Having read the articles “Eating White”
written by Geoff Nicholson and “Home Run: My Journey Back to Korean Food”
written by Roy Ahn, I found that these 2 authors expressed their honor to their
relatives by writing something about food.
In the article “Eating White”, Nicholson
wrote that he was eating food now; it was hard to eat the food he used to eat
in England because he lived in the U.S. He thought of his mother who liked to
eat white, because when he was young, he always ate cheese sandwich made with
white Cheshire cheese on white bread and a glass of cold milk, and his mother
made all of these for him. He also mentioned that his mother was a CATHOLIC,
white food had a special meaning of a white soul to her. This might be a reason
why his mom preferred white food so much. Otherwise, the author also wrote what
his mother has cooked for his father. Through writing the characteristic that
his mother preferred to eat white, the author showed that he missed his mother
so much.
In the article “Home Run: My Journey Back
to Korean Food” written by Roy Ahn, he talked about his special feeling about
Korean food by writhing one day he and his wife were having food in a Korean
restaurant. He immigrated to the U.S when he was only 4 years old. As a Korean
American, he preferred American food to Korean food. However, his parents were
quite different from him. They felt hard to adapt the food there, and his
mother always bought food in Korean supermarket and cooked the food in Korean
ways. There were even two refrigerators in his home because his mom preferred
to put the Korean food separately. At the beginning, the author felt puzzled,
because he did not like Korean food and he could not understand his parents,
especially his mother. Now, when the author became a father, he thought his
child should know Korean food and Korean culture, because the child was a descendant
of Korean. He tired to make some Korean food and make his child know more about
Korea. In my mind, the author did these things in order to remind of his
parents and keep his Korea background.
As with Nicholson and Ahn, sometimes I also
have some special feelings coming from food, especially when I have come to the
U.S. When I am in China, I do not like to eat spring rolls because I think they
are so fatness. But now when I have chances to eat spring rolls, I feel so
felicity as if I have come back to China and stayed with my family members.
However, I know it is impossible.
