Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week. This class, we will discuss the readings with the goal of understanding how to incorporate them into the first blog-essay. The class will be interactive, so be prepared to chat with your fellow classmates. 

Here is the plan for class: 
1 – Introduction and check-in.
2 – What’s your essay-blog topic?
3 – Food for thought – meaning and practice.

• How does the way we perform food (through our table manners, conversation, rituals of sharing, and context-specific behaviours) produce social meaning about identity, customs, belonging, and power?
• What “eating rituals” did you and your family/friends perform?
• What “eating rituals” do you and your family/friends currently perform?
• Do these “eating rituals” produce alternative meanings if they were performed in different settings?
• Why, why not? 

4 – Reading discussion – in groups. 
5 – Short presentations of chapter discussion. 
6 – Questions, concerns, comments?