The Rhetoric of Food, I believe, means something different to everyone.  The act of debating, discussing, praising, or just consuming food is a different experience for every person, and each experience builds that person’s feelings about food.  How they express these feelings depends solely on the person: they can spread their ideas through conversation, through multimedia, through art or through writing.  Writers express their ideas about food through careful consideration of their audiences and the broader social context of their piece.  The rhetoric of food is extremely complex, with intentions for writing ranging from sincere love of a food to the ethics of killing animals for consumption to absolute hatred of a restaurant.  If there is one thing I have learned this semester, it is that food is hardly just a part of sustenance: food is power, food is culture, food is love, food is a core piece of so many people’s identities.