Food, food glorious food

Food, food glorious food! Chocolate, popcorn, steak and chicken  is what pops into ones head when it appears through their mind. From the all you can eat cheap chilli on a Tuesday, to the special sandwiches mum would pack for school, food is involved in our lives daily, and sometimes without even realizing food is a major aspect of it. Personally if I skip a meal or become hungry a side effect that I develop is I become extremely angry. This clearly shows how food controls my life in the smallest amount. However food is not just about recipes and meals, it also has a taste of social meaning  (Atkins & Bowler (2001). This aspect is further examined in this weeks readings.

 Facebook very much so feeds off the idea of  food and social meaning. Food plays a very important role within the Facebook timeline. Thousands of posts a day are uploaded of the 'awesome' meal someone had just prepared, the 'crazy' birthday cake for their child, or the 'delicious' breakfast they had just cooked. Through the sharing of their creations a relative online identity is formed. A friend of mine on Facebook shares her cook book daily over posts and which recipe she chooses to make that day. This is a clear example on the assumption on how Facebook users hold food as an important role in their social networking lives. 

During our Monday lecture, Dr Victoria Kuttainen (2013) described rum as a social network symbolizing Facebook. this idolizes food not only as something to consume but a network through technology.  The idea of constantly uploading photos of famous food and drinks such as alcohol is not only for the benefit of the up-loader looking 'cool' but also is a way to make the food popular or noticeable  The society that we live in which involves over 800 million  (Patel (2007) starving people also involves many civilians which take food for granted. This relates to the reading  'Stuffed and starved' (2007). 

In conclusion, food has much more meaning then the consumption of it which many people have no idea about. The idea of food can be a unbelievable truth to many without the realization of its origin. 

Bibliography 

Atkins, P., & Bowler, I. (2001). The origins of taste. In Food in society: Economy, culture, geography (pp. 272-293). London, England: Arnold.

Kuttainen, V. (2013). BA1002: Our space: network, narrative and the making of place, week 6 notes. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au

Atkins, P., & Bowler, I. (2001). The origins of taste. In Food in society: Economy, culture, geography (pp. 272-293). London, England: Arnold.