HW 2 - Food - Initial Thoughts

Food is more that preparation and and how to cook; what is going on at the table at dinner. Dinner can be with your hole family, it serves as a reason to bring people together. July 4 it has become a time where everyone settles around a BBQ and eats hot dogs and hamburgers. Why do people want to eat this food, to celebrate a sacred day in the US why not eat an expensive luxurious meal to show how far our country has come. It has become a norm in pleasantville when dinner is ready everybody has to come to the table. Maybe this gathering is more scientific; peoples instinct is if i obey to the house rules i can eat. Mom cooks dinner and tells me to sit at the table i am most likely to sit.

Food has become popular magazines are always telling people what family's like best, or how to make a special dinner for a boyfriend or girlfriend. The Food Network is a network entirely dedicated to food. It can be vary hard to make an original dish, and to novice chefs learning to make "30 minute meals with Rachel Ray" that can be "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello." Then it all spawns of to how to eat right which is the important thing now. Then health is an issue; 8 out of 10 people over 25 are obese, and now companies cut back on trans fat, salt, msg which is derived from seaweed. heathy tastes bad.

Food is defiantly sacred. The dictionary refers the word sacred to the gods or towards religious purpose. Food can be vary religious, The last supper painted by Leonardo Da Vinci is when jesus says that one of his twelve apostles would betray him, this was done over a feast. Any many religions fast they give up eating food for period of time in exchange for forgiveness. It does not have to be jesus to have a last meal; in a Time magazine article No Seconds talks about peoples last meal prior to execution. many of these meals relate back to their home life. Peter Kürten a german serial killer requested Wiener schnitzel as part of his last meal.