Assignment

When you respond to texts, try to formulate claims. That makes it much easier to find and use specific textual evidence and examples to support your ideas. Using quotes in summaries doesn't open texts up, and that's ultimately what we want to do. We want to read critically. 

I've offered a couple of questions to get you going. As usual, you are free to follow your own recipe. As long as people think hard, make claims, and use specific textual evidence to support their claims, I'll be pleased as punch. 

We are reading four texts this week. 

-Alice Randall, “Glori-Fried and Glori-Fied: Mahalia Jackon’s Chicken” https://www.southernfoodways.org/glori-fried-and-glori-fied-mahalia-jacksons-chicken/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

-Ligaya Mishan, “Asian-American Cuisine’s Rise and Triumph” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/t-magazine/asian-american-cuisine.html (Links to an external site.)

-Teresa Lust, “The Same Old Stuffing” (Norton Mix 77-85)

-Marcus Samuelsson, “My African Mother” (Norton Mix 86-89)

Prompt

This week's texts–we're reading four–aren't really about the kitchen. However, the kitchen features in each. The texts allow us to ask some probing questions: What issues do these forays into the kitchen help use explore? That is, how do the various kitchens we encounter help us explore the connection between food and broader social and cultural issues? (If you're at a loss here, think about the course subtitle: Science, Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics.)