Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Why Should It Have Been Titled "Kitchen Crisis"

Verta Mae wrote an essay about the kitchens and how they are getting smaller by the minute. Then, she goes on to stereotype white people and the way they are in their kitchens. She makes sarcastic remarks such as everything they prepare is instant. They have "instant milk, instant coffee, instant tea, instant potatoes, instant oatmeal "(par. 5). She makes a total hiliarious joke about an instant lunch pill and a blow-up couch. Then she goes on to talk about the hard work that black people put into their cooking such as making a cake but taking the time to whup it up for 800 strokes.

I disagree totally on her sarcastic remarks, even though she took her evidence from historical facts, it still was a little ignorant on her behalf. She was very bold to generalize an entire race such as white people. I know of catering companies that are owned by white women and men and they work just as hard as the next black person. Also, her comment about them using instant everything, heck I even use instant something of that matter when their isn't enough time to put your soul or heart into the cooking. There is nothing wrong with instant products.

The point I'm making here is that white people and black people are no different when it comes to cooking or anything else. We are all the same, we just have different ways of doing certain things.