A Spoken Dish Documentary Analysis

Christmas, the pinnacle of every holiday and the one day in the year where families gather around, exchange gifts, and honor the birth God's son. This would be the meaning of Christmas for most families but... my family's another story. You see, my cousins make a trip from Texas to North Dakota to visit us for Christmas every year. I know what you're

One thing that is similar to my thanksgiving that some people also have is the food.

It is undoubted that holidays’ history is the point of entry to any living cultures. In specific, the United States’ national holiday in November – Thanksgiving – reflects the country’s culture of consumerism. The first documented Thanksgiving meal in America was between the Spanish settlers, and the Timucua tribe in La Florida in 1565 (Franklin 19). Interestingly, the main courses were “salt pork and garbanzo beans offered by the Spanish and alligator meat offered by the Native Americans” (Franklin 19). Nonetheless, most Americans associate the first Thanksgiving with the moment when the Pilgrims shared a three-day feast with the Wampanoag in 1621 (McCabe 52). Throughout the history, Americans have twisted the cornerstone of the Thanksgiving feast to create new traditions.

The movie food Inc. is a very disturbing film that is showing today’s farming and system industry as people would never have seen it before. This documentary shows deeper inside the food workings of modern food industries and show how food production has changed. Today, our food is often marketed as being “farm fresh, which is giving the people the idea that the food is okay to eat and they think they know what they are eating. The next problem I see is how they show the way farmers are putting in the feed of the animals that can end up affecting the people, and with the problems with the food and putting certain chemicals in the feed and not paying attention to what is already in the food and pushing the meat out faster they are showing

Thanksgiving is celebrated annually as a national holiday with feast to feed a nation, but will this family go on with this year 's festivities over a debate against classic foods becoming too boring? Every year on the first of November, a tan tattered box with a poorly drawn turkey on the sides labeled “Thanksgiving” is removed from the attic and dusted off to retrieve festive decor for the eleventh month of the year. Delicately placed in the center of the kitchen displayed for everyone are a pair pilgrim salt and pepper shakers, George and Alice. This classic pair are the usual conductors to the Thanksgiving preparations due to their semi-permanent location where they are able to travel to the fridge and back to the kitchen to discuss

For my family, we use these holidays and traditions to help keep the family together. We have these specific holidays because they are what my both my parents grew up with along with the rest of their family from previous generations. Our annual pig roast on the first Saturday of August on the other hand,was started by my father and is used to bring all our family and friends together before the kids in our family and neighborhood have to go back to school and let them have a fun time for both children and adults.

Food, Inc. the movie might well be considered a horror film. Actually it is not a horror film, but it contains information that I certainly considered horrible. Food, Inc.is a documentary made in 2008 and portrays our current “systems” of food production, which includes animal cruelty, worker cruelty and uncovers a behavior by the industry that feeds us that is an overall injustice to our society. This movie along with the movie Fed-Up and the many others address the issues at stake with regard to the way we eat. The movie Fed-Up was made in 2014, with newer data paralleling the food productions to irreversible obesity in our young children. Both of these movies serve to educate us in the hazard these methods are instilling on our earth and to ourselves as we produce and eat food

The first step in our standard routine for Turkey Day includes three generations, hours of chopping, and one delicious-smelling kitchen. It is my grandmother on my mother’s side, Oma, who leads this mass preparation that leaves us with enough food for a small army… or just twenty with really full bellies. Oma has always been the master of mashed potatoes and turkeys, because Thanksgiving is infamously known as HER favorite holiday and most of the traditions align with her side of the family. The smile on her face as she chops her thousandth celery stock clues me in to how much she is joyfully anticipating tomorrow, when she will come together in thanks with all of her children, grandchildren, and sweetly adored relatives. After an exhaustive day spent long in the kitchen, she squeezes me goodbye and says, “See you tomorrow for Turkey Day!” with a gleam of childish excitement in her

Traditions and holidays are supposed to be exciting with you family, but the author, Jenifer New, of Thanksgiving: A Personal History, has “the too-sweet memory of that one shining moment coupled with the painful certainty that the rest of the world must be sitting at a normal Rockwell table feeling love”(New 67). New’s family significantly hinders her ability to change because they made a holiday more a dread rather than a fun tradition. Her childhood opinions didn't change because of her family hinder her point of view. Now on Thanksgiving is celebrated with her and her husband by “rent movies, walk the dog down the still streets and have a meal with my parents and husband”(New

For me, it just like a weekend, but for my parents, it not just a holiday, it means all the family members should be gathered, eating together and talk about the things happened before, it sounds very interesting for our children that we can know the past of our parents, I like listening to the story happened before, Especially the stories of ancient celebrities.I think Tomb-sweeping Day is a memorial to the dead people.

Food has always been the central theme in my family, it’s what binds us together. We do not eat because we are hungry, we eat because we love food. As a child I was always amazed that my school friends would discuss ways in which you could hide food at dinner to avoid eating it. In my family no one dared leave the table after food was served for fear there would be nothing left when you returned. Of course I was fortunate, my mother was, and still is, a great

Many aspects of this documentary demonstrate examples of the three theoretical perspectives. This documentary exhibits a functionalist perspective by telling us the different social institutes that were established to help families in need. For example, Brittany's school offered a program called the nutrition club, which gave children who come from underprivileged home food to last them the entire weekend. By doing this, the nutrition club helps lessen the parent's worries about food during the weekend and focus more on other debts that need immediate payment. The salvation army is another social institute that helped the third family have a home and food to eat. We can analyze the salvation army through a functionalist perspective because

Christmas day is a popular day for children to visit their uncles, aunts, godmothers, and godfathers. At each home they are presented with a gift, usually candy, money, or a small toy. Food and drinks are also offered at each stop. It is a day of family closeness, and everyone wishes good cheer and glad tidings.

Every year since I was little, my parents instilled in me the importance of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Not only is it the new year, but it is a time to repent for all of our wrongdoings during the year. We are given a chance to start over and to be inscribed into “the book of life.” My whole family goes to the temple together, eat at my Bubbe and Pop-pops house together and break the fast together. It is TRADITION! No matter where everyone is or what everyone is doing, we all come home and celebrate the holidays as one big family. All 22 of us.

highest set expectations, as relatives and friends come from far and wide, anticipating a multi-course feast. Mess up a margarita and burn a few hot dogs