One day, we got into a terrible argument when she asked me to call the bank, to question a discrepancy she had discovered in the monthly statement. I asked her why she couldn’t call herself. I was stupid and brutal, and I knew exactly how to wound her.
We can see here how the person is able to reflect on themselves and see how they handled things in the moment. But that is kind of wild the way they talked to there mother like that.
hen my mother began using the electronic pump that fed her liquids and medication, we moved her to the family room.
`This is an interesting way to start an article off because right off the bat, there is suspense. From the first two sentences, i would not have thought that this article would move toward the food side.
how his Korean mother kept his family loved and afloat with food. He details the salted stew meats, the scallion-and-hot-pepper pancakes; the radish kimchi which would take over a room with its odor.
I personally think when writers are able to paint a picture in the readers head instead of giving a vague description, it makes it easier for the reader to understand what the writer is talking about. Giving the reader chances to make personal connections .
But they always do. We look at their guided free-writes together and highlight patterns of connected words or moments of sharp, conceptual thinking. Sometimes it’s an “ah-ha” moment; a small revelation.
Sometimes us as writers we tend to overthink what we are going to write about, and come to the conclusion that we dont have nothing to write. In reality, we just need to put some words on the paper, and the ideas will start flowing.
Last month, I again found myself in tears chopping onions and chard for sumagiyya, but this time I was making it to honor Um Hani’s memory.
When my grandfather passed away, my family went back to Mexico and similar to this we made a dish that is important to our families identity, as almost an honor to my grandfather. Same to the author of this article, it almost felt liberating and affirming.
In Gaza, sumagiyya is synonymous with weddings, family gatherings, and Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and its 30-day fast.
Even through very hard times, Laila shares that her grandmother uses recipes and cooking to get through hard times. Sometimes a dish isn't just food, but it could be sense of comfortability, joy, and reunion. Looking back at the recipes that are passed down can be very important to a persons identity.
Then, in the early 2000s, Americans took barbecue further, into the realm of fetish, an obsession for tinkerers equipped with the latest technology in home grills, who descend on barbecue competitions armed with pistol-grip injectors
Countries like America are able to modernize the styles of foods from other countries and make them into competitions and other society pleasing things, meanwhile the people back home are eating these foods to survive. This shows you how big of an impact a higher level country can have on cultures around the world.
dishes eked from scraps; tough cuts of meat; seafood too abundant to be of value to those who treasure rarity; wild roots scraped out of the earth with hardened hands — have gradually been co-opted by the upper classes, sometimes to the point that they’re no longer accessible to the people who once relied on them.
the food that the poor would eat has become a common meal for the upper class, so much so that due to high demand from higher paying individuals, has made an impact on the pricing, an impact that now has made this food once easily accessible to the poor, now one that they can no longer afford.