In the article An Introduction to Food & Identity: From the Everyday to Ritual and Beyond from https://foodandidenity.wordpress.com it says, “Food, like language, exists as a vehicle for expressing culture.” This is saying that food couldn't be interpreted as a language to be able to express a variety of cultures. Certain cultures can't just be expressed by the custom but the foods are different as well to show uniqueness. In the article it also says, “Cultures can both shape and be shaped by the foods they eat and the foods they consider to be staples; additionally, an everyday food can influence how outside cultures view that culture.” Food is for everyone and everyone has different taste buds and they like different tastes and textures. “Rituals that involve food are often interactive; they require effort from multiple individuals in order to perform the ritual properly.” The article is explaining how certain foods can be sacred and a part of a faith that is respected by a specific culture.
Throughout this article, food is glorified in the sense that it is the center of a lot of cultures. The author could have also included photos of food that represent how cultural food is which could have added more color to the website overall.
https://foodandidenity.wordpress.com/
https://guardian.ng/life/food-an-important-feature-of-our-cultural-identity/
The book Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley talks a lot about how and where certain food comes from that we can be unaware of. Knisley illustrates a graphic novel presenting how a young girl is realizing how gruesome some meats could be and how you can’t really tell where the meat comes from or how the meat is killed or taken care of. In the graphic novel, She starts to become more aware of what she will let be put in her body. She become aware of the different types of meats and the different ways they could be processed in ways that aren’t thought of while eating. She comes to the realization that you can’t trust food from everywhere and you have to be cautious of where the food source is and how it is prepared. In the graphic novel page, the young girl says, “But I think it changed my relationship to the world, to my body and food, to see that what I ate didn't originate on the shelves of a store.” This proves that since she was unaware of how some meats were killed and refrigerated after being killed she use to just eat them or view them without thinking twice about how they got there. She concluded that natural food is better than foods you don't know are good or not. Places like restaurants are associations that don’t always want to share where they get their food from. This is not fair for the consumer cause they are unaware of where the food they are eating is from. It’s important to almost always check what is in your food and where it is from. It can be tedious but it’s important to know what you are putting into your body. From this piece of work, you can tell that the author was scared to put in other factors or items of food that people should be aware of. this is a piece that would have made the graphic novel page stronger.
For the first summary, I really like your usage of quotes. I also like the critical part of your summary and how it felt like you were giving the author advice. I think it would have been cool to dive into one of the examples the text gives about a specific cultural food practice and really summarize that (for example the tea festival). For your next summary, I find it interesting that you chose to pick a book. It made me wonder how you went about narrowing down what to include and exclude in your summary. I feel as though I did get a blurb on the book while also understanding you were writing about it from.
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