The Edible South Paper vs We Didn’t Start the Fire
In the book The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris, she explains a story about Southern foods including the hardship of Whites, African Americans and Native Americans. She splits the book into three parts, Part I explains the food history, Part II examines the New South’s diet and lives and lastly Part III highlights food in the civil movement. Ferris believes there is two kinds of people that are affected in the South being landowner’s wealthy merchants during colonial times and the meager scrapings of their slaves or tenant farmers. We can see from history that food shapes not only who people are but how certain communities are running and ran. Even today’s society, money or economic status plays a crucial role in people’s views on the food industry. Food can shape people’s identities whether it is demographically, economically etc. Another way to view how history was shaped by food was considering the song We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel. Here he goes through headlines from his life growing up; 1940’s till the 1990’s. Both pieces of work …show more content…
Ferris’s novel touches on three various aspects, Part I explains the food history, Part II examines the New South’s diet and lives and lastly Part III highlights food in the civil movement. Where Billy Joel’ song speaks from main events taken place while he was growing up that shaped who he was and the time period around him. The food aspect comes into play when Ferris brings up hoe the economic side of people is a main factor in why the Southern in this time were so dependent on food. From whites being wealthy and having power made them seek food as something that is always given where as African Americans had to work long days and hours to get some sort of
In the book The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris, she explains a story about Southern foods including the hardship of Whites, African Americans and Native Americans. She splits the book into three parts, Part I explains the food history, Part II examines the New South’s diet and lives and lastly Part III highlights food in the civil movement. Ferris believes there is two kinds of people that are affected in the South being landowner’s wealthy merchants during colonial times and the meager scrapings of their slaves or tenant farmers. We can see from history that food shapes not only who people are but how certain communities are running and ran. Even today’s society, money or economic status plays a crucial role in people’s views on the food industry. Food can shape people’s identities whether it is demographically, economically etc. Another way to view how history was shaped by food was considering the song We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel. Here he goes through headlines from his life growing up; 1940’s till the 1990’s. Both pieces of work …show more content…
Ferris’s novel touches on three various aspects, Part I explains the food history, Part II examines the New South’s diet and lives and lastly Part III highlights food in the civil movement. Where Billy Joel’ song speaks from main events taken place while he was growing up that shaped who he was and the time period around him. The food aspect comes into play when Ferris brings up hoe the economic side of people is a main factor in why the Southern in this time were so dependent on food. From whites being wealthy and having power made them seek food as something that is always given where as African Americans had to work long days and hours to get some sort of