Blog 9

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Shared Meal

The meal I will be using as an example for this portfolio task was a grazing board. This board consisted of many different components and types of food. 

 

I shared this meal with my friends and this meal allowed us to engage with our senses, in the physical way of creating the food by setting it up, using our hands to pick up the items and tasting each component. 

- Images sourced by author (2023). 

The concept behind this meal allows us to engage with our emotional senses, due to the togetherness this meal brings about. The purpose behind this grazing board is to share, and for our meal, this meant not only sharing the food but also sharing conversation with each other. 

This meal helps remind us of times where we have previously shared food, whether that be with our friends or back at home with our family, making it nostalgic/ memorable. 

Certain food items are unique to each of us- we all have different memories/ expectations of these items and no one will have the exact same. This shows that our senses engage with each other to form a memory of what to identify each food item as. 

The methodologies that could be used:

- Careful observation.

- Questioning/ asking.

This allows us to investigate the relationships between the senses and the ecology of peoples social worlds. This will show peoples preferences and whether this response from the senses links to individual social worlds.

- Sourced by author (2023).