Summary
This is an article by Michael Pollan. This article is about the changing cooking behaviors. Pollan in this article demonstrates reasons of decline of the home cooking and in addition rise of processed foods through taking us through the recent culinary history from the Julia Child to Food Network. Thus, this is his purpose in this article. The author reminisces over the memories of viewing “The French Chef,” on TV together with his mother and then eating the recipes by Julia for dinner. The author brings us to Food Network where the chefs like Rachael Ray, Emeril, Ina Garten, and Emeril bring cooking to approximately 100 million homes in USA every day. Therefore, this article is about food network. Pollan’s intended audience is every human being since it is mandatory for everyone to eat in order to survive.
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An expert’s Theory of Food Television’s Appeal
This is an article by Frank Bruni. From the article we read that Bruni’s friend has a son who is so much into the food television show. The friends of this son also are in addition into it. Nevertheless, the thought-provoking fact is that all these friends do not cook. What they just like is to watch it and do not bother to cook it by themselves. After reading the article, we observe that cooking programs are becoming very popular and new programs are actually spawned. Consequently, this is an article about the cooking programs on TV and the two theories concerning it. One of the theory is that individuals miss home cooked meals and the family gatherings. The other theory that Bruni brings out is that these food television shows gets individuals in peace. The author’s audience is everyone.
