Discussion on Lindsay Kelley's book "What is Food?"

What is Food?
Discussion 
I find the introduction to What is Food? to be interesting as in the beginning she heavily focuses on the fact that food art and bio based artwork is the last movement within the visual art world. The Author Lindsay Kelley talks about how her mother, grandmother, and her would all make the same cake differently due to the fact that they were all from different generations and economical backgrounds. This is true for not only the cake but any meal being eaten. 

When viewing the introduction it greatly interested me that she focused heavily on the political aspect that food poses as well, and how it is conveyed as an actual cookbook, as opposed to a textbook. She also focuses on issues like dysphagia and geophagia which are disorders that cause people to not swallow and to eat earth. I find it intriguing that she connects the two disorders to practices of bio art and food based work, as these two disorders do no allow for the person to properly consume the needed nutrients to survive. In the end I would be interested in reading her book as a whole to see how she fully tackles careful situations involving food. 

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