Analysis Of Relish: My Life In The Kitchen By Lucy Knisley

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Have you ever smelled a freshly baked pizza? The smell of the pepperoni and the spices that steamed up the windows of the kitchen , the cheese melting under the tray and once you bite the crunchy crust you can taste the warm cheese and the hot pepperoni that makes your mouth water just by seeing and tasting the freshly baked pizza. In the book Relish: My Life in The Kitchen by Lucy Knisley, she uses a memoir of her own life to tell her story with vivid colors and a unique way of seeing food. When she talks about the different foods she explains it in the most unique way using vivid colors and and saying that food has an emotional attachment to it. She grew up in a family where her dad was a chef and her mom was a baker by her parents she opened up a new way of seeing food a much more creative way. At a young age, she created a way for herself to remember what food she ate a specific event and moment and that was through comic books. She started off as a hobby and it overcame her and she used comics to tell her story of her life, but through food related. In the book Relish, food is being used as a symbol to describe the connection between food and memories through the recipes and the five senses stories of the main character. Through her detailed and very colorful drawings of foods the author …show more content…
In McCloud comic he used a manual to explain why comics are useful and why they should be declared as a new language. Relish is the opposite of what McCloud did with his story, Lucy put a lot of color into each page and made it fun to read and was very detailed with each recipe she would put in the comic, so that it would make sense towards what she was trying to get across

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