Queen+of+Mold

queen of mold response Response for both (based off notes): 1st paragraph = author purpose & diction/tone 2nd paragraph = role that food plays

In "The Queen of Mold" by Ruth Reichl suggests that there is a unique connection between who a person is and the food the eat and how they eat it. She informs the reader of how she found that people's eating habits match their personalities through having to guard them from her mother's cooking. she has a loving tone when she is writing of her mother's concoctions and her family, for it is through them that she learned to see people through their eating habits. Her writing is not complex and tells her story simply and uses dialog to tell a large portion of her story. The role of food to Reichl is that food is a representation of our personalities. We are what we eat, our choices of what to eat and how to eat it and with whom is expression of ourselves that can be used to gauge who we are as a person.