“Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?” (Wallace 4) This is a query posed by David Foster Wallace, an author of the renowned article ‘Considering the Lobster’ that was published by Gourmet Magazine. Wallace not only poses the question about the ethics of boiling a live animal but also points out the ethical issues to human beings who do not feel guilty when eating lobster and believe it is an inferior being. Furthermore, he conveys his own culinary experience about animals’ consciousness. He leads a debate whether lobsters can feel pain or not or whether or not they have same pain as people have. He uses vivid imagery, interesting facts and variety of ability to appeal
This essay, written for Gourmet Magazine, addresses the Maine Lobster Festival (affectionately dubbed “MLF”) and raises questions about the rituals of preparing and eating lobster, as that animal appears both at the larger-scale festival and in individual kitchens. The essay combines humor, satire, and facts creating a fun essay to read that likens an ordinary New England event to “a Roman circus or medieval torture-fest,” using research and details to examine closely the lobster dinner. While I was initially thinking about this piece in terms of the “Inquiring into Self” unit (particularly “Blowing Things Into Proportion” or “Self in Contradiction”), after a few readings I think I prefer it in the “Adding to a Conversation” unit, as an essay entering into the conversation surrounding the MLF and American food industries in an unexpected and interesting way, showing the power research can wield when used in a creative way. It would also be an excellent way to talk about addressing an audience, as Wallace is reflexive about his role in writing to readers of Gourmet, both in extensive footnoting and in the narration itself, particularly in identifying ways the piece strays from the essays typically presented in the forum. (Emma
Page 1 Tenneh Yarngo English 1010 Feburary 10, 2013 The world of sea (Red Lobster) Red lobster is a wonderful restaurant to eat at because of their wonderful teasing sea food, welcoming environment and well-behaved crew members. Whenever you go to red lobster the smell of their food makes your month watery
“Consider the Lobster” Summary and Response Essay 08/26/2013 David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster” examines the pain that Lobsters feel when they are being boiled alive to be consumed by Humans. He uses the lobster as an example to expand his examination, bringing out the relationship between humans and the animals that we consume. Wallace starts of his essay by mentioning the Maine Lobster Festival and its huge crowd of over 80,000 people that consume over 25,000 pounds of lobster during the 5 days that the festival lasts. He starts off the essay with admiration in his tone as he describes the Maine Lobster Festival to his readers. After he’s done praising the festival, Wallace reveals that his main intention of writing the essay was to question if killing animals is morally acceptable.
The lobster feast they would have every time was the highlight of the trip. John would go down to the ocean with a large pot and fill it with sea water. The two would then set to cooking putting the lobsters into the boiling sea water and waiting. When he was young John would place his hand on top of Margaret’s as she held down the lid. But now due to her age the roles have reversed and she would place her hand on top of his (Crapanzano 48).
The chef with the higher score is declared the winner. (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Iron Chef America) Another competitive food show is Top Chef. Each episode of Top Chef has two challenges. They start off with a Quickfire Challenge. In this challenge, each chef has to cook a dish with certain requirements such as, using specific ingredients or to inspire a certain taste, or participate in a culinary-related challenge such as a mise en place relay or a taste test.
Death of salesman in class essay Hypnotization is a great technique used by writers as a way of keeping readers interested, as well as the complexity of the story itself; requiring readers to genuinely think about its meaning. Usually works that have a very simple story line such as in Death of a Salesman don’t get too much hype because of the lack of diversity in its composition, but this specific play succeeded in a curious way consequently entailing readers to think deeply about its value. On the other hand, hypnotizing as a skill is clearly shown in Big Fish in which readers are mesmerized by the ongoing different situations that are suspicious making the story line questionable in many areas about what is told is true or not. Big fish demonstrates how families have their different behaviors and ways of communication, in this story a character is known for always telling stories to other family members, but some stories are completely made up. The intriguing aspect about the movie is that people never know if Willy (father) is telling the truth or not.
Shrimp Sauce “Bizarre Food” is a TV show about gross, unique, bizarre regional cuisine from around the world. In that show, Andrew Zimmern, the bald and hilarious guy, travels to many countries, searches for strange kinds of local food, typically shows how the food is procured, where it is served and, usually without hesitation, eats it. He ate fresh meat, snakes, ants, scorpions, maggots…. He came to my country Vietnam and ate snails with fish sauce in that episode of the show. I was amazed by his braveness in taste but I thought our traditional food still had more challenges for him with one of the most popular kinds of sauce.
Most people barbeque chicken, hotdogs, hamburgers, ribs, and much more, but everyone has king cakes which are only in Louisiana. The smell of the people barbequing is marvelous. Everyone has an abundance of food; therefore no one goes hungry and maybe have enough for leftovers the next day. After everything is over; the floats and eating, people pack their chairs, towels, bags of beads, barbeque pits and head on home after an exhaustive day. When they get home they take the beads out the bags and keep the ones they like and throw the rest in the bag, and the little kids look through the bags to find toys that they can play with.
11 December 2014 Drowning in the Discourse Julie Wildhaber says that “A strong, well-defined voice is the bridge between you and your audience: It helps your readers understand who you are, and it helps you engage them” (Wildhaber). For students in college, their audience will always be their professor. Along with expecting a strong voice, professors expect students, even first year students, to master and employ the many other writing skills that make up academic discourse. Most students tend to prioritize the more technical conventions of writing over the development of a distinguished and personalized voice. The conventions of college writing are very complex and if professors are more helpful and patient with first year students as they learn academic discourse, students will be better prepared for all future academic endeavors and they will have a better opportunity to strengthen and develop their voice.