You are what you eat and through our diet regimes, we take on new identities that we create for ourselves. In this essay I will demonstrate how our eating routines construct our identity through three concepts prevalent in Carol Delany’s book, Investigating Culture which include: we are what we eat, what makes a meal and of meat and men. These three concepts are ideal perception of how people construct their self.
By choosing to consume certain products we begin the build a self-identity. Within the twenty-first century, the media portrays the idea of eating healthy to the public. It often displays perfect figured men and women advertising certain foods or dietary trends claiming that if you eat them, you too can resemble the perfect figure …show more content…
Sadly, during this time, this has become a rare occasion due to the fact that my family lives a very fast pace life and are constantly on the move we only have the opportunity to have a meal together on Sunday mornings. Both my brother and I partake in competitive sports and have part time jobs which results in the family never being together. Throughout the week we would go into the fridge to grab and make food for ourselves. And, everyone in my family does this when the individual becomes hungry. Delaney mentions, “French people find the American custom of inviting new acquaintances home to dinner very odd.” (Delaney 2011:259) This idea relates to me completely; coming from a Russian background, we find it very odd inviting strangers to our house thus not constituting a meal for us. Furthermore, as time passed we adopted a ritual and another location to have a meal. On special occasions such as celebration or birthdays we always go out to The Keg and have a meal there as a family. We chose this social space because of the friendly, warm and comfortable atmosphere created by the environment. A meal is not restricted just to my household but it can be enjoyed anywhere that I would be surrounded by my
By choosing to consume certain products we begin the build a self-identity. Within the twenty-first century, the media portrays the idea of eating healthy to the public. It often displays perfect figured men and women advertising certain foods or dietary trends claiming that if you eat them, you too can resemble the perfect figure …show more content…
Sadly, during this time, this has become a rare occasion due to the fact that my family lives a very fast pace life and are constantly on the move we only have the opportunity to have a meal together on Sunday mornings. Both my brother and I partake in competitive sports and have part time jobs which results in the family never being together. Throughout the week we would go into the fridge to grab and make food for ourselves. And, everyone in my family does this when the individual becomes hungry. Delaney mentions, “French people find the American custom of inviting new acquaintances home to dinner very odd.” (Delaney 2011:259) This idea relates to me completely; coming from a Russian background, we find it very odd inviting strangers to our house thus not constituting a meal for us. Furthermore, as time passed we adopted a ritual and another location to have a meal. On special occasions such as celebration or birthdays we always go out to The Keg and have a meal there as a family. We chose this social space because of the friendly, warm and comfortable atmosphere created by the environment. A meal is not restricted just to my household but it can be enjoyed anywhere that I would be surrounded by my