Virginia Woolf's We Are What We Eat?

We are what we eat. The most common expression that no one seems to understand the real meaning behind it. When people think about this saying, the first thing that comes to mind is do not eat that cheeseburger because you are what you eat. If you eat not healthy food therefore you are not healthy. This idea ties into what we have learned throughout the semester, what we eat makes us up. The food that we eat not only makes us up but it tells others about our culture, religion, gender, and history of our life. Food has been part of our life since we were born, but people do not see the underlining details. The fact that food brings out our culture and tells a lot about ones culture is one of these powerful insights in food. Just like in MFK …show more content…
Like in Virginia Woolf’s, A Room of One’s Own, even though she did not fall in love with cooking until she was much older, she discovered an appreciation for food. With this appreciation she later on started cooking and by cooking these foods she started feeling more of herself and she felt like her food was an actual representation of herself. It brought out who she was as a person and the fact that not a lot of females garnered a lot of attention as writers, especially those who wrote about food. According to Woolf in her book, To the Lighthouse, food was like a stepping stone so women can gain more respect not only in writing community, but in general as well. Also in Ronald Tobin’s, Thought for Food: Literature and Gastronomy (2008), he argues that food is central to the experience of being human. Which in true because food makes up who we are as a person. Also in Teophano’s, Eat My Words (Ch., 2), she tends to tie food with how women generally present themselves. It is written by different women that each contribute to the understanding of the ways in which food is connected to identity and memory. Also because food has been accumulat3d and passed down over time it has created an impression of meanings that may be called upon to celebrate culture, to challenge overgeneralization and stereotypes, and basically just preserve ways of one’s identity and culture. Food …show more content…
It seems now people take food for granted, they just treat food as food. People do not realize that a dish or even a fruit means a lot to somebody or a group of people. There is more to it than just the satisfactory aspect of food, but the fact that food has played a huge part in some people’s history. As seen in Mark Grant’s, Galen “On Food and Diet”, throughout history food was used more than just as a pleasure, but as well for medical reasons too. He talks about how the powers of food can help relive diseases and just makes an individual feel cleaner. From personal experience to me food was just one dimensional I was eating food just because I wanted to or because I really like it. Little did I know that food can be used for many other things, it made me realize that it can help me with weight problems and all I had to do was just eat the right foods. According to Mark Grant in, “On the Humours”, he talks about how the use of proper foods can coexist with the humours, which help balance the blood and bile in us. Comes to show that food throughout history has been used for medical reasons. To help alleviate pain and diseases to make people’s lives easier. Not only did food have a big part in the medical compartment, but as well in helping different civilizations grow and prosper. From the first man on earth and until the last, food will always take up a big part in history. The discovery