This semester, I gained knowledge about the different ways to analyze food texts through many different varieties of texts including recipes, blog posts, and food reviews. I never knew that the “rhetoric of food” would be so interesting and deep; I now know how much effort and deep thought goes into writing even just the simplest recipe. For this reason, I chose the true Italian pesto recipe as my favorite piece of assigned writing during the semester. I was inspired dedication to writing the recipe as close to its Italian roots as possible. The author truly had a passion for her recipe for pesto and wanted to share it with the world, which is one of the most crucial techniques to writing a meaningful piece of food text.

Secondly, my favorite food text that was not assigned for the class to read would be the food blog “North Wild Kitchen.” I used this food blog as my mentor text when creating my own food blog and I am so thankful that I did; the parts of the blog that I chose to mimic from this blog were some of my audience’s favorite parts about my own blog.