Triple Shot Venta Mocha

PART 1

I observed the Bookie Starbucks from 12.55 pm to about 1.30 pm on Friday August 27, 2010. Throughout the time there was a steady consistent line that never diminished. Everyone had to have been social on some level or another, regardless of how cut off they tried to appear when they entered the coffee shop. An example of someone isolating them self was by wearing earphones whether big or small. In order for the person to get the drink, they needed to remove the headphones and converse with one of the employees. When people have paid for their items they move aside into a general waiting area. One wonders why this selection of picking up the drink is not also a line, but instead a cluster of persons standing randomly about wait for their drink to be called next. Even though people waiting had the whole area in which to stand and wait, a person would stand relatively near someone that had the same objective as they did, which is picking up the coffee. People that decided to stay at the bookie to drink their beverage demonstrated signs of having an objective. What I mean is that the people that stayed did not come simple for the coffee; they came to do something where coffee was related. Some students pulled out books to read, homework to do, and computers for whatever means, or they socialized with other students. All looked like they had a purpose for being there other than to just get coffee. Without further research or interviews with the students it is impossible to tell from this small observation, whether this assumption is correct.

PART 2

Adams, Carol: The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Albala, Ken: Eating Right in the Renaissance

Albala, Ken: The Banquet: Dinning in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe

Anderson, E.N: The Food of China

Anderson, E.N: Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture

Avakian, Arlene and Barbara Harber: From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Woman and Food

Bell, David and Gill Valentine: Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat

Bruch, Hilde: Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within

Bynum, Carline: Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Woman

Coe, Sophie and Michael D. Coe: The True History of Chocolate

Conner, Mark and Chirstopher Armitage: The Social Psychology of Food

Counihan, Carole: The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

Daniel, Carolyn: Voracious Children: Who Eat Whom in Children’s Literature

Ferrieres, Madeleine: Scared Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears

Fisher, M.F.K: The Art of Eating

Frank, Karen: The Food and Architecture

Gabaccia Donne: We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Foods and the Making of American

Inness, Sherrie, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race

Julier, Alice and Laura Lindenfeld: Mapping Men onto the Menu: Masculinities and Food

Julier, Alice and Laura Lindenfeld: Masculinities and Food

Korsmeyer, Carolyn: The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink

Levi-Strauss, Claude: The Origins of Table Manners

Millman, Marcia: Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America

Mintz, Sidney: Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Mintz, Sideny: Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursion into Eating, Culture, and the Past

Nestle, Marion: Food Politics: how the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

Nestle, Marion: What to Eat

Nichter, Mimi: Fat Talk: What Girls and their Parents Say about Dieting

Richards, Audrey: Huger and Work in a Savage Tribe

Sack, Daniel: Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture

Schlosser, Eric: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Skubal, Susan: Word of Mouth: Food and Fiction After Freud

Singer, Peter and Jim Mason: The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Sobal, Jeffery and Donna Maurer: Interpreting Weight: The Socail Management of Fatness and Thinness

Sobal, Jeffery and Albert J. Stunkard: Soicoeconomic Statues and Obesity: A Review of Literature

Turner, Jack: Spice: the History of a Temptation

Van Esterik, Penny: From Hunger Foods to Heritage Food: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR

Wilk, Richard: Fast Food/Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

From my very long list I think that my interests based on the titles varies a lot, but I do see a pattern with Social and the History of food, which is very interesting because I talked about the social aspects during my observation of the Bookie Starbucks