Edward upton
Eng. 110 H6
Professor Jesse Miller
10/13/18
Food for feelings
When you think of what you have and what you lost, all the good times compared to the bad. All those odd happy days that stick with us our whole lives. You probably don’t think of food, you most definitely don’t think of what types of food you had on these oddly happy days. But food is there, its in every happy memory, it’s just not your go to thought when you think of the best days you’ve had. In the work of Julia’s Children work Out of The Fire on to The Couch we read about how cooking has become entertainment instead of a chore. Watching people cook is becoming the newest big thing as it gives people a sense of satisfaction of doing it themselves. What she was talking about without realizing it was that some of her better memories as a child came from watching food networks with her mother. “ Some of the more ambitious dishes, like the duck or the mousse, were pointed toward the weekend compony, but my mother would usually test them out on me and my sisters earlier I the week, and a few of the others- including the boeuf bourguignon, which I especially loved” although this is a very long quote I find it to be an essential point to my argument as she is talking about how she loves the memories of her mother cooking in the kitchen making fancy meals seen on television. “whenever people talk about how Julia child upgraded the culture of food I nod appreciably. I owe her.” In Brett Millers paper he talks about his favorite time of the year and its not for the toys or gifts you get on this particular day it’s for the feast. “Since I was little I would look forward to this meal more than Christmas day. One year I skipped breakfast and lunch just, so I could eat more of the dinner.”( Miller Brett) people need to have food or the day isn’t complete something so small and insignificant yet so important to our lives and attitudes.
Food used to be a chore it was “Woman’s work” per say, but once The French Chief came on air “it didn’t take long for me to realize that Julia Child had improved the quality of life around the house”(Michael Pollan) food was revolutionized it became a teaching point for every one who watched one of the things it taught was courage. You may think how in the world does food teach us how to have courage, well in the Pollan article we have the courage to flip, it may just be talking about flipping food in a frying pan but it carries out to all our lives as well you just have to go for it you must trust yourself to do what you need to get the action correct. You must trust yourself and if you make a mistake you must know its fixable, this carries out into everything we do. When it came down to Martha Stewart doing the flip she failed at it, but this didn’t faze her one bit she just took what she had and made it into something new. Through every failure there is redemption there is something you can do to save it or to learn from it. Life is just one big frying pan full of trial and error, as you grow and learn by making errors, you always get a nice comporting meal when you go home food is a stable reliable object that people look over greatly. There are however some meals through out the year that are so large and tongue tantalizing that they become tradition. These meals although not as over looked as most still bring us joy its just not as well wrapped as the small meals we have everyday.
