For me, food is not just used to relieve people’s hunger, I also sometimes treat them as an art. However, I don’t view all food as art, because the only function for some food is feeding like fast food. From the presentations, all the fast food around the world have the same taste and they are wrapped by some cheap paper bag. They are definitely not aesthetic. But we cannot deny that food is not art because of this. For me, fast food is just an exception. There are also many other kinds of food can provide people aesthetic appreciation. According to the article “Food as art” written by Elizabeth Telfer, if you want to treat something as art, firstly it can give rise to aesthetic reaction. About aesthetic reaction, Elizabeth provides her own definition and she says “The account which I have given of aesthetic reaction will not suit all cases. But I hope I have succeeded in suggesting a range of sense-experiences which fall under the description of “aesthetic reaction”, and which may be characterized as non-neutral, non-instrumental, having a certain intensity and often accompanied by judgments for which the judgers claim a kind of objectivity”(p 11). About the tastes and smells, most people can get aesthetic reactions. When we enjoy its tastes and smell, we also can approve of it instrumentally that it is nourishing and fashionable. When these reactions combined, we can have a judgement like the taste is good and I believe people will like it. However, like Elizabeth says “Not all objects that can give rise to aesthetic reactions are works of art” and she also says “One problem is that the phase “ work of art” can be used in either a classifying or an evaluative way” (p 12). From the classifying way, food is indeed a work of art because a cook not only want their food can relieve hunger, they also hope it to be appraised. Therefore, they will use some approaches to provide a work of art. Eating food is a normal activity that we need to do every day. Elizabeth states “ With food, as with clothes, people have a chance to enhance an area of their everyday lives. So to that extent the aesthetic appreciation of food is not a separate, aliened activity, but an aspect of what is done every day” (p 21). I remembered when I read Ellen Dissanayake’s essay “What is art for”, she believes that art is a normal human behavior. Through this, we no doubt can treat food as an art because eating food is also a normal human behavior and you can get much pleasure from them. There are many forms of art and we have no need to set boundaries. Food is just a special one.