In long time ago, people eat food just for feeding themselves. However, nowadays, there are so many different kinds of restaurant, such as Chinese restaurant, French restaurant, Italian restaurant and etc. Moreover, people still classify the restaurants by the different foods. For example, fast food restaurant, seafood restaurant and etc. According to this, we can see that people treat food seriously. Therefore, in my opinion, if we think food is art, then food is art. Because when food is given by the waiter in the restaurant, we always evaluate it in not only the taste, but also the appearance. Moreover, some people still think about the matching of one kind of food to another food. And the most important part is that, not everyone could cook a beautiful and delicious food. Just like Chopin could create some classic music, and Da Vinci could draw some extraordinary paintings.

For example, as we can see, they are sushis. And moreover, there are oranges under them, how creative they are! When I look at this picture, I cannot help to eat them all, even I’ve had the dinner half an hour ago. On the other hand, let’s see another picture.

Indeed, when people are hungry, they must really want to this meal. However, we are talking about food’s art. For example, people might not go to art museum to see the painting when they could not even have a place to live or have something to eat. Personally speaking, when I look at this picture, I am just seeing a lot of unhealthy junk food. Compare to the sushi picture, I would not eat these unhealthy food even I am hungry.

Furthermore, in my opinion, food’s art is not only the taste of the food, but also the appearance of it. In other words, for some food, we do not eat; we just watch it. For instance, When I first look at it, I really thought it is a shoe. However, when I stare at it for about six seconds. I just realize that it is a burger. However, If this burger is put in front of me, I won’t eat it. Because it is so cute. And I will I could wear it.

Some people even draw on the food, . For some people, this is an apple. But for some other people who are artiest, it is a thing to release their creative mind. Just like this apple in the picture, someone drew a world map on it! And I am thinking that how did he/she do that? Did he/she do it by pen, knife, or mouth? This is the glamour of art.

The topic for this week is food. And we read the paper Food As Art by Tefer,E. She analyzes food’s pros and cons to determine whether food could be thought as art. In my opinion, it is. In long time ago, people eat food just for feeding themselves. However, nowadays, there are so many different kinds of restaurant, such as Chinese restaurant, French restaurant, Italian restaurant and etc. Moreover, people still classify the restaurants by the different foods. For example, fast food restaurant, seafood restaurant and etc. According to this, we can see that people treat food seriously. In Food As Art, Telfer writes that ” art is by defnition a man-made thing, even if the human involvement need consist of no more that putting a natural objuect in gallery and giving it a title.”(page 12) This states that everything could be considered as art, as long as people give it a title and be shown in front of people. Furthermore, she writes that “in a highly-specialized society like ours, the arts are also specialties and may exist for their own sake apart from ritual or any other purpose” (p. 21). Therefore, in my opinion, if we think food is art, then food is art. Because when food is given by the waiter in the restaurant, we always evaluate it in not only the taste, but also the appearance. Moreover, some people still think about the matching of one kind of food to another food. And the most important part is that, not everyone could cook a beautiful and delicious food. Just like Chopin could create some classic music, and Da Vinci could draw some extraordinary paintings. At last of her paper, she says “If food cannot be more than a minor art form, there is a danger of being precious about it – of treating it, that is, as though it had more aesthetic importance than it does.”(page 26) Indeed, people could not alive without food, therefore, as the time goes by, the food is getting more and more important for human beings. Thus, when people appreciate food, they will compare one restaurant with another one, then, food is being appreciated as art.