blog post

Kaylen Kozlowski       

Professor Melissa Santos

6 April 2018

Blog Post

            This week in class we had the opportunity to watch an episode of a show from PBS about the food that people eat in a different areas of the country. The video had opened my eyes to the many different foods that people eat normally that I never thought people do eat. I have seen television characters talk about eating roadkill in shows but have never seen it first hand with real people eating it. I found it very interesting to see the differences from the areas of the United States. During the video, there was a cook off and the food that was in the competition was roadkill. For example, many people cooked with squirrel and rabbit. Being from a city, there is not many opportunities for me to see these cooking competitions with this kind of food and it had helped me develop a better understanding of how others cook and prepare food around the country. Another part of the video that stood out to me the most was when they were skinning the deer. I have never seen anyone skin an animal before and it was cool to see something that I normally wouldn’t see.

            Watching this video had also shown me an example of people knowing where their food comes from. A lot of the food we eat today are available all in all seasons. Whether the food is chemically made or organically grown, not many of us know where the food comes from or how it is made. In one of the articles that we read in class it gave McDonalds chicken nuggets as an example of how we do not know how our food is made. When tested, the chicken nuggets did not match the different types of chicken there are. Therefore, we do not know what is in them and how they made but many still eat the chicken nuggets due to the quickness and convenience they have. Fukuoka gives many examples throughout the book on the importance on knowing where our food comes from and how its grown. Many people in this day and age, do not pay attention to where or how the food is made, we focus on the convenience due to the business of the everyday life.