What are you learning about the way writers express their ideas about food? Something that I have learned about the Rhetoric of Food is that writers have so many different ways to express their ideas about food. The mediums can be short stories, they can be poetry, videos, restaurant reviews, blogs, and movie trailers. Being able to use all of the literary mediums and a multitude of delivery forms allows many types of people to read about the rhetoric of food. “Food Cultures” are important to each person, for me they different for each person as they are significant to each person, and their cultural heritages and the important to the foods that they can consume. When we worked on the annotated bibliography and we learned so many ways food connects to power, history, politics, race, gender, nationality and other identity markers. Cookbooks can be geared towards genders, the kitchen is considered to be a “feminine space”, burgers/wings are considered to be masculine foods, and how certain foods seemed to be racial and other certain people have the power to cook those things.
I also learned about the expansive, diverse nature of the rhetoric of food. I would have never imagined that it could include short stories. However, after reading your original food short story in class, I definitely hope to explore more of this type of food genre. I also definitely agree that food cultures is an extremely important subject. In my Vietnamese heritage, food is a serious matter. It’s practically part of our family and identity!