has too much grease: excessive pig, beef meat and sausage. In the coast, boiled octopus with potatoes, olive oil and cayenne pepper, is the most typical plate: "octopus by Galicia". This is the inheritance past in country, where men and women needed hard eat for working at agriculture. Now, the prevailing Galicia people do not need so many calories, because the jobs are less heavy.
In positive for the health of the people, the Mediterranean diet are changed a little the traditional Galicia food, excessive in bacon. It has to increase in the general menus: salad, rice, blue fish, cereals, and others vegetables cultivate far from Galicia.
A foreign fish arrives and sell at fish markets. Remember that Galicia is the most important place of sea fishing in Spain and the south of Europe.
A new generation of young and modern professionals cooks make an innovators foods recipes, worked with traditional foodstuffs of Galicia.
Although the typical Galicia restaurants are the main, an others food cultures opened cooks in big city: Chinese, Turk, marroc or Brazilian. Very slowly, the Galician food is less important in the restaurants, but his attractive are strong: the Galicia people love his traditional way of live.
However, in negative, the greats American fast food restaurants opened in the last time in the principal Galician cities. Moreover, pizzas, sugar drinks, fried potatoes, ice cream... the American live arrived watching television, and aggressive TV food spots, and are making a great number of obese children in the last years in my community.
Many woman who works out don’t had time to cook the traditional Galicia food, because this plates it’s needed a long time to prepared. The families has a quickly solution with elaborated food, very unhealthy. Not a past time, most of Galicia woman was a housekeeper and do traditional dinner at home.
