"Get Free Samples at the Cafe!"

Part 1
When one enters the door of the Bookie closest to the cafe all one can see is chaos, no matter how busy the bookstore itself is. Off to the left is the cafe, this cafe is like most other cafes. There are friends catching up, people talking on the phone just looking for a place to sit, the intent readers be it a novel or a textbook, the caffeine addicts just looking for their next fix and the one girl who just wanted a toasted cheese bagel with cream cheese that has to wait in line for what seems like the thousand of drinks that need to be made ahead of her's. I find myself being the latter. It is mid-afternoon and there are plenty of students looking for a snack between classes.The landscape of the cafe is not very differentiated from any other cafe either; there is the standard Starbucks sign, random art on the wall, fridges filled with caffeinated drinks and the fridges filled with drink and food for the health nut. The smell is the same, of coffee and sugar. Soft music could be heard playing from above. All in all this is what is to be expected. However if you walk through the first entrance to the cafe you walk into the giant black eye of the cafe, the blemish to this perfect cafe landscape.The six foot tall purple swirly sign for note tabs. This sign is to advertise free samples of Avery's new durable and repositionable NoteTabs. One must purchase a hot beverage from the cafe to obtain this sample. This sign stuck out like a sore thumb.


Part 2

1. " The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" Adams, Carol
2. " Through the Kitchen Window: women Explore Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking" Avakian, Arlene Voski and Barbara Haber
3. "Exposing Violences: Using Women's Human Rights Theory to Reconceptualize Food Rights" Bellows, Anne
4. "Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History" Capatti, Alberto and Massimo Montanari
5. "Voracious Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature" Daniel, Carolyn
6. " Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work" DeVault, Marjorie
7. "Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears" Ferrieres, Madeleine
8. "Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California" Guthman, Julie
9. "Hungary for Profit: THe Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment" Magdoff, Fred, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel
10. " Gender and Sustainable Food Systems: a Feminist Critique" Van Esterik, Penny

I realized that the articles that I was interested in reading were the article that had something relevant to my life in the title. My heritage is a mix of German, Scottish, Irish, Italian, and Cherokee, however I only know the German side. I am a female pursuing a degree in Agriculture Education, a field dominated by men. I also love children's books and movies. It is all these aspects of my life that has manifested my selections.