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Kaya Jeffries
Ms. Otis
UWRT 1102-024
11 December 2014
Response Paper #2
Enrique Salmons excerpt is easy to read because he uses more personal experiences to
describe how food affects his particular culture. This kind of tactile knowledge contributed to
my overall library of food-related knowledge. Strangely, I would not be able to identify the
source of most of my food understanding from my childhood. I just simply knew it. (Salmon)
He attributes his familys relationship with food to his own collective knowledge of how the
world works. Salmon says that his family did teach him a lot about food that was specific to their
culture, but because their community was so involved with the food it was more like common
knowledge. He uses his specific views on food to defend his belief that eating is a political and
cultural act. By painting a sentimental picture of how important locally grown food is to his
culture Salmon begins to discuss the dangers of monocropping and genetically modifying our
foods. (Salmon)
E.M. Anderson writes more about the social aspects of food in many cultures. Anderson
explains how food influences different cultures and how that affects social norms. (Anderson)
Every culture has some sort of association with food that is either socially acceptable or
expected. He discusses some of those social food norms in various cultures.

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Works Cited
Anderson, E.M. "Me, Myself and Others." Anderson, E.M. n.d. Web.
Salmon, Enrique. "In My Grandmother's Kitchen." Salmon, Enrique. Eating the Landscape.
2012. Web.