ENC 2300 Advanced Composition and Communication

 

What is food? What is the purpose of food? What determines what we eat? The authors in this section offer varying definitions of food, describe its multiple purposes and argue for various understandings of the larger political, cultural, and socio-economic factors that play a role in determining what we eat. First, select two authors that address a related issue or question. You may draw from ideas in the course reader’s question sections or develop your own. Either way, consider how they collectively respond to that question and how their ideas are “speaking” to one another. What is driving their “conversation”?

How do they each contribute to our understanding of the definition and purpose of food? What do they say about what determines what we eat? Why are you compelled to focus on this particular issue or problem? What ideas do you have to share? Secondly, using the readings you have chosen to illuminate or shatter eating habits, write about yours. What does food mean to you? What is the purpose of food in your opinion? What determines what you eat? Is it cultural, social, or economic trend? Have you ever considered any of these issues before, and how does this new information alter or not the way you see food? You are welcomed to us the first person (I) in this essay.