Hey, folks. This weekend, please read each of these small online articles. Taken together, they equal about the same amount of reading as book chapter or a regular-length article. Be prepared to discuss all of them in class.
I'd then like you to leave a 200-word comment that mentions at least four of these articles.
Stephanie's Pasta Rant (Michael Ruhlman)
For India's Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices (Business Week)
'Consider the Oyster'-- A Peerless Summer Delicacy (NPR)
How to Make Mud Cookies (Dollars and Sense)
The Angry Chef (Saveur)
Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test (GQ)
This Column Will Change Your Life (The Guardian)
Have a great long weekend!
My favorite article was “This Column Will Change Your Life: Clearer Costs, Better Decisions” by Oliver Burkeman. I have to admit that at a first glance, I really didn’t think this article would provide me with anything that I didn’t already know (like the title suggested). However throughout this article Burkeman gives the reader insightful ideas back by researched data. Health professionals and ordinary people are constantly trying to come up with solutions to help the US fight its constant struggle with obesity. However, these days it seems like calorie counters, pedometers, and every app that is available in the “health” section on the app store are old news. Burkeman’s idea that if one could “neutralize the effect of the meal” by walking to the restaurant or where ever else he/she is eating that day, they will counteract the effects of the foods they are consuming by getting exercise both before and after the meal.
ReplyDeleteI also liked The Angry Chef, Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test, and ‘Consider the Oyster’ – a Peerless Summer Delicacy. One thing that I noticed while reading The Angry Chef was that even though I knew the writer was male, I couldn’t stop picturing this story being told by a female. Whether it was his sentiment about his mother obsessing over what to and what not to eat throughout his childhood or his emotional destruction at the sight of burnt stuffing, I associated this writer as being a woman. And I kind of hate myself for it. Men cook too! I don’t know, maybe I was expecting a piece written about male cooks to sounds more like “Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test.” This article made me want to go to his restaurant in NY and eat the food for the experience… not as much for the taste. I didn’t know that it was possible for food to give someone the “drugged” experience that the writer, Brett Martin, was discussing. Lastly, Consider the Oyster was actually really entertaining to read. It made me want to do more research and learn more about the life span of all sea creatures.
After reading these articles it is amazing to realize how many emotions food, and writing about food, can evoke in a reader. Two articles that have clear emotions in them are ‘Consider the Oyster’ and ‘Stephanie’s Past Rant.’ As the title states, ‘Stephanie’s Pasta Rant’ is well a rant about past. Stephanie expresses her frustration with the quality of pasta a majority of the population buys and consumes. The author is legitimately angry over the things we, complete strangers, put in our bodies. On the opposite end of the spectrum, ‘Consider the Oyster’ is an excerpt that hints at how food and writing about it can be comforting. This is not a new idea but the language and circumstances detailed in the passage made it more real and raw somehow.
ReplyDeleteThe other two articles that I would like to focus on are ‘Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test’ and ‘The Angry Chef.’ It is my dream to visit a Japanese ramen restaurant called Daikaya. The website alone depicts a hip little shop that could be in the middle of Tokyo instead of the heart of D.C. The special feeling I get from dreaming of this shop and reading ‘Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test’ is one and the same. Food culture creates a sense of community and of ‘otherness’ that can be somewhat addicting. Another example of community around food is the ‘The Angry Chef.’ Marc (the angry chef) is seen obsessing over how perfect he wants his Thanks Giving dinner to be. He throws a hissy fit and is in turn shut down by his mother, who hardly eats normal food. It ends with them (hopefully) coming to a mutual understanding over the importance of food and how you can connect over it.
After reading the articles, it is pretty clear that there is a lot more to food writing than just recipes. Each of these articles had distinct themes and topics, but were connected by the central issue of food. The article about how people should use healthier and better pasta was interesting to me because it wasn’t just an opinion about how boxed pasta was bad; the author backed up her claims with actual references and data. It was funny to me how much in common the Business Week article and the pasta blog post had in common; both were trying to prove a point, and both used lots of evidence to back up what they were saying. The Business Week article used the onion as an example of how poorly India’s economy is performing, and it was illustrative of the problems that India as a country is facing. While this article was focused on the relatively narrow issue of Indian Food prices, the article about mud cookies was much broader, and used the Haitian mud cookies as a stepping off point to compare the United States and a poor country like Haiti. The article was very sarcastic, but it also addressed some serious points and problems with the United States. Finally, the article about the oysters was simply a book review that gave credit to how a skilled writer could make oysters sound like the most delicious food in the world. These articles gave a much broader perspective to the food writing genre as a whole, and they showed just how many types of writing pertain to food.
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7/2/13
I chose to read “How to Make Mud Cookies” by Maurice Dufour from Dollars and Sense, “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices” by Brendan Greeley and Kartik Goyal from Business Week, “This Column Will Change Your Life: Clearer Costs, Better Decisions” by Oliver Burkeman from the Guardian, and “Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test” by Brett Martin from GQ.
Burkeman’s article left me quite sad and depressed. After reading about how one burger makes you loose a microlife (a half hour of life), all I wanted was to conserve as many half-lives as possible while eating as many burgers as my stomach allows.
My favorite article had to be Martin’s. The restaurant he writes about, Mission Chinese Food, sounds like the most incredible place to experience as many flavors as humanly possible. I’m pissed at myself that I didn’t read this article a few weeks earlier while I was still in New York. Martin’s descriptions of Mission Chinese Food are to die for and left my mouth watering and wanting more.
I read Stephanie's Pasta rant, mostly because I love pasta--and normally eat exactly what she's describing: cheep, "crappy" pasta, usually with Prego sauce (usually on sale for between $3 and $4 for a container). My first reaction when I read this was: is this really something we read for class? I mean, how many articles have we read for school that use the words "crappy" or "just sayin'" or even "please for the love of god"? Of course, all of that is fitting since the audience she's writing for isn't the sophisticated chef elite, but for the reader who would, like me, go to the grocery store and buy a $1 box of pasta for dinner tonight. She avoided sounding elitist, and managed to make the discussion sound like an old family friend talking at on the couches after inviting us over for dinner.
ReplyDeleteI also read "For India's Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices" (Business Week) which was interesting in its own way because it took a distinctly different look at the effect of food. Where Stephanie's response talks more about how food effects me directly, this one spoke much more about the international community--things that I neither felt directly in my life nor have direct control over.
ReplyDeleteThe article touches on issues on a far grander scale than simply: how to make your food taste better, look better, or be better for you. It addresses political results which come from food shortages--including potential electoral effects. It also mentions broader trends like India's growth, in productions and its lack of advanced measures of farming (the article claims that India continues to produce mainly through outdated small farm systems)
I guess I am just more interested in the social/political value and the effects of certain foods to different societies and cultures. I found “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices,” “How to Make Mud Cookies,” and “Stephanie’s Pasta Rant” most interesting. I did not know that the onion was a vital crop for the Indians (and other nations mentioned in the article)! I thought “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices” and “How to Make Mud Cookies” were good examples of how to use food writing to uncover and explain social issues. One author briefly explains how a political party made the ‘onion crisis” a campaign issue, winning them election. Another facetiously discusses the possibility of mud cookies ending world hunger and becoming Haiti’s main and successful export. Food is political.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed “Stephanie’s Pasta Rant” because I felt like it was written for the American reader. The beginning of the article was quite encouraging for us ‘non-cooking’ folk. I think actual price comparisons of homemade, organic, and cheap box pasta would have made the article better. Cheap box pasta is not the healthiest option, but it is the cheapest. What if that is the best I can afford? The author should have gone more in depth about prices, or not address it at all. I felt like she left me hanging, thinking where can I find cheap, good textured pasta?
Similar to the rest of the class, I also really enjoyed the last article, “This Column Will Change Your Life.” I am not great with counting and keeping track of calories. Many people aren’t. Being told how far you’d have to walk to burn down the calories consumed is much more effective than simply listing the calories. I also think that it will somehow help alleviate obesity rates. But, that’s me thinking ahead.
-Riky Jimenez
While I enjoyed reading all the articles listed, I did have my favorites. I enjoyed reading Greeley and Goyal’s “For India's Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices”, as this article gave me insight on how a single commodity (onions in this case) could affect a nation and its politics. It was extremely surprising to see how The National Congress Party, that took on the case of high onion prices had won the election due to that choice, and how another part had lost control of the capital due to high onion prices.
ReplyDeleteAnother article I enjoyed was Burkeman’s “This column will change your life: clearer costs, better decisions”. I found this article to be very interesting as it offers a more eye opening way for people to eat healthier foods. Moreover, he offers methods, maybe not realistic ones but definitely fun, for people to stay fit, as his idea of creating an app that will give you a location to a restaurant based on what kind of food you want to eat, however, the app will give you a restaurant more further away the unhealthier your meal option is.
My third favorite article would have to be Ruhlman’s “Stephanie’s Pasta Rant”, as it shows how lazy our cultures are becoming through the food we eat. The point I agree with Ruhlman the most on is that the food we eat affects everything we do, and therefore it should be a necessity for us to eat healthy food. However, as a society, we are becoming too lazy to eat healthy food, and would rather settle for much unhealthier food, just because that it quicker, like the $1 pasta boxes.
Maron’s “Angry Chef” was also enjoyable to read. Reading the title, I thought I would be looking at an article about Gordon Ramsay. I was mistaken. Reading “Angry Chef” made me think about Lim’s article we had to read last week, and especially to the point where she denies having a culture of communal food in the US. Lim goes on to contradict herself in her article, however this article does a better job at proving Lim wrong as Maron’s article is based on the communal food culture present in the US.
Talal Barazi
After reading the articles listed above I felt that grouping them was the easiest thing to start with, “Stephanie Pasta Runt” and “This column will change your life” both focused on the important factor of eating healthy food and adapting a healthy lifestyle. Whereas “How to Make Mud Cookies” and “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion prices” mainly focused on the economic situation of the world. However “Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test” mainly discussed the personal experiences of American cooks.
ReplyDeleteAlthough both Stephanie Pasta Runt” and “This column will change your life” focused on the same idea however each writer approached the topic in a different way, where Oliver Burkman discussed the general idea of living healthy concentrating on the consequences of living otherwise, whereas Michael Ruhlman mentioned the drawbacks of not living a healthy lifestyle, but she mainly focused on Pasta as an example, as she discusses the difference of buying cheap boxed pasta and small production, artisan-made boxed pasta that is so much better however might be expensive to buy. By the end of the article she suggests doing the pasta yourself which would be healthier and cheaper.
“How to Make Mud Cookies” and “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion prices”
both focused on the economic crisis and inflation in the markets, however “For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion prices” used a more serious tone whereas Maurice Dufour approached the matter in a very sarcastic and mocking way that I hated and it made this article vey irritating to read.
Tara Saleh
After reading “Stephanie’s Pasta Rant” it made me think about what I had eaten the day before and the activities I participated in. Could there be a direct correlation to the food I have been eating and the way I operate throughout a day? In addition never before have I bought pasta in a supermarket and have not chosen my selection on anything other than the price I see on the shelf. Reading this short article makes me want to spend that little amount of extra money or even make it myself just to accomplish the creation of the “veritable triumph.”
ReplyDeleteWhen considering inflation in any country it is hard to take into account how heavily a small item can affect a family. The Congress Party was able to use the onion in 1980 to secure an election which I found to be a way in order to attract the poor in an election being that the onion is a big part of their diet. However, I find it interesting that India holds 20% of onion production in 2010-2011 and still has these radical prices due to the high percentage of India’s fruit and vegetables that rot before being sold.
Dufour uses a seemingly sarcastic tone throughout the piece “How to Make Mud Cookies” rather appropriately in my opinion. Mud cookies has been something the poor have been able to create in order to feed themselves and their families and as soon as one man saw the chance to make profit off of mud cookies the materials were out of the families’ reach. I also found it hard to believe how controlling managers of food supply become in certain countries like Canada, killing 150,000 pigs in order to raise the price of pork. Those 150,000 pigs could have been used to feed families living off of mud cookies.
Reading the “Angry Chef” reminded me a lot about an experience where my younger sister had burnt an apple pie. My mother was teaching her to create the family recipe which has been valued so dearly anytime it was a pie baking day. As my sister follows the instructions ever so carefully she makes the mistake of overfilling the pie pan. This caused the bottom of the oven to catch fire and lead to three fire trucks, a police car, and two ambulances in front of my house just a mere fifteen minutes later. As upset as my sister was for causing the commotion my mother was able to comfort her and make her realize that no harm was done and that the situation was taken care of. Just as in “Angry Chef,” mother always knows best.
As shown in the articles assigned, food writing can take on a number of different forms. Common themes emerge, which show that while there may be no ‘recipe’ to effective food writing, there are in fact common tools that can be used. One common tool that I saw was to simply not over complicate the topic, there were four articles that focused solely on one food item (Pasta, Onions, Oysters, and Mud Cookies) and while they may have taken different approaches, the main idea was to start simple and expand into detail. Each of these four articles did an effective job in painting a picture to the reader. As we discussed in class, the relationship between a reader and writer in food writing is one that is unique in its informality, transparency and overall accessibility as compared to highbrow academic writing. Another commonality amongst these articles would be the idea of ‘comfort.’ Both the pasta and onion articles mentioned the idea of how time contributes to our food choices, and how there is a level of comfort that goes along with not having to stress over new recipes and taking time out of our busy schedules to prepare something. The oyster article tied into this aswell as the author says, “[MFK Fisher] practically commands you to go straight out and order a dozen or two raw ones on shaved ice and wash them down with a thin, cold white wine, no matter what the month,” an endorsement that means to me that the recipes are accessible and expand the cooking comfort zone of the reader. The article on Haitian Mud cookies takes this from a different angle, discomfort, or rather talking about a ‘saving grace’ rather than a delicacy to expand the reader’s repertoire. The mud cookies prove to be something that promise financial comfort to a nation rather than just temporary in the form of the stomach.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn't truly understand the direction these readings had (sampling different types of food writing?), I did enjoy them. Each piece had a separate mood/tone about it that kept reading interesting. With that said, my four favorite articles were The Angry Chef, Consider the Oyster, For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices, and This column will change your life: clearer costs, better decisions.
The Angry Chef was an interesting narrative that in my opinion, nicely illustrated the love and support of Maron’s mother through food writing. This entire story works hard to create a backbone to build off of. We hear about how Maron was raised, where his first word was mommy and second word was skinny. And then we are taken on this journey towards one family thanksgiving dinner. Throughout the day, while Maron is cooking this extravagant dinner that he is so happy to serve to his guests, his mother chimes in here-and-there to offer opinions and concerns about his habits. Maron shoo’s her off, but when he burns the top of his stuffing, his mother swoops in and instructs him to relax. At dinner, when no one notices Maron’s error, his mother points it out and says that its her favorite part. This article may as well be titled “Ode to My Mother.”
Consider the oyster was great because it illustrated what a book review about food can be. It doesn't have to summarize the story, but it does have to describe how the story is told. It has to illustrate how a writer goes about convincing their readers to “Consider the Oyster” and although I am allergic to them, I am interested in trying some after reading this review.
Food writing is shown to be journalistic within the piece, For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices. This story interested me because it outlined a serious issue within India from a local perspective. I would never have guessed how closely the Onion’s cost is associated with inflation and the struggle lower class families endure, and didn’t understand how much of a staple food item it is to lower class families in India. All-in-all it was an interesting perspective on rising food prices.
This column will change your life: clearer costs, better decisions was my favorite article. I think that the obesity epidemic within our country and the surrounding world is not only unhealthy; but is also wasteful. North Americans count for such a large percentage of world wide consumerism and the road we are headed on is not sustainable, both economically and environmentally. We are overindulging in foods that should be more scarce within the worldwide market; food such as meat, fat, sugar, and salt. Discussing how marketing can severely affect the way we go about consuming our environment was fascinating to me. Between calorie counts next to menu items, miles need to burn off those items, or the removal of microlives caused by those items are all supported by me. Its not just about health but also about sustainability, and anything that will slow the consumerism craze with little noticeable change (most change comes subconsciously “I’ll have the 210 calorie salad over the 850 calorie burger”) is great for me.
Out of all the articles my favorites were definitely For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices, How to Make Mud Cookies, This Column will change your life and The Angry Chef. The first and second articles listen above I felt were the most important. It was interesting to read about how global food prices directly affected a staple crop such as onions. Not only that, but the article discussed to main reasons for why I believe the prices are rising. First the author doesn’t dive into this very far but the argument of Monsoon rains over the past few years harms agriculture. The correlation between climate change having an effect on the average rain fall and global onion prices rising is no coincidence. Secondly, I found it interested that he acknowledged the increase in social class in India which in turns has driven up the price of onions.
ReplyDeleteWhen I finished reading How to make mud cookies, I needed to take a moment and recap on what I had just read. In a span of 3 pages, Dufour covers everything from financial hedging to spurring peace in Iraq. A very interesting article to say the least. Going into the third article, this column with change your life, really didnt strike me as that surprising. However, it did give me a motivational idea on how to create a clever APP. Last but not least, The Angry Chef, was perhaps my favorite. It reminded me a lot of how my family dynamics tend to work. My uncle considers himself to be chef and everything thanksgiving the same scenarios seems to play out. One of the dishes tends to get burnt or spilled and the whole day appears to be destroyed. However, in the long run everything works out according to plan.
After reading several articles, it’s clear to see that food writing may not only be about the pleasure and comfort of cooking multifarious types of foods, but to promote the consciousness of how food can affect us not only in terms of health and economics on a macro and micro scale. I feel that the article entitled “India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices” by Brendan Greeley, it was interesting to see how India’s staple food, the onion, has become so expensive for its citizens that they can hardly afford it and how it affects their diets and their economy. In “How To Make Mud Cookies” by Maurice Dufour, it was also interesting to see how mud cookies that were initially found in Haiti could adapt to other countries’ staple foods and eradicate world hunger. However, it also gave the potentially negative outcomes of the poorer citizens plunging deeper into starvation because they no longer have as much of their staple ingredients, but may also create more revenue for developing countries. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the other articles that had more of a traditionally happy undertone but still promoting health and wellness were “This Column Will Change Your Life” and “Stephanie Pasta Rant”. I especially liked these two articles because for one, they praised certain foods that Americans love to consume, but they also inform people of the consequences of what they are eating and how it affects our well-being and even our life span.
ReplyDeleteMany of the articles gave some interesting perspective on food and the influence of food on health and society. The first article, Stephanie Stiavetti's "Stephanie's Pasta Rant," was interesting because it called for people to take a closer look at what they are eating and how if affects their health as well as how they feel. In the article, Stiavetti says "It's an unfortunate reality that people in this country place a higher priority one time than they do nearly everything else, which greatly affects what we eat." Stiavetti argues that too often people dismiss food as an obligatory chore in order to spend time on other things. People don't want to waste the effort on cooking something good and healthy, so they opt instead for quick and processed foods that can be bad for you.
ReplyDeleteI also thought it was interesting the way Brendan Greeley's article "For India's Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices" analyzed the relationship between food supply and demand, and the economy. In India, the onion is such an integral part of the country's diet that rising prices in the cost of the onion has caused massive inflation. Indeed, the role of food in society is important, and affects everything from the culture to the economy.
Likewise, Dollars' article "How to Make Mud Cookies," shows how economic crisis leads to the creation of cheaper alternatives to overpriced foods. In Haiti, people are making what are called "mud cookies," which are made of cheap ingredients such as biscuits to feed hungry and poor citizens. From this we see how societies adapt their diet to changes in the country's food supply or prices.
Lasty, Saveur's article, "The Angry Chef" teaches the reader to remember to treat food as something to be enjoyed and appreciated. It should not, as the author points out, something to be avoided and deprived of. It isn't necessary, says Saveur, to fear things like sugar and fat, for they are important parts of everyone's diet. Instead, one should embrace food and the many ways one can prepare it.
This series of short articles further outlined the extent of different subgenres within food writing. These articles ranged from personal narratives, satirical political statements, to rich and colorful restaurant reviews. This reading helped me to better understand my preferences. When it comes to food writing it seems a popular technique is to paint a warm inviting picture of the writer’s home life and kitchen, as was the case with Maron’s The Angry Chef. The reader is transported into someone else’s dining room and feels like a phantom guest amongst friends. While these articles can be very well written, I find the scenery boring and repetitive. Personally, I preferred reading Martin’s article, “Danny and the Electric Kung Pao Pastrami Test.” The setting and description used was exciting and really interesting to read about. It painted a picture of an obscure place unlike anywhere the reader, or I at least, had ever been.
ReplyDelete“For India’s Inflation Crisis, See Onion Prices,” by Greeley and “This Column Will Change Your Life: Clearer Costs, Better Decisions, by Burkeman were two articles that really put into perspective how the seemingly insignificant, such as onions or maybe a burger have much larger real life implications. What stuck with me most from Greeley’s article was that the underlying reason for India’s inflation crisis can be accredited to the rising national income, prompting people to buy less processed grains and buy more fresh produce, driving up the price of onions. Ultimately, the nation’s progress only backlashed in the form of an inflation crisis. So overall, these articles were slightly upsetting, but I enjoyed reading them nonetheless.
I started to read “The Angry Chef” and it is only at the end of the story, when I read, “You know what Marc?” that I realized that the narrator was a man! I kept in mind that only women could right about food with so much emotion into it. Why only women could right about homemade food, right?
ReplyDeleteI found really interesting the relationship that his mother had with food; however, nowadays, more and more people are very obsessed with fat and sugar. On his words describing his mom I could see my mom herself also trying to make meals lighter with less fat. I don’t see this as a bad idea because it is very important to eat healthy. It is not a question of calories, but more on what do you want to give to your body. For example, I would never eat industrial-made pasta that Michael Rulhman mentioned in his article. Furthermore, pasta is the easiest meal that you can cook, and you don’t need to be rich like Croesus! As Rulhman said, you just need to do it “yourself” and sadly it is why some people choose to buy industrial-made pasta. Look at the Indians; they cook all their meals! Onion is the main ingredient so due to the high demand its price went dramatically up comparing to the Indians financial resources. This article surprised me a lot. In fact, onions seem to me and I am sure for everyone else living here very affordable and I would never imagine inflation on onions’ price. Also in Haiti, people are so poor that they had to find a way to feed themselves with the few resources they had so they made cookies called “Mud Cookies”. It shows that we always can find a solution to eat.
Coming back on Rulhman’s article at the end of it, he asks us to wait for his next post to find out how to make pasta, well here is my recipe, guys:
Boil water with olive oil in a saucepan
When boiling put your choice of pasta inside (make sure to follow the indicated time on the box)
While waiting for the pasta, cut few cherry tomatoes
Grind some fresh garlic
Cut some fresh cilantro
When the pastas are ready, drain them and put then in a bowl. Add the tomatoes, the garlic, the cilantro and a drizzle of olive oil. For the greediest, add some fresh-grounded Parmigianino. Bon appetit!
Don’t forget that we are what we eat!
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” –Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
After reading the articles I realized that there are a lot of different styles that are used in food writing. I enjoyed the Marc Maron's "The Angry Chef" because it emphasized the importance of problem solving and not letting one's emotions get the best of them during an unpleasant experience. Marc was close to calling off his family's Thanksgiving dinner due to the top of the stuffing having been burnt until his mother, who knew “nothing” about cooking, was able to calm him down and urge him to simply remove the top. As for "Stephanie's Pasta Rant" by Michael Ruhlman, I felt the rant was a bit too hyped since all college students know how to cook is boxed pastas. And for now at least it doesn’t have major effects. Pasta a big part of a college students diet so most cant afford the better pastas she is talking about. “This column will change your life” by Oliver Burkeman was my favorite article. The micro lives he talks about made me more aware of how bad the food we consume is but nonetheless I don’t necessarily believe it. I mean when its time for you to die, you’ll die and it wont be because of x amount of burgers eaten. Granted, he did a good job in giving me another spectrum to view rather unhealthy foods that are in my everyday diet. The article “For India’s Inflation Crisis” by Greeley and Goyal is another important style of food writing, which serves a political and economic purpose. Onion is a valued vegetable for the Indians; its price is also used to measure how well the economy is doing. It also tells us important this vegetable is for making food in India since most of the foods are cooked with this at the heart of the ingredients and at its inflated price, people are struggling in India. Overall the articles were informative and enjoyable.
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