Post 1: My favorite pieces of literature I read for this class was Pete Wells’ article titled “As Not Seen on TV” discussing Guy Fieri’s new restaurant in Times Square and the “Elemental Odes”, specifically the “Ode to Tomato”, by Pablo Neruda. The Fieri article was my favorite bit of assigned reading because of its humorous and sarcastic nature, mixed with the short paragraphs that allow the article to read as if the author is doing a comedy routine. This article began to expand my view on writing and show me that the way I revised my writing to look would affect the way it was read. Pablo Neruda’s “Elemental Odes” was my favorite reading that was not assigned, although it was suggested to me by Thea, it quickly became my favorite selection of reading I had read all year. Reading these odes helped me not only analyze the genre of poetry, but it helped me create poetry in a way that I had never done before.

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Post 2: When I started this course, I thought that the rhetoric of food were the words used around cooking and eating food. Coming to the end of this course I have learned that the rhetoric of food is much more than that. The rhetoric of food describes the way we understand, express, and experience food and all its constituencies. We use the rhetoric of food to analyze not only what the author is saying, but who the author is, where they are coming from, what they are trying to portray, and how they are trying to portray it. Instead of simply describing food itself, the rhetoric of food is the entire combination of all these elements into texts to then express points the author is trying to make about society and culture. I have learned that the rhetoric of food is as much about understanding the text meaning and depth as it is the literal words that the author uses to describe food.