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Cooking is something that has been around since the beginning and something that we cannot afford to loose. Cooking is what makes us human, what provides us with the right nutrients and what keeps us from falling into the industries trap. Michael Pollan’s The Cooking Animal reinforced my belief on the importance of home cooked meals and also expands it.

“Under “Eat food”, the writer proposes some practical ways to separate, and defend, real food from the cascade of food like products that now surround and confound us, especially in the supermarket. Under “Not too much” the focus shifts from the foods themselves to the question of how to eat them, the manners, mores, and habits that go into creating a healthy, and pleasing, culture of eating. Lastly under “Mostly plants” he dwells more specifically, and affirmatively, on the best types of foods (not nutrients) to eat” (Pollan,

Migration into regions can create a struggle for finding new or even familiar foods making the creation of palatable foods difficult. Therefore, many Americans brought bulk foods with them in their quest for Western expansion. Some of the staple items during this period could have consisted of salted meats, beans, flour, and any other items that would have the ability to keep without spoiling. We can only imagine how such meals would have tasted, especially after eating the same meal for days at a time. However, one way to create appealing and appetizing food is through the use of condiments, along with the fact that canning jars help people store foods for lengthier periods.

Pollan first establishes his ethos by citing nutritionist Joan Gussow. This shows us that he has done his research in the field and provides his reflection to her speech; this makes him appear more as an equal peer talking to us about why food should be redefined. He continues to draw the reader in by bringing a pathos aspect; bringing up your great grandmother. Pollan explains, “We need to go back at least a couple of generations to a time before the advent of most modern foods” (107). He continues to encourage the reader to imagine grocery shopping with your great grandmother. Pollan brings an emotional aspect to making the reader reminisce about great grandmother’s cooking and possibly remorsefully reflect how grandma would complain about how unhealthy food is today. Then he tells us to avoid foods she would not recognize as a food that contains familiar ingredients, no extra additives

From emancipation, leading all the way to the 20th century, African American women struggled to find better opportunities outside of their agricultural laborer and domestic servant roles. In Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, author Rebecca Sharpless illustrates how African American women in the American South used domestic work, such as cooking, as a stepping stone from their old lives to the start of their new ones. Throughout the text, Sharpless is set out to focus on the way African American women used cooking to bridge slavery and them finding their own employment, explore how these women could function in a world of low wages, demanding work, and omnipresent racial strife, and refute stereotypes about these cooks. With the use of cookbooks, interviews, autobiographies, and letters from the women, Sharpless guides readers to examine the personal lives and cooking profession of these African American women and their ambition to support themselves and their families.

Standage, Tom. An Edible History of Humanity. (Ed) New York: Walker and Company, 2010, Print.

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English Protestants established a group referred to as the Puritans. The Puritans were resistant to bold flavors and intense ingredients, such as garlic, for these had “Catholic Continental political references”. This led to a distinguishable description of English cooking. (Amelia Meyers) Puritan meals and meal times are different from what we know today. Although the English from this time ate most of the same foods that we eat today, their selection was quite divergent from ours. In fact, citizens back then had an abnormal idea of what foods were healthy for them (Plimoth.org). The Puritans had several meal responsibilities; women were in charge of meal planning, and food preservation

The book is divided into three sections with each section focused on the major players in our diet in terms of where they come from. The first section (consisting of the first seven chapters) would, of course, focus the industrial food chain. The second emphasizes alternative foods, mainly organic foods and the last section is based on hunter-gatherer foods. Each section ends with a meal that he consumes and gives us his thoughts on such.

This week materials are mainly focusing on food. The readings are about how food, especially dinner, has an important role in the family, how the way we live affects the way we eat and the regional of our food. As in Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he was explaining how corn is in all of our diets. How it moved from the farm to the feeding lot, to the food lab and into our food. Further analysis of food, and of the sources that describes the food we eat, suggests that it requires a lot of work in the agriculture farm before our ingredients can come together and that mealtime is a great time for a family bonding but the bonding varies with each family due to the different in every families’ culture.

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

His first piece of advice he has is “don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” He evidence is that she wouldn’t recognize modern food as actual food. If he was born in 1955, that would place his great grandmother in the 1890’s. Back in that time, consumers thought that Crisco was good healthy and that eggs were full of bad cholesterol. Eggs are actually healthy because they are full of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is good for you. I see the point he is trying to make here, stay away from processed foods that were not

The website, thepioneerwoman.com by Ree Drummond, consists of many different components. It is separated into chapters, including confessions, pioneer woman cooks, food and friends, life and style, fun and learning, products, and giveaways. This website seems to be revolved around food, but does incorporate different aspects to engross the readers. In the food and friends section she uses many different authors that each share a recipe. These author’s include background information to the recipes, and try to relate to the readers on a personal level by telling brief stories involving the dish. In the pioneer woman cooks segment, it contains a number of delicious recipes written by her. She writes about the food in a captivating way that will

Most people know Thomas Jefferson played an important part in American political history as the father of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. What many people don’t know is that he played an important part in American food history as well. Thomas Jefferson is what someone would call a “foodie” or a person with an interest and passion for food. He kept a journal of his garden in Monticello, loved vegetables, and spent lots of time experimenting with and trying French cuisine as the Minister to France. There are ten known recipes recorded in Jefferson’s handwriting. Jefferson is also credited with bringing many popular present-day American foods to the United States.

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

Some people are fat friendly Concerning the best suggestions for ongoing hikes and maintained energy, Carolyn Gunn, the author of the Expedition Cookbook, proposes planning for 4,000 calories per person per day, in the ratio of 60-65% carbs, 20-25% fat, and 10-15% protein. It sums to about 2 pounds of food per person, per day, not including packaging. Expenditure can be as big as 6000 calories/day, depending on altitude, extreme temperatures, and performance requirements for any given day. The raw energy demands increase 15-50% over that required at sea-level for comparable exertion, and will certainly depend on the size and sex of the individual. An 115-pound woman, for example, won’t need as much food as a 175-pound man, assuming they’re