Response to 2 articles

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.