Food plays a major role in our lives. We all love to eat food, watch cooking shows and reading cookbooks. Could you have ever imagined that chefs would end up being so famous…not me! Our love of food has made us become a food-obsessed nation. People are taking photos of their meals and posting them to Facebook or Instagram. They are also travelling to other countries to discover what “real” Italian or Chinese food tastes like. As Kuttainen (2013) mentions food is a tactile, ingestible substance. Something that is needed to keep us alive, it is a necessity not some new fangled toy that we can show off. But it is a market, which is become increasing popular.
With our obsession on food and the new trend of eating ‘super-foods’ and organic grown foods, it is amazing to see the number of obese people. As Patel (2007) states there are one billion people on this planet who are overweight (p. 1). That is such an astronomical amount of people, for me it’s so hard to fathom.
On Goodreads there are hundreds and hundreds of cookbook blogs. People are commenting on the cookbook’s more then any other genre. They have very strong opinions on the cookbooks. Most of the opinions are based around weather the book was worth purchasing and if they found the recipes easy to follow. Some on the other hand were odd. The comments were telling readers their opinions on foods and diets, which they state, are different to the books. Cannot tell if they are experts on food and diets, as their profiles do not say. I feel they shouldn’t be commenting like that, as us the readers may take it for been correct.
Overall food is something that should be enjoyed by all with family and friends, as it creates great memories.
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http://www.bettycrocker.com/cookbooks-and-magazines/betty-crocker-cookbook
Reference
Patel, R. (2007). Stuffed and Starved: Markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food systems. Melbourne, Australia: Black Inc.
Kuttainen, V. (Lecturer). BA1002 Our Space: Networks, Narratives, and the Making of Place, Lecture 7: Food Networks (Lecture). Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au
Hey Kelly,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog! I just wanted to further expand on your final statement there and say that while food is something that should definitely be enjoyed with friends and families, it also has the power to shape and transform the identity of just one individual. For example, in this week's reading by Atkins & Bowler (2001), it is said that food "represents an important expression of our identity, both as individuals and in reference to a broader ethnic, class or religious grouping."