Persuasive Speech : How Food Brings Friends Together?

It is a known fact that every human being communicates through language, but perhaps a little known fact that we communicate even through the food we eat. We communicate through food all the meanings that we assign and attribute to our culture, and consequently to our identity as well. Food is not only nourishment for our bodies, but a symbol of where we come from. In order to understand the basic function of food as a necessity not only for our survival, we must look to politics, power, identity, and culture.

Summary: Eating a meal with someone is more than just eating a meal with someone. Quote: “Whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion” (Foster 8). This act of getting together is also called “an act of sharing love or peace”. Eating together is a common theme in many cultures. When we eat together, it shows that we are comfortable with each other and we care

Foster discusses the idea that when two characters eat together, that moment acts as a bonding experience and causes the characters to come together. I had never noticed the significance of a meal between characters before. After reading this chapter, I can think of so many moments in stories when the characters share a meal together to form friendships or come to a peace. In one of my favorite novels, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Picoult writes that “Emma Alexis- who was one of the cool, beautiful girls…she rolled her wheelchair right beside Justin. She’d asked him if she could have half of his donut” (367). Splitting the donut between one of the popular girls and one of the quieter, nerdier boys was a representation of the deformation of the high school social classes. After reading this chapter, I could recall the significance of meals together in so many novels and movies but I never noticed this pattern before.

Mealtimes are important for our children and they are usually excited to eat. There is just something about coming to the table sitting with our friends, being able to pass the food, and choose how much food they want to take that makes mealtime exciting. When meals are served family style and the children and adults sit together to eat, children improve their social skills, build self-esteem and confidence, and learn table manners. Children improve their language skills by having conversations with

In “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien, there is a dinner where all the characters are introduced. In the book, ‘How to Read Literature Like a Professor’ Thomas C. Foster says That whenever people eat and drink together it is an act of communion. Communion can mean many things like; a hidden meaning of desire and lust for a more intimate feel, or just a friendly gathering to show unity and friendship, and many more.

have hope that the society’s views will change. Food is what brings people together in this

Farming advanced the human race to new heights in the culinary arts, and we discovered new foods that we could grow and use. These new ingredients were implemented into recipes and imprinted in culture. The food you eat determines your social status, describes your culture, and shows your mutual taste as human beings.In our society today, these rules still apply. Fancy foods that are served in small

We all have a tie to food, whether we like it or not we all come from somewhere where a certain food was a part of a certain celebration. Many of these traditional food celebrations have been passed down from generation to generation. Many authors have written about what food means to them and how it doesn’t change through the generations. For example, In “A small, good thing”, by Raymond Carver, the plot of the story revolves around a child’s birthday cake and how the tradition of cake is never changing. Many other authors such as Sarah Desmarais, Alyssa Kowalczyk and Donovan Duffy, have also touched upon the idea that food is the one thing in life that will never really change.

Food is a main part of our daily life that brings our families together at least once a day to reconnect. It does not only keep us alive and functioning, but it helps us to learn and immerse ourselves into other cultures. Food can symbolize different things in a certain culture, such as a holiday or a celebration of some sort. An example is that on Jewish Passover each of the foods during the Seder meal have a specific meaning, and is eaten to help with the remembrance of certain events in their cultural history. Food can also show different cultures customs and their perceptions of what good manners are.

Food has many roles, just like how many different types of food there are out there. Most often, food takes upon the biggest and most important role of being the initial reason to have any social gatherings or traditions. It can be to just meet up and hang out, or go on a date, but the biggest role it has is during holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving where you spend quality timewith your family and the people you love. Food often is a pleasurable excuse for people to spend quality time with each other. Why do we have a gathering on Thanksgiving and Christmas? We gather around on Christmas and Thanksgiving to share a feast and reflect upon what is important to one another. Usually Christmas, the reason for gathering was for families and friends to enjoy and get thru the winter together, but now it has become more of a reason to feast. That is the same for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is also where we reconnect with one another and no matter what happens, the food will always be delicious. Every Thanksgiving and Christmas is a blessing because it’s always a memorable one. The most amazing part is always sharing scrumptious dinner with the people I truly love and care

Going to the taco shop eventually became a tradition of ours, and like National Geographic claims National Geographic quotes “ “To break bread together” a phrase as old as the bible, captures the a power of a meal to forge relationship”. I think that food in general, but more specifically just sitting down and eating with people is how you get to know them and develop a relationship with them.These days most teenagers just sit on their phones when they go eat with friends, and I feel like that distances us from our peers, which is the opposite of what eating with people naturally does.These days, eating has become one of America's favorite pass times and it's thought of as a hobby, oppose to a part of survival. When you do things you love, which in this case would be eating, with the people you love, then a very special bond

Eating brings people closer together everyday, and for everyone, there are important memories that have been created because of food. Whether it’s a formal dinner, or an informal picnic, there will always be special bonds between people because food was involved. We need to have traditions with food because they form and strengthen the bonds between us.

no secret that one of life’s great pleasures is to share a good meal with friends

A few days ago, a friend invited me and a five other people over to her house, as her parents wanted to cook us a home-cooked meal. The dining table had a total of six chairs, including the host’s. I noticed that the spacing between the chairs were relatively of close distance, showing how “Meals identify social boundaries surrounding familiarity with people, and these are articulated around ideas of people’s intimacy and distance” (Crowther 161). An elaborate plate of food was set out for each guest, as her parents had cooked us steak with roasted potatoes, grilled asparagus, corn, a piece of bread, as well as a dish of cream spaghetti. There was also sparkling water and regular water to drink along with the meal. For all of the guests, this meal was especially enjoyable because we were all students dorming in college, so we had not eaten a home-cooked meal in a long time. This can be reconnected to the topic of commensality, as “The sharing of food reinforces ties, forges new memories, and allows people to reflect on the importance of eating together” (Crowther 151).

The foods we consume communicates to others our beliefs, cultural and social backgrounds. Food represents many aspects of culture to what people think about one another. A person's food choices symbolize how they define themselves in terms of religion, ethnicity, social class and so on. Food is also a great way for sharing culture with people from different backgrounds. Foods can be powerful, they have the ability to feed us but also make us feel emotional. The four sources that are going to be talked about will be food as status, food as identity, food as a community and food as pleasure.