{"id":852,"date":"2017-02-14T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:03:49","slug":"danis-update-on-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/2017\/02\/14\/danis-update-on-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani&#8217;s Update on Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have narrowed down my topic to two main ideas. The first is pickles, specifying the pickling practices of Jews. The second is Rooibos Tea; a tea from South Africa. I have connections to both of these foods; the first being one of my favorite foods and the second being my favorite tea. \u00a0My research process so far has been brainstorming ideas and then briefly researching them. As a rule if I could find more than three articles on the topic it would make the shortlist. From their I narrowed it down by what I would genuinely enjoy researching. Some of the things that did not make the cut were poke, mole, and matzah ball soup. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have entered the next steps of my research process which includes going into academic and non academic texts on rooibos tea and pickles. I think I am leaning more towards pickles currently as they follow my interest in immigrant stories and how cultures mix in the \u2018new country\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the sources I have looked at so far are <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/food\/the-history-kitchen\/history-pickles\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">blog posts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and while this is not an academic source it does give a good description of the main ideas that I am starting to research. I also have found a recipe from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicurious.com\/recipes\/food\/views\/classic-dill-pickles-56389920\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bon appeti<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t. I have used the UT library research tool online but have yet to access these resources. I mainly have used the google search tools so far. I have used my writer&#8217;s notebooks for narrowing down topics and organizing my research along with Zotero. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have narrowed down my topic to two main ideas. The first is pickles, specifying the pickling practices of Jews. The second is Rooibos Tea; a tea from South Africa. I have connections to both of these foods; the first being one of my favorite foods and the second being my favorite tea. \u00a0My research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhetoric-of-food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}