Back to the Start

I meant to post this yesterday as well and forgot.

 I. Love. This.

And I love that it commits Chipotle to working to make this happen as they have now put there name on it. I hope you enjoy it:

A few more things about food...

I made reference to this image in passing today and so I wanted to add it to the blog:

Also, here is Julia Child cooking, in case you have never seen her, as well as Meryl Streep's portrayal of her in Julie & Julia:

Also, you might be interested to know that the model we talked about in class works in restaurants too. A very successful and very tasty one, Founding Farmers, is in Foggy Bottom.

Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat | Video on TED.com

In light of your reading and our class discussion tomorrow, this TED talk is interesting. I'll likely be referring to it in class throughout our discussion tomorrow.

Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat | Video on TED.com

Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch

Monday- (after class)

Orange Juice-USA and Brazil

Pb and J Sandwich-

Peanut butter-Ohio

Jelly-Ohio

Bread-Connecticut

Fruity Pebbles-

Milk-Pennsylvania

Fruity Pebbles-Missouri

Kraft Cheddar Cheese-Illinois

Ritz Crackers-Illinois

Tuesday-

Yoplait Yogurt-Missouri

Crunchy Chicken Wrap from Unos- I don’t know

Pb and J Sandwich-

Peanut Butter-Ohio

Jelly-Ohio

Bread-Connecticut

Milk-

(What I have got to eat for dinner):

Baby carrots- Delaware

Turkey Sandwich-

Turkey-West Virginia

Bread-Connecticut

Cheddar Cheese-Illinois

Wednesday-( What I Will have for Breakfast):

Yoplait Yogurt-Missouri

Nature Valley Honey n’ Oats Granola Bar-South East Asia

After reading Pollan‘s article it made me really wonder why no one makes their food anymore. It is kind of scary to think that we really have no idea what ingredients we are eating and where they have been. If we cooked for ourselves then we would know. My list of food places wouldn’t be scattered across the globe. Cooking from scratch could be a very healthy way to eat. It also scares me that the ingredients of food in restaurants like Unos are almost impossible to find out. Although I am not able to cook due to lack of a kitchen, I’m not sure I would if I could. I can’t imagine cooking every meal for myself like people used to have to do. I wonder why this has happened. Food used to be a huge part of culture in Italy, Rome, China, and Mexico. Now we can go buy any type of food we want and be eating it within twenty minutes. Buying our food has become our culture. Is it because it is easy to make food in bulk? Are we just too busy to cook ourselves food three times a day? Have we let huge companies take over the food industry and our culture?

An open smile on a friendly shore!

Hi everyone...

nice work in the library yesterday. To reiterate the point of our exercise: we used the blog entry on Wall-E as a jumping off point for a brainstorming exercise as an organizational tactic for the film analysis assignment. Hopefully, it gave you a clearer picture of how the film element you chose sheds light (no pun intended... but maybe...) on the social issue and environmental factors of your movie. You should be in a good place for your first draft, which is due on Friday.

I'm posting two things here... the first: this is the theme song to the Love Boat, which I referenced in class yesterday. If I were to write a paper about Wall-E, I would talk about how the creators totally referenced this tv show to create the spaceship environment.



The second item I'm sharing is a photo my band mate shared with me, after I posted this video to facebook:

So What?

I know that today's class was a little bit frustrating so I wanted to take a moment to explain a bit more about "so what?" The idea that I was trying to drive home today is that I wanted to push you to keep asking that question until you really can't anymore, until you have pushed that question as far as it will go about whatever idea you are exploring. As you are thinking about your own essays and the ideas that they contain, trying asking "so what?" incessantly as a prewriting and planning technique; then work to include the relevant answers to that question in your essay. This will both help you with development and with sorting through your ideas. Thanks for sticking with it today.

Wall-E

Jon was having problems posting, so here is his comment:

In the 935 class we talked about choosing a social issue and how it relates to its environment in the context of a film as the basis of our next paper. Professor Berry told us to practice this on Wall-e and the conclusion i came to was: That Wall-e is a film in which the writer (i don't know his name) speaks about the social issue of obesity, especially through the lens of dialogue. That is probably what my rough thesis statement would be... i am wondering what other people thought when put to the same task.

On a completely separate note did anyone watch this movie and just flashback to their childhood. I turned off all the lights in my dorm and watched with a bag of mini doughnuts and just totally freaked out. It's funny because i loved it when i first saw it and i still really like it but i saw some flaws in the plot line. anyway this has been the best homework of the year so far.