“Reading as a Writer Response” #4: Reflection on Your Food and Identity in Connection to Fukuoka’s “Living by Bread Alone”
Compose a 2 page response. In this response, focus on exploring your relationship with food by reflecting on the relationship between your food preferences and your identity.
In your response, answer these questions:
- Do your food choices express something about your identity or aspects of it? Why or why not?
- Do certain foods remind you of particular childhood experiences or family gatherings? Why? What does this mean to you?
- According to Fukuoka, what do the foods we eat say about our spiritual values? In what ways might eating be called a spiritual act? Use specific textual evidence to support and illustrate your answer to this question.
- Why does Fukuoka critique modern science’s food prescriptions? What beliefs about food does Western nutrition science privilege? Use specific textual evidence to support and illustrate your answer to this question.
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