{"id":318,"date":"2016-12-02T00:35:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=318"},"modified":"2016-12-03T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:15:57","slug":"the-rhetoric-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2016\/12\/02\/the-rhetoric-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhetoric of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard the phrase &#8220;rhetoric of food,&#8221; nothing came to mind. It sounded very intellectual but was essentially void of meaning for me. After spending a semester studying this very topic, I have a better understanding of what the rhetoric of food means.<\/p>\n<p>Rhetoric, simply, is the art of persuasive communication. This was my starting block for understanding the rhetoric of food.\u00a0Through our class discussions, readings, and writing projects, I now approach a piece of writing differently. When I read a recipe, there is much to consider. Who is the author? Who is the audience? Where is this author coming from? What&#8217;s his or her religion, ethnicity, cultural upbringing? What is the author&#8217;s goal in writing? All of these questions drastically affect writing and they all play in to the rhetoric of writing.<\/p>\n<p>When I now think of the rhetoric of food, I think about the discourse surrounding food; I think of the multitude of elements that vie for influence in a story; I think of the layers of meaning underneath the simple words on a page. The rhetoric of food is not a vague concept but the meaning infused in every piece of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard the phrase &#8220;rhetoric of food,&#8221; nothing came to mind. It sounded very intellectual but was essentially void of meaning for me. After spending a semester studying this very topic, I have a better understanding of what the rhetoric of food means. Rhetoric, simply, is the art of persuasive communication. This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhetoric-of-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","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\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}