Taste of Memory.

WRIT1133-27 WMF12:00

Prof. Eric Leake

Mar.29^th 2012

368 Words

       The Essays Eating White by Nicholson and My Journey Back to Korean Food by Ahn are both passage with moving emotion recalls a period of time by describing a kind of food. In Nicholson’s article, the author shows her missing of her mother as ate a “white breakfast” which is cheese sandwich and cold milk. Nicholson’s mother persisted in eating white in her life time. “Eating White” includes white cheese, milk, chicken and potato etc. Because her mother found white food reliable and since her mother is a Catholic she thought eating white shows purified mind. At the same time her mother experienced the Second World War; “white food” was the mainstream of eating that time, so she kept the habit. After her mother passed away, the author stars to “eating white” herself in memory of her mother. Ahn’s story is about his dead parents and his own culture. Ahn’s family moved to California, USA when Ahn was a kid, in the shadow of American culture influence, Ahn did not like to eat Korean food in his childhood and teenage time. At that time, his parents got two refrigerators at home, one is for Korean food and the other is for American food. Couple of years later, the author himself got wife and kids, they wanted to get reconnect to their Korean culture and they place Korean food and American food both in their fridge. These two articles has a common point which is the authors used do not that into the food they describe; they start to eat them for recalling memories and getting reconnect to their culture. What they want to express is far more than food itself, they shows touching emotions.

       That recalls me about food with emotions. We are minority in China called Daurs. We have a kind of vegetable called “Kumielie” in our home town. After my family moved to Hohhot, there was nowhere to buy this kind of bitter-taste vegetable. We started to drive for a long time to pick Kumielie far away from Hohhot every single year in the spring. It recalls our memories of hometown by eating that kind of food.