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Eating better and more adventurously is becoming an obsession, especially among people with money to spend. Healthier eating and not-so healthy eating--as well as the number and variety of food choices and venues continue to increase at an ever-quick-ening pace.
Globalization is the master trend that will drive the world of food in the years a head. Consumers traveling the globe, both virtually and in reality, will be able to sweep up ingredients, packaged foods, recipes, and cooking techniques from every corner of the earth at an ever-intensifying and accelerating pace. Formerly remote ingredients and cooking styles are creating a whole new culinary mosaic as they are transplanted and reinterpreted all over the world.
Many factors are behind this, but none more so than the influence of the great international hotel chains. Virtually every chef who has worked for Hilton, Westin, Peninsula, or any other major chain gathers global experience in locales as diverse as Singapore, New Orleans, Toronto, and Dubai. At each stop, they carry away cooking ideas and techniques they can and do use elsewhere.
This trend will gain even greater momentum as ambitious young adults stake their own futures on internationalization, treating broader food savvy as an important aspect of their own advancement. Young people will need knowledge of food and ingredients from different continents and cultures as one aspect of socialization, enculturation, cultural exchange, and success. In country after country, there seems little doubt that global cuisine will make its biggest inroads among the younger set. Many in the generations now coming of age will treat world-ranging food knowledge and experience as key elements in furthering their personal plans, business acumen, and individual growth.
The Internet has made global contacts a matter of routine. Computer networking will permit chefs and others in the food industry, including consumers, to link directly with the best available authorities in faraway nations, supplementing or bypassing secondhand sources of information altogether.
Time, with all its implications, will also be a factor in emerging world food trends. More and more of us are destined to operate on global time--that is, at full tilt 24 hours a day. This will become the norm for companies with resources scattered all over the planet. Beyond the 24 hour supermarkets many of us already take for granted, there will also be three-shift shopping centers open at any hour. Restaurants in the great business capitals intent on cultivating an international clientele will serve midnight breakfasts or break-of-dawn dinners (with the appropriate wines) without raising a single eyebrow.
It can be inferred from the passage that()
A:computer networking will be helpful in the food industry. B:24-hour supermarkets are not very common. C:few shopping centers are three-shift open at any hour. D:24-hour restaurants are not in practice in the great business capitals.
A. polite
B. inside
C. like
D. official
A primary objective of the OSI reference _________ is to accelerate
the development of future networking products.
A:layer B:computer C:system D:model
[Most traditional communications media including telephone,music,film and
television are being reshaped or redefined by the internet,giving birth to new
services such as voice over Internet Protocol(VoIP)and Internet Protocol
television(IPTV). Newspaper,book and other print publishing are adapting to Web
site technology,or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. the Internet has
enabled and accelerated new forms of hunman interactions through instant
messaging,Internet forums and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both
for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Businsee-to-business and
financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. ]
New form of human interacions have been enabled and accelerated by().
A:social networking B:the Internet C:Internet forums D:instant messaging
Software defined networking(SDN) is a telecommunications network ( )
that provides the promise of significant improvements in the network performance
A:solution B:structere C:scheme D:architecture