Project #2 – Grace’s Site!

Paper 2, Draft 1 (500 words):

Grace Tutt Tutt 1

Professor Jesse Miller

ENG 110-H5

Food connects so many things together, it is the glue to the gingerbread house you make during the holidays. From special holiday meals, to just a memory you have with a certain person. Many people have there own special connections with food. As I think about my connections with food I also look at how Makayla Gwinn, Cassandra and Steven Rife have connections and thoughts on food. Gwinn talks about her connection with Chicken Pot Pie and how for awhile she was a picky eater and than once Chicken Pot Pie got introduced to her things immediately changed for the better. Cassandra talks about her family history and how there travel to the United States was and that this dish of Butternut Squash was passed through many many generations. Rife makes a point with his dish and how important his dish connected him to his family, it was a weekly dish that was made and he looked forward to the end of the week. This dish was passed down through his grandmother and it was more than the dish itself it taught him how important family time was. So thinking of all of our favorite meals, I believe food has more of a connection with generations of family than just a reason to feed people when we are hungry. One other thought that is fair game when thinking about food is cooking a sport?

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Sports, are competitive and powerful in a way cooking has become more sports like. You turn on the tv and you see three to four channels of food networks. Pollan suggestions that an American watches more time on the Food Channel than the News. You watch a show and it is a battle between people, sweating in the kitchen trying to prove themselves in the kitchen to the judges. They prepare these amazing meals but meals you would see more in a restaurant not meals you would take the time to make at home. They than at the end of the shows win a spot in some big end restaurant or some sort of cash prize, people just make extravagant dishes on the shows to prove they are a good cook but these shows aren’t showing people how to cook these dinners like they used too. Pollan also shows that an everyday human spends about 30 minutes in total making and cleaning up dinners, rather than in the olden days dinners and home cooked meals would take hours. Food is taken more lightly now a days, people don’t take as much time to make home cooked meals now than they used too. When people do make important meals you will see it more so during the holidays and when there are big family gatherings.

Cassandra suggests in her Favorite Meal Essay, “my relationship with my family always has been, and I hope it always will be,very close. I was homeschooled along with my sister, so we have spent much more time with our parents than a normal child would have.”

Project 2 Draft 2(800 words):

Grace Tutt

Professor Jesse Miller

ENG 110-H5

Food and its Connections

Food connects so many things together, it is the glue to the gingerbread house you make during the holidays. From special holiday meals, to just a memory you have with a certain person. Many people have there own special connections with food. As I think about my connections with food I also look at how Makayla Gwinn, Cassandra and Steven Rife have connections and thoughts on food, and lastly Michael Pollan’s article Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch. Gwinn talks about her connection with Chicken Pot Pie and how for awhile she was a picky eater and than once Chicken Pot Pie got introduced to her things immediately changed for the better. Cassandra talks about her family history and how there travel to the United States was and that this dish of Butternut Squash was passed through many many generations. Rife makes a point with his dish and how important his dish connected him to his family, it was a weekly dish that was made and he looked forward to the end of the week. This dish was passed down through his grandmother and it was more than the dish itself it taught him how important family time was. So thinking of all of our favorite meals, I believe food has more of a connection with generations of family than just a reason to feed people when we are hungry. One other thought that is fair game when thinking about food is cooking a sport?

Sports, are competitive and powerful in a way cooking has become more sports like. You turn on the television and you see three to four channels of food networks. Pollan suggestions that an American watches more time on the Food Channel than the News. “The Food Network can now be seen in nearly 100 million American homes and on most nights commands more viewers than any of the cable news channels.” Many people now watch these shows for fun, they aren’t to learn how to cook the meals and actually serve them. You watch a show and it is a battle between people, sweating in the kitchen trying to prove themselves in the kitchen to the judges. They prepare these amazing meals but meals you would see more in a restaurant not meals you would take the time to make at home. They than at the end of the shows win a spot in some big end restaurant or some sort of cash prize, people just make extravagant dishes on the shows to prove they are a good cook but these shows aren’t showing people how to cook these dinners like they used too. Pollan also shows that an everyday human spends about 30 minutes in total making and cleaning up dinners, rather than in the olden days dinners and home cooked meals would take hours. Food is taken more lightly now a days, people don’t take as much time to make home cooked meals now than they used too. When people do make important meals you will see it more so during the holidays and when there are big family gatherings.

Cassandra suggests in her Favorite Meal Essay, “My relationship with my family always has been, and I hope it always will be,very close. I was homeschooled along with my sister, so we have spent much more time with our parents than a normal child would have.” Her connection

with her family is very important to her. This felt important to add in because this dish has been passed down from multiple generations, if cooking wasn’t a big thing this dish wouldn’t of been passed down and this memory would’ve never happened. Cassandra also said “My grandmother’s family immigrated from Italy, and my grandfather and his parents immigrated from Latvia. Both met in the United States.” I think of this as courage and there were a lot of emotions in this event. This made a connection to Pollan’s article on page 5 second paragraph the first sentence is “It was a kind of courage.” This connected to Cassandra’s quote because it was about courage, sure Pollan talked about it in since to a television show but Cassandra’s essay showed courage through her grandparents immigrating to the United States.

Many people can tell stories of their memories with food, but soon some people aren’t going to be able to just talk about food because not a lot of people make that many dishes that are homemade. Pollan talks about how “Millions of Americans, including my 16-year-old son, can tell you months after the finale which contestant emerged victorious in Season 5 of “Top Chef.” Many Americans are going to get to the point where they aren’t going to have a special dish but a favorite episode or favorite chef. In all three student sources they all suggested that their food had some connection to the importance of family. Without someone teaching them how to make the meals, there wouldn’t be any importance of the meals.

Draft 2(1000 words):

Grace Tutt

Professor Jesse Miller

ENG 110-H5

Food and its Connections

Food connects so many things together, it is the glue to the gingerbread house you make during the holidays. ***From special holiday meals, to just a memory you have with a certain person. Many people have there own special connections with food. As I think about my connections with food I also look at how Makayla Gwinn, Cassandra Kuplast and Steven Rife have connections and thoughts on food, and lastly **Michael Pollan’s article Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch. Gwinn talks about her connection with Chicken Pot Pie and how for awhile she was a picky eater and than once Chicken Pot Pie got introduced to her things immediately changed for the better. Cassandra talks about her family history and how there travel to the United States was and that this dish of Butternut Squash was passed through many many generations. Rife makes a point with his dish and how important his dish connected him to his family, it was a weekly dish that was made and he looked forward to the end of the week. This dish was passed down through his grandmother and it was more than the dish itself it taught him how important family time was. So thinking of all of our favorite meals,food does have more of a connection with generations of family than just a reason to feed people when we are hungry. Food is does go back generations and have meaning in culture rather than just something to do, to pass time.

Sports, are competitive and powerful in a way cooking has become more sports like. You turn on the television and you see three to four channels of food networks. Pollan suggestions that an American spends more time on the Food Channel than the News. “The Food Network can now be seen in nearly 100 million American homes and on most nights commands more viewers than any of the cable news channels.” Many people now watch these shows for fun, they aren’t to learn how to cook the meals and actually serve them. You watch a show and it is a battle between people, sweating in the kitchen trying to prove themselves in the kitchen to the judges. They prepare these amazing meals but meals you would see more in a restaurant not meals you would take the time to make at home. They than at the end of the shows win a spot in some big end restaurant or some sort of cash prize, people just make extravagant dishes on the shows to prove they are a good cook but these shows aren’t showing people how to cook these dinners like they used too. Pollan also shows that an everyday human spends about 30 minutes in total making and cleaning up dinners, rather than in the olden days dinners and home cooked meals would take hours. Food is taken more lightly now a days, people don’t take as much time to make home cooked meals now than they used too. When people do make important meals you will see it more so during the holidays and when there are big family gatherings.

Kuplast*page number and paragraph suggests in her Favorite Meal Essay, “My relationship with my family always has been, and I hope it always will be,very close. I was homeschooled along with my sister, so we have spent much more time with our parents than a normal child would have.” Her connection

Pollan, makes good points that food isn’t a big topic anymore, time is taken making quick dinners, and meals for the children for the week. Rather than just watching it on tv as family time. This past weekend I went home and, as soon as I walked into the living room there was a halloween baking show on and I chuckled to myself as It played for an hour and a half as we watched these bakers try to make the spookiest, most delicious dessert.