ch. 9 Omnivore's Dilemma

This chapter starts off discussing a first visit to Whole Foods. The ironic thing was, is right before starting to read this chapter I had just returned from a Whole Foods grocery trip with my mom. While shopping we discussed our opinions of Whole Foods, a grocery store we occasionally shop at, and QFC, the grocery store we frequently visit. While we were shopping today we had talked about how shopping at Whole Foods felt like more of an experience and how shopping at QFC gives off more of a get in; get out kind of feeling. A quote on pg. 136 I believe sums up the difference between the two grocery stores well, “one of the key innovations of organic food was to allow some more information to pass along the food chain between the producer and the consumer—.” I can feel a difference in grocery stores because the environment each grocery store has is unique to what they supply, whether it is all organic or generic food. Yes it is true that by shopping at Whole Foods my family is spending on average more money than we would just sticking to QFC but as Omnivore’s Dilemma says Whole Foods produces a, “ certain magic in the marketplace” (pg.154) that is enjoyable as well as healthy.

"They Say, I Say" pg. 17- 47

After reading “They Say,” “Her Point Is,” and As He Himself Puts It,” I found the arguments they all made to be very reasonable and necessary ones. Starting with “They Say,” I found the most important part was when they talked about was clarifying what you’re talking about and identifying who said it. If this is not done you leave your readers or audience probably more confused than to begin with.
In “Her Point Is,” I found the quote, “even as writing an effective summary requires you to temporarily adopt the worldviews of others, it does not mean ignoring your own views altogether.” (pg. 31) I found this quote to be very true especially for me. I sometimes have a hard time knowing how to appropriately transition from summarizing about somebody else’s views to talking about my own. So in order to write good summaries I need to work on doing that.
Lastly after readying “As He Himself Puts It,” I really connected with the part when they were talking about introducing your quotes. This is something that really bothers me in writing. I always think it sounds odd to switch up my writing and have to introduce a quote. I would always do it in the most basic way I could but, I learned a lot of new ways to introduce quotes so the transitions isn’t awkward on page 43.
Over all I found this reading to be very helpful and informative!