My Meal

On the night of February 28^th, 2010 I decided to make a meal. This meal started a week earlier when a friend and I were talking about cooking and we decided to make a meal the following Sunday. We planned our meal by if a food tasted good. We chose to make sirloin tip steaks baked potatoes and broccoli along with a desert, apple pie. We bought the ingredients the day before so storage was not a big part of our meals the only thing that were refrigerated were the steaks and broccoli. To make the food we started up the charcoal grill and let that warm up. While the grill was getting ready we wrapped the potatoes in tin foil and poked holes in them with a fork. We sprinkled a little bit of seasoning on the steaks and filled and began heating a pot for the broccoli. After the grill was ready we grilled the steaks and potatoes. We also, boiled the broccoli in the pan of water. After everything was cooked we sat down together and ate. We savored the food and the conversation. After we felt full we cleaned up and felt satisfied.

Pollan’s claim to eating what is scientifically right has its pros and cons. I agree that since the field of nutrition has stepped in people who eat the western diet have worse health than those who follow traditional diets, but that doesn’t mean that all nutritional science is wrong. I do think that we should not eat because it makes us feel good but rather eat out of necessity. I believe you can eat out of necessity and still have some level of enjoyment when you eat. (click on this link to go to a paper that reflects my ideas more thoroughly)