Food Is Good Analysis

Gary Allen Fine wrote, “food identifies who we are, where we come from and what we want to be. Food reveals our souls.” Food studies are important and worthwhile because it shows us the bigger picture of food. How it personally affects us. Overeating in content six was an example of food studies, there were two readings from Belasco, Are We What We Eat and Kessler The End of Overeating they talked about pre-chewed foods and how many times the average American chews, which was 25 but is now reduced to ten times. We did a class activity where we focused on food engineering and psychobiology, the study of how the brain reacts to stimuli. We did a chip taste test in class with Doritos nacho cheese and shagbark, which was a type of corn chip. We tested the vanishing caloric density, hang time, and umami, flavor burst, and sensory specific satiety, dynamic contrast, and mouth
Both authors had the idea that food has power, and that there is a kind of power that food holds over us. Bourdain had childhood experiences with food that left a lasting imprint with him. Finally the reading from content 9 was Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser and we read excerpts from the Cooking Ape by Elisabeth Townsend. In fast food nation one part stuck out to me. Surrogate Salesmen, are kids that persuade other people, mostly their parents to get what they want. They called it pester power which was the power to nag our parents much we could get what we want. I related to that because as a young girl every time I would set foot in a store I would immediately start that with my parents. My takeaway on the reasons for food studies is that it was worthwhile. I learned a lot more beyond me just consuming food. There was a lot I didn’t know and never knew I would find interesting. I also enjoyed connecting food to my own personal life with quotes and readings from great