As Not Seen on TV by Pete Wells was an article written about Guy Fieri’s restaurant called Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar. This was one of my favorite articles that we have read this semester. I have never read a restaurant review that was so extreme with its choice of diction. The subtle anger that is sown through out the story comes off as comical. This article was so entertaining and engaging I was truly sad when I found out that there was so sequel. The best parts of the article is all the rhetorical questions he ask. Such as “How did nachos, one of the hardest dishes in the American canon to mess up, turn out so deeply unlovable? Why augment tortilla chips with fried lasagna noodles that taste like nothing except oil? Why not bury those chips under a properly hot and filling layer of melted cheese and jalape\u00f1os instead of dribbling them with thin needles of pepperoni and cold gray clots of ground turkey?” He is absolutely brilliant at asking a question, while in return offering his own opinion about the food choices.<\/p>\n
The most entertaining reader I read outside of the course was Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry for one of my mentor text as stylistic help for my dramatic short stories. Like many of his short stories he left his usual mark on them\u00a0with irony, mocking humor, and\u00a0<\/span>twisty\u00a0<\/span>endings. With his writing you it always difficult to know exactly what\u00a0<\/span>O. Henry was up to. He was is <\/span>satirizing the tradition of Thanksgiving, poking fun at a tradition for such a young country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Not Seen on TV by Pete Wells was an article written about Guy Fieri’s restaurant called Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar. This was one of my favorite articles that we have read this semester. I have never read a restaurant review that was so extreme with its choice of diction. The subtle anger that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1548,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}