Chao-Wei Wu
Jeffrey McMahon
English 1A
23 July 2014
Chef Jeff Henderson_Cooked
Chef JH’s personal memoir, Cooked, is a model confirmation that it is feasible for an author to give a moving message without sounding sermonizing and redundant. Cooked takes place after Henderson's rise and fall (and rise once more). The story begins with his alliance with drug merchants of becoming one of the top split cocaine merchants in San Diego by his 23rd birthday. It leads to his capture and inevitably his rising into the culinary business (Ganeshram 42).
A fundamental center of the memoir is Henderson's procedure of affirmation toward oneself. Despite the fact that Henderson's introductory perspective of his drug business is based on finance, throughout
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These individuals are able to change from their past activities and be likable by the community. This act is so clear from the activities of Henderson. First, Henderson comes out as an individual who is a rogue and non-law abiding. He is involved in illegal activities like dealing in cracked cocaine. Having been sentenced in prison for 20 years, Henderson reformed and even learnt the act of cooking from his fellow inmates. He pursues this dream relentlessly till he becomes a top chef. Through the story "Cooked"; Henderson's tell-all memoir of crime, recovery and a yearning to become famous (Ganesh ram 114). Told in the lumpy dialect of the roads Henderson grew up on, his story rouses every individual to clutch the quest for our fantasies. Being mindful of his past and prepared to reclaim it, Henderson talked it out with potential businesses. He clarified about his past: he was youthful; he committed a few errors, and invested years lamenting those mix-ups. To him, the criminal past was so a long ways behind him that he customarily addressed school kids about how break had been crushing their group subsequent to back when he was simply a school …show more content…
Interested to know how he rose to fame, this guy explained to me how his journey was long and with mixed reactions. Having been a drug addict and later reforming, it took several years for individuals to accept him in the industry. He spent time playing parts where he would demystify the theories surrounding drugs and their likely importance. Through his plays, he inspired many and also redeemed himself from his past; a dark past. Denial in many areas refers to mechanism of defense mechanism, used in most cases to describe individuals who are not in a position to face reality. Usually, individuals do not accept that something has happened, or it is happening in a given manner. For instance, drug addicts not accepting that they have a problem is more of denying their status and reluctant to receive any assistance. Denial in most cases is seen to protect the ego from things that individuals cannot cope with, and it is likely to save individuals from pain or anxiety. For instance, after Henderson seeking jobs in many places and not absorbed due to his past; being a drug addict and ending up as a convict, he begins living in denial. The act of denial manifests when he showed up at Caesars Palace where apparently he was desperate (Henderson 53). He quickly visits. Henderson ‘s restaurant and gets to update himself with the restaurant menu. When he is
Devin Friedman is an interesting writer to analyze because his personable tone with a hint of sarcasm that makes all of the articles entertaining. It is also refreshing to see someone who is not scared to talk about controversial topics such as racism and bisexuality, but knows how to maintain a professional attitude towards it. Although Devin wrote many articles regarding travel, crime, and lifestyle, I wonder if he would ever write a food review. I think it would be interesting to read a food article written by Devin Friedman because he does not seem like the type of person who is scared to tell the truth (with a hint of sarcasm). Every person can write a story, but it is hard to come by a witty person who knows how to capture the moment within the story like Devin Friedman.
Eric Schlosser enters the slaughterhouse in the High Plains to show behind the scenes of fast food and how it is made. He was not expecting what actually lies behind the cold doors of the factory. People remain to have the misconception of fast food being made in the restaurant. Nobody thinks about there being a dark side to it all. Schlosser pulls on his knee high boots and guides readers through a pool of blood to show where we manufacture our food.
Ehrenreich understands that her current employment will not provide her with enough pay to live on. She interviews and is hired at another restaurant called Jerry’s. Unfortunately, Jerry’s is a train wreck. At this restaurant, Ehrenreich finds that the restaurant layout is deplorable. The kitchen of the...
Throughout David Sheff’s book, he incorporates detailed diction in describing his environment, past, and the people around him as to allow the reader to be able to imagine what he had seen during this course of his life. As the father of a drug addict, Sheff had also had his own experience with drugs, in which he describes this experience with words and phrases such as “I heard cacophonous music like a calliope”, “[The brain’s neurotransmitters flood with dopamine], which spray like bullets from a gangster’s gun” and “I felt
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true” (Kierkegaard)- Misleading oneself by accepting things as true or valid when they are not is a common phenomenon of nearly every human being, especially when faced with life changing of threatening situations. Self-deception can therefore be considered an option to escape reality in order to prevent oneself from dealing with the weight of a situation. Basically, those strong influencing psychological forces keep us from acknowledging a threatening situation or truth. However, oftentimes people do not realize that they are deceiving themselves, for it is mostly the action of the subconscious mind to protect especially the psychological well- being. This psychological state is depicted and in Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. He shows that people try to escape reality and seek refuge in self-deception when confronted with life-threatening situations, through characterization, alternate point of view, and the fluidity of time.
Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” gave the most in-depth description of the horrid truths about the way America’s food companies, “the only source of food for people living in the city,” are preparing the food they sell. “The Jungle” describes the terrible
A common theme in entertainment today is the question “Just because I can, should I do it?” Usually this is applied to moral issues or controversial scientific breakthroughs. Yet, very little of the American public even bother to ask this about food science and production. As long as the food tastes good and is convenient, most people don’t really care. Melanie Warner, overall, was just like most Americans. In her book she documents how a former business journalist became infatuated with the longevity of cheese, guacamole, and other normal American cuisine. It’s a dark hole. Most readers will be horrified and confused with such production methods. While Warner’s book isn’t a scientific study, her neutral style and intriguing investigation
""Soul Food" a Brief History." Welcome To The Black Box, Personal Narratives in High Definition. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2014
...en he had a purpose. The waitress in Carver’s story picks up on the polite nature of the ‘fat man’ and wishes her significant other would be more like the ‘fat man’, instead of making fun of someone who treats her well. She realizes she had lost self respect and confidence that the ‘fat man’ exemplifies.
The Author and His Times: The author of Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser was born on August 17, 1959. Eric grew up in Manhattan, New York and also in Los Angeles where his father, Herbert Schlosser, was President of NBC. He attended the college of Princeton University where he studied American History, and soon getting his in British Imperial History. Eric’s career soon took off when he became a journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, quickly earning two medals in a matter of two years. After that he wrote Fast Food Nation in 2001 soon created it into a film in 2006 called Chew on This. As you can see, Eric Schlosser has a tremendous life and has written many articles and books, but only one thing has remained in common, they
In his first month of living in Provence, Mayle experiences his first Provencal meal, in which he appears to enjoy significantly. He describes it as “a meal that [he] shall never forget; more accurately, it was several meals that [he] shall never forget, because it went beyond gastronomic frontiers of anything [he] had ever experienced, both in quantity and length” (14). The vivid phrases and non colloquial words Mayle uses to recall his first cuisine experience indicates the overall powerful influence that the food had over him. As he later finds out, the men and women of Provence have an “interest in food [that] verges on obsession” (15) and that the “French are as passionate about food as other nationalities are about sport and politics” (16). Also, Mayle notices that “the Chez Michel is [...] not sufficiently pompous to attract too much attention from the Guide Michelin” (60). In fact, the “clients of the restaurant eat very well in the back, [...] the owner cooks, [...] members of the family help at table and kitchens, [and has] no
When life becomes a question of survival, do rules in everyday life/ behavior seem to matter? Lies and deceit can show to be motive if or when life is threatened. Throughout this paper it will become apparent that when put into a certain position where there are decisions to be made, everyone might show another side of themselves that you may not have known to be there. Within the story, Night lies and deceit will prove to show not only character traits, but how they affect decisions that are made and how the overall ending is changed due to denial that comes along with it all.
One of the most shocking books of the generation is Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation. The novel includes two sections, "The American Way" and "Meat and Potatoes,” that aid him in describing the history and people who have helped shape up the basics of the “McWorld.” Fast Food Nation jumps into action at the beginning of the novel with a discussion of Carl N. Karcher and the McDonald’s brothers. He explores their roles as “Gods” of the fast-food industry. Schlosser then visits Colorado Springs and investigates the life and working conditions of the typical fast-food industry employee. Starting out the second section, Schlosser travels to the western side of Colorado to examine the effects presented to the agriculture world in the new economy. Following Schlosser’s journey across the nation, he leads everything up to slaughterhouses and the main supply of income for fast food franchises – the meat. After visiting the meat industries in America, Schlosser explores the expansion of fast food around the eastern hemisphere – including the first McDonalds in Germany. Throughout Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser presents in his point of view and informative tone, a detailed disscussion of the conditions using various examples imagry and flowing diction/syntax to help support and show his audience the reasoning behind the novel.
Lewis, Edna and Peacock, Scott. The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cook. Knopf, 2003.
Shambhu and Nelson have been good friends since grade 10 back in their country called Nepal .Nelson recently moved to the United States from Nepal. Nelson has decided to live with Shambhu until he finds a room for him. One day in the evening, they go to park near Shambhu’s apartment and they have a good conversation about fast foods. In this conversation Shambhu is a narrator and they are mainly talking about the fast foods and the circumstances that are brought by fast food restaurants in US.