When I described what the rhetoric of food meant to me in my midterm learning reflection, I focused on the rhetoric portion of that phrase, rather than the food portion. But the rhetoric of food is a phrase that cannot, or at least should not be broken down and examined as its component words. To me, the rhetoric of food means the surrounding and contained elements of a piece of food writing. This could range from the author’s background to the words that the author writes. The way that the author describes the food is extremely important, as they could be making social of political commentaries that you are not thinking about. For instance, Michael Twitty’s piece that we read as a class was a great example of how food writing can comment on the culture at large. The rhetoric of food is exceedingly complex and connected with a whole host of other genres and topics of writing. These interconnections really need to be taken into account when talking about the rhetoric of food in order to get the best and most complete view of any piece of work.