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What standards must be met to label something as art in regards to food and art based on food? Food is only artful if it evokes emotion. That’s what art does. As so much of our national identity is expressed through rituals, the creation or consumption of specific...
"Taste is subjective." You’d think that this is common knowledge, but it often feels like it isn’t. You have no idea how many times I've been told how odd it is that I don’t like lamb, vinegar or booze – it’s not weird, we’re all just different. “Tastebud prejudice”...
I was bugged during Week 7’s session on The Great Learning by the translation of the Chinese character 善 used by Melissa in her presentation. Melissa translated the term to ‘goodness’, which a quick google search reveals, is quite a commonplace translation for the...
The horror of a phallic radish. Screenshot taken from link below. [1. BBC Studios. A Drunken Roar – Blackadder – BBC. From Youtube. Video, 2:55. Posted by BBC studios, July 13, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcnxsDOxcOA. If you wish to watch the link, the...
"Camona Banana Boat" (fig 1) SILIGA DAVID SETOGA - TAUTAI - GUIDING PACIFIC ARTS. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.tautai.org/artist/siliga-david-setoga/ I have been exposed to numerous “deeper meanings” of food throughout this Plate which has both surprised...
I had lunch with a friend of mine this week, who is back from a year in the USA. In discussing our different experiences over the past year, she highlighted the 'work hard, play hard' culture that's prominent in many American Colleges, including hers. The same...
As a lover of food, reading Simon Wilson and Madeline Chapmans contrasting food review genuinely intrigued me with their perspectives in comparison to my own. I don’t know about you but I am the type of person who always tries something different when dining at...
Kasey Allely's discussion on her personal research adventure was extremely refreshing and surprisingly one of my favourites from the semester. Her adventure developed from a single question: Are shell mounds evidence of intensification during the Holocene? She...
With a focus on the history of communication, I found it ironic that Ethan R. Plaut’s Week 2 presentation failed to clearly communicate the purpose of such a vast chronicle. Plaut began by alluding to the scattered relationship of the content explored by...
Today I have eaten a peanut butter Clif Bar, hot chips, leftover risotto that was borderline food safe, a one dollar lolly bag, four mandarins and fresh Vietnamese spring rolls from the Ponsonby Food Court. I feel great. This is a pretty average day when I'm going...
Since the visit from our new friends Simon Wilson and Madeline Chapman last week, I’ve had this itch to write a food review. A shared theme I noticed across both Simon and Madeline’s reviews of both The Grove and KFC was ‘experience’. Both critics expected different...
What does a healthy relationship with food look like? Most people today are constantly bombarded with ideas around the perfect diet or lifestyle, and trying to achieve the perfect body. There is a growing trends towards obtaining ‘perfection’. However, in reality,...