What Food is to Me
Food, the most fun, caring, gross, loving, thing I know. We associate these feelings with specific belief's of food. when we experience the emotion while eating
it. We eat with family on Thanksgiving Day and the turkey tastes happy, we eat ice cream after a break-up, it’s a comfort food along with chocolate; we eat
Spaghetti O’s when feeling nostalgic. The list goes on and on. I’m Christy Baldwin and this is what I believe food is today.
Have you ever noticed that when you eat something alone, it just never tastes the same as when around friends? Sure, it’s still good but there is always something missing, something you just can’t put your finger on. The connection of other people, the social aspect of food makes it taste just that much better. It brings us together, and has become the normalcy at parties. If the food is absolutely disgusting then you have something to talk about, bringing you closer to your friends or family, maybe even someone you just met.
Food in America and other countries are different in what they serve, but socially the same. I went to Costa Rica for a senior trip this summer, and almost every
meal I ate had black beans and rice. Even though it wasn’t the food I was used to, the social interaction didn’t change as much as I thought it would.
Whenever I would go somewhere with my friends and fellow graduates, food was always offered, and although there was a language barrier between me and the Costa Rican people, we shared common ground when it came to food. When we went to the local market in Monteverde the owner of the store couldn't speak any english! We tried to ask for things like different fruits and vegtables we didn't know the name of in spanish, soon he just brought out a bushel of bananas, pointed and said "Plantains." We were able to communicate, not through words, but through what we ate.
Food is something that can elicit such strong feelings and emotions. The social aspect directly relates to the emotional aspect of food.
Without the social stimulation of an emotion, food would just be plain. Food is not only a substance that keeps you alive biologically, it keeps you alive
emotionally.
it. We eat with family on Thanksgiving Day and the turkey tastes happy, we eat ice cream after a break-up, it’s a comfort food along with chocolate; we eat
Spaghetti O’s when feeling nostalgic. The list goes on and on. I’m Christy Baldwin and this is what I believe food is today.
Have you ever noticed that when you eat something alone, it just never tastes the same as when around friends? Sure, it’s still good but there is always something missing, something you just can’t put your finger on. The connection of other people, the social aspect of food makes it taste just that much better. It brings us together, and has become the normalcy at parties. If the food is absolutely disgusting then you have something to talk about, bringing you closer to your friends or family, maybe even someone you just met.
Food in America and other countries are different in what they serve, but socially the same. I went to Costa Rica for a senior trip this summer, and almost every
meal I ate had black beans and rice. Even though it wasn’t the food I was used to, the social interaction didn’t change as much as I thought it would.
Whenever I would go somewhere with my friends and fellow graduates, food was always offered, and although there was a language barrier between me and the Costa Rican people, we shared common ground when it came to food. When we went to the local market in Monteverde the owner of the store couldn't speak any english! We tried to ask for things like different fruits and vegtables we didn't know the name of in spanish, soon he just brought out a bushel of bananas, pointed and said "Plantains." We were able to communicate, not through words, but through what we ate.
Food is something that can elicit such strong feelings and emotions. The social aspect directly relates to the emotional aspect of food.
Without the social stimulation of an emotion, food would just be plain. Food is not only a substance that keeps you alive biologically, it keeps you alive
emotionally.