Hw 22

Quote 1: "I'm on my last great journey here-and people want me to tell them what to pack"
Quote 2: "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live"
Quote 3: "My days were full, yet I remained unsatisfied"

Response 1: Morrie is expecting to die very soon and the people want to know what it is like, how does he deal with it, and how to go about knowing the fact you are going to die at any time.

Response 2: When you finally stop worry about dying and put it to the side you can then begin to live life and enjoy the time you have on earth.

Response 3: His whole day is filled with activities and stuff to do but at the end of the day he is not happy with the work he is doing he feels that there are better things out there for him to explore.

while reading this book a lot of different ideas and thoughts go through my head. When i read the line "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live" it really made me think about the message the author is trying to convey. Since dying is something we can't control and no matter how much we try to dodge it we can't avoid. When we learn that dying is not in our power then we can begin to live our lives out because we wont always worry about the fact that one day we will die. This book really digs deep into the idea that dying is one of the most biggest events that will happen in our lives and when it does happen we will see how much attention we  get that we didn't receive from before.

Hw 21

1. Honeymoon from Death, no chance of living.
2. Fathers relationship with his older son.
3.How her husband deep inside truly believed he was going to live through his illness and not die.
4.No use of the words death or dying around her husband.
5.Hard time getting insurance.
6.When Erik finally died it took her some time to actually gather her thoughts and realize that her husband was dead.

   In life we all know that death is something that is guaranteed to happen and no matter how much we put it to the side and fight it is impossible to avoid. From the time we are born till the day we die, us as human beings live life knowing we wont be here forever so for the time being we enjoy what life has to offer and not to worry about death because that is something that we can't control. When the guest speaker explained that her husband did not believe he was going to die, I wondered why would someone so ill think like that and by him thinking in that mind state what does he get or lose from it. Even though I have never been in the situation were i was so sick to the point that i was bedridden I can clearly understand were he is coming from. A lot of times when I am sick or injured I realize that for most of the time I'm in denial and then I finally after a certain period of time i realize that i am actually sick or injured. When you are sick and  you tell yourself your not it is a way to cope with the pain and the idea that you are very ill and you may be ill for a very long time. In Erik's case he was so sick to the point were telling himself that he wasn't going to die and he would somehow survive it was the only way that he could deal with the fact that he was going to die. When you keep telling yourself you'll be fine over and over again and you barely see a change you just hope for the best and pray that everything will be better.
   What about death brings families and others closer? is it the fact that the person who is sick and dying won't be around anymore and the chances of you waking up and seeing he/she again is slim or doesn't have to do with the relationship and bond you and that person share. When the guess speaker explained that Erik would not let his older son come and visit him I couldn't understand why. Even though deep inside Erik did not want to die he still knew that there was a high probability of it happening. Through out the story that the guess speaker was sharing she clearly explained that Erik's younger was able to visit and she his father during his last days. When she explained that Erik's older son shared a relationship with his father that couldn't be broken no matter what I then began to understand why Erik did not want him to visit him. Erik did not want his son to see him in that condition bedridden and hospitalized.
   I understand that death is inevitable and sooner or later it will happen to me, my mother, father, and brother but for the time being I live life trying to fill out my goals and aspirations. I feel that death is a way to push people and make people want to achieve certain things in life because we wont be here forever. I feel that we all understand that dying and watching others pass away is a bridge that we will all cross. I've realized that some people can handle death and some can't, and the death of someone important in your life can make you stronger or weaker but no matter the outcome we have to learn to deal with it and not let it ruin our lives.

Hw 19

   Even though I come from a big family there haven't been a lot of deaths that have accrued. The only ones we can recall of is of my Paternal Grandmother/Grandfather and my mothers grandmother who I did not know. Besides those deaths everyone else is healthy and alive. My ( mother,father, uncles,aunts, and cousins) are all still living. So when it comes to death and illness I really don't have anything to refer to and draw from.
   The first death that I experienced in my family was of my paternal grandmother. She spent most of her life in Jamaica and then moved to Connecticut were I seldomly  saw her. The couple times I visited her, we barely talked and due to the fact that our relationship wasn't strong when she passed away it did not really have an affect on me. My paternal grandfather passed away before I was even born. The deaths that happen on my father side had no impact on my life because I never really got a chance to build a relationship between my grandmother and I, and I did not know my grandfather.
   My mothers grandmother was ill for a very long time and even though she was bedridden she lived to see a 100. She was taken care of by my grandfather and his wife for 3 years until she passed away. She was also a person in my family that passed away that I did not know.
  In Jamaica one of the main death practices and customs that people followed who lived in the rural parts of Jamaica. Was that when someone died there body would get wrapped in sheets, and then the pastor would come to the home and pray for the family and pray for the person who just passed away. When that was all done the person was buried in the yard on their home.

Final Food Project

   I decided to experiment with my diet and become a vegetarian for a whole week. Even though I was staying away from meat and dairy products i was also avoiding sugar filled drinks and snacks that contained a lot of trans-fats. The overall idea was to change my diet for the better and just eat way healthier than i did before. I feel that the reason that becoming a vegetarian for a whole week won't be hard is because my mother is a vegetarian, so i am always exposed to healthy foods that are good for and at the same time very tasty. For this experiment the main idea is to incorporate healthy foods in my diet such as fruits and vegetables and also stay away from meat. This connects to the food unit because by doing this experiment you actually get to feel what its like to eat foods that are good for you but most important is to step outside the norm and experience something new that could be life changing.
   The first day of being a vegetarian was very hard because i did not know where to eat. I'm so use to walking down the street and getting a slice of pizza or a burger but to get a meal that was healthy and also vegetarian i had to go out my way. For lunch that day i had a mozzarella cheese with basil and pesto on wheat bread. One of the first things i realized was the price that meal came out to $12.90 without a drink. Before the experiment i could go to the chinese food store or the pizza shop and get a meal that filled me up for $5.00. Something i also realized was that the food had no taste what so ever. It made me think why would someone spend so much money on a sandwich that doesn't even taste good just so they can be , how do you get satisfaction out of meal like that. So for the rest of the day i was starving and when i got home i ask my mother what are some foods that i can eat that are vegetarian and taste really good. She gave me a long list of meals that i could buy that taste good and at a reasonable price. From that day on my vegetarian experience became easier.
   The second day for breakfast i had a bagel with jelly and a bottle of orange juice. Throughout the day i was really wondering what i was going to eat for lunch. The main goal was to make sure i incorporated some type of vegetables into my meal. So for lunch I had white rice with stir fry vegetables with garlic sauce. Even though there was no meet in that meal it actually really taste good. Throughout the whole process it is extremely hard not to fall into temptations there where countless amount of times where i would walk by a Mcdonalds or Wendy's and would have to force myself not to go in and by something. While eating these vegetarian meals i always realize that when I'm done eating i am never full it's like i need more food. One of the main question that was always on my mind was What is the diet of a full time vegetarian? and What meals do they eat to fill them up?
   Something i have realized is that location is key when it comes to eating healthy. Down in manhattan there are numerous health food stores and restaurants on ever block so if you are a vegetarian it is impossible not to stay healthy because you can always buy foods and materials to keep you in healthy. Where Im from there is a pizza shop and fast food restaurant on ever block the complete opposite of manhattan. While i was doing the vegetarian experiment it was hard not to go to the pizza shop and get a pepperoni slice or a cheese burger. Any time i would hangout with my friends and they want to get food it's not like there heading to the farmers market or a whole foods there going straight to Mcdonalds and getting a big mac. This whole experience really showed my will power and how i could stick it out even when i wanted to stop and go back to by old ways

Reader Response

Chapter 19: Eating Animals
Summary: The Dilemma of eating meat. How can we eat meat and enjoy it when it is so wrong to do. When it comes to Animal Liberation you can either defend the way you live or change it. When you decide to change that is when you have to deal with the vegetarian dilemma. As a vegetarian you have to decide the rules and exceptions. When you are a vegetarian you don't eat meat or fish but you can have eggs and milk. A vegan does not eat anything that involves animals or dairy. The reason why people become vegetarians because they don't want to eat food that has come from an injured or suffering animal.
Gem: Raw-foodist: " Do not eat any food that has been heated above a certain temperature, in the belief that heat damages certain healthy enzymes in food"
Thoughts/Questions: Why does a pescatarian only eat fish? What is the difference between fish and meat an animal is still getting hurt.
Chapter 20: Hunting
Summary: Explains how much works goes towards hunting and gathering your own food. There is a big difference in enjoyment when you eat the food also, since you had to go through the hassle of getting it you enjoy it better when it is time to eat. It explains deeply how people take food for granted and just because we can go to the store and buy whatever we please, we don't take into consideration whats good and whats bad to eat. That is what he realized when he was hunting and gathering the food.
Gem: Wild pigs aren't strictly wild animals. They are really feral pigs. (Feral means domestic animals that are living in the wild.)
Thoughts/Questions: I have never been hunted or gathered food in my life so i wouldn't know what the experience is like but i do feel like there is more of a sense of satisfaction when you know the meal you made was actually made by yourself. The question have is Even though hunting and gathering food is not really apart of the food realm today but are there places where hunting is still very important and significant to a person daily meals?
Chapter 21: Gathering:
Summary: While hunting there are certain guidelines you have to follow because while hunting you dont know what you can eat and what you can't eat. How he explains this is when he was gathering the mushrooms for his meal. When it comes to mushrooms in the wild you exactly have to know which ones are eatable because most of them are poisonous. he basically elaborates on the gathering foods in the woods and how it is way different then he expected. While you gather in the woods you  have to study what you can eat so you remember for the next time because  it is easy to forget.
Gems: "The study of fungi is called mycology and scientist who studies fungi is called a mycologist. Someone who hunts and eats and thinks about wild mushrooms a lot is called a mycophile"
Thoughts/Question: What exactly makes mushrooms healthy to eat if most of them are poisonous.
Chapter 22: Perfect Meal
Summary: How he developed a perfect meal, the date was set to be on june 18 on saturday. He made a list to check off if he did everything that he said he would do to make sure that he made the perfect meal. Even though the main idea was to make sure that he hunted and gathered everything that he was going to eat there where little things on the list that had an affect on the meal. The main idea was to show that he could make a meal that he would enjoy by making it by himself without spending any money.
Gem: That us as the people would be better off if we hunted for out food we would be more healthier and live longer lives.
Thoughts/Questions: How much time would it take to hunt and gather a meal for a family of 4?

Reading Response

Chapter 17: My Grass Fed Meal
   Summary: He explains the difference between eggs on the farm and the eggs in the grocery store. he said the main difference was the yolk he claimed it was more thicker. The main idea was eating locally basically eating the food that he is around. he made a meal that he has made several times before with the same ingredients but from the grocery. Even though the ingredients are the same he feels better because the chickens spent their lives outside instead of inside and roamed the pastures. All the animals ate grass not grain or corn. Gem What he said was very interesting he explained that he might of been eating the same meal but to know the animals were treated better he felt better eating the food he made. Question How come all farmers don't treat their animals like polyface farm does what do they gain or lose from it?
Chapter 18: The Forest
   Summary: The last meal he wanted to have was a meal that incorporated foods that he hunted and gathered. What he worried about was the scary foods out there like the poisonous berries and mushrooms. Hunting is apart of the first food chain and even though we cant bring back that life style it is much more easier then what most americans do today for food. It took 17 hours a week to get the food that was necessary while Americans use up to 40 hours or more to get food etc. Gem Only around 100 of nearly 10,000 different kinds of mushroom, just 1 percent are safe to eat. Question If hunting and gathering was brought back would it be easier to do in this day and age or harder?

Reading response

Chapter 13: Grass
   Summary: Basically looking at grass from different perspectives when the grass is good, how cows should eat the grass, and the different types of grass that grow in a farmers field. Shows how important grass is and how it plays a big role in a cows diet and basically how all aspects of grass have a significant meaning. Cows should not be able to take seconds when it comes to eating grass. By the cow doing that it makes it extremely hard for the grass to recover which leads to the roots weakening and a field filled with brown spots. How you have to move the cows to different spots of the field so they can get a taste of all the grass thats around, what the guy had to do was move fifty stacks of bale every afternoon. Gem What was very interesting about this chapter is that there is different types of grass that grow in the fields and they all have a different taste and amount of nutrition. The question I have is that how come all animals don't eat the same type of grass?
Chapter 14: The Animals
   Summary: The most important job on the polyface farm was to feed and give water to the chickens. Another thing that had to be done was the pens had to be moved every day for 56 days. The reason why it takes 56 days is because thats the amount of time it would take for a chicken to get big enough before they would slaughter it. The pens had to be moved 10 feet a day so by day 56 each pen would have covered the whole meadow. On polyface farm there is something called an eggmobile which holds 400 laying hens. Gem something that was interesting about this chapter was that the reason why they moved the chickens is because if they stayed in one spot it would destroy the soil it was on. Question By letting the animals be animals and roam free and do as they please does that make a healthier and happier animal?
Chapter 15:  The Slaughterhouse
   Summary: He woke up that morning knowing that today was the day that all the chickens he helped grow had to die. They way they kill the chickens is by not cutting off the head completely but just slicing the throat. After that is done the workers have to pick off all the feathers and clean out its insides. Even though the process of killing the bird is very extreme the procedure from turn the bird into food is just as bad. Gem What was very interesting about this chapter is that when they are done draining the chicken for blood,cutting of the feet, and heads of these chickens those remains just get mixed with wood chips and get turned into compost. Question:  If the customers have faith in the farmers that they are being sanitary with the chickens and they are really not how can the customers figure that out?
Chapter 16: The Market
  Summary: In the food industry the food typically get sent 1,500 miles before it is eaten. On the poly face farm it is way different. Their corn only travels 140 miles from the farm but the average farms sweet corn travels 1,420 miles. The reason why polyface farm does that is because they want to build a direct relationship with their customers so that they will keep coming back. By doing this polyface brings in more revenue then other farms because and even though they were not get wealthy people coming and buying but they were getting so much business from just average people. Gem What i realized is that different foods get shipped all around the world and end back in the place it was sent from. Question: What is the purpose of importing foods from different places when we can grow it ourselves?

Reading response

Chapter 11: More Big Organic
   Summary: This chapter basically builds off the last chapter but just goes more into depth about organic foods. The author explains how he visited a chicken farm, which is less of a farm and more like a factory for animals. They say that the farm is free range where the chickens get to roam free and thats not the case. The chickens are not allowed to come outside until they are 5 weeks old. The gem to me in this chapter was how the companies lies and makes it seem like the animals are getting treated properly but they actually aren't at all. The question i have is What is the point of false advertising and lying to the customers?
Chapter 12: Polyface Farm
  Summary: Explains how he took a trip to a place called polyface farm, the main idea was to see if it was possible for a non industrial food chain to stay in business while in the twenty-first century. What was interesting was how he explained in the book Grass Farmer that he had never heard about a grass farmer or even knew what it was about. Joel Salatin built the foundation off of grass he said and not petroleum and thats how it was such a success. A good question i have for this chapter is in the ranking of farming wheres does grass farming come into place? and is it possible to make as much as a farmer growing corn would make?

Reading response

Chapter 6: Processed food
   Summary: How much corn americans take in per year thats not real corn but processed corn. Different types of corn can be used to make the stuff we love to eat every day. Regular corn can make pop corn,  livestock feed, snack foods, taco shells etc. Wet milled corn can make baby food, chewing gum, salad dressing, chocolate beverages etc. Corn is mostly in all sweeteners like fructose, glucose, sucrose and any syrup products. What was interesting to me is how corn can be used in chemical that are used to clean. The main question I have is HOW, is it possible for corn to be used in all these products?
Chapter 7: Fat from Corn
  Summary: That corn is causing obesity in children an adults. Its causing health care systems billion of dollars each year to help out with this. Ever since 1976 childhood obesity has been on rise. The cause of this rise in obesity is mostly because of the extra calories. That is mostly from the syrup, "Every year approximately 500 million bushels of corn are turned into high fructose corn syrup"The question that i have  is how can corn be a good and bad ingredient?
Chapter 8: Ominvore's Dilemma
  Summary: Explains how animals don't have dilemma in their eating habits, basically how a animal can just eat one food and get all its nutrition from it and does not need to eat different foods to stay healthy. It's different for humans because different foods give us certain vitamins. Humans have built a way to figure out what foods are good and what foods are bad. By people not eating meat every meal and having leafy greens and fresh fruits on a daily bases thats how people solved the omnivores dilemma. Americans just go by what taste good so people usually will eat sweet, salty, and greasy foods instead of bitter. Foods that are usually bitter are plants so human taste buds avoid avoid vegetables because of the taste. Something that i read that was interesting was "Standing in our giant supermarkets we feel more lost in a forest ten thousands years ago. we no longer know for sure which foods are good and which aren't". The question I have is how come Americans know what foods are healthy and good to eat but choose to eat the bad stuff and put themselves in health issues later on in life?
Chapter 9: My Fast Food Meal
  Summary: The rise of the chicken nugget and how it became so popular. Basically how mcdonalds nuggets, fries, and burgers are made to all taste the same. The author explains how corn is used in different meals at mcdonald's. That chicken nuggets are filled with tons of chemicals that can cause multiple health problems such as cancer. later on in the chapter breaks down the graph on childhood obesity and how we should all eat low on the food chain instead of high because it's more healthier.
An interesting fact was that 6 chicken nuggets from mcdonald's has twice as much fat as a regular hamburger. Question is what are chicken nuggets really made of? and how did they become so popular?
Chapter 10: Big Organic
   Summary: Companies are trying their best to no buy corn or any type of processed food. The companies are trying to which to organic foods because that is what people are mostly eating nowadays. They explain that people shop at farmers markets and places like whole foods because they claim that the food is better and more healthier for you. Something interesting that i read was how the author was in the store checking the labels of foods and reading the ingredients. the author believed that each food had a story to tell where it came from and what it is made out of. A good question that comes to mind while reading this is Why do stores like whole foods hold such a prestigious name? and Is the food really that good for you?

HW 8- Reading Response

Chapter 3: From Farm to Factory
   Summary: at the heart of ever industrial food chain there is a big business that has something to do with the food whether its distribution, production,etc. The reason why factories and farms go hand in hand is because the food companies supply the farms with fossil fuel, pesticides, and fertilizer that is used to harvest and transport different vegetables but mostly corn. On farms nowadays the corn that is being grown is being fed to much nitrogen which causes nitrogen pollution. The reason that is bad is because most of it does not go to the plants it evaporates in the air and becomes acid rain which increases global warming.
Gems: The industrial food chain makes some people very rich. Big agribusiness companies take in billions of dollars in profit. Yet one person who is not getting rich from the mountain of corn is the American farmer.
   What really seemed to interest me is how the businesses get so rich and the farmers that supply the food and do all the hard work stay dirt poor. It is interesting how the companies buy the corn from the farmers for a low cost and then sell it at an extensive price to the consumers and don't give back to the people who supply the goods.
Chapter 4: The Grain Elevator
   Summary: A grain elevator is basically where a farmer would store his corn when the winter season was coming or if it was cold out. Through out different seasons the process of growing corn changes rapidly and the author explains how exactly what the farmer does. When corn is harvested the bushels don't just go to one thing it i s broken up into percentages and divided amongst different categories. In this case where corn goes the most is to animal feed. The main question i have is how do they preserve corn for so long? The second question is what season is the best to grow corn?
Chapter 5: The Feedlot Turning Corn into Meat
  Summary: Basically the way farmers use to treat their cattle have changed throughout the years. Before corn became so popular the cows where allowed to eat grass and roam free through the pasture but no they are forced to stay in their barns most of the day. Feedlots are basically beef factories where they turn corn into beef, and what they do is take ground up pieces of beef and put it in the corn that they feed the cows and that is what causes mad cow disease. What interest me the most is how farmers changed their style of farmer so drastically. The main question that i have is what is the point of feeding cows other cow pieces? and by the farmers changing their style of farming what do they get out of it?

HW 7-Reading Response

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Chapter 1: How Corn Took Over America
   Summary: Corn has one of the biggest impacts on the food industry. Corn is basically used in everything we eat, drink, and even used in the buildings we live in. When it come to food Corn is the number 1  product that is used. Food companies like to cover it with names like glucose syrup, lactic acid, and carmel but at the end of the day it really means CORN.
  Gems: "Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig. Corn feeds the catfish raised in the fish farm. Corn-fed chickens laid eggs. Corn feeds the dairy cows that produce the milk, cheese, and ice cream." pg. 10
  I never realized that corn was such a big component in food, usually I never read the back of a package for ingredients but whenever I do i always see high fructose corn syrup, and caramel color, etc. While reading this chapter what really surprised me was how corn originated in central america and then spread to America and became such a big thing. This shows the untold truth about food and how its made and how one  vegetable can be the main ingredient in the food we eat on a daily bases.
Chapter 2: The Farm
   Summary: When Corn came on the seed it knocked most animals, fruits , and other vegetables down the food chain. At this point and time the only two important vegetables are corn and soybeans. Even though corn is corn there is a special type of corn called hybrid corn which grows a thicker stalk and stronger roots. With regular corn you can plant eight thousand acre's but with hybrid corn you can grow thirty thousand acre's. Which shows that corn is such a dominant vegetable when it comes to discussing food.
   Gems: Today the seed companies have taken things a step further. Genetically modified corn seed which promises even higher yields than hybrid seed.
   What I don't seem to understand is why corn is important why not carrots, tomato, or peers. What about corn gives it that edge above other vegetables to the point where farmers are mass producing corn with different scientific methods

Hw 6-Food Diary

Breakfast:
Bacon egg and cheese= 420 calories
Orange juice= 112 calories
2Quakers chewy bars= 200 calories
I usually don't get enough time to eat breakfast in the morning but when I can i try my best to eat as much as i can. This is what i usually buy when i get breakfast in manhattan nut when i am at home the meals vary.

Lunch:
1 slice of pizza= 230 calories
1 large mountain dew soda= 431 calories
 This meal i had for lunch did not fill me up because right after when class started i felt hungry again, since i felt so hungry i really could not pay attention in class and then i start to doze off. I feel that it is crucial to eat a good lunch if your a person that is not big on eating breakfast because if you don't through out the day you just feel drained.

Dinner:
Baked chicken= 212 calories
Macaroni and cheese= 197 calories
Broccoli= 42 calories
Desert Bread Pudding= 475 calories
 This meal was one of the best meals i had this week because there was so much to eat, and the bread pudding made it even better. Usually after eating a meal like this i go right to sleep.


Lunch:
White castle- Three burgers, mozzarella sticks, french fries, and a medium drink=1,570 calories

This meal filled me up and i really like it a lot, white castle is something i don't eat often but when i can it is worth eating.

This whole week i just ate what i felt like eating and did not care about nutrition or the amount of calories. I bought what i could afford and what was most convenient at the time.

Hw 4 Dominant discourse

   A dominate discourse is when people who have power and the majority discuss particular issues. the majority believes that the people that are put to lead and have power should be the ones with the most say and control in particular topics. when it comes to food the dominant discourse  are the dietitians, doctors, and large food corporations.
   When it comes to discussing the dominant discourse in america the topic that seems most frequently discussed is what food is good for you and what food is bad for you and what the new generation should be eating. i also feel that the consumption of organic products has to be one of biggest topics discussed.  When food is being talked about the people who mostly get quoted are the people with power like doctors, dietitians etc. Ex. A man says that the reason why i am adding fruits and vegetables to my diet is because my doctors said i should) well on the other had if that mans friend was to say he would probably not have taken that seriously. The people in power have the most say in any situation, what they say can determine if you live another 4 years or die 4 years earlier.
   In america people want to live long and enjoy life but we don't understand that eating healthy is the key to unlocking that door. Most Americans rather eat junk food all day than eat salad or a fruit so they can get their recommended amount of vitamins and nutrition for that day. while reading The articleTold To Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries I realized that tons of money is put into the school food industry to make sure children eat better but we still eat very poorly. An interesting quote I found was Both efforts, high and low, are aimed at the same thing: getting America to eat its vegetablesGood luck. Despite two decades of public health initiatives, stricter government dietary guidelines, record growth of farmers’ markets and the ease of products like salad in a bag, Americans still aren’t eating enough vegetables.(Told To Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries)  This quote proves that Americans just rather not eat healthy, and i believe that the main reason why is because we are so use to greasy,salty, and sweet food that eating a salad of having a banana is just absurd.

Hw 3 Family Foodways

   When i was talking to my mother she explained how she goes about approaching food. She said that she mainly looks at food from a nutritional stand point the main reason why is because my mother is a school food manager and a dietician. She also pays a lot of attention to how appealing the food is and has a culinary point of view on what she eats and feeds her kids. she believes in making all different types of food from different cultures. since she loves to cook that also has to do with how she approaches food, because my mother went to school to be in the school food industry she knows whats good to eat and what is not good to eat.
   My mothers parents did not see food from a nutritional stand point, they only made jamaican cuisine. they only made what they knew how to make and did not try to make anything new. their main focus was to make sure you were well feed and not hungry to make sure that you got breakfast, lunch and diner. The main goal was to make sure the food taste good.
   The difference between generation food ways has to mainly do with the fact that my mother went to college to major in nutrition so she could become a dietician. My mother also is a vegetarian and only eats and drinks organic products. Back in Jamaica that was not the focus with my mothers parents, and since they were not in america were you are exposed to so many different cultures of food they were stuck with what they had. I believe the main difference is time and location. The reason I say time is because since my grandparents were born back in the day when eating healthy was the thing that everybody was doing they didn't know a lot about what food is good or bad. Location is also a big part because they were born and raised in jamaica where they mostly only eat jamaican food, so they are not use to trying new food that is beneficial to their health.

Hw 2- Mcdonalds and food market experience

  While in mcdonalds I realize a couple of things that caught my attention. The first was once you walk in by the entrance and the cash register there are two ATM's. That automatically shows that they want you to spend money they are making it convenient for people to obtain money. The second thing I realize was the amount of calories per meal that was on the menu. In Mcdonalds you can either get the sandwich or the whole meal. As I check the calories for ever sandwich I notice that everything was over 600 calories. When you add the hash brown and orange juice the calories increase to 900-1000. The main reason why Mcdonalds gets such much characters is because you can get a bang for your buck. The meals are very cheap and easy to afford so it is understandable why so much people would come back and buy food there. While waiting on line to order something the two men in front of me were talking about how hungry they were, one of them said that he was so hungry that he was going to order to deluxe breakfast meals. When he said that I glanced at the menu and saw that that meal had 1190 calories in it. In my head I was thinking that what he is about to eat right now is almost enough calories for the whole day. When I finally got my food I sat down and unwrapped the wrapper and the first thing I realize is that the wrapper is extremely greasy. Even though what I was about to consume was very greasy and salty and filled with calories it taste really good. That right there is the catch why people come to Mcdonalds, the food is cheap and taste good. That right there is why Mcdonalds is a multi billion dollar company.
  When I went to the farmers market I notice that there were vegetables everywhere and the first connection I made was how come Mcdonalds menu had no vegetables at all on the menu. As i walked to each stand I see fruits and vegetables I have never seen before and what I was really wondering is how they taste and it is possible that those vegetables and healthy foods can be cooked and taste just as good or better then Mcdonalds food. When it comes to organic and healthy foods it comes down to price and those things are expensive so I could see why people would go to mcdonalds instead of the food market.
    

Hw 1- Initial Thoughts about Food

I feel that there is a lot to say about food, it pertains to so many different aspects of the world. Food is the most important when it comes to tradition, culture, and religion. Another thing i realize with food is that it is deciding factor in emotions and how we feel on a day to day bases. Food can make you feel mad,sad, and happy. It plays such a big role in peoples lives because with out it you could not survive, but it also has a special bond with people that can't be explained.
I feel like my priorities for food have changed through out my high school years the most. When I was in middle school I feel like I ate more healthy. The main reason why is because I would go to school with my mother and she use to watch what I ate. Once I hit high school I picked up a bad eating habit of not eating breakfast and it got so bad i didn't eat breakfast for two months. The way i made up for that is by eating a big lunch and diner. What I have realize is that i eat too much junk food and I need to cut back on the soda and snacks. Even though i eat a lot of junk my mom makes sure i eat healthy. So i do feel that priorities now have got better and I know know how to manage what I eat.
My typical meal is made of chicken,beef, bread or rice. One thing I wish i would add to my typical meal or what i eat everyday is milk and vitamins. Even though I enjoy eating salads I usually don't feel like eating them for lunch because they don't fill me up. I notice that now I eat what ever I want and it is never really healthy. My favorite thing to eat is whatever my mother makes, I don't have a favorite meal. Even though I am young  I feel like I need to watch what i eat because i don't want eating unhealthy to become a habit.