About the Author
Ashley Gao is a freshman at Piedmont High School. She was born in Fremont, California and moved to Piedmont at the age of three. She has an older sister named Courtney, who’s currently a senior at Piedmont High. Her father, Jeff, works as a doctor at Kaiser and her mother, Ling, is a finance manager at Genentech. Besides completing her schoolwork and studying for biology tests, Ashley loves playing basketball and also enjoys playing the piano. She has been on several travel teams for basketball and currently plays for the high school team. But another hobby she has is unknown to the majority of the public. Everyday, Ashley waits for the clock to strike six, especially on the weekends, because she knows it’s time for dinner. As an
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Eating different cuisines and trying new dishes at a variety of restaurants is an important hobby in Ashley’s life. In the future, Ashley hopes to go into the field of marketing or advertising, and hopefully specialize in food. But no matter what job she pursues, she hopes to have her own children (she is hoping for two) and a joyful family. The first thing she teaches her kids will be to always try new things and be accepting to the unknown. That is the one thing she regrets from her childhood. Not being more open-minded and unwilling to step out of her comfort zone. But despite this, her childhood has shaped who she is today. By pushing away vegetables and having a constant craving for macaroni and cheese, the cheesy pasta dish is now the single dish that can cheer her up when she feels defeated or disappointed. It is the comfort food that will remain a part of her life. Throughout Ashley’s life, she has always wondered why certain foods triggered certain emotions. Why does macaroni and cheese make me feel so cheerful? And why is it that this dish is what I rely on when sad? Her curiosity for the deeper meaning of food has grown throughout the years, but what has risen to a new level is her true passion
Many people declare that pizza is the best food that they have ever tasted, or it is at least their favorite, but pizza has not gone far beyond fulfilling a sense of hunger. “The Best Pizza in the World”, by Elizabeth Gilbert, is a short story that explores how a simple pizza quenches the narrator's thirst for adventure and changes her overall attitude toward herself. In “The Best Pizza in the World”, Gilbert uses description,cause and effect; and pathos to share her experience of how a little pizzeria in Naples lead her to temporary enlightenment.
She was able to evoke emotions by her choice of negatively charged words towards the other author, Stephen Budiansky, and his work, Math Lessons for Locavores. By the end of the article, the reader developed strong negative views concerning the other article solely on Trueman’s diction and her tone. By writing, “Throw in a bunch of dubious and/or irrelevant statistics that appear to be truly locally sourced-i.e., pulled out of your own behind,” and “What’s so maddening about sloppy op-eds like this is that they give fodder to folks who hate the very notion that their food choices have any consequences beyond their own waistlines and bank balances”, Trueman expresses her dislike of Budiansky’s thoughst on the topic. She describes his article in such a dismissive way that her audiences adopts the same views as her. As a whole, her way of writing creates an overall negative tone towards the article being criticized. While doing this, she also points out flaws in his argument and exposes his faults in reasoning. As a result, his argument becomes invalid in the eyes of the readers and they are left with a clear winning perspective on the issue of the Local Food Movement. Kerry Truman's use of pathos in her critical analysis of Budiansky’s Math Lessons for Locavores was successful in the aspect that she evokes emotions in her
For years I have harbored a secret desire to become a cheese aficionado. This is not entirely arbitrary. Cheese, as an independent entity outside of any broader alimentary context, is at once worldly and whimsical. It provides the ideal complement to that side of my personality which has historically been dominant. My experiences have been largely rooted in the world of the abstract and the intellectual. Mathematics, music, writing, and the like have given me a certain sense of detachment from reality. While I have historically enjoyed this detachment, there is always a desire to diversify. Eating cheese is a direct immersion in the world of the senses, where things are taken at face value. You don’t analyze cheese, you just eat it — a refreshingly simple outlook on life. At the same time, cheese offers the oppo...
What she loved is that by starving herself more and more, that one small, infrequent indulgence she would serve herself tasted better and better. The longer she sustained, the more pleasure she found in eating one small piece of something at last. The cause of it all, she says, was something that had always been in her mind. The ski trip incident serving only as a kickstarter. It was partly inherited, she says. Her mother was notorious for suffering badly from guilt, and her father wa...
Throughout the essay, Berry logically progresses from stating the problem of the consumer’s ignorance and the manipulative food industry that plays into that ignorance, to stating his solution where consumers can take part in the agricultural process and alter how they think about eating in order to take pleasure in it. He effectively uses appeals to emotion and common values to convince the reader that this is an important issue and make her realize that she needs to wake up and change what she is doing. By using appeals to pathos, logos, and ethos, Berry creates a strong argument to make his point and get people to change how they attain and eat food.
Grief and loss often trigger a desire for a change of lifestyle or a reflection on one’s current lifestyle, goals, and living purpose. This experience of misery gives the opportunity for improvement of one’s life and an appreciation for the previously unnoticed aspects of life. In the novella Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, the protagonist Mikage recovers from the grief and pain of the death of her family members and adopts an appreciation for the kitchen. Recovering from the recent loss of her grandmother, Mikage is vulnerable and weak. Initially, she adopts a fondness for the kitchen’s ability to allow her to feel comfortable within society. Furthermore, Mikage appreciates the kitchen’s ability to foster her creativity through cooking and indulging
Terry and Gabby moved to St. Petersburg, Florida and Terry enrolled Gabby into Keswick Christian school. At first, Gabby didn’t fit in and people made fun of her (Morgan 21). Gabby got her height from both of her parents, and she always was taller than most of her friends. Her height played a large roll in how she got into sports. She joined Keswick’s basketball and volleyball team (Gabrielle Reece 1). Gabby went to state championships her in her first season for basketball. She only played basketball for two seasons, but she didn’t see herself playing it in the future. However, Gabby played volleyball on both a school team and a club volleyball te...
Food, a need for some and a guilty pleasure for others. Certain food releases serotonin, a chemical messenger, into the brain and is rumored to increase moods. For someone that is not properly nourished and not receiving serotonin, they technically are not feeling the joy food can give. The focus on food in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant shows the importance of love in a family and the factors that are needed to raise children. By focusing on food it shows what each character is lacking and what they are “craving”. Nourishment is a side dish for the main dish- love.
Food is intricately linked to our lives, as we consume food and it becomes part of us. Hence, it is unsurprising that Nikos Kazantzakis and Laura Esquivel use their characters’ approach to food to represent and give insights into their disposition. Both Like Water for Chocolate and Zorba the Greek utilize this link between "what you do with what you eat" and "who you are" to enhance characterisation and character relationships. More abstractly, Kazantzakis and Esquivel’s depictions of food highlight thematic exploration of passion and making the most of life.
In her book Semiotics and Communication: Signs, Codes, Cultures, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz describes the wide use of food as signs, and also as social codes. The reason foods are so useful as signs and social codes is because they are separable, easily adaptive to new environments, and it is not difficult to cook, or eat for that matter. Food is a major part of our daily lives, Not only for survival, but it plays a substantial social role in our lives. We will look deeper into the semiotics of food, how food is used as identity markers, and also the role that foods play in social change in our lives. First let us start with the semiotics of food.
...important impact in Diana's life. However, for Diana the relationship with food is different from that of her father's. For Bud, food is a way to relate to the way he used to live, “… he cooks and croons in Arabic to the frying liver and onions songs about missing the one you love.” For her family, food was always a reason to make them feel better, and to relief life pressures. For Diana, it is a way to find herself. Moreover, for Diana, and despite all of the challenges that she encountered, food and cooking are used as a tool in which she expressed herself. A tool to share her good times, and bad times. She used food as comfort, a peace offering, and a way to find herself. Therefore, her simple and enjoyable to read stories came to be a wonderful mix between her life story, and food recipes. Especially for those who consider food to be more than something to eat.
Food strongly describes a person’s identity. For example, if you migrate to another country like the women in the show, “Anthony Bourdain: Parts unknown – Detroit, then in order to keep your food culture you must continue cooking the same ethnic style meals. The women in the show, which was not identified, decided to open up a restaurant using her home as her business in order to spread her cultures food style. This describes who the women is and how deeply she loves her culture even though she is not in
During the visit, my mother and I went grocery shopping together at the same store I had frequented as a young teenager. The excursion seemed mostly uneventful until I spied the loaves of D’Italiano bread piled atop the shelves in the bread aisle. For a moment, I was transported back to that empty apartment where I had endured the most unhappy times of my childhood. The irony of the situation was that I was reliving the past while standing with my mother. She picked up a loaf and tossed it into the cart unaware of the profound effect the bread had on me. She turned to me and said, “You said you were hungry. Would you like me to fix you a tuna sandwich when we get home?” Stunned, I could only reply, “Yes, that would be fine,” and we moved on.
food and culture a reader. Second Edition. Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik, eds.(New York, Taylor＆Francis, 2008)
A true love of food isn’t born through watching culinary television programs, or cooking with a grandmother during the holidays. It doesn’t stem from enjoying eating, or hosting parties. A true love of food in my eyes is defined as a lifelong relationship with food in numerous capacities. A relationship filled with all of the discovery, strife, forgiveness, and understanding one might find in a committed human affair. All of which are underlined by a deep current of simultaneously inquisitive and euphoric obsession. Without these qualities, one can expect their relationship to food to remain as thin and tasteless as a Sunday morning communion wafer. I describe a superficial connection to food in this particularly blunt fashion because I care about food in such an intimate way. Though my words may imply some sort of exclusionary zealotry regarding food, they are not meant to convey that an interest in food is a bad thing. Rather, I simply want to express the difference between a hobby and a genuine passion.