At the beginning of this semester, I thought that we would just be reading recipes for 16 weeks because that was the only type of “rhetoric” that I associated with food. I now know that the rhetoric of food is much more than simple step-by-step directions for how to make a meal. Throughout our assigned readings we have been able to see that food can be used to define a culture. Culture-focused food writing is used to unite people of the same culture by using terms that are familiar to them. At the same time, it also allows for people outside of the group to learn more about the culture just by reading about the dishes they cook.    The tone of the piece drastically changes depending on who it is primarily being written for. An engineer-aimed recipe will be short with visuals included. That same recipe more aimed towards women could be much longer and include a touching backstory. Both pieces end with the same dish but have drastically different ways of getting there. There is not one standard way of writing about food, just as there is no standard way of preparing a dish. The people that write about food have just as much freedom as the people that make it to express their feelings and identity.