I really loved all the intricacies of the various recipes from the class reading, however my favorite piece of writing I read would be the Farm to Fable piece regarding the restaurants in Tampa. I enjoy not only when a piece is well written, but when I learn something new from it. The Farm to Fable piece really opened my eyes to issues I was completely unaware of. How is it legal to serve pork as veal? I had so many questions after reading this piece. Maybe I was interested in this piece, because I am interested in the things it was sharing. I love the boldness of this piece and that it was very research based. You could definitely tell the author worked really hard to gather data and organize it. She did a great job presenting her information and still making her writing interesting. I also enjoyed her direct quotes of questions she asked various restaurants as well as her ability to highlight the hypocrisy of the various Tampa restaurants.

Of the readings I did myself, my favorite was probably The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. It was very informative and exposed a lot about the food industry, not unlike the Farm to Fable piece. The piece showed me a lot of surprising information about the way the food industry makes its food, and it gave information directly from first hand sources. While very lengthy, the author revealed so many things that were unknown to me. I couldn’t help but want to know more.

Rhetoric of food is very idiosyncratic and personal to the individual author. However food is what connects us to each other. Every human being likes and needs food. Regardless of the type of rhetoric an author uses in his or her writing, every one can relate to the writing because food ties us all together. Driven by what we eat and where we eat it, food rhetoric is often beautiful because of all the cultures involved. Whether you’re from Indonesia or South Africa, you enjoy eating food. Rhetoric of food is about unity, because it unifies all cultures, races, genders, and political views. Rhetoric of food is a tool or a vehicle. Food writing is used as a vehicle to share something personal (opinion piece), as a tool to promote activism (investigative pieces), or even as a tool to teach (recipe).