During the cold afternoon, under the jujube tree two little girls were standing looking at the trembled green leaves and the ripen Jujube. Little basket holding in one hand, the little girls recite the rhyme to the birds, “dear bird, dear bird give us one and take you one.” Whenever I saw Jujubes I saw the conspicuous image of myself and my younger sister reciting the verse to the birds on the tree to fell down the jujubes from the tree. However, what is the significance about writing this story about food or describing the food?
Yes, this is pretty complicated to find why people write about their food experiences or about their relation with food. People may have thousand reasons to write about food, but for me foods are some special gift that is favorable to all, and linked with everyone’s life holding and creating various stories or memories of our lives which should be brought to the light.
We celebrate the best moments of our lives with special food, and similarly, writing about food makes merry in our writings and on the readers mind through the scrumptious description of food, or our diverse relationships with food.
Sometimes the writings about food reveal the sad stories which were frozen in the corner of one’s heart, or sometimes bring out the happy pleasant time of one’s life that was not being told anytime of our lives. Even sometimes the funny stories about food may feel you shy at your present matured age, and leave you to think how gradually you have changed, or can invent your love to others.
Often the story of a little innocent baby’s days of starvation not only appears as the printed words on a paper, rather it portrays the sorrows of having no food in stomach, and compel the world to feel the sufferings of million helpless people which may oblige you to think about at least one time about the wastage of food and turn back to remove the agony of hungry people.
Moreover, foods are one of the indicators of one’s own identity or culture. Writings about food occasionally open the door to be introduced to ones culture and tradition. The words about food pulls one back to get essence of own culture, and own tradition although being apart from own land.
Besides all of these writing about food reveals human’s creativity. Foods that were only considered to be eaten, but they have been the tools of literature that enhance the beauty of literature and significance of food in various sectors of our lives. Different writings about food have indicated that this is not only to praise “Hmm…Yummy!” right after tasting it, rather these foods have many relation with our lives which contain valuable short stories.
Since food can be represented in different recipes, foods can add new dimensions in writing which can be characterized in subtle, explicit, implicit, descriptive language through various writings. Indeed, foods are being used as different colors of a butterfly’s wings in the sector of writing which can be expressed in different tone, description, symbols, or metaphor in a piece of writing.
Food Matters: Gastronomy In Culture 