Soup Kitchen Reflection

After you have served at the Soup Kitchen, you'll be ready to reflect on your experience.  As I said in class, you're encouraged to connect your experience with any of the readings so far, but especially those from the past week (Fitchen, Heflin et al., McCurdy et al. and Olson et al.).  In addition, I want to pose again one of the questions I asked you to think about for the midterm exam.  It is: Think about whether some of the social category differences that have emerged in studies of food-related behavior (gender, class, ethnic or cultural background, etc.) might have to do with power, access and cultural scripts.  Or, to rephrase here, what are some of the points of intersection between gender, class, ethnic or cultural background, power, access and cultural scripts?  If you can apply at least one of the theoretical models we've discussed to show how this might operate, even better.