Nov 1: Food and Identity

The stories that Rouse and Hopkins tell show us how people use food to produce ethical selves (pursuing some aspect of the good). Why did their informants reject and then come to embrace soul food as a way of producing ethical selves? What food "taboos" or food practices do you or your family follow in pursuit of an ethical outcome in terms of religious belief, health, environmental sustainability, and/or social justice? 

Feel free to write about something else that struck you about this set of readings. The prompt above is just a suggestion.