Homework #6

1) The way Yves Klein's Blue Cocktail relates to the metaphoric nature of food is that he uses the idea of blue cocktail to attract his viewers and to let them analyze his work. He uses the different colors of food to show his ideas and show his strengths as an artist.

2) The way the artist uses the soup cans to show post-WWII American's relationship to food was that during those times, people weren't really cooking a real meal due to the situations, so they would buy Campbell's Soup instead. People weren't so into cooking and the soup was always available to them. 

3) The bread was being used as something to attract the audience with. To make sure they had the audience's full attention. Whereas the puppet was being used to protest against political issues. 

4) In Judy Chicago's Dinner Party it showed individual seating arrangements for women only who were very important. Each plate at the seats had different designs on them as well. As for Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, it was showing both male and females eating and talking together. His art was focusing mainly on the people and not the plates like Judy was doing.

5) In "Theaster Gates", Sunday dinners were being held for people of different races. The artist was focusing mainly on the social interaction. He's using food as a way for people to interact with each other and learn about the others race. In "Enemy Kitchen" Rckowitz's idea is kind of similar to Theaster Gates, but the main focus was on the war. He wanted people to enjoy the food as well as talking about the war. 

6) Bozhkov had used his own picture and the picture of the bacteria on the cover of the yogurt package. The way he designed his project, he's giving us the idea of how the yogurt is being made. The product bear witnesses to the image of the artist of his existence. He's using the yogurt to share his ideas and show people his art through food. 

Cooking up a story

So, for my recipe I have decided to share a traditional yet simple recipe in my culture. It's called roti, or easier terms, pita bread. Roti is a very important food to my culture considering we use it to eat with basically all our food. Except rice of course. It's quite easy to make and I always love helping my mom make it. It's something fun to do together and it has become a tradition for us to make it whenever we are in need of it.

Ingredients

- Five cups flour

- Two cups water (or as desired)

- A pinch of salt

- A medium bowl

So, here is the starting of the process of making roti. Some simple flour. This flour is actually different than the flour we use in American cooking. In my language we call it Ata which does translate to flour in English, but it's a different type of flour you can buy from any Pakistani or Indian grocery store. 

After you have added the flour to the bowl, add the water. You don't have to add all of it. It depends on you and what you think is the right consistency of the dough. 

And like any typical dough, you have to kneed it with your hands. I insisted on using my Kitchen Aid mixer to kneed the dough, but of course my mom wanted to stick to being traditional and use her hands. 

After you kneed for a few minutes and adding water, the dough finally takes its ball like shape.

Once the dough takes its shape, you have to make little round balls like this. This is the first form of the roti.

After you have rolled the dough into a ball, roll it flat with a rolling pin to get its proper round shape.

Then what my mom likes to do is use her hands to flatten it a little more and give it more of a round shape.

So, this lovely thing right here is what we use to make the roti. I'm not sure what it's called in English, but I guess we can call it a pan. It's slightly rounded to help make the roti. 

This is the next step. Placing the roti on the pan and basically just making it. It's like making pancakes in a way. Got to make sure both sides are well cooked.

This is what the roti is supposed to look like on both sides. You gotta make sure you keep your eye on it and not walk away. It only takes a few seconds to cook. 

And there you go! The traditional roti (pita bread) We like to keep it covered so it stays warm. You can honestly eat this with any Pakistani or Indian dish that you like.