Over the course of the semester, my ideas about the rhetoric of food have changed a lot. At the beginning of the class, recipes and restaurant reviews were the only genres of food related texts that I could think of off the top of my head. Now that the semester is over, I understand that food writing can come in all different varieties. I was really inspired by my classmates when I saw their creativity in producing their own texts. The way authors choose to express their thoughts, opinions, and research in relation to food can be so different from person to person. Food is such a common and powerful experience that everyone on the planet can relate to. It has the ability to define cultures, time periods, geography, politics, religion, and so much more. Eating food makes us feel something that we often don’t think or care to describe. Authors who are able to capture this experience and put it into words that give us that same feeling, whether it be identity, unity, or simply the happiness of a full belly, are artists. The rhetoric of food is writing that describes something we can’t see or feel, but we still know what it is. We can taste it.