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Homework answers / question archive / assignment for this week is the following: The guidelines for your Spiritual, Gastronomical, or Travel Essay Crafting the Personal Essay, Chapters 13 and 18 Stella Parks, "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Links to an external site
assignment for this week is the following:
General posting guidelines this week: Please post a Primary Post in response to the discussion topic(s) below; as well as a thoughtful Reply to another person's post. You may write your primary post and reply in either order. One post is due by Thursday, and one is due by Sunday. Each post is worth 10 points, for a total of 20 points.
To ensure a cordial style, please remember to greet your classmates and sign your name in your posts.
In Chapter 13, "Writing the Gastronomical Essay," Dinty W. Moore writes, "Food is not just sustenance, then, it is a mood changer, an essential component of marking key events in our lives" (154, my emphasis). And in Chapter 18, "The Travel Essay," Moore urges, "When traveling, try to see what is really there, not what past travel articles [ . . . ] tell you will be there" (195, my emphasis).
Please choose one of the two essays we read this week--Stella Parks' "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother's Kitchen" (Links to an external site.) or Katie Simpson's "How to Describe San Francisco to Strangers" (Links to an external site.)--to focus on. Please select an idea or concept about gastronomical or travel writing that you gleaned from either Chapter 13 or Chapter 18. (The ideas in bold type above are examples of ideas you could choose; but you are not limited to these.) Please show how Stella Parks or Katie Simpson uses, modifies, or even discards (?) this idea in her essay.
Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Crafting the Personal Essay, or to Parks' or Simpson's essays, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.
After reading Your Spiritual, Gastronomical, or Travel Essay: Guidelines, please write descriptively about your developing plans for your spiritual, gastronomical, or travel essay.
Specifically, please do these things:
Citing your source(s): If you refer specifically in your post to Moore's book, or any other published writing, please cite your source(s). Please refer to the guidelines in Format for Citing Sources in Your Writings.
In Crafting the Personal Essay, specifically chapter thirteen, Moore talks about how, "as adults, food often remains central" in our lives as well as our memories, "as a way to rejoice or console" (Moore 154). He notes that food can be "a mood changer, an essential component of marking key events in our lives" (Moore 154). In Stella Parks essay "A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering my Grandmother's Kitchen", she fondly remembers her time spent with her grandmother whenever they would visit. Her grandmother "didn't care what [they] ate" during their visit, so long as they "all had what [they] liked" that they could find (Parks, 2018). Parks manages to describe a lot of what she remembers in pretty vivid detail, from the "hiss of waffle batter hitting the iron" to "the crinkle and squish of marshmallows still in the bag" (Parks 2018). Parks focuses a lot on sounds and sight, keeping somewhat in line with how a good gastronomical essay is structured; "aroma, texture, taste, and color" are significant, but Parks, even though she only focuses on a few of these things (like the color of her grandmother's kitchen), manages to craft a vivid picture of the audience to see themselves (Moore, 155).
For my spiritual essay, I am thinking of basing my essay along the lines of this prompt:
"If you knew for sure that there was no Heaven or Hell, would you act differently in your life?" (Moore 136)
I think this would be interesting to explore not just pertaining to myself, but referring to the rest of the world as well. I can start off by mainly focusing on how I feel about this prompt, such as talking about my views on religion or how I carry myself in day-to-day (or how I would otherwise do this, when I refer back to the prompt). However, in the latter half of my essay, I could analyze how different the concepts of Heaven and Hell are from religion to religion (and person to person), as well as delving into the hypocrisy that is seen frequently throughout the history of the world. I could easily tie this broader analysis back to where I stand on the issue, since while I would act one way, my actions give no indication on how everyone else would behave, should this prompt be true.
