Life made up by simple thoughts; food is what, creates magical plot. As a human being, we’re dragging out all the tricks and discovered the magic in food. In food we can possibly find all the ingredients of life meant for any species on earth such as knowledge, love, culture, communication, and nation, which lead us to a magical scenario. Food has magical properties for any creature’s that gives us proper satisfaction through our entire existence. However, between food and creatures there is magical relationship because without food nobody can be alive on this earth. Food is a magical enhancement for any creatures on earth which gives us the energy, knowledge, love, and ideas to maintain our daily lives. The book, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel and Odyssey by Homer, has many of these instances of magical relationship in food.
In general, food works as magic, especially when we need knowledge and energy to generate strength physically and mentally. In The Odyssey written by Homer, many instances which is noticed that mortals are nothing without the odysseys, the gods itself, and his magic to control everything because he did not have any magical power but still he was able to do anything alone. However, in this book, Odyseous played a major role in the lives of mortals. If Odyseous hadn't had any knowledge at that time, he and his warriors would have died in the cave to Cyclopes when Cyclopes went about eating two of Odyseous men. In that case, Odyseous used his magical track with the wine which put Cyclopes into sleep. Apart from that “food and magic” is always related because it is very appealing to the senses. Odyseous incredible self belief kept him alive and indeed he made it home to his family and his kingdom in Ithaca.
In Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, “food and magic” are joined together with love. Tita’s magical emotions and love express through food when she couldn't stop crying while making a wedding cake for her sister who made the icing of the cake turned pink. However, the magic began while everyone ate the cake and started to throwing up and crying. On the other hand, when Tita cooked quail with “rose paddle sauce” which gave Tita’s sister Gertrudis a feeling of love. The food is magical and it causes others to become emotional. Just as the writer Laura Esquivel, has transferred love into her novel and Tita transferred love into her food, because this story is a way of expressing emotions, feelings and love for each other. Tita’s food is kind of magic that made people to react with Tita's emotion. “Just as a poet plays with words, Tita juggled ingredients and quantities at will, obtaining phenomenal results, and all for nothing; her best efforts were in vain” (p.69). Throughout this book, there have been many instances of magic where most of them were actually from Tita’s food. She tried to express her feelings through her food which gave magic’s whenever people ate her food. But she barely had happiness in her life.
In addition, Food has the magic to bring people closer to each other. When we smell food, we don’t really smell the food; we actually smell the magic of the food which force us to eat that particular food. We find the leverage to bring people together, using food. On any occasion, we need food to celebrate our special days. In our culture, food means a lot to us because without food all the events are meaningless. For example, in our culture, we mainly satisfy our guests with different types of food during parties or weddings. Therefore, if the foods are good that means the parties or weddings must be good as well. Another reason why we choose food is because the magic in food is very easily appreciated.
Indeed, it is very magical that we cannot survive without food because of the way its magic plays through our body and nothing else can replace food. Since, Tita and Odysseus showed the world how to track people by magic of the food; we would be able to see that more often as the time passed by. We all know what food means to us for our daily life. We begin the day with breakfast and end the day with dinner. If we are hungry we easily feel that we need to eat. Therefore, I believe food can be a magical tool in our daily life. Food can make anything possible and it can give us satisfaction through our life.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Originality of a Women
The Movie “Tortilla Soup” is mostly about a retired maxican-american chef Martin Naranjo and his increasable art in food. More or less he is a real artist of making dinner for his family. The actual story begins immediately thereafter with Martin making a traditional great afternoon dinner for his lovely three daughters Leticia, Carmen, Maribel Naranjo. Although, he is old and has lost his taste in food but never shy of making great meal for his grown up daughters. Eldest daughter Letitia, who has concealed her own romantic desire, realized something missing in her life; attractive and well organized woman Carmen is an intelligent and successful but fed up with her boyfriend; meanwhile, College student Maribel is growing up humor women but wants a steady man. However, out of all the characters in the movie I felt Carman by her original mature.
Carman originality is to give the impression of being forward who always look for opportunity with both hands. She is never shy of thinking one step further and creates her own career. She is the most beautiful of all the women in the movie. She is 21 century women where her modern lifestyle shows in her clothing and in her behavior. She is very talented lady who pleased her boyfriend and father with her won creative cooking. Her career would have been better if she had accepted her new job. At the beginning It seemed that she has a settle life with her boyfriend but all of a sudden she found that her boyfriend cheating on her. But she controls herself very well at that moment when she found her boyfriend with another woman which shows her calmness. Carman is offered a high-profile job in Barcelona, but undecided about accepting it. Indeed, at the end of the movie her father takes her to the airport for Barcelona but she returns home. Her elder sister Leticia doesn’t really like Carman much but they all have enough fun to break plate together. She is the only critic of her father food in the family.
Nevertheless, Carman dressed like a professional women but later she decide to follow in her father's footsteps and open up a restaurant of her own creative food. In many ways, the movie reflects the love of family and its food in the dramatically end in the Sunday family meals, meanwhile, Carman give us a happily end scenario in her own restaurant.
Carman originality is to give the impression of being forward who always look for opportunity with both hands. She is never shy of thinking one step further and creates her own career. She is the most beautiful of all the women in the movie. She is 21 century women where her modern lifestyle shows in her clothing and in her behavior. She is very talented lady who pleased her boyfriend and father with her won creative cooking. Her career would have been better if she had accepted her new job. At the beginning It seemed that she has a settle life with her boyfriend but all of a sudden she found that her boyfriend cheating on her. But she controls herself very well at that moment when she found her boyfriend with another woman which shows her calmness. Carman is offered a high-profile job in Barcelona, but undecided about accepting it. Indeed, at the end of the movie her father takes her to the airport for Barcelona but she returns home. Her elder sister Leticia doesn’t really like Carman much but they all have enough fun to break plate together. She is the only critic of her father food in the family.
Nevertheless, Carman dressed like a professional women but later she decide to follow in her father's footsteps and open up a restaurant of her own creative food. In many ways, the movie reflects the love of family and its food in the dramatically end in the Sunday family meals, meanwhile, Carman give us a happily end scenario in her own restaurant.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
“Food is uniquely portable magic”
As human being, we’re dragging out all the tricks and discovered the magic in food. In food we possibly could find all the ingredients of life meant for any species on earth such as knowledge, love, culture, communication, and nation, which lead us to a magical scenario. Food has magical properties for any creature’s that gives us proper satisfaction through our entire existence. However, between food and creatures there is magical relationship because without food nobody can be alive on this earth. Food is a supernatural enhancement for any creatures on earth.
In general, food works like magic specially when we need knowledge and power because food generates power into our body and mind and that’s how our brain work which is a way to gain knowledge. Because if Odyssey’s had no knowledge at that time he and his warriors would have die in the cave to Cyclopes when Cyclopes went about eating two of Odysseus men. On that case Odysseus used his magical track with the wine which put Cyclopes into sleep. Apart from that “food and magic” is always related because it is very appealing to the senses.
In Like Water for Chocolate, “food and magic” are all joined together with full of love. Tita’s magical emotions and love express through food when she was making the wedding cake for her sister and can’t stop her crying which made the icing turned pink, but the magic started to begin while everyone ate the cake and started to throwing up and crying. On the other hand, when Tita cooked quail with “rose paddle sauce” which gave Tita’s sister Gertrudis a feeling of love. The food is magical which causes others to feel emotions through food. Just as the writer Laura Esquivel has transferred love into her novel, Tita transferred love into her food, because this story is a way of expressing emotion, feeling and love. Tita’s food is of a kind of magic that’s made people to react as the Tita's emotions. Throughout this book there have been many instances of magic where most of the actually from Tita’s food.
In addition, Food has the magic to bring people closer. When we smell a food we don’t really smell the food, we actually smell the magic of the food which force us to eat the food. In food we will find the leverage to bring people together. In any occasion we need food to celebrate our special days. In our culture food means lot in any occasion because without food any event is meaningless. For example, in our culture in a party or a wedding we satisfy our guess mainly by food because if the food is good that means the party or wedding. Another reason that we choose food because the magic is that food is very easily appreciated.
Indeed, it is very magical that we cannot survive without food because the way its magic goes through our body nothing else can do it. Since, Tita and Odysseus showed the world how to track people by magic of the food; we would be able to see that more often as the time passed by. We all know what food means to us into our daily life; we begin the day with breakfast and end the day with dinner. If we are hungry we easily feel that we need to eat. Therefore, I believe food can be a magical tool into our daily life.
Reference:
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. New York: Double Day, 1989.
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2000.
In general, food works like magic specially when we need knowledge and power because food generates power into our body and mind and that’s how our brain work which is a way to gain knowledge. Because if Odyssey’s had no knowledge at that time he and his warriors would have die in the cave to Cyclopes when Cyclopes went about eating two of Odysseus men. On that case Odysseus used his magical track with the wine which put Cyclopes into sleep. Apart from that “food and magic” is always related because it is very appealing to the senses.
In Like Water for Chocolate, “food and magic” are all joined together with full of love. Tita’s magical emotions and love express through food when she was making the wedding cake for her sister and can’t stop her crying which made the icing turned pink, but the magic started to begin while everyone ate the cake and started to throwing up and crying. On the other hand, when Tita cooked quail with “rose paddle sauce” which gave Tita’s sister Gertrudis a feeling of love. The food is magical which causes others to feel emotions through food. Just as the writer Laura Esquivel has transferred love into her novel, Tita transferred love into her food, because this story is a way of expressing emotion, feeling and love. Tita’s food is of a kind of magic that’s made people to react as the Tita's emotions. Throughout this book there have been many instances of magic where most of the actually from Tita’s food.
In addition, Food has the magic to bring people closer. When we smell a food we don’t really smell the food, we actually smell the magic of the food which force us to eat the food. In food we will find the leverage to bring people together. In any occasion we need food to celebrate our special days. In our culture food means lot in any occasion because without food any event is meaningless. For example, in our culture in a party or a wedding we satisfy our guess mainly by food because if the food is good that means the party or wedding. Another reason that we choose food because the magic is that food is very easily appreciated.
Indeed, it is very magical that we cannot survive without food because the way its magic goes through our body nothing else can do it. Since, Tita and Odysseus showed the world how to track people by magic of the food; we would be able to see that more often as the time passed by. We all know what food means to us into our daily life; we begin the day with breakfast and end the day with dinner. If we are hungry we easily feel that we need to eat. Therefore, I believe food can be a magical tool into our daily life.
Reference:
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. New York: Double Day, 1989.
Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Stanley Lombardo. Indiana: Hackett Publishing, 2000.
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