3days meal

Saturday:6:00pm Noodles wiht tomato, and meat ball
Sunday:4:50pm pork, fries, humburg,ice-cream
Monday:9:25am maple flavor, cheese egg with ham, tomato, and sausage,

industrail food

After read these three articles, I found the same thing that author want tell us is in nowadays, what we eat in America are nearly all made from industry.  The new technology make them bigger, growing fast, reproduce fast, but less nutrition, and changed taste. For example, in “Fowl Trouble”, the author says the chicken in nowadays is bigger than last few decades. And, in article “On The Tomato Trail”, the author says this “Today’s industrial tomatoes are as bereft of nutrition as they are of flavor. According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, and 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and ….than it did in the 1960s. But…It contains fourteen times as much sodium.”(2). These entire article mentions industrial food, and, I think everything have two sides, so does industrial food. The good thing is because the increasing population we need more food, and food industry almost solve this problem. Industrial animals or plants have a very short life cycle, and some of them will bigger than them growing a nature environment. Most of them are transgenic, they are genetically modified, and so, they are different. Although, this technology solved our food shortage problem, it also brings some other questions. For example, would industrial food influence our healthy? Because industrial food’s nutrition is changed, just like what author’s says in the “On the Tomato Trail”, and, after genetically modified, the animals or plants will become a little bit abnormal, for example the bigger chicken. So, as far as I concerned, both of the author are quest the industrial foods.

Eating Disorder

Author says that the eating disorder in America is the food looks good or taste good may kills people. He says “One way to think about America’s national eating disorder is as the return, with an almost atavistic vengeance, of the omnivore’s dilemma. The cornucopia of the American supermarket has thrown us back onto a bewildering food landscape where we once again have to worry that some of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us.”(3). So, I think the author’s opinion for eating disorder is that what we eat now is not always healthy. Many article and research in this quarter show that health is one of the most important things in American food culture. But at the end, the author says this “‘Worrying about food is not good for your health,’ Rozin concludes – a deeply un-American view.”(4). Author mentions that Rozin and Fischler think the healthy is just a part of the American problem with food, they say “a more relaxed and social approach toward eating could go a long way toward breaking our unhealthy habit of bingeing and fad-dieting.”(4). I think this is a very interesting view. Americans not care about the health of the food as much as we think. Maybe, most of them are know that food is not health, they still eat it, because with relax social attitude they don’t think it’s a big deal. For me, when I choose the food, normally I would not consider whether it health or not. I just see if it is looks good and taste good. And, what I want to eat always change, maybe yesterday I want to eat beef, but today I will want to eat the noodles.

 

Work cited

Pollan Michael “Our National Eating Disorder” October 17, 2004

EE1- Food play an important role

Food play an important role

In China, there is a famous proverb “Ming yi shi wei tian.” means that food is important as sky. People will die if sky slides, so, for people live in earth, no food means no life. Food’s importance is not only showing in maintain our life, but also for some other reasons. What I want to talk is the “some other reasons.” First, food contains the emotions. When we have a meal, no matter with whom, in what place, and eat what, we always have one or more emotions. Second, food contains people’s values. People with different values would buy different food products. Also, food can be related with people’s communication can relationship. Food can make us close to each other. For example, if we always eat with other, or we all like to eat sweet food, we will feel closer to each other.  Last, we can find the pace of our life is getting fast and fast by we spent less time in eating and what we have in lunch is changed.

First, food contains the emotions. Once I went to a Chinese restaurant with a friend. I ordered a preserved egg with minced congee. It is not taste as good as what I ate in China, but every time when I go to that place I will still order it. I realized what I loved was not the congee itself, but the feeling when I have it. No matter it taste good or bad, it can make me think that I’m not far away from my hometown. This time, the congee is not only as a kind of food for me, but also as a supporter of emotion. It was pin the emotions of missing my hometown and my family. Now I am living in the U.S., I missing the handmade noodles made by my grandmother. It’s salty, and taste very good. It is very different from the noodles in America. In America, noodles are always cooked with tomato and cheese. Chinese noodles is similar with the Pho, but no sweet as Pho, most Chinese noodles are salty. Back to my point, what I am really missing not just the noodle, but my grandmother, and my family, and everything that I cannot get in America. This phenomenon is not only happened with me, but also other people. In Geoff Nicholson’s article “Eating White”, the author says “Today I ate lunch in memory of my mother. … and every once in a while I feel the need to replicate the kind of lunch she and I ate together may times.”(21). Why author says this? Why he ate the same thing that he have with his mother in the past? Because he is missing his mother, and when he missing his mother he may have a same launch that he had with his mother. He also pins the specific emotion to the specific food. Furthermore, in the article “Home Run-My Journey Back to Korean Food”, which written by Roy Ahn, the author talks about the Korean food and Korean identity. Author believe that eat Korean food can show his Korean identity. And, he will teach his son, Charlie, Korean culture, just like his parents did to him. He says “But I will make sure to offer Charlie Korean food and, as my Parents did with me…” (15). The Korean identity is kind of emotion, this is a sense of belonging. Any relates the belongingness to the food.

Second, food contains people’s value. We can find out what people are cares about by what kind of food product they are prefer. For example, if a man goes to market, and he wants buy some milk. There are two types of milk, one is more expensive with a high quality, and the other is cheaper with a lower quality. If he buy the expensive one, then we will think that he is more care about his health; if he choose the cheaper one, we may think he is more care about the price. Here is a true research did by Joshua Freedman and Dan Jurafsky, they did a research about the potato chips. They classify the chips into two groups, depend on the price.  They found out the differences between the expensive group and the cheap group on their cover bag. Then they wrote an article “Authenticity in America- class distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising”. They found that the upper classes are more care about their health, and the material and technology the food company used. Lower classes more like the taste, price, traditions. For example, authors say “None of the chips in our sample contain trans fats, but while all six of the expensive ones mention the lack of trans fats, only two out of the six inexpensive chips mention it.”(49). The expensive chips show their health, because the upper classes want it, so if they print this on their cover bag, people will but it. Also, in this article, the authors say this “Food is a robust marker of group identity. What you had for dinner yesterday says a lot about your national identity, ethnicity, or social class, and this link between food and culture …” (46). So, they also think food can contain much information.  I also did some research in food advertisement. What I focus on is butter advertisement, because butter is one of the most common things that appeal in Americans’ table. I find out that convenience is the most important element in butter. People are care about the spread ability of the butter.

Third, food can relate to people’s communication and relationship. We can know whether those people are close to each other or not by their eating behavior. For me, I only eat with my roommate and my friends. I would not eat with an unfamiliar guy.  And, this phenomenon also appears in Sandra Cate’s article “‘Breaking Bread with a Spread’ in a San Francisco County Jail”. This article is about the “Spread” in prison. What I am interested in is the sharing part in the article. She talks about the principles about how they share their spread. They will share their spread only with the people they have relationship, and they share the spread in an equally way. She notes one’s explaining “Everybody puts in the even, same amount, and everybody gets the even, same amount. ”and a Chinese inmate says that “usually the people who share with me, I share with them,”(19). This eating behavior shows that inmates are equal, they put same amount, and get same amount. No one is special in this place. After she notes inmate Devon Gray’s speaking “In here the whites spread with the whites and the blacks spread with the blacks.”(19), she find out that sharing spread is a community which always racially defined. Just like us, we always eat with the people who we know, because when we eat with our friends, family members, we will feel relax.

Last the not the least, food reflects our living conditions. With the development of technology the modern pace of life is getting fast and fast, our working efficiency increases, but we are getting busier. Thus, we have less to spend on eating, our eating style was changed. The change is not only in how we eat, but also in what we eat. In the past, we mostly eat with our family members at home, and we have enough time talked with others how the day was. But now, we always eat alone, and quickly, sometimes we even need eat our lunch when we walk on the street. This is always happened with workers and students; they have less time to eat their meal. For example, Jamie Horwitz, the author of “Eating at the Edge” writes “Manuel Castells agrees: we live in a ‘timeless time,’ he writes, in which instantaneous satellite transmissions, high-speed transit, and global marketplace of information capital generate ‘space of place.’”(42). Also, the author gives us an example, the “Campbell’s Soup at Hand”. This soup is very convenience; you can have it when you walk on street or ride a bus. This soup’s appear strongly means that we have much less time in eating our meal. We can know our living condition by what we eat, and how we eat.  

All in all, food plays a very important role in our life. It can reflects one’s emotion, how they feeling, who they missing, and so on. It also can show one’s values. How they choose the food, what they are eating, if they are eating healthy or eating with low cost or something else. They buy it, they eat it, means they like it. And it can show one’s relationship and communication. Would you always eat alone and fast or you always eat with friends and sharing your food? Last, food can show your living condition. What are you eating? Just some french fries with sandwich? If so, your pace of life is fast. Do not underestimate the power of food.

Work Cited

 Nicholson Geoff “Eating White” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 10, No, 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 21-23

Ahn Roy “Home Run: My Journey Back to Korean Food” Gastronomica: The Journey of Food and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 2009), pp. 12-15

Freedman Joshua and Jurafsky Dan “Authenticity in America: Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Winter 2011), pp. 46-54

Cate Sandra “‘Breaking Bread with a Spread’ in a San Francisco County Jail” Gastronomica: The journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer 2008), pp. 17-24

Horwitz Jamie “Eating at the Edge” Gastronomica: The journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 42-47

EE1

Imagine if the world without food what will happened? Of course, we will die. But, if people can live without the food, then, what will happen? We will lose a lot. We can no longer eat with our friends, and have some interesting chat, and so on. The functions of food are not just making us full; it not only can keep our life, but also can let our life full of color. Food can bring us different emotions. We have different feeling when we eat different food with different people, in different place. Food can show what people’s thinking. Why we eat this? How we eat this? Who we eat with? The answer of this question can show what we are thinking about, our value, our social relationship, and so on. And also, these answers can show one living condition.

Food is a supporter of emotion. Once I went to a Chinese restaurant with a friend. I ordered a preserved egg with minced congee. It is not taste as good as what I ate in China, but every time when I go to that place I will still order one. I realized what I loved was not the congee itself, but the feeling when I have it. This time, food is not only as food for me, but also as a supporter of emotion. It pin the emotion that I missing my hometown and my family. Now I am living in the U.S., I missing the handmade noodles made by my grandmother, but what I am really missing not just the noodle, but my grandmother, and my family, and everything that I cannot get in America. In Geoff Nicholson’s article “Eating White”, the author says “Today I ate lunch in memory of my mother. … and every once in a while I feel the need to replicate the kind of lunch she and I ate together may times.”(21). Why author says this? Why he ate the same thing that he have with his mother in the past? Because he is missing his mother, and pins this emotion to those food. Also, in the article “Home Run-My Journey Back to Korean Food”, which written by Roy Ahn, the author talks about the Korean food and Korean identity. Author believe that eat Korean food can show his Korean identity. He also put his emotion in the food.

Food can show people’s value. We can find out what people are cares about from which food product they are prefer. For example, as what Joshua Freedman and Dan Jurafsky were mentioned in their article “Authenticity in America- class distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising” upper class more are about the health, the material and technology. Lower classes more like the taste, price. In this article, the authors say this “Food is a robust marker of group identity. What you had for dinner yesterday says a lot about your national identity, ethnicity, or social class, and this link between food and culture …” (46). They did some research in potato Chips’ cover bag, and find out above things. I also did some research in food advertisement. What I focus on is butter advertisement, because butter is one of the most common things that appeal in Americans’ table. I find out that convenience is the most important element in butter. People are care about the spread ability of the butter.

Food can show how people how communicate with each other, and their relationship. We can know whether those people are close to each other or not by their eating behavior.  Sandra Cate was written an article about the “Spread” in prison. She talks about the principles about how they share their spread. She notes one’s explaining “Everybody puts in the even, same amount, and everybody gets the even, same amount.”(19). This eating behavior shows that inmates are equal, they put same amount, and get same amount. No one is special in this place. After she notes inmate Devon Gray’s speaking “In here the whites spread with the whites and the blacks spread with the blacks.”(19), she find out that sharing spread is a community which always racially defined.

Food reflects our living conditions. The modern pace of life is getting fast and fast. So, our eating style was changed. We spent less and less time in eating, and most of time we have meal alone. Especially for the workers and students they have less time to eat their meal. The author of “Eating at the Edge” writes “Manuel Castells agrees: we live in a ‘timeless time,’ he writes, in which instantaneous satellite transmissions, high-speed transit, and global marketplace of information capital generate ‘space of place.’”(42). I think this is one of the reasons to why we change our eating behavior. And, the food we eat now also can show what living condition that we live.

As far as I concerned, food play a very important role in our life. It can show what you are thinking. We can know one’s emotions, values, social relationship, and living conditions by observe what are they eating and how they are eating.  

reading respons for eating at the edge

Horwitz, the author of “Eating at the Edge”, use his own experience to begin the article. He talks about people’s different eating habits. He has three different small topics in his article: Eating in Timeless Time, Eating in One’s Own Space-Time in Micro-Gravity, Eating in One’s Own Time-Place. And he use many examples, and his own experiences to explain his ideas.For example, at the begining of the article, author told his students that when he was a graduate student, the teachers and the studnets were regularly smoked in class(42).He said "I told them that during my graduate school days students and teachers regularly smoked in class"(Horwitz 42). He use his own experiences make reader feel the things he talks about is real; but, he not only talks about his own experiences, he also gives us other examples from other place. For example he talks about the astronauts’ eating behavior under his second small topic. These will make his opinions have more persuasion. I believe the eating behavior change depends on the environment. For example, if I was just eat breakfast or lunch at cafeteria I would rather eat by myself, but if I will have a dinner outside, I mean go to a restaurant, I would rather go with my friends. So, for me, if I need go outside to have a meal, I’d like go there in a group. And, the author noticed that more and more people eat by themselves in nowadays. I agree with it. When I was a primary school student, I eat with my family every time. But when I grow up I have less and less chance to eat with my family. I’m getting busier and busier because my school works.

Research in Hard Rock Café

Research in Hard Rock Café

I went to Hard Rock café with Sijia Li on Sunday evening. We went there for dinner. Hard Rock café is located on 16^th street in downtown. It is a very special restaurant with strong rocking atmosphere. This restaurant is much darker than other normal restaurant. The working time of Hard Rock café is 11am to 11pm from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 12pm from Sunday to Monday. The time table is on the door.  And, when we open the door, there is a store at our left side. The store sells the T-shirt, cups, and some other staff with Hard Rock café brand. Hard Rock café has two floors, and second floor is different from the first floor. There is a small stage on the first floor.  The second floor is looks like a half circle, and it around the stage on the first floor. I see a bar near the stairs, but I didn’t see anyone sit there. All of them are sitting with their friends at the small table area. When we into the restaurant, we saw may rock music memorabilia were hanged on the wall, such as some pictures of the guitar players and singers, some discs and guitar, and some special clothes. They also hang some screens on the wall, and the rock show was played on the screen. Most of them were watch the show on screens, and chatting with their friends. They are young people, and I believe all of them are about 20-30 years old. And they were dress casually. People were sitting together watching the rock show, and chatting, laughing and drinking. They order the food, but they were not spent much time in eating, most of time they were just drank and talked with their friends. And, I noticed that there is a table even didn’t order any food, they just have some drinks. After we have a seat, the young waitress gave us the menu. I found many drinks on the menu, but the food types are much easier than the drinking types. We ordered two burgers. By the way, the food in this restaurant is a little bit expensive than others. We were waited the burger for a long time, so, we believe the food in this restaurant are not prepared. The hamburger in Hard Rock café is much bigger than the hamburger that we have in cafeteria on campus. And, when I ate my meal, suddenly, Sijia Li was look at something very surprised. I was very curious, so, I look back, and saw a couple was kissing. Sijia told me that this couple was kiss all the time, after they sit down. In general, this phenomenon would not happen. In a normal restaurant, people may be kiss, but would not kiss all the time. I think why this happened in Hard Rock café because the atmosphere here is different from other place.

After I have a meal at Hard Rock café, I found that this place is as an entertainment place more than as a restaurant. Most people go there are not for their food, but for fun. Most young people do not want just eating at restaurant, they want have a fun during the eating time. Hard Rock café is a place, and they not only sell the food, but also sell the fun.  They can watch the rock show, listen some rock music when they eating, drinking, and chatting. In this place, they spent money not only in food, but also for entertainment. I mentioned there is a small stage at the beginning of the essay. I believe sometimes some people will play on that stage. And, I go to Hard Rock’s website after I go back to my dorm. I found a video in the website, which is talk about the staff in Hard Rock. But I noticed the song, the lyric of this song is “Everybody need the place, everybody need see the show.” This told us, Hard Rock café is different from other normal restaurant. This is a place only for you to eat, but also a place for you to see the show, for fun. Thus, this place for entertainment is more for eating. So, that why Hard Rock café is more expensive than other place. Because they buy two things in this restaurant: food and fun. When Americans go to a restaurant, food is not the only thing they are cared about, but also the atmosphere. They want spent their money not only in food, but also for fun.

Work Cited

Hard Rock Café International, Inc.,  <http://www.hardrock.com/corporate/careers/>