Dinner

In a first generation American household, originally from Italy, family dinner is more than a custom. It is a lifestyle. At six o’clock, every night, dinner is placed on the table, the children descend from upstairs, and are expected to sit down, and enjoy dinner all together. When food was not tasted, no matter how healthy it was, or exotic it sounded, a child could not excuse themselves from the table. The motto was, “Don’t knock it before you try it.” This open mindedness stems from the food culture present in a family oriented household. Dinner is a time to rest from a hard, long day, The best family relationships are formed in the kitchen. The table is a symbol for meeting, conversing, and of course eating. When seated at the table, conversations…

women prior to the advancement of feminism, as previous to this, women were marginalized and rarely recognized as capable of achievements beyond childbirth and housework. As Virginia Woolf explained, anonymous “was often a woman.” Although, some anonymity may be relaxing, the thought of total anonymity is undesirable by any human being. The first flickers of feminism started in 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York at a two-day conference on woman’s rights. Of the almost 200 women and 40 men that…

A Day in the Life of a Buddhist Monk in Korea, This girl wrote an article how she went a day with the Buddhist at the Beomeosa Temple in Busan, South Korea. When she got there around 1 pm with other foreigners, all of them immediately changed into their monk clothes. Consisted of a vest and baggy sweats designed specially for sitting “Indian style” when they will do meditation time. Had to learn few “temple manners,” like proper way to bow, whom to bow to, where to bow, how many times to bow,…

Traditional Meals During the late 90’s, my mother, Leigh Ann Robinson always made sure we had family dinner together around 7’oclock every night. This was our family tradition because we enjoyed each other company and talking about our day. That all changed in the early 2000’s when technology came into play. Our family began to spend more time in front of the T.V. and on our phones instead of eating dinner with each other. Our family tradition lost our means of communication because of all the…

white females. Everyone around us stared. The only thing on the agenda for today was to take a bus tour of the city and eat dinner together. The city was beautiful. There were large buildings with architecture that mimicked the Catholic Church. The cars were so small, they could be mistaken for a toy hot wheels car in America. The lanes on the road were tiny also. Just like in America, the closer you we got to the city the less green wee saw. In the suburban areas there were parks for kids and…

Emaline asked her mom if that was true and she said to Emaline to stay away from him (pg.42). So for the rest of the evening Emaline sat in an old chair outside and watched the crazy man seed the fields; he had orange long hair that shined in the sunlight. They didn’t know his name. When dinner came, the crazy man sat on the back steps eating off of one of their plates. Emaline was scared to go close to him to get up the back steps and walk passed him to get into the house to eat, but it was the…

the pool. When my parents got back we met back up on the roof where we ate lunch and decided what we wanted to do for the rest of the day. Then my dad took my friend and I to a cool cave where went down over a hundred stairs to see the ocean from a cave, then we climbed all the way back up. After that we went on a miniature hike up a very pretty mountain/hill with a lot of flowers and a gorgeous view of the great blue ocean. Then we drove to another beach where we were able to swim and tan. But…

Dinner was the main meal at around 10 or 11 in the morning, which would now probably be considered lunchtime. Supper was a smaller meal at 4 or 5, which would now be called dinner. Dinner was split up into “courses”, with different types of food in each course (Albala). The first course was akin to appetizers in modern day. The second course had larger dishes. The third course had more unconventional meats and fish. Sweets and wine would be served after the meal in middle-class houses to aid in…

And I’m not just talking waistlines, though we’d miss those. I’m discussing dinnertime, the cornerstone of our family’s mental health. (Kingsolver, 125) The author is showing that the importance of a family dinner and how important it is. She also uses humor as a way to take pressure off of the audience. This combination of humor and correlating herself with the audience makes the author’s argument very persuasive by creating an informal and easy-going tone that doesn’t intimidate the audience.…

all together, it was more of a make the food yourself type of situation. The same goes for when you are done, just get up and get ready for the day. My mother made her own food and poured my little brother's cereal, while I was in charge of preparing my own food. Unfortunately, I had to wash the dishes after breakfast, which is what I normally do since my mother is rushing to get to work. Everyone did watch television while eating breakfast, and I texted on my phone often while eating. My…