Eating The Hyphen Analysis
Civilization Connection
Food is a connection to our cultures and it connects us to our pasts. It brings us closer to who we are as people through food recipes and cooking techniques. along the way things have been added and things have been lost but the connection stays the same. In “Eating the Hyphen“ author Lily Wong writes about Changing cultural identity and her food experiences and eating habits being from two different cultures. In “Doberge Cake After Katrina” author Amy Cyrex Sins talks about the loss of cultural identity during a time of disaster and the public need for it through local food during the aftermath. In his essay “Reclaiming True Grits” witter Bryant Terry talks about the distortion of cultural identity of african american food called soul food.
Lily Wong is a writer who studied food and society who she studied at William College. In her essay “Eating The Hyphen” she talks about her culture and her favorite food dumplings ,and how she would eat them with ketchup (40). she feels that eating dumpling with ketchup ,holding her chopsticks wrong ,and using a fork makes her …show more content…
she talks about the hurricane that happened in New Orleans that destroyed many homes and left thousands of people displaced with no where to go. Amy Cyrex expresses in her essay that it didn’t surprise her that the people of New Orleans needed a taste of home after the destruction (45). She says “lost for ever were the family recipes that i had collected and cherished” (Sins 46). Doberge cake was one of her favorite recipes that her mother in law would make for her husband but later she was given the recipe and she carried her mother in laws tradition (47). It also represents the loss she personally felt when she lost her home in the hurricane. re-constructing the recipe meant to her reconnecting to life before the
Food is a connection to our cultures and it connects us to our pasts. It brings us closer to who we are as people through food recipes and cooking techniques. along the way things have been added and things have been lost but the connection stays the same. In “Eating the Hyphen“ author Lily Wong writes about Changing cultural identity and her food experiences and eating habits being from two different cultures. In “Doberge Cake After Katrina” author Amy Cyrex Sins talks about the loss of cultural identity during a time of disaster and the public need for it through local food during the aftermath. In his essay “Reclaiming True Grits” witter Bryant Terry talks about the distortion of cultural identity of african american food called soul food.
Lily Wong is a writer who studied food and society who she studied at William College. In her essay “Eating The Hyphen” she talks about her culture and her favorite food dumplings ,and how she would eat them with ketchup (40). she feels that eating dumpling with ketchup ,holding her chopsticks wrong ,and using a fork makes her …show more content…
she talks about the hurricane that happened in New Orleans that destroyed many homes and left thousands of people displaced with no where to go. Amy Cyrex expresses in her essay that it didn’t surprise her that the people of New Orleans needed a taste of home after the destruction (45). She says “lost for ever were the family recipes that i had collected and cherished” (Sins 46). Doberge cake was one of her favorite recipes that her mother in law would make for her husband but later she was given the recipe and she carried her mother in laws tradition (47). It also represents the loss she personally felt when she lost her home in the hurricane. re-constructing the recipe meant to her reconnecting to life before the