{"id":352,"date":"2016-12-02T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T03:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=352"},"modified":"2016-12-03T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:52:58","slug":"a-course-wrap-up-favorite-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2016\/12\/02\/a-course-wrap-up-favorite-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Course Wrap-Up, Favorite Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michelle Biancardi<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout our studies in the rhetoric of food, we have engaged with a wide variety of texts, linking the content, author, and audience to determine where each text fits in the world of food writing. My favorite of our in-class readings is the one I still engage with frequently: Leanne Brown’s “Good and Cheap,” a PDF she compiled as a part of her master’s degree program from New York University. This text revealed to me the import of tone in a writer’s work. This piece is friendly and conversational. It’s un-intimidating, which fits perfectly with the whole point of the work. It’s a how-to for “good” and “cheap” food; its audience doesn’t want to sift through pages and pages of confusing instructions. In addition to how beneficial good images can be to a text, Brown taught me\u00a0how important it is to fully consider my audience, which has been one essential takeaway from this course.<\/p>\n

During the final section of the course, I chose Calvin Trillin’s “Alice, Let’s Eat” as a mentor text for food memoirs, and it is a text that I see myself one day revisiting because I so thoroughly enjoyed the bits of it that I close read. As I learned about what it took to compose my own food memoir, Trillin stood out to me for the charm, humor, and light that he brought to each of his mini-stories. Each of his chapters was narrative in spirit, a guide I unknowingly followed as I created my own food memoir. He created that desirable,\u00a0“glowy” writing that I find so inspiring as a student of rhetoric, and I look forward to continuing to engage with his works in my future food-reading and writing career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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