{"id":321,"date":"2016-12-02T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=321"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:54:06","slug":"the-semesters-best-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2016\/12\/02\/the-semesters-best-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Semester&#8217;s Best Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">By Lexi Hill<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this semester, we as a class read and discussed a huge number of texts that varied in genre. I enjoyed many of them, but one that really stood out to me was David Foster Wallace&#8217;s &#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221;. On the surface, this article (originally published in <em>Gourmet<\/em> magazine in 2004) discusses the Maine Lobster Festival, but delves much deeper into analysis\u00a0of the ethics of certain cooking methods and even includes detail about the anatomy of a lobster. Wallace&#8217;s complex text also led to a very interesting class discussion where I grew to appreciate the article even more after learning new things about it from the class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read\u00a0&#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221; here<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gourmet.com\/magazine\/2000s\/2004\/08\/consider_the_lobster.html\">http:\/\/www.gourmet.com\/magazine\/2000s\/2004\/08\/consider_the_lobster.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to in-class readings, I worked with many unassigned texts to complete original compositions. Of those works, my favorite was the &#8220;Go Fork Yourself&#8221; podcast.\u00a0I listened to dozens of podcasts in my process of creating my own, and this one was quite memorable. Hosted by Andrew Zimmer of <em>Bizarre Foods,\u00a0<\/em>this podcast is incredibly informative while simultaneously witty and easy-going. It was both enjoyable and helpful to my writing process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to\u00a0&#8220;Go Fork Yourself&#8221; here<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewzimmern.com\/category\/podcasts\/\">http:\/\/andrewzimmern.com\/category\/podcasts\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lexi Hill Throughout this semester, we as a class read and discussed a huge number of texts that varied in genre. I enjoyed many of them, but one that really stood out to me was David Foster Wallace&#8217;s &#8220;Consider the Lobster&#8221;. On the surface, this article (originally published in Gourmet magazine in 2004) discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","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\/321","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}