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The overall argument made by Adam Gopnik in “What’s the Recipe?” is that cookbooks do not teach how to cook they simply give the facts about cooking. More specifically Adam Gopnik argues that knowledge is only truly learned when it is passed down through social interactions. He claims “The space between learning the facts about how something is done andlearning how to do it always turns out to be large, at times immense.” He suggests that with that with any learned activity not just cooking, learning takes people to show you how not just facts on what has to be done.

I agree with Adam Gopnik, that words on page are only the start to learning an action because reading only gets one so far, until they get out and do it for themselves with the aid of an experienced mentor, that action is only learned in theory. More specifically, I believe that humans learn best by example. Although we have the ability to learn through explanation, we only solidly grasp an idea when we have a live human model to imitate. Although Gopnik might object that it as simple as having someone to imitate and it involves more of a cultural experience, I maintain that the action and process is the hardest part to learn without other humans, and culture can be explored through text easier than the actions involved in it. I conclude that the complexities of these cultural exchanges can only be learned though experience on a personal scale.

5 MC AP Style Questions
 * 1) which two rhetorical devices are largely used by Gopnik?
 * hyperbole and litotes
 * metaphors and parenthesis
 * antithesis and anaphora
 * oxymoron and irony
 * none of the above
 * 1) which best represents the tone of the essay?
 * sarcastic
 * critical
 * earnest
 * bitter
 * diabolic
 * understated
 * 1) all of these would agree with the authors claim except..
 * cookbooks are a part of the cooking experience
 * cookbooks can used as a tool
 * people teach people better than books
 * one can learn to cook with just a cookbook
 * 1) the diction in the passage as a whole might best be characterized as
 * inflated
 * condescending
 * abstract
 * conversational
 * lecturing
 * 1) the purpose of the last paragraph is to
 * leave the reader with questions
 * provide an alternate conclusion
 * sum up the authors argument
 * evaluate the importance of the argument