HW 4 - Your Families' Foodways

Our families affect how we approach food - but how much? Foodways, as we discussed in class, include not just what gets eaten, but how it is eaten, how food is understood, how it is prepared, produced, and contextualized within daily practices. Foodways relate to ethnic cultures, gender norms, and economic class.

Please discuss food with the adults who raised you. You're looking for areas of overlap and contrast between how they approach food and how you approach food. Please ask them also about the foodways of the people who raised them. What do you (and they) imagine are some of the factors leading to generational differences in foodways?

While you're at it, take an inventory and a picture of the inside of your fridge - or a picture and a menu of a meal that your family ate together (or both). How does this evidence connect to your theories about the foodways of yourself and your family?

A strong post will be well-organized - each paragraph focusing on a single main idea, contain lively original ideas and perspectives, avoid or nuance clichés, and demonstrate a solid ability to integrate the concept of foodways with your own experience and with change over time/place.

Please post your 3-6 paragraph mini-essay by 8:30am Tuesday, Sept. 28.