Lee Smith's Recipe Box

Madeleine Thien’s “Simple Recipes” is not mainly about the father cooking food and his treatment towards his son, instead, the author uses food to symbolize the struggles her immigrated family experienced in Canada. While it is possible to only look at the narratives that food symbolizes, the idea is fully expressed when the father is compared with the food. The theme of food and the recipes are able to convey the overall troubles the narrator’s family encountered. Although, food is usually a fulfilling necessity in life, however, Thien uses food to illustrate the struggle, tensions, and downfall of the family. Yet, each food does represent different themes, but the food, fish, is the most intriguing because of the different environment it

Food is a critical part to the environment that a community lives in, yet food is not always just. Food justice is an important part of environmental justice, and Robert Gottlieb studied how food impacts communities. Gottlieb explained how food justice has links to equity, empowerment, and social justice as well. This area of justice “addresses issues of health, globalization, worker rights and working conditions, disparities regarding access to environmental (or food) goods, land use and respect for the land, and ultimately, how our production, transportation, distribution and consumption systems are organized” (7). Food (in)justices and the other presented issues are all around in society today. Gottlieb explained about sustainable agriculture,

“Food for us comes from our relatives… That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.” This quote was spoken by Winona LaDuke. Known for her work on tribal land claims and being an American environmentalist, Winona LaDuke discusses that food is culture. She also expresses how tribal relatives pass on their food recipes. Through generations, traditional foods are passed down to preserve culture. Consequentially, people have more respect for food when someone says, ‘This is my great grandmother’s recipe.’ Immigrants brought their culture, including their gastronomy, and recipes, from their homeland as a way to preserve and express their heritage and pass it on to their children. Moreover,

In the modern industrial society, being aware of what the food we eat come from is an essential step of preventing the “national eating disorder”. In Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, he identifies the humans as omnivores who eat almost everything, which has been developed into a dominant part of mainstream unhealthiness, gradually causing the severe eating disorder consequences among people. Pollan offers his opinion that throughout the process of the natural history of foods, deciding “what should we have for dinner” can stir the anxiety for people based on considering foods’ quality, taste, price, nutrition, and so on. In order to establish a stronger relationship between humans and food, and allow the humans to know what they are actually eating, Pollan uses different rhetorical analysis includes different appealing strategies and various literary devices, which contribute to persuade people to comprehend the deeper meaning behind the

One of the most recognizable, charismatic and relatable poets of our time is Kevin Young. What makes Young the poet that he is? He has unique way of drawing comparisons with food and his emotions/feelings. In doing so, his poems create an image in which the reader will easily comprehend. In addition, Kevin Young uses a heavy dose of similes. These similes provoke images that are intended to describe the setting, mood, or tone. Lastly, Young has adopted a couplet or triplet style of writing. All these ways has given Kevin Young a unique modus operandi that’s highly relatable and enjoyable to read.

Throughout this novel, Laurie Halse Anderson incorporated seven vital foods that Melinda ate: Ho-Hos, Mashed potatoes, powdered doughnuts, Pop Tarts, the disgusting turkey soup, pizza, and the applesauce. Somes of these meals she ate alone, but other times she ate these meals with Heather and the other people in the cafeteria or even her parents. In the book How to Read Literature like a Professor, Foster claimed that food is used in novels to unite opposing sides in the chapter “Nice to eat with you: Acts of Communion.” This was shown in the book, Speak, as Melinda learned to become acquaintances and somewhat “friends” with Heather even though they have nothing in common. This type of situation was also emphasized when Melinda’s family ate

Do you believe in order to understand other culture you need to try different food ? These are some ideas of this article from Amy S. Choi a freelance journalist. She wrote this article,“What americans can learn from other food cultures”. Choi betters her argument by providing real stories from other countries. She starts her article with personal anecdotes, describing some cultures and real life stories that the food is the only great thing we have that make us closer to different country. Choi was successfully in showing how food can be educational about other cultures by providing stories from other countries including personal facts that serve as evidence in support of her claims.

Food is required in order to live as well as maintain a healthy lifestyle. Potassium, fiber, fat, calories, sodium, along with a bunch of vitamins are required for human body. Calories give us vitality to move around and do our day to day work. From past food industry in United States has grown so much.

Poet Wendell Berry argues, “Eating with the fullest pleasure…is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world.” It appears that Berry’s sentiment is correct. Eating is what makes us human. When we have enough food, we are happy. When we are starving we feel depressed and are filled with a sense of mortality. Thus, food emphasizes the human experience in two ways. As Berry states, it certainly links us to this world because food comes from the earth. Our consumption of food reminds us that we are derived from the very earth in which our food is grown and that at the end of our lives, we will return there as well. In Like Water for Chocolate, Tita reminds us of this natural

The story of “Cold Pastoral” by Marina Keegan is one of reflection. A reflection of when a person was alive and when he was dead, it also reflects on differing feeling upon another.

What exactly is our food and nutrition? Nutrition is a vital necessity for man. At the present time, there is a noticeable increase in the understanding that food has a significant influence on a person. It gives energy, strength, development, and with proper use of it - and health. Food can often be the main source of most diseases, but with its help you can also get rid of many health problems. To ensure healthy nutrition, we must take into account the biological needs of the body, not dependent on our will. However, very often the choice of food is based on our preferences and the influence of the culture in which we grew up, and this essay will discuss the cultural significance of the bread for dead (pan de muerto) and the reasons for this

Having been blessed with such a great imagination every object she saw became an amazing treasure. One day in late summer an old two burner stove became the main object to her imaginary bakery. Miss Smartie Pants created the best mud pies one could create. Each pie was crafted with the right combination of clay. mud and water. If the combination was not perfect they would either become to watery, or extremely dry. She had it down to a perfect science. Decorations came later with larger more beautiful rocks that were placed on top. These mud cakes were masterpieces in her

Sonya decides to use Naomi’s magic cookbook to bake herself a date. If you bake a cake from the cookbook and eat a slice, a sexy man appears to fulfill all of your sexual fantasies.

Imagery is use in the story to stimulate the five sense of the readers. For example in the story, the surroundings in the beginning is use to stimulate the senses of touch and sight for the readers when words like smouldering, dim and uncertain is use to emphasise the feeling of heat, warmth and darkness in the room where Brantain sat in the shadows while watching Nathalie who was sitting in the bright glow of the fireplace in the room. For example, “It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep

Food, a substance which is consumed to provide nutrition to the body. It is usually obtain from plant or animal and contain many essential nutrients, which includes fats, vitamins and minerals. The food ingested and assimilated by organism and its cells respectively, to provide energy, maintain life and to stimulate growth.