Ran Wang
WRIT1133
Prof. Leake
4/22/2012
The article "Eating at the Edge" by Hortwiz
carries out couple of interesting points about changing of people’s eating
habits today. The first point is people used to eat following a fixed schedule
regardless they were hungry or not. As Hortwiz explains, “The increased significance of grazing, not eating at fixed meal times in the same place in the company of one’s family or workmates” is one of many signs of a “de-synchronization of time-space paths" (42). So this situation has already became people's habit since people work more hard and had no time to eat.
But nowadays, people are tend to eat whenever they are hungry or whenever they could. Another one is Hortwiz states that people today are usually eat by themselves instead of eating together with families and friends as people do in several years ago. The author gives us an example of how did people having soup in the past and how do we have soup today: people in the past always sitting together with their families or friends and have soup together but people today tend to have soup by themselves for a per serve soup.
But nowadays, people are tend to eat whenever they are hungry or whenever they could. Another one is Hortwiz states that people today are usually eat by themselves instead of eating together with families and friends as people do in several years ago. The author gives us an example of how did people having soup in the past and how do we have soup today: people in the past always sitting together with their families or friends and have soup together but people today tend to have soup by themselves for a per serve soup.
This article points out couples of
valuable points about changing of eating habits today. For me, I prefer eat
with my friends but sometimes we do not have similar schedules. Because of the
course schedule I do not usually eating together or following a fixed schedule
to eat, but I really like the feeling when my families, friends and me myself
sitting together, eat and talk. It means a lot to me. Especially last winter
quarter, because it is my first time living and studying in the United States,
although it just two months I did not seen my parents. When I came back, my mom
cooks lots of delicious foods and some Beijing special cuisine. In china, it is
a best way to cook a delicious
food and sitting together, it represents the other side is think much miss you.
I like how you connect cooking with eating alone or with others. I think that is a connection that Horwitz implies but doesn't make totally clear. Cooking, which is not always convenient, is more likely to result in eating together.
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