The sound of sizzling meat, steaming vegetables, and family laughing while anxiously waiting for an intense dinner as the sun brightens the kitchen was one of Christy Jordan's favorite ways to spend a meal as she explains in Southern Plate. Christy Jordan’s cookbook Southern Plate presents Jordan’s most loved “no-fuss southern favorites” such as Chicken and dumplings, homemade banana pudding and daddy’s rise-and-shine biscuits. The thesis that Jordan tries to get across is that southern homemade food significantly in her opinion is the best type of food and that no other person or restaurants cooking would ever be as good as her families. My intention in this paper is to discuss the APATSARC elements and argue what the author’s main argument is.
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To begin with, the author’s formatting of the essay is different from most other cookbooks. She effectively tells a short story about which family member cooks the dish the best and how everyone reacts when they eat that dish before the recipe is given which makes the reader know the background of why the author loves the plate. Most other cookbooks go straight to the recipe without stating stories on why the dish is special to them. Jordan defers. For example, before listing the recipes for the dishpan cookies, she said “Mama kept the cookies coming because she didn’t want us to do without treats when we couldn’t afford store-bought ones. If you ask me, folks eating store-bought cookies weren’t getting nearly the treat we were” (Jordan 68). This statement makes the reader realize that is why it is special to the author. To continue with the APATSARC elements, Jordan’s intended audience seems to be anybody interested and loves homemade southern foods. She succeeds reaching the audience because with her stories before giving the recipe, it proves why it is a good food to cook for family
To begin with, the author’s formatting of the essay is different from most other cookbooks. She effectively tells a short story about which family member cooks the dish the best and how everyone reacts when they eat that dish before the recipe is given which makes the reader know the background of why the author loves the plate. Most other cookbooks go straight to the recipe without stating stories on why the dish is special to them. Jordan defers. For example, before listing the recipes for the dishpan cookies, she said “Mama kept the cookies coming because she didn’t want us to do without treats when we couldn’t afford store-bought ones. If you ask me, folks eating store-bought cookies weren’t getting nearly the treat we were” (Jordan 68). This statement makes the reader realize that is why it is special to the author. To continue with the APATSARC elements, Jordan’s intended audience seems to be anybody interested and loves homemade southern foods. She succeeds reaching the audience because with her stories before giving the recipe, it proves why it is a good food to cook for family