In this week’s reading report, you have three different authors who have a way of conveying the same message but just a different way of doing so. In chapter 23 you have author Tulasi Srinvias, who argues against pre-packaged food and how since women became excited about it, the pre-packaged meals started to flood the urban Indian market. In chapter 28 you have author Alison Leitch who argues in hopes to bring attention to “slow foods” and in chapter 29 you have author Jeffrey M. Pilcher, who argues for slow foods and fast foods and against fast foods. Each authors argument combines into one as you read further into the chapters you start noticing how each author backs up each other because they are all arguing that the best thing for the human body is home …show more content…
In chapter 23 the author argues that it is tradition with women to prepare food. If author Tulasi is saying that it is tradition to prepare for her family, then her argument over pre-packaged food is that we humans sometimes take the easy way out and instead of sitting down and putting time into out family’s meals we rush through. When you go into your local store to purchase dinner after a crazy work day you are not thinking what will be the healthiest option but you are thinking what would be the fastest thing to prepare so you grab something that is packaged that may even pre-cooked. In chapter 28 you have author Alison who is trying to bring attention to slow foods. To understand how chapter 28 ties into chapter 23, you must understand what slow foods is. Slow foods are basically foods that use all natural ingredients and may take longer to prepare unlike your prepackaged food from chapter 23. Slow foods are traced all the way back to Italy according to Alison Leitch. It is argued that slow food is better for you and should be what is desired, which is true because the prepackaged food is