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American Food in American Literature
The months between the cherries and peaches
Are overflowing cornucopias stretching
Fruits red and purple, dark, flowers and black;
Then, down rich fields and the beaches of the frozen river
We will trample light khaki, while you kill
Bronze partridge, speckled quail, and white back.
-Elinor Wylie1
I ate another apple pie and ice cream, which is virtually all what I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.
-Jack Kerouac2
In October 1998, Jiao Tong, the literary editor of China Times, Taipei, Taiwan, invited me to write an essay on American food in American literature for presentation at the First International Conference on Food and literature that took place in Taipei in May 1999. I thought I would find many books secondary source on this subject. After extensive research into the net and communications with several professors of American literature at university in the United States and Canada, I was very surprised to find any book in print on the subject. Not only was there no book on this subject there was no single item that bears directly on my subject. The absence secondary sources, explains why most references in this essay are primary sources. The limitations of time and space to write these lines further explain why I limited my study of American literature, novels, short stories and poetry. I tried to a representative selection among the novelists, poets and novelists, including editors of almost two hundred years of American literature, both sexes and a variety of ethnic groups. Because there are so many versions of primary works that I cite, I have limited these quotations from the author's name, book title and an inner portion, such as worms, chapter or section and failed to page numbers of particular versions I've used. Less-known works, collections and anthologies receive standard citation format.
To bring some order into this large amount equipment, I created three themes around which I can build what I found on American food in American literature: continuity and discontinuity; abundance of purity and impurity, and, and rarity. These three themes allow multiple truths important on the American experience through time to appear as the concerns of its authors as well. For example, major changes undergone by land and indigenous peoples have been accompanied by deep and lasting ties to the European diet. In addition, the enormous abundance of natural resources and wealth artificial America has long coexisted with the land devastated and destitution. The greatest American writers like Melville, Faulkner, Hemingway and Steinbeck, have repeatedly recognized and incorporated these extremes in their plots and their characters, as they are incorporated into the daily lives and personalities of Americans.
As part of an initiation for my presentation I like to give some possible explanations for the lack of secondary sources. First, I think most of the famous and popular American foods, like pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers and ice are derived from European food. The pizza comes from Italy. The hot dog is a version of the German sausage. Hamburgers are reformed balls attached to bread that is as old as civilization itself farming. And ice cream also has its counterparts in the kitchen of European nations. So the first reason for the lack of secondary sources, is that most American of foods derived and not original to America.
A cons-ironic example in this context is China's fortune cookie. As a food, it has very little nutrition, but as part of the American idea of Chinese food, it has become a necessity in restaurants American origin Chinese. However, I have asked several owners, waiters and waitresses in restaurants where Chinese Americans Chinese crackers came from China. All told me they did not. They were invented in America and most likely, according to this oral history in San Francisco. It seems be a credible story. San Francisco, grew up as a city on the money generated by the high-risk occupations such as hunting, boating, gold mining and fishing in the sea offshore. One can easily imagine a Chinese person enterprising note how the Americans involved in these occupations were with their good luck in the future or luck, by this understanding with the American taste well established for sweet desserts, and creating a sweet dessert that looked different and words of wisdom contained on the fate of the consumer.
Then, as the last decades, American literature and literary criticism has been dominated by men whose worldview food connected with women and make them both in the kitchen and out of sight. Most male writers who have read this test used for Food and activities around food to highlight aspects of character or plot. They do not collect this food and preparation, cooking, serving, eating and drinking activities like cleaning that almost – heavy aspects of their main characters, most of whom are men, or that events that have significantly advanced the plot, story-line or themes of their writing.
Indeed, a related topic could be included in this kind of study that has to do with the care of the body in general. For example, it is extremely rare for an American writer of mentioning these bodily functions or excretion urination. Different types of breathing are certainly related to different types of emotional and physical conditions, such as fear, sadness, fatigue, effort or contemplation. But as food, other bodily processes are generally ignored, taken for granted or satin. I mention this topic only in passing, and you do not have time or space here to dwell on it, but simply to emphasize that focusing on food as a story from literature is an important innovation that involves a range of human activities whose presence or silence in the literature would be an interesting extension of this point.
Thirdly, as an American, I believe that most Americans take food for granted. We tend to see as an inevitable burden placed on our freedom of activity by the condition of having a physical body. We tend, in especially in the last decade of the 20th century to try to minimize as much as possible the time and energy to all phases of life related to the physical nourishment of our bodies. The growing popularity and power industry of fast food in America reflect this disdain requirements for food premises.
After the Allied victory in World War II, the United States experienced unprecedented prosperity while the applications of new technologies has enabled seniors tasks to be done with increasing rapidity. The total acceptance of free competition market, in an ideological, political opposition and economic centralization, centrally planned economies and societies, the enormous success of rapid production of large-scale mass in support of military forces during the war, and increasingly tense and complicated struggle between capitalism and communism began to change the values of American society of, slowing simpler values of farm life and rural life in faster, more complicated values of industrial production and urban life. The rate began its emergence as a primary American value. For example, in 1955, shortly before the experiments recorded in Kerouac's On the road, the two fast food companies are now the largest American-McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken, were founded. "In the early 1980s there were about 440 food companies franchise with a combined total of over 70,000 points of retail in the United States. "3 million Americans of smaller life situations most congested in Europe slowly adapted to the scope of the American land and its resources. size, particularly size, has become a common value to all areas of American life. With the advent speed as a value, the American ideology for the rest of the 20th century acquired its main outlines, the bigger the better, the sooner the better. Automobiles to burgers, this ideology has begun increasingly to regulate how Americans thought about everything they did. The two important values and play a significant role in the relationship between American food and American literature.
In addition to the social environment of European derivation, male dominance and indifference to food, there is the traditional character of the successful American writer. Most writers The most famous of America have been and continue to be men. Most of these male writers such as Hawthorne, Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Poe, and Miller, always put their main characters, most of whom were men, in positions that required the creation of a stable and meaningful life. Like the early settlers, like the pioneers, such as immigrants, their characters are constantly faced with challenges to their survival, their ability and virility when it is defined in terms of superiority manifested verbal and physical rather than mutual, cooperative care or feeder. A counter example is ironic Ayn Rand, a woman writer who completely accepted the values of competition, personal power and rugged individualism. His powerful male characters, such as almost divine architect in Atlas Shrugged, are faced with problems and situations that demand strong, individual Creation and production scale.
The fact that the creation and production also consumes energy, resources, time and the money was not a central concern until the beginning of the environmental movement in the late '50s and early 60s. The fact that the creation and production, often leading to emotional deprivation and physical beings less independent, as children, animals, women, the poor and members of ethnic minority groups was not a major concern of American writers and critics to the late 50's and early 60's. The previous writers felt impelled to produce and reproduce the feelings, drives, pictures and characters based on people, individualistic creation and production in their writings. Consequently, many facts of life, like eating, drinking, digesting, excrete and education have been consistently absent, implicit, overlooked or ignored.
These are at least four reasons why there is such a shortage of secondary sources on the subject of American food in American literature. It is indeed a book waiting to be written.
Fortunately, however, many cases of food in American literature and they show certain trends and characteristics interesting. I created three themes to focus these patterns and characteristics: the abundance of continuity and discontinuity, purity and impurity, and, and rarity. First, I will briefly describe the substance and rationale for each topic and then proceed to literary material that illustrates in particular and is illuminated by each subject.
A. The continuity and discontinuity. The first European settlers on the east coast of America experienced several discontinuities and began to create more. In crowded European cities agricultural land and they reached broad, sparsely populated forests, mountains and valleys. Rigidly societies tolerate century, many of 16th and 17th European country they came to a land whose societies, those of indigenous peoples, have been completely strange and closed for them. To live in poverty and scarcity of their arrival in a country that gradually disclosed resources and riches beyond their expectations. From old settled areas in Europe, which have long been tamed by the sword, the plow, the cross and the crown, they came to wilderness that seemed indifferent to the grandeur and traditions of European civilization.
Within these discontinuities they also created discontinuities in the lives of indigenous peoples, war, trade and intermarriage. In the natural life of the new land, they have also begun create discontinuities in the invasive activities of forestry, agriculture, mining, urbanization, hunting and fishing. The culture of extremes that have
become fixtures of American life began at that time. There were Americans who loved the wilderness and how indigenous and widespread than many of their European resources as possible. There were Americans who hated the desert the indigenous ways and is trying to modify or destroy them. These among the first settlers have insisted on the continuation of religions and languages European official protocols, social structures and customs and all the food they could do in the new world, such as bread, or were shipped from Europe without alteration, such as tea.
The indigenous population fell before the wave growing Europeans whose majority is firmly convinced that the best Indian was a dead Indian. For example, it is estimated that in 1600 there were about 10,000,000 Native living in many different groups or tribes, across America. In 1900, under an official policy of the Government of the United States extermination, the total fell to about 500,000. The impact of new inhabitants on earth was no less powerful. In 1600, most land east of the Mississippi River and west of the Rocky Mountains was covered with mixed deciduous forests and deciduous forests. In 1990, less than 3% of the original trees are still standing.
Apart from the clash of Europeans and indigenous peoples, the growing population of Americans cultivating land for crops, especially cotton and tobacco, sold to a growing population of consumers in Europe was a market for human labor-slaves. The slave trade, initiated by the Dutch and continued by almost all countries of Western Europe with maritime expertise, creates discontinuities extreme in many aspects of African life that are beyond the scope of this essay. but the importation of Africans as slaves created a path entirely new for Americans, subjected for two hundred years of planting conditions of near starvation, which was invented and innovated with the material edible thin them accessible. Their creativity has helped many different types of distinctively American Foods as Chitlins, greens, and a whole range of food centered in the bayou region of Louisiana known as Cajun food. With original contributions made by indigenous Peoples of the first settlers and pioneers of diets such as corn, some of these foods that have lasted longer than the institution of slavery itself have also found places in American Literature.
B. Purity and impurity. The first settlers on the U.S. east coast have brought with them a deep fear of hell and a deep desire to cleanse their lives of all elements that have prevented practice of true Christianity. True Christianity means to them a literal reading of the Bible and a literal interpretation of the social life of man in teachings and precepts of the Bible. Red, for them, was the color of the devil, the color of evil and the color of indigenous peoples. Black and white were pure their color of choice.
Those Americans who loved the desert, however, quickly adopted the use of multi-colored skins animals for clothing and natural dyes for coloring or fabric of their skin. It is not mere historical accident that the Cultural Revolution American 60s adopted wildly colorful clothes, vehicles, hair and the language as a signifier clear and dramatic costumes cons dark, white shirts, ties and shoes dark dark figures of the establishment. This was not a historical accident that the beatniks and hippies both reached out for foods that differ greatly in flavor, color, smell, taste and texture of white bread, roast beef, potatoes, oats, milk and tea. It was also not a historical accident that some of the most influential writers of this period, such as Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, found deep inspiration and lasting literature and food of the land and people beyond U.S. shores.
C. The abundance and scarcity. From 1895 to 1915, about 23,000,000 people have migrated from Europe to the United States. These people came from all parts of Europe. They left living conditions characterized by poverty, political unrest and oppression and the absence of any possibility improvement. America was a land that promised to make their dreams of prosperity, wealth, abundance and freedom to achieve. Many of these immigrants made their fortunes in America, then returned with them to their families in Europe. But many others remained in America, had their family there and began contributing tastes, colors and flavors of the American stage more and more heterogeneous. This period of intense migration saw the beginnings of neighborhoods in big cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. These are the ethnic enclaves of Italians, Poles, Germans, Jews and blacks are trying to find an alternative to the defeated militarily, but racism still powerful former masters of their southern or others whose sense of identity Group has always brought with it special foods that have been amplified by the larger scales of American life.
At the same time, rapid growth of large-scale manufacturing in factories employing tens of thousands of immigrants who were poorly paid and allowed only a minimal education beyond the background of their European origins, makes some these neighborhoods, slums and ghettos first American. Extremely low wages, nonexistent social services, waves of unemployment and growing pressure from families many newcomers are often a lot of these new Americans on the banks of malnutrition, hunger and even famine. The abundance and scarcity began to appear as poles of an oscillation driven socio-economic are not obvious by institutions such as slavery, but the beliefs, prejudices and attitudes about the superiority and inferiority of different types of populations coupled with and firmly established models of access and lack of access to resources. The negative impact of the First World War was followed by euphoria positive roaring 20's. The decade of unprecedented prosperity and national expansion was followed by the great depression of the 30s. America was moving clearly in the forefront of a world order whose extremes ranging from genocide to the boom population, famine for the decomposition of excess and feet in the mud foul worn nail polish in satin shoes on the polished marble.
A first overview of the theme of continuity and discontinuity can be seen by comparing the two quotations at the beginning of this essay. Elinor Wylie lived from 1885 to 1928. Jack Kerouac lived from 1922 to 1969. The ripe fruit is edible as a food tree in Wylie's poem and as an ingredient of the pie in Kerouac's novel. Wylie cherries and peaches are close to nature as is the apple pie baked by Kerouac. Wylie poem means rooting the first European settlers in a country that has provided ample food. Kerouac's novel, means American concerns for cities that food had become an unattractive necessity.
Wylie poem mean abundance and therefore the value of the quantity without adding speed who played an important role in the life of the protagonist of Kerouac, Dean Moriarty.
In fact, Dean Moriarty was based the real man, Neal Cassady. In 1964, I lived in Palo Alto, California, after leaving Stanford University to try my hand writing fiction and poetry. I met a beautiful young woman who was a freshman at Stanford and prompt at a party. The party was in a house on the east side of Palo Alto who has been increasingly seen as an appropriate location for non-conformists and beatniks. The party featured people that neither my friend nor I knew with great wine. It also featured a very unusual people. At one point during the evening we drank wine in the small kitchen light. In an uproar of laughter, people talking, a young man with a bright smile and loud laughter, whose feet seem barely able remain floating on the floor and robbed in the room while the man who invited me to a party who presents it to me as Neal Cassady. It recognized me and disappeared another door. I've never seen, but remain to this day, the clear impression of light and speed that it also seems to have given to Kerouac.
Wylie continuity between the poem and novel by Kerouac described by the American saying: "It is as American as apple pie!" Another kind of continuity is also where the next verse that cited above Wylie's poem is taken into account:
To the marrow of my bones Puritan
There is something in this richness I hate it.
I like the look, austere, immaculate,
Landscapes drawn in pearly monotonous.
There's something in my blood that owns
Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate,
A trickle of water, churned to milky wave
Streaming through slanted pastures fenced with stones.4
Taken together, this verse and the one cited at the beginning of this essay dramatically view all three themes. There is continuity and discontinuity between the doctrines religious heritage of European Puritanism, which emphasizes the great achievements of the world, but display little mundane as possible. One the most important contributions of Max Weber in our understanding of the Protestant point of view is its modern clear delineation of the conflict in early Protestantism between the acquisition great wealth to be served in the favor of God and the display of humility just to the world without ostentation material that pietistic, Puritans, the Luddites and many other Protestant groups found so distasteful in Catholicism.
Weber argues, convincingly, I think that the "Puritan, like every rational type of asceticism, tried to allow a man [sic] to maintain and act on its grounds constant, especially those he taught himself himself against emotion. "5 The aim of this work was to conduct a certain type of life" released all the temptations of the world and all its details dictated by the will of God, and therefore to make certain of their own revival [in the sky after the trial later] by external signs manifested in their daily behavior. "6 From the Bible and all other religious books, success in difficult tasks is a clear sign of God's favor. For Protestants, these signs does not guarantee salvation, but they are closest to a guarantee that can obtain a Protestant. Indeed, "God himself blessed his chosen ones through the success of their work was … undeniable … for the Puritans. "7 This doctrine asceticism which combined with success in the efforts of world Protestantism positioned to be the driving force behind religious capitalism and the great creations and accumulation of material wealth that took place in modernity. But it is equally true that this combination can be a rhythm, an oscillation, a confusion or conflict. This combination provides a clear majority of the historical substance of our themes of abundance and scarcity and purity and impurity.
A condensed example of the oscillation between the abundance and the austerity of American Puritanism may be seen in a brief passage from the short story, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather by Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49). This passage also highlights how food and activities surrounding food have been treated by several writers of the greatest men in America as an inevitable necessity, but without interest, even in a fictional frame: "The table was beautifully set. He was responsible for plates and loaded with delicacies. The profusion absolutely barbaric. He meat have been enough to have celebrated the Anakim. Never in my life I had seen so lavish, so an unnecessary expense of good things in life. "8
The tension between the narrator and his guests in Poe's tale is taken the tension between the narrator and main character in On the Road. The quote by Jack Kerouac is part of the narrative first-person novel by Sal Paradise, support, secondary character is based on Kerouac himself. For the duration of its cons-country trip stop, he saw an apple pie and ice cream. This system not only reflects the poverty of Sal, but the novel is clearly an American tradition that continues to rely on the body, physical or material world. Discontinuity, however, occurs between the natural fruit character in the poem of Wylie and the impersonal, processed foods Sal Paradise eaten. A discontinuity also appears in the fact that SAL is taking its food on the road, on the run at high speed, while Wylie is painting a picture of the man on the trees by their nature can not move from where they are.
Board Wylie poetry is drawn from his life in New England. Many early settlers remained on or near the coast, because it allowed them to continue life of marine and occupations they practiced in Europe and because it provided an abundance of food. However, their Puritan ideology often led to lives that were lived in the extent of this wealth as "cold money Wylie on a sky of slate." Another American poet, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was born in Massachusetts and raised by her grandparents in Nova Scotia, to the east, the maritime province of Canada. His life overlapped Wylie and partly also paints the spirit of this particular region in terms of food, but with an emphasis on the austerity of their diet:
From provinces close
of fish and bread and tea,
Home to tidal long
where the bay leaves the sea
twice daily and takes
herrings long rides, 9
In addition, the abundance Wylie hates is also rejected by Kerouac in an off-hand, so casually, as if a man less time spent on something as mundane as food of better quality or more than one person he was. However, the oscillation between the abundance and scarcity appears in Kerouac's novel, the contrast between Sal Paradise and the protagonist of On the Road, Dean Moriarty.
"… But Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love, he did not care one way or another, "so long, I can get this lil ole gal with that lil sumpin down there between his legs, my boy, 'and' so long, we can eat, son, y'ear Me? I'm hungry, I am hungry, Let's Eat Right Now! "And outside as we race to eat, whereof, as Ecclesiastes says: "He is your portion in the sun. "(Ch 1 (italics in original))
It is certainly also be noted in passing that in both writers, differentiated by gender, origin and by the time there is a strong link between religion and the food. This community of interest and continuity clearly occur in the holidays traditional American Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. All have three exceptionally large and long meals and strong links with the Christian or Protestant early American colonists, settlers and pioneers. As with body functions mentioned above, bringing the theme of food and literature in the foreground also illuminates the strong presence of Judeo-Christianity in American life and literature. Again, this novel turns on be a powerful lens for viewing a wide range of meanings that are repeated and pervasively present in American literature.
Indeed, the theological foundation of hatred Wylie, "this wealth" is the soul Puritan fighting for the liberation of all attachments, Implications of entanglements and concerns for, and with the material world. metaphysical battles are fought on battlefields empirical. In this case, the metaphysical battle between ontological powers of good and evil is being waged on the ground of the empirical relationship between a poet and edible, natural fruit. The apple signifies the fall of man to the woman's hand. Hatred of "The Wealth" is a self-hatred that drives women away from impure nature and closer immaterial purity of the austere, unadorned Protestant soul. The continuity of the human body with nature is moved by the discontinuity of the immaterial soul and body. The abundance of human bodies and souls are moved by the rarity of the elect, those of the Protestant doctrine chosen by God from the foundations of the world to survive the doomsday and live eternally in heaven.
Serious reflection on the relationship between Food and literature leads to a series of signifiers that underlies all the literature, namely religion. Why? because writing originally had intended to spend on what is most valuable perspective and experience of the group. The most precious of all is certainly one that promotes the survival of the group. All human groups have long ago discovered that humans are dependent on greater powers for survival. All beings Humans need air, water, food, warmth and sleep. Fear, respect for, worship and sacrifice to the powers that govern life, both visible and invisible, is the essence of all ancient religions. The old truth and the message everywhere in all religions is the dependence of man on these powers, including the reproductive power which is represented in the worship of ancestors. Religion plays, ritualized and carries forward the fundamental truth dependence of man. The denial of this dependency can lead to highly innovative creativity and spirituality that deeply transformative destruction and self-regulation and madness. Humans can imagine an absolute freedom, but try to live, as Nietzsche has shown, leads only to destruction and madness.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) struggled with madness and his life finally ended his life by suicide. The following poem opens with the kind of hymn to the natural abundance that we have seen in Wylie poem and closes with a sense analogue of the empty space and money cold. The contrast between "nothing" and "mature" in the first line indicates the voltage between abundance and emptiness. This meaning in turn connects with the tension between purity and impurity in the meaning of nothingness as a spiritual being desirable and advanced state and the material condition of the spiritual masters of the planet. In this poem, these themes are still made by concrete, local wild food and abstract imagery created that moves the outside of a player in this abundant purity absent but implied above or beyond the physical world:
Blackberrying
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries
Blackberries on both sides, but mainly on the right,
A Blackberry Lane, off the hooks, and a sea
Some hand after her, panting. Blackberries
Larger than the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, the materials fat
With juice of blue-red. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not requested such a brotherhood of blood, they must love me.
They keep my milkbottle, flattening their sides.
Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks —
Bits of burnt paper Wheeling in a blown sky.
It is their only voice, protesting, protest.
I do not think the sea will appear at all.
The high meadows green glow as if lit from within.
I come to a bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a display Chinese.
Honey festival bays surprised, they believe in heaven.
One more hook, and the berries and bushes end.
The only thing to come now is the sea
From between two hills, one of the funnels sudden wind on me,
Slapping its phantom laundry in my face.
These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.
I am the way sheep them. A last hook brings me
To the north face of the hills, and the face is orange rock
Overlooking anything, nothing but a large space
White lights and tin, and a din like silversmiths
Fight and fight to an intractable metal.10
It is no coincidence, in this perspective that Neal Cassady, the person living behind the character Kerouac Dean Moriarty, died of a drug overdose on the hot rails gleaming steel of a railroad track in central Mexico. The use of drugs in all groups has always been associated with personal and alignment of the group towards the great powers in order to boost capacity of the group to survive. cut off from their moorings in traditional religion, drugs have become a way to experiment with the physical, psychic and spiritual absolute freedom. The fact that many drugs such as LSD, cocaine, methamphetamine and opium, making the user feel they do not need food or other natural materials for their existence, shows exactly how they fit in the attempt to deny dependency and achieve absolute freedom. The discontinuity of the American experience of older traditions, the abundance material wealth and often unspoken ideal context of a pure soul, immaterial worked together to produce its characters in literature as Dean Moriarty who make a life and death, to tread the edge between innovation and self-destruction.
Or, to summarize our themes in poetic language and tasty American William Carlos Williams: "The pure products of America's crazy" (from "On The Road Psychiatric Hospital ")
Apple pie and ice cream, in addition, also provide the opportunity Kerouac make a statement of value that shows the clear abundance as greatness: "I ate apple pie and ice-it was better that I got later in Iowa, the largest cake ice cream rich. "(Ch. 3)" better "," deeper "," greater "and "Richer", working together to define a value system that is both American bigger is better and romantic depth and richness.11
The theme of abundance is found in all periods of American literature. In Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, for example, a character who is the father "of the customs, the patriarch, not only of his little squad of officials, but I am not afraid to say respectable body of tide-all boys in the United States, was a certain permanent Inspector. "12 The Custom House was the official office of the Government federal agency to inspect all cargo entering the country by boat and determine what if any duties must be paid. In the novel, this custom special-House is located on a wharf in the port of Salem, Massachusetts. In this particular character, Hawthorne, means one of the most important aspects of the system American food also appears several times in its literature, the consumption of large quantities of meat. The inspector had the ability unusual to remember details
"The dinners that she had made no small part of the happiness of his life to eat …. To hear him talk of roast meat was as appetizing as a pickle or an oyster …. he has always convinced me to hear expatiate on fish, poultry and meat, and the most eligible methods of preparing them for the table. His reminiscences of good cheer, however ancient the date of the actual banquet, seemed to bring the flavor of pork or turkey under his very nostrils …. A tenderloin of beef, a hindquarter of veal, a Spareribs Pork, chicken special, or a remarkably praiseworthy turkey, which had perhaps adorned his board … be remembered …. "13
The dominance meat in the American diet can be viewed in several ways. The first is the following specialty food franchises in the individual thirty first fast food in the United States:
Type the number of food franchises
Chicken 8683
Hamburger / Hot Dog Roast Beef 29,600
Pizza [usually served with a
seal meat] 11,593
Tacos [usually served with a
meat filler] 3620
Fruits Wed 2630
Pancakes / waffles [usually eaten
with bacon,
sausage or ham] 1.63014
Another view of the usual American food comes considering the amount of meat consumption and production in the U.S. states. For example,
"Americans spend approximately 25 per cent of their food budget of red meat. Per capita consumption of beef in the United States has steadily increased, while that of pork fell …. Only Australia, New Zealand and Argentina is the consumption per capita than the United States. The United States normally produces about 27 percent of meat in the world. "(Ibid., (13) 190)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the source of these statistics in Encyclopedia Compton and 19th century works of Hawthorne, we can skip to the end of the 20th century. In the late 1980s, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by a writer in California, Fannie Flagg, was published. In the first part of the novel, a reproduction of an article in its weekly city South American fiction Weems, Flagg described the main menu of the new Whistle Stop Cafe:
… Breakfast is served 5:30-7:30, and you can get eggs, semolina, biscuits, bacon, sausage, ham and red-eye gravy, and coffee ….
For lunch and supper you can have: fried chicken, pork chops and gravy, catfish, chicken and dumplings, or a plate of barbecue, and your choice of three vegetables, biscuits or pancakes, and your drink and dessert ….
… The vegetables are: creamed corn, fried green tomatoes, fried okra, cabbage or turnip Greens, Black-Eyed Peas, candied yams, butter beans or lima beans.15
Later in the novel, the elements of a particular meal served to a client are described as "fried chicken, Black-Eyed Peas, turnips, fried green tomatoes, cornbread and iced tea." 16
Grease, abundance and purity of the meat in the diet of Americans have also been used by some authors as a heel Other types of scarcity and impurity. Sylvia Plath uses the tradition of a big meal of meat on Sunday as both a gathering weeks Special to American families, which is often characterized by a large oven-roasted turkey, giving sharp contrast with another type of furnace:
Mary's Song
The Sunday lamb cracks in its fat.
Grease
Sacrifices its opacity …
One, the window but St.
The fire makes it precious
The same fire
Melting the tallow heretics,
The eviction of Jews.
Their thick float Palls
Over the cicatrix of Poland, burnt
Germany
They do not die.
Gray birds obsess my heart
Mouth of ashes, the ashes of the eye.
They settled. On top
Precipice
That emptied one man into space
The ovens glowed like heavens, incandescent.
This is a heart,
This I walk in the Holocaust
Oh my blond child in the world will kill and eat.17
One of America's most gifted and enigmatic contemporary poets, the Pulitzer Prize winner John Ashbery (1927 -), in turn, the abundance America in a strain of impurity, but no shortage as a lack of certainty:
Hardly any drives here
Yet the granaries are full with meal
The bags of flour piled to the ceiling.
The streams run with sweetness, fish feeding;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
This dish of milk is set at night,
Think of him sometimes
Sometimes, and always with mixed feelings? 18
More important and priority of meat, Plath poem and lists of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop foreground Coffee continuity and discontinuity important in the American diet. Continuity important is that the first settlers and pioneers, trying to live in a foreign country before he has been developed for agriculture, have made their living primarily from locally available cereals, including maize. Wheat and other cereals Related were too hard to grind by hand and required a mill, heavy complicated than the early settlers could not carry with them. Maize has become a food Basic also important for early European settlers as it was already to the indigenous people:
Young corn was eaten ripe ears of roasting. In winter, almond hulls were soaked off with lye to make hominy. For breakfast and dinner there was boiled corn meal mush. Sometimes, the slurry was fried and served with butter or lard. The dish most common, however, was corn bread hot. Baked on a hoe blade before the fire, it was called hoecake. Mixed with water into a stiff dough and covered hot ashes, it was the cake of ash. From the Dutch oven, it emerged as the cornbread or raids corn. Cupcakes cornbread were called Corn Dodgers, 19
In the passage of Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter fish and Turkey are listed as well as pork and chicken. Fish and Turkey were most likely captured and shot in their natural habitat. Pork and chicken are the most likely raised and slaughtered to keep a pet. This combination of meat from wild animals and domestic began with the first settlers and continues today. Indeed, the pioneers who traveled on foot, by cart and horse from east to west on the American continent is a great abundance of game for meat. But they tried to carry quite familiar, nutritious food for the latter for the journey to their new facility and to carry out the periods when wild game was not available. A typical load for adult travel by ox wagon west has been established:
"… 200 pounds of flour, 30 pounds of pilot bread, 75 pounds of bacon, 10 pounds rice, 5 pounds of coffee, 2 pounds of tea, 25 pounds of sugar, half bushel of beans, a bushel of dried fruit, 2 pounds of baking soda, 10 pounds salt, half a bushel of corn flour. And it's good to have half a bushel of corn, arid soil. A small barrel of vinegar should be taken. "20
In rural or sparsely inhabited many parts of American meat mixture wild and domestic continues to this day. In Alaska, for example, where I lived for many years and which represents one third of the total extent the contiguous forty-eight States of the United States, many people still depend on hunting for much of their meat supply. John Haines, a former Poet Laureate of the State of Alaska and Alaska's best known poet, began to colonize land near Fairbanks, Alaska in the 1950s. I know him personally for many years and reading poetry with him on stage at the Loussac Library in Anchorage in 1986. His poetry reflects clearly how the dependence on wild meat can crystallize the themes of abundance and purity in a identification with the predator:
If Owl Calls Again
dusk
Island in the river
and it is not too cold
I'll wait for the moon
increase,
then take wing and glide
to meet
We will not talk,
but the cap cons gel
soar above
alder flats, Research.
with yellow eyes
And then we sit
in the shade and spruce
chew bones
mouse imprudent
while the long moon drifts
to Asia
and the murmur of the river
in its bed of ice.
And when the morning climbs
Members
we part without a sound,
filled, floating
return as
the cold world awakens.21
Although Haines or before any other Europeans have settled in Alaska, however, indigenous peoples have long lived on what food animals they could kill and prepare. In fact, when the first French explorers met and spent time with indigenous people in the north of what is now Canada, they were so impressed by the predominance of uncooked meat in their diet they called them "Esquimeau" which is French for "eaters of raw meat." Further down the coast Canada and Alaska, however, are salmon by the millions and the great rivers are captured and used by locals. These Americans are eating their salmon after it has been smoked or cooked, as told in the following poem, "Subsistence # 2" by Andrew Hope, III (1949 -), Sitka, Alaska:
Salmon colored dog
Glossy
Sunset
Incoming tide
Washing beach
Salmon dog Shine
Silver purple flash
Reach
Lifting a large
By the tail
Incoming tide
Washing the beach
Time to eat
Fried salmon dog
For dinner22
There are five types of salmon that migrate through the waters of Alaska and fees are used for food. Each species has its own name and some types have different names in different areas of Alaska. Thus, through time-discontinuities in the preparation of raw to cooked, took place along discontinuities in the time between the practice of naming the same commodity. salmon dogs are so called because they were used used by thousands of people to feed the many dogs on which the indigenous people of Alaska was founded to transport during the long winters. This type of salmon, however, is perfectly fit for human consumption and now that many indigenous people in Alaska Travel by Motor Vehicle in all seasons, salmon dog became a staple of human nutrition.
These discontinuities in the contact discontinuity served by the ingredients of meals in first and second quotations from Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is variation in local foods. Grits, for example, is a sort of mash or corn or wheat is coarsely ground. Grits is considered by most Americans as a food characteristic of South America. His public presence in northern cities is usually the result of populations from south to north and restaurants opening films that South American cuisine. Other typical regional American foods are associated with the cod cooking Seafood northern tart key lime associated with the cuisine of the Florida Keys, tortillas and beans associated with the south-west from kitchen Heritage Hispanic American, and salmon associated with the north-west and the kitchens of Alaska.
One of Alaska's Native American poets, Charlie Blatchford, a Yupik Eskimo that I knew personally and who is now deceased, said the case for meat very simply in one of his few poems published:
Forgotten Words
Our language, what I know
was prepared
with wisdom and grace.
The thin skin has been expanded
and is a side.
The viscera were carefully
been exposed.
Their sweet flesh
ready for the feast.
Meat, the staple food of life
is consumed with satisfaction …
Sedatives our need
for new words.23
In the hands of more contemporary poets who are not Native Americans, as Charlie Blatchford was, the meat continues to serve a substantial food and is often accompanied by a kind of substance that could serve as a subject separate alongside food intoxicants like alcohol and drugs. In Whitman, Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg and other writers, Wine, beer and other types of psychotropic substances often accompanies food and especially meat. This range of consumable signifiers has a history in all literature is as old as interesting and as important as that of meat and other foods. Indeed, by the light of interest on food has once again highlighted a stream in the lives of all people who could well serve as a subject for considerable additional research, discussion and writing. In many poets, the link between meat and wine is briefly, as in the fourth stanza of "asylum" by Herman Fong (1963 -):
At meals they eat just about her,
give the smallest pieces of meat,
mainly fat, and a few drops of red wine.24
A concentration on the details of ordinary life, characterized the style of many American writers, both older and younger. John Steinbeck, Nobel laureate and one of the pre-eminent American literary voice of the 20th century, frequently drew for his characters and settings from the daily life of people in California. Some of his best written and most popular such novels Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, and the story collection The Long Valley feature characters and parameters in California coastal, southern and central. Tortilla Flats characteristics of life "paisanos, who lived near the coast central California city of Monterey. According to Steinbeck, a paisano was a "mixture of Spanish, Indian, Mexican and assorted Caucasian blood" (Chapter 1). The main character, Danny, and his friends hear about a ship that wrecked on the coast nearby. They go to the beach and wreck salvage the wreck and then resell it. The sale puts five dollars in possession of Danny, an unusually large amount of money:
Five dollars of the recovery was still like a fire in the pocket of Danny, but now he knew what to do with him. He and Pilon went to the market and bought seven pounds of beef jerky and a bag of onions and bread and a large log candy. Pablo and Jesus Maria went to Torrelli two liters of wine, and not a drop do they drink on the way back, either. (Ch. 5)
Part of the genius of Steinbeck as a writer and one of its aspects histories that distinguish them from other American writings is the deliberate use of food and activities for characterization and development of the plot. Tortilla Flats is an example of his style and further demonstrate the importance of meat in the American diet in all geographic regions and ethnic groups:
Danny's business has been fairly straightforward. He went to the door back of a restaurant. "Got any bread I can give my dog?" he asked the cook. And although this man was finishing the credulous preparation of food, Danny stole two slices of bacon, four eggs, a lamb chop and a fly swatter.
"I you pay a certain time, "he said.
"No need to pay for food. I throw them if you do not take them. "
Danny felt better about flying then. If this was how they felt on the surface he was innocent. He returned to Torelli [Defarge] sold the four eggs, lamb chop and kill flies for a glass of water grappa and retired to the wood to cook his supper. (Ch.1)
The agenda of particular food onion appears in the first passage of Tortilla Flats as a small detail which means range of regional products in the first American Southwest colonized by European settlers of Spain not England. Between the hamburger and onions are both the continuity of its ease of preparation and consumption of meat and discontinuity of American regional cuisines. Another great American literary voice, that of William Carlos Williams, also chose this range of signifiers south-west on its one and only trip to this part of America. In addition to a fine ear for the particularities that distinguish American English from all other types of English, Williams also had a keen eye for the small details of the place that brought the reader close to the subject of Williams's writing. The following passage is excerpted from "The Desert Music" which was based on Williams' trip to the American Southwest and staying in cities at this time were much more Hispanics than Caucasian
– Paper Flowers (para los santos)
red-cooked in clay utensils, smeared
with blue silverware,
dried chillies, onions, printing products, children
clothes. The desert place, but all
a few Indians, squatting on
cabins, reckless (do not you think)
as if slept, 25
The use of activities around food to develop plot and character is also part of the style another American writer who received a Nobel Prize for literature, William Faulkner (1897-1962). Deserts and valleys of southwestern rare in lush forests, marshes and grasslands of the Deep South, American literature, as the literature of any language ever, has always stressed the fact that the physical location and its features are part of history. In the following passage from Light in August, Faulkner uses attempt Mrs. Joe McEachern to feed as a reflector for both characters:
This was so lying on his back, hands clasped on his chest like an effigy tomb when he heard again his feet in the narrow staircase ….
Without turning the head of the Child heard Ms. McEachern toil slowly up the stairs. He heard her approach on the floor. He did not look, but after a while his shadow came and threw himself on the wall where it could see, and he saw she was wearing something. There was a tray of food. She put the tray on the bed. He had not once looked she. He had not moved. "Joe," she said. He did not budge. "Joe," she said. She could see that his eyes were open. It does not touch not.
"I'm not hungry," he said.
She did not move. She stood, hands folded in her apron. It seems not be watching, either. It seemed to be talking to the wall above the bed. "I know what you think. It's not that. He never said bring it to you. It's me who thought to do. He did not know. This is not any food that you send. "He did not move. It was calm like a carved figure, looking at the steep slope of the ceiling of the board. "You have not eaten today. Sit down and eat. This is not he who told me to bring it to you. He did not know it. I waited until he was gone, then I set myself. "
He then straightened. If she looked, he rose from his bed and took the tray and take it in the corner and turned it upside bottom, dumping the dishes and food and everything on the floor. Then he returned to the bed, bringing the empty tray as if it were a monstrance and the bearer surplice cut down the underwear that was bought for a man to wear. She looked at him now, if she had not moved. His hands were still wrapped in her apron. He returned to his bed and lay back on his back, his big eyes and even on the ceiling. He could still see his shadow, shapeless, slightly arched. Then he went away. He was not looking, but he meant to kneel in the corner collecting broken dishes back in the tray. Then she left the room. The silence was complete then.26
Faulkner lived and wrote in the Bible Belt. The Bible Belt meant that Protestants Most Southerners were fundamentalist Christians, who are surrounded by a spirit of austerity and nostalgia for a paradise of another world of simplicity and peace so strongly developed by writers such as New England Wylie and Bishop. Although food occurs frequently in the work Faulkner, it is rarely abundant, develop or wasted. Usually, it serves to highlight the rare physical and moral persons who are frail at the edge of a society whose wealth is rarely in his work:
And Judith. She lived alone now. Maybe she lived alone since Christmas Day last year and year before last, then three and then four years ago, because if Sutpen had gone now … she lived on nothing but solitude, what with Ellen in bed in the closed room, which requires the constant attention of a child when she This misunderstanding looked surprised and liabilities to die, and she (Judith) and Clytie decisions and maintaining a vegetable garden so keep them alive, Wash. Jones, living in neglect and decay of the fishing camp in the river bottom that Sutpen had built after the first wife, Ellen, came to his house and the last deer and bear hunter came out of him, where he has now allowed for washing and her daughter and granddaughter live infant, implementation of work heavy furniture and the provision of Ellen and Judith Judith and then with fish and game now and then, entering the house, even now, who would Sutpen went up, had never approached closer than the Scuppernong tree behind the kitchen on Sunday afternoon, he and Sutpen drank half-Jean and the bucket of spring water which flow recovered for nearly a mile away …. "27
Another indication Faulkner's genius is his ability to see something as ordinary as a young man ordering pie and coffee from a waitress with whom he secretly wants a kind of relationship of potential fines, profound drama. Faulkner preference for scarce food and food products and light continues to display the themes of the rarity and purity that were missed in his social and historical environment. In the following, Joe Faulkner described the boy in the passage just introduced, who came to the restaurant to be served by the waitress, in terms that are involved in a transparent signifiers of purity as intangible dimension and food as required, the need for physical disadvantages:
He believed that men in the back … mocked him. So he remained motionless on the stool, eyes downcast, the dime tight in his palm. He does not see the waitress until the overlarge hands appeared on the counter in front of him and in the view. He could see the design of her dress and the bib of an apron and hands bigknuckled lying on the edge of the counter as completely motionless, as if it was something she had recovered from the kitchen. "Coffee and cake," he said.
His voice echoed down, completely empty. Lemon Chocolate coconut. "
In proportion to the height from which came the voice, the hands could be hands free. "Yes," said Joe.
The hands do not move. The voice has not changed. Lemon chocolate coconut. What kind. "For others, they must have looked strange. Face to one another through the darkness, the fight against stained, greasecrusted and frictionsmooth, they must have looked a bit like if were praying young countryfaced in clothing Spartan own clumsiness with which he invested with a quality outside world and innocent and the woman opposite him, shot, still, waiting, who, because of its smallness also participated in this quality of sound, something beyond the flesh. His face was highboned, emaciated. The flesh was stretched across his
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