1. What is your favorite type of food? Why? (include the recipe)
2. Where is your favorite place to eat? Why?
3. What experience makes this dish special? Explain in detail.
4. Would you say this is a family or cultural rite or ritual?
5. Has food ever transformed your experience from the ordinary to the extraordinary? Explain what happened for you.
6. From your explanations about your favorite food and favorite place to eat, what values or beliefs are reflected in your statements?
7. According to Telfer, food is a minor art, do you think the culinary world is a major art form today? Do you think the art world should accept culinary art as a creative art?
8. How does Telfer define aesthetic in the simplest way?
9. After watching the videos, how does cooking, eating and the cultivation of food change our cultural ideals about food?
10. Is the Slow Food movement transforming the way we live and the values we hold about food? Describe comparing and contrasting the videos and Telfer's reading from this week.
Review the food video web sites below and respond to these questions for 1-2 sentences.
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AEmUoTEgVV8
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XuI81vEfUiw