week 7

This is an update to bring scientific eating to the modern day. Some interesting stuff on how the way we see nutrition has chanced in the US.
Biltekoff: intro
Biltekoff: Ch 5
Biltekoff: Cha6 

Thursday we switched gears to social justice and food.
Farmworker food insecurity
Asian immigrants in California's agriculture. 

The following questions are for assessment 2: Due Tuesday, May 22nd at 11:59pm



For three out of four of the following prompts, write a 350-450 word response. If you answer more than three, only the first three will be graded. Graduate students need to answer all four. You will be graded on structure, coherency, spelling, grammar, how ideas relate to readings, using in-text citations, and properly citing sources at the end. Submit all questions in the same file and place all citations for both essays after the second essay. You do not need to start a new page for citations, just place them at the end of the text. Please make sure your name is in the document, and submit the single document on canvas by Tuesday, May 2nd, at 11:59pm.

For each question, include discussions from readings, class, and where appropriate, current events.
1.       What is scientific eating? Discuss some of the roots of this approach to food, including the implications on how ideas of nutrition and food have changed over the past century.
2.       What are examples of ‘perfect foods’? How do these foods get framed as perfect? What problems do they purpose to solve? Why do you think that foods get singled out like this?
3.        How have morality and nutrition become tied together?  What are the contradictions, and how did they form, in national policy and personal responsibility that now define healthy eating?
4.       What is ‘American Cuisine,’ according to Bausch? How does he argue that this characteristic is distinctly American? What is your reaction to this? Do you agree or not? Why?

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