Response for Home Run and Eating White

Dayuan Zhao

WRIT-1133-27 MWF 12-2

Prof. Eric Leake

03/28/12

According to Geoff Nicholson's article "Eating White" and Roy Ahn’s article “Home Run”, some differences between countries and those countries’ food type and country background. Geoff gives us a good example to explain. Author’s mother was gone, she was a Catholic, and she just ate white food. Because she suffered the Second World War, and in that period, the only thing she can eat is mashed potato, so she feels reliable about white food, and just eat white food like chicken and milk after war. He has often wondered whether she made some connection between food and purity: white food meant a white soul.

In the second article, author was immigrating in the U.S. when he was four years old. Because he doesn’t like Korean food, there are two fridges in his home; one of them is used to store Korean food, another one is used to store American food. When he has his own child, he feel like the connect between he and Korean is disappear, he want to reconnected this emotion and tells his son Korean food is also very good. So he just put all stuff in one fridge.
               In my opinion, those two articles both try to tell us in the different region, the eating habit and different life style will decide which type of food people like. That is why food’s diversity exists.