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When the assignment was first presented to me, I was really excited because I love to cook even though I am not the best at it. Some dishes I am planning to make for my family are based on Vietnamese dishes my father and relatives have cooked for my family in the past. The stir fried noodles would be my dad’s recipe that he would always make for a party when he needs something quick and easy. The dessert would be this colorful jelly cake that my aunt would always make for my birthday whenever I am in Florida. This connects to my faith journey by giving back to my family for all they have done for me and through that, I am giving back to God, making my relationship with Him and my family stronger.

As I added the finishing touches of friend onions and parsley to make it look aesthetically pleasing, I took a step back to stare at the masterpiece I had just created, a luscious and delectable Pakistani rice dish called “Briyani”. Making this dish is the epitome of success in every Pakistani girl’s lifetime. It’s considered an essential quality to add to one’s marriage “resume”. However, to me, it was more than just a future “in law pleaser”, it was my compass for life. A cook must be diligent and attentive to detail, conscious of every ingredient and amount that is being used. A cook is a provider, helping with the wellbeing of the people who are consuming the prepared food. The kitchen is their clinic, and the consumers are their patients. Nine years of cooking with my mother has taught me dedication, obedience, and tested my patience when some recipes would fail. Cooking, as a safe haven from the difficulties of everyday life, has helped me better connect to all my experiences throughout the years and has molded the foundation for my passion and calling, medicine.

“When you got to the table you couldn 't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn 't really anything the matter with them, -- that is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.” (Twain, 1)

Marshall stresses the importance of food traditions and how they help us as readers understand the different

In chapter thirty-two of the kitchen as laboratory, César Vega and David J. McClements discuss what it means to cook from scratch in the context of modern society. Vega begins the chapter by introducing the topic of the importance of knowing where our food comes from, and how it is modified into the ingredients we know today. Although consumers should know where their food comes from, Vega and McClements claim that the consumers should also educate themselves about the process of how food is transformed to provide a better understanding of their food. The authors cite Michael Pollan, an author who writes primarily about food. Pollan claims that consumers should purchase food with a limited number of ingredients, or ingredients that are easy to identify. The authors disagree with Pollan’s point, citing that some foods are enriched to make people healthier, and if the additives were removed there would be a impact on everyone’s health.

“The Magic of a Family Meal” by Nancy Gibbs is an enlightening article that convinces the audience that enjoying the company of family during meal time benefits all members emotionally, spiritually, and health wise. Gibbs main point states, “This [the family meal] is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair” (209). Families gathering for meals have the unique opportunity to become closer and favorably impact one another. This thesis enhances the tone overall. The tone of this essay is construed as encouraging and positive. Gibbs’ attitude is

The series consistently brings up our primal need to cook, while trying to entice us back into the kitchen with beautiful cinematography, personal stories about people, and the cultural impact of the things we take for granted. There 's no doubt that Cooked is a passion project, with a strong message, however, there are many inconsistencies with the argument they present. These inconsistencies mostly revolve around a failure to negate questions of how to achieve their idealist viewpoints, cherry picking scientific evidence, and simultaneously trying to dismantle food industry fuckery while supporting a fallacy.

It is supported in each chapter by research done through his work, through what each master chief, as well as his own experiences with his family. His goal of the book was to make people see that starting to cook one’s own food instead of relying on manufacturers to do it for you is the best way to go to combat obesity and health problems. In the Fire chapter this is shown by his research into the evolutionary aspect of the cook fire and how it changed the way our ancestors ate. This affected how humans evolved as a specie. In the Water chapter he goes into the chemistry behind cooking vegetables in a pot and how the bacteria in the human body benefits from the breakdown of these ingredients in slow cooking water. The Air chapter the research that is explains is how the manufacturing process of foods are stripping it of vital nutrients. In the Earth chapter there is explanations of how natural fermentation introduces the good bacteria back into our GI tract because we are constantly destroying good bacteria with the process of anti-bacterial

Every culture has a unique way of eating a typical meal with a family. They can differ in ways like the amount of meals per day, timing of those meals, what is the proper etiquette at the table, who is present, if there is a certain structure or hierarchy, who cooks the meal, who cleans afterward, and many more. In this essay the family the meal structure of people in West Africa will be compared and contrasted to that of the people from Mexico. The first group of people to be analyzed are the people from West Africa. The people of West Africa used to typically eat two meals day, one in the late morning and one at night.

“Unless a recipe has escaped noticed, a copy is kept under heavy wards in one of two places, either a hospital if a country is small, such as Great Britain, or within a government building, such as the MASCUSA here,” Sarah told them, knowing her colleague’s blunt manners were not going over well. Taking the book from Quinn, she handed it over to Carlisle. “I think the text will explain it better, but keep in mind, it was published a long time

According to Lynn Z. Bloom, the author of Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing: “Food writing, cooking

Before the 1870’s, the type of book that Dr. Hart’s Family Receipt and Cookbook was, was nonexistent, but instead were simplistic books that contained basic directions of home cooking

Although the photographs perfect captures a particular moment in time, food reminds people of various memories. Since food was an integral tool that binds a family together and revealed the heart and care in the quality of the dish, Carrier Wade brought in a recipe book, highlighting a sweet potato pie recipe. The actual book, Watkins Cook Book by The J.R. Watkins Co, was worn out, which added character and showed how often this book was used. Cooking a meal requires a great deal of time and resources, so a someone who values family will tend to put more quality and care into the food to nourish their kin. Food also said a lot about the culture of their community; sweet potato pie was a comfort food and was associated with positive memories.

For as long as Patterson could remember, his mother, Linda Faye Stephenson and “Uncle Larry” Wallace, have baked and cooked in professional and home settings. He would watch them bake and cook and at times would bake with them. Following in his family’s direction, Patterson attended Northwest Louisiana Technical College (NWLTC) where he sharpened his culinary skills that he learned from his family and from working in various restaurants. Patterson was hungry for knowledge while at NWLTC. Every chance he got, he would take the old books the school wanted to discard and take them

Many chefs either work from memory without any clear recipe, or have incomplete recipes that they do not follow.