Emily Horton...

Going off of the blog suggestions: Food and how you feel in terms of identity is so important when it comes to how it marks you as an individual. When I was in Italy, there was so much excellent food around me but for the first bit of my trip all I wanted was my parents cooking. Home made and healthy ingredients are what I was raised on so needing to go out to every meal while traveling because something I wasn't used too. This idea and aspect can be used with people going into any situation that they're not accustomed too. a person becomes defined by what they consume and its very important when they go to a new area that they find stores and foods that are in keeping with their traditions.


I'm going to tie this idea into the movie that we watched in class on Tuesday 1/27. The movie was about power hungry corporations that are systematically destroying food supplies. They do this by adding pesticides, viruses which makes crop seeds invaluable. This in turn destroys the livelihood of small farmers leading to monopolizing the global food supply.


I actually think the whole problem is within the genetically engineered crops; the become scientifically produced which goes against what nature intended. I found the lecture about this really interesting. That grocery stores take the fruit and vegetables that are not rip and that will do the best during the journey and have the longest shelf life.. But this takes away the food value and also takes away the quality of food that people are buying. However they are able to have all types of food all year round from all different places all over the world. So for convince and regularity there is a trade off. Part of this is not the corporations fault because they are trying to keep up with supply and demand the best the can but when they purposefully take out the small farm because of the tiny competition they produce, that's when its gone a little to far..




















I added some photos from the exercise we did this week. The group activity helped tie all the concepts together to teach us the how to make a simple sustaining meal from simple ingredients. Connecting regional cuisine through the experience of cooking and eating. All associated with the cultural and historical context. There are in the process pictures and then some final products..


thank you for these group activities I really love them...