[Your Life Is What You Make It]

... Besides teaching, Zhang Tian also brought changes to the village. He contacted charity organizations about     1     and helped the villagers sell local products online.     2     was great, so he became very popular among the villagers and they treated him as one of them.

The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once       1       (write), “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more       2       (simple), this means “You are what you eat.” Most people today relate this saying to healthy eating. However, Brillat-Savarin was actually referring       3     our personality, character and culture.

Certainly, in many ways this seems       4       (be) true. At a minimum, the kinds of food local people consume tell us what they grow in their region, what kinds of lives they lead,       5     what they like and do not like. Could we also say, for example, that those who like bold flavours are bold themselves? Or, that those who like spicy food tend to have a hot temper? Maybe. Maybe not. What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand. If you do not experience     6    , you can never really know the other.