Page 3 paragraph 1
This paragraph suggests the growth and appreciation that has grown throughout America after the boom in the Julia Child’s legacy and impression that she left on the American food industry. I agree with this suggestion that having the ability to be able to cook and the thoughts behind being a chef is widely celebrated as food has continued to control our population. Before, women were ostracized to the kitchen and were the ones cooking food without the thought of a male figure being able to do so. This has changed over the years given the authority that food has over our lives and men are now big parts of the food industry and are primary subjects and being celebrated for the art of cooking. This has included the boom in culinary shows that have a wide range but are still much appreciated by both males and females throughout the United States.
Page 5 paragraph 2
In this passage Pollan talks about the American woman today trying to innovate and improve on their mother’ and her mother’s recipes that go on for generations and the confidence in which these shows bring to the table. I disagree with the notion that these women are trying to improve on those dishes. Once a recipe that has been passed down from offspring to offspring, you don’t change that. Nobody is trying to alter the signature meal that has been enjoyed by the family for years on end. Rather, i believe, that these recipes are suppose to be strictly stuck in the way in which they are already made to give off that sense of tradition and past time that families hold so close to their hearts. The mishap although by Julia’s flipping does give woman or men confidence in the kitchen but it does not bring the notion to change what has been a signature of the family for many years.
Page 7 paragraph 2
In this passage Pollen suggests that the art and form of cooking has been varied and thought of differently throughout the years in the way we Americans perceive it to be. She suggests that people still feel cooking is “washing a head of lettuce and pouring bottled dressing over it does.” I agree that this concept is wrong but there is also a happy medium in where cooking can be defined. Cooking does not have to be from scratch necessarily but rather the form in which you do it and the process in which it is done. The concept I agree has been broad and meaningless over the years but that does not mean that the concept is entirely gone. Frozen food and processed food is not cooking and cooking from scratch is not the end all be all. This is a grey area that has been becoming more and more grey over generations as new ways of preparing food have been brought to the American people’s attention.
