{"id":815,"date":"2025-02-26T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:03:48","slug":"what-food-is-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/2025\/02\/26\/what-food-is-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Food Is to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To me, food represents a connection to myself, my friends, and my family. I think of this past winter break and the ways food has been a point of connection for me. At my Nana’s house, we talked over a cup of coffee and piece of chocolate. I prepared scones for New Years Day for my family, inviting my sisters to join me in the process. We all spent a few minutes that morning together at the kitchen table- a moment that doesn’t happen often in our busy house, but when it does, it is special. Towards the end of break, I wanted to celebrate familial connection with a nearly symbolic dinner. I wanted a meal that was a time for us all to sit down together and connect over our food. I crafted us a variety of dishes, from soup to salad, a main course and a finishing small dessert. Food represents a shared experience within my household that is our source of connection.<\/p>\n

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To me, food represents a connection to myself, my friends, and my family. I think of this past winter break and the ways food has been a point of connection for me. At my Nana’s house, we talked over a cup of coffee and piece of chocolate. I prepared scones for New Years Day for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-cuisine","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/foodstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}